Accession No. 3119-001: Austin E. Griffiths papers, 1891-1952 (bulk 1904-1930)
11.61 cubic feet (25 boxes )
Arrangement:
Arranged into 17 series by type of document:
- Biographical features
- Organizations
- Correspondence
- Minutes
- Financial records
- Speeches and writings
- Reports
- Legal documents
- Court papers and case files
- Newsletters
- Campaign materials
- Legislation
- Lists
- Scrapbooks
- Clippings
- Ephemera
- Notes
- Maps
No attempt was made to organize the collection according to
Griffiths's interests, since his activities as lawyer, progressive reformer,
and public official often overlapped.
Clippings of Griffiths's articles in the
Washington Weekly Review and
Municipal News have been filed under
"Speeches and writings" as "Newspaper articles." Complete issues are filed in
the "Newsletters" series.
Scope and Content:
Correspondence, speeches and writings, financial records,
clippings, scrapbooks, and ephemera of Griffiths, 1891-1952 (bulk 1904-1920).
Substantial correspondence ends in 1920 and what follows does not document
Griffiths's major activities during those years.
Papers concern his public career as Seattle city councilman,
police chief, and judge, as leader of many charitable organizations, as founder
of the Seattle Playground Association, and as attorney for the Metropolitan
Building Company and the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Also
documented are his interests in the Cascade Tunnel and government reform.
The papers also document Griffiths's law practice as a
member/partner of various firms, including Greene and Griffiths. After moving
to Seattle, Griffiths continued to represent Grays Harbor clients, including
the Grays Harbor Commercial Company and other lumber companies. One of his
major cases involved a rate dispute in 1907-08 between the Western Washington
Lumbermen's Association and all the railroads serving the Northwest. Also
documented are Griffiths's business and real estate ventures.
The papers also include outgoing letters and speeches and writings
of Griffiths's wife, Margaret Ella Montgomery Griffiths, as well as financial
records and legal documents of his foster family, the Pridays.
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Restrictions on Access:
The papers are open to all users.
Acquisition Info:
Gift of Austin E. Griffiths on December 30, 1938, and January 11,
1939 (Accession No. 0489); and of Margaret McCune on August 6, 1980 (Accession
No. 3119), September 25, 1980 (Accession No. 3119-002), and an unknown date
(Accession No. 3119-004).
Processing Info:
Accession No. 3119-001 is a merger of Accession Nos. 0489, 3119,
3119-002 and 3119-004.
Processing Info:
Photographs that were originally part of these papers have been
relocated to the Special Collections Portrait Collection, PHColl 563, Special
Collections division, University of Washington Libraries.
A number of publications in the papers have been relocated to
the Special Collections Pacific Northwest Collection, also in the Special
Collections division, University of Washington Libraries.
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Biographical
information
Organizations
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American Protective League,
Minute Men Division
undated
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Committee of
Forty-Eight
undated
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League to Enforce Peace,
Northwestern Congress for a League of Nations
undated
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Memorial Auditorium
Association
1919
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Municipal League, Seattle and
King County
1914
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Playground Association,
Philadelphia
1907
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Playground Association,
Seattle
1908
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Playground Association,
Seattle, Community Service
1919, undated
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Prison Reconstruction
League
undated
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Progressive Party
1912, 1916
Correspondence
Incoming letters
Processing Info:
An alphabetical index to the correspondents in this series
appears at the end of this inventory.
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A-Z
1891-1900
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1901
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1902
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1903
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1904
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1905
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1906
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1907
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1908
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1909
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1908
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1909
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1909
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1910
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1911
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1912
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1913
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1914
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1915
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1916-1917
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1918
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1919
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1920
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1921-1952
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Unidentified
1901-1922, undated
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Outgoing letters
1900-1951
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Outgoing letters of Margaret
Ella Montgomery Griffiths
1933
Minutes
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Playground Association of
America
1909-1911
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Playground and Recreation
Association of America
1912, 1918, 1919-1920
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Playground and Recreation
Association of America, War Camp Community Service
1918-1920
Financial records
Financial records -- law
practice
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Day books
1892-1915, 1937-1846
12 volumes
Ledgers
1897-1907
4 volumes
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Financial records--Seabreeze
Mining Company
1899-1907
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Financial records -- political
campaigns
1913-1935
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Financial records--Priday
family
1888-1913
3 volumes
Speeches and writings
Speeches and writings of Austin
E. Griffiths
Arrangement:
Griffiths's speeches are arranged alphabetically. Speeches
without titles are identified by a keyword, whereas speeches with actual titles
are in quotation marks.
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"Great Faith: Autobiography
of an English Immigrant Boy in America, 1863-1950"
undated
Scope and Content:
Griffiths's autobiography.
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"Abolish County
Board"
1937
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"Address on the League of
Nations' Treaty"
1919
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"Adjustment of Labor
Controversies"
[1919?]
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"American British
League"
1900
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"American-British
Unity"
1945
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"Article Ten Like Ship's
Keel"
[1919?]
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Austria
1918
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"The Blight"
undated
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"Cafes"
[1914?]
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"The Cascade Tunnel: An
Imperative Necessity of the State of Washington"
1925
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Cascade Tunnel Association
address
1925
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"Cascade Tunnel: Move Puget
Sound and Alaska to the Inland Empire"
[1925?]
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Cascade Tunnel: "Points on
Which We are Driven to Agree"
undated
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"Cascade Tunnel
Promotion"
1925
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Cascade Tunnel
1927-1937, undated
18 items
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Cedar River Dam
1912
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"China's Open
Door"
1938
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"City Peace and
Progress"
1919
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"Comments on the Addresses of
General Douglas MacArthur in Texas, June 13-17, 1951"
1951
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"Community
Service"
1919
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Constitutional
rights
undated
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Corruption
undated
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"Criminal
Anarchy"
undated
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DeGaulle, Charles
1943
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"Democracy, Its Own Worst
Enemy"
undated
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"Departmental Interference
and Police Efficiency"
[1920?]
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"Do We Want War with
Japan?"
1919
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Duties
undated
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Embargo Act
1939
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Foreign policy
1937-1941
7 items
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"George Washington, World
Court, League of Nations"
1923, 1926
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"Gospel of
Achievement"
1931
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"Great Cascade Tunnel: An
Imperative Necessity"
1927
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"The Great Cascade Double
Track Electric Tunnel"
1930
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Hughes, Charles
Evans
1916
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"The Ideal
Policeman"
1917
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Industrial Code
Commission
1919
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Industrial Workers of the
World
1918
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Japan
1939
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"Juries, Instructions,
Courts, Punishments"
1928
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Land policy
1912
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Law
undated
2 items
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"Lawlessness Becomes
Alarming; Corrective Measures Proposed"
1922
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"The Lawyer's Responsibility
for Business Ability in Office"
1928
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League of Nations
undated
4 items
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Legal rights
1920
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"A Light Wish"
1920
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Lloyd, George
David
1920
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Logged-off land
1912
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Logged-off land
conference
1916
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Mayor
1918
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Menace of strikes
1939
2 items
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"National Hysteria or
Sanity"
1920
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"National Issues of
1928"
1928
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National Municipal
League
1919
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"On to Genoa"
1922
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"Patriotism and Socialism in
War Time, Which?"
1918
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"Peace or War on the
Pacific"
1921
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Playgrounds
1910, 1933
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"Police Bill"
1913
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"The Police and the
Cafes"
1912
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Police practices
[1920?]
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"Police Tyranny"
[1916?]
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"Progress or
Blockade?"
1918
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"Proposed Changes in Judicial
Procedure"
1925
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Public Memorial Auditorium
Committee
1919
2 items
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Public ownership
undated
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"Public Responsibility for
Crime Prevention"
1926
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"Rapid Transit"
1939
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"Reconstruction and Jail
Reform"
1918-1919
2 items
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"Reconstruction of Logged-off
Land"
1918
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"Relation of Supreme and
Superior Courts"
1927
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"Relations with the
Orient"
1930
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"Report to the Supreme Court
on Defects and Omissions in the Laws"
1922
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"The Republican
Convention"
1920
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Roosevelt,
Theodore
1916
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"Roosevelt for League of
Nations"
1919
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Seattle
1939
2 items
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"Seattle and the 'Open Door'
Policy as to China"
undated
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Settlement (southern United
States)
1939
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Simplon Tunnel
undated
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Social reconstruction in
England
1920
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States rights
undated
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Strikes
1941
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"The 30 mile Cascade
Tunnel"
1925
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Transit
1939
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"The Transportation
Question"
1907
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"Two Police
Chiefs"
1920
19/16
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"The Under-Mountain Highway--
The Great Cascade Tunnel, Its Necessity and Value"
1928
19/16
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"Washington Playground Bill, Value of Playgrounds to
the Public"
1924
19/17-21
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Newspaper articles by Austin E.
Griffiths
1919-1951, undated
approximately 20
items
General Notes:
See also: Newsletters series
Scope and Content:
Includes clippings of Griffiths's articles in the
Washington Weekly Review and
Municipal News. Complete issues
are in the "Newsletters" series.
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Speeches and writings by
Margaret Ella Montgomery Griffiths
undated
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Speeches and writings by
others
undated
Reports
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Cascade Tunnel
Association
1925-1928, undated
7 items
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Playground Association of
America
1908-1919, undated
8 items
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Seattle
(government)
1912-1924
10 items
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International organizations
1928, 1931
2 items
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Miscellaneous
1910-1938
11 items
Legal documents
20/7
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Deeds
20/8
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Leases
20/9
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Licenses and
certificates
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Licenses and
certificates
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Mortgages
20/11
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Title abstracts and
insurance
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Miscellaneous
25
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Legal documents -- Margaret
Ella Montgomery Griffiths
20/13
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Legal documents -- Priday
Family
Court papers and case files
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Court paper--United States
versus Hulet M. Wells, et al.
1918
Case files
20/14
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Anderson (Andrew), et al.
versus Steam Tug Printer
20/15
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Ashton (James M.) versus
Boole (George), et al.
1909
20/16
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Pacific Coast Lumber
Manufacturers' Association, et al. versus Northern Pacific Railway Company, et
al.
1907-1908
20/17
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Ramsey (Samuel V.) versus
Thorp (F.S.) and Wheeler (Litt)
1908
20/18
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Schwager and Nettleton,
Incorporated, versus Great Northern Railway Company
1907
20/19
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Tift (H.H.), et al. versus
Southern Pacific Railway Company
1903-1906
20/20
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Trout (Frank) versus Gilbert
(John E.), et al.
undated
20/21
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Miscellaneous
1918-1935
Newsletters
25
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Seattle Municipal
News
1914-1930
25
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Washington Weekly
Review
1940-1941
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Miscellaneous
1918-1935
Campaign materials
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Campaign materials of
Griffiths
1910-1934
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Campaign materials of
others
1907-1920
21/5
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Legislation
1907-1946, undated
Lists
21/6
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Miscellaneous
undated
21/7
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Seattle Playgrounds
Association
1909
21/7
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Memorial Auditorium
Association
1909
21/7
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League to Enforce
Peace
undated
Scrapbooks
25
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Scrapbooks
1899-1943
4 volumes
21
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Scrapbooks
1901-1923, 1913
4 volumes
21
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Scrapbooks--Cascade
Tunnel
1926
Clippings
22/2-7
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Clippings about Austin E.
Griffiths
1905-1951, undated
22/8-20
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Clippings --
general
1905-1951, undated
Ephemera
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Address book
undated
23/1
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Programs
undated
16 items
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Publications
1904-1930
23/7
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Business and membership
cards
undated
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Miscellaneous
1927-1939, undated
24/4-13
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Notes
1907-1920, undated
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Maps
1922-1939, undated