Archives West Finding Aid

This collection consists of manuscripts and research materials of writer Ted Van Arsdol.

MS.2005.21: These papers dated from 1973 to 2003 include documents pertaining to American Indian fishing on the Columbia River (correspondence, legal documents, data tables, and newspaper clippings), as well as Van Arsdol's manuscripts for History and Development of the General Telephone Company of the Northwest, Robley Johnson Remembers, and Land of Prunes: The Rise and Fall of the Prune Industry in Clark County, Washington.

MS.2005.24: These papers dated from 1944 to 2004 consist of materials related to the history of Eastern Washington (the Tri-Cities, Yakima, Benton City, Moses Lake, Othello), and World War II. It includes printed ephemera, photographs, maps, newspaper clippings, and articles.

MS.2009.13: This accession contains two typescripts related to Ted Van Arsdol's research on C. C. Van Arsdol (one annotated photocopy and one carbon), with descriptive and financial information about electric utilities (Washington-Idaho Water, Light & Power Company). The carbon consists of pages 13-31 of a larger, unidentified document.

MS.2016.26: This accession includes 12 boxes of material, and forms the bulk of the Van Arsdol Papers. Primarily materials related to his research and writing on topics in Pacific Northwest history: manuscripts, publications, notes, and collected research material. Also several files of C.C. Van Arsdol photographs and correspondence related to surveys for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, and the Idaho Road and Northern Pacific. Most of the C.C. Van Arsdol material is original documents, but some items are reproductions obtained from archival repositories. (A detailed preliminary inventory for this accession, prepared by the donor, is filed in box 11.)