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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | The collection consists of survey field notes, journals and letters. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of a provisional governor of the Oregon Territory, churchman, and merchant. Includes letterpress copybook, 1847-1850; additional correspondence, including correspondence with Neil M. Howison, captain of the schooner Shark, wrecked on the bar of the Columbia River; papers of the Brig Henry Association, ca. 1850; papers of George's son William Abernethy; legal, military, and business papers; receipts, biographical data, clippings and ephemera. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers and other various materials of a wealthy entrepreneur in Seattle during the early 20th Century along with those of his daughter |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Alaska Mining and Prospecting Company records contain the correspondence between Andrew Sherwood and the Alaska Mining and Prospecting Company. The letters concern an expedition to Alaska in search of gold. The collection also contains printed matter and maps concerning the expedition. Finally, it contains two journals by Andrew Sherwood spanning the time of the expedition. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Records of a mercantile firm of Portland, Oregon, founded by Cicero Hunt Lewis and Lucius H. Allen. The records date mainly from the late 19th and early 20th century and include financial ledgers, business correspondence, real estate and land records, contracts, stock certificates, and materials relating to the widening of West Burnside Street in downtown Portland, due to construction of the Burnside Bridge. Also includes papers relating to George Good. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of an environmental conservation organization in Washington State. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a lumber company executive, banker, and political activist in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Willis Chapel Barrett (1891-1963) was a civil engineer who worked for the U.S. State Department on the Yellow River conservancy project in China. The collection contains project files, reports, correspondence, and maps. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection contains correspondence, financial, operational reports, maps, and blueprints generated by the Basin Montana Tunnel Company, which operated silver, gold, lead, and zinc ore mining operations between Butte and Helena, Montana. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers and ephemera of a Pacific Northwest mountaineer and conservationist |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Donald Bevan was a Professor of Fisheries at the University of Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Township plat book (1894) of the Big Blackfoot Milling Co. In each township a color coded scheme is used to differentiate the individual who is in charge of each area. Also stated is whether the land is state, unsurveyed, or ready to be logged. The areas being mapped are mostly the Bitterroot Valley and part of Deer Lodge County. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John W. Blodgett, Jr. (1901-1987) was active in the timber industry, serving as president, chairman, director, and secretary of several timber companies including his family's company, Blodgett Company Ltd. The collection contains timber and lumber related organization files, subject files, maps, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Consists of manuscripts; pamphlets, several published by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; printed articles; maps; and photographs. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Bridger Bowl, Inc. Records consist of reports, board minutes, correspondence and other documents created or collected by the management of Bridger Bowl. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Organizational features of Mountaineers and other papers related to members |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection (1864-1894) of Brownsville, Oregon town council records consists of minutes of the council, a treasurer's book, and an early map of Brownsville. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers concerning the work of lawyers on behalf of the Sierra Club to oppose the joint private-public application for a High Mountain Sheep dam on the Middle Snake River in Hell's Canyon. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle broadcasting executive and civic leader |
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| Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
| Summary: | The collection contains copies of maps depicting western Oregon reservations, allotments, and exploration expeditions of the Oregon Territory from 1848-1913. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | The Alfred D. Butler Memorabilia Collection consists of memorabilia and correspondence relating to the Cheney State Normal School, and a map of Cheney. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The California and Oregon Coast Railroad Company constructed a line from Grants Pass, Oregon to Crecent City, California. The collection consists of reports, operating forms, financial documents, legal documents, annual reports, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, and miscellaneous files. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Campus Planning and Real Estate manages the creation of spaces at the University of Oregon. The collection (1900-1992) contains architectural drawings, building project specifications, maps, floor plans, patterns (documents relating to pattern language), and documents relating to the Oregon Experiment including final reports. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Maps, plan and drawing related to the proposed construction of the Columbia River Highway through Cascade Locks, Oregon |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Over 300 maps dating from the 1890s to the 1970s depicting land acquisition of property in the City's Cedar River Watershed and pipelines. |
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| Repository: | Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies |
| Summary: | Thirty-four charts and engravings documenting the expeditions of Captain George Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest and South Pacific. These resources were collected by Dorothy Stimson Bullitt. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery buildings and operations in Woodinville, Washington |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | Coons, Shotwell, Clark and Associates handled the publicity for Spokane Expo '74 both before and during the fair. This collection includes correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, audio and video recordings, and newspaper clippings concerning public relations projects undertaken by Coons, Shotwell, Clark and Associates for Expo '74. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of M. Lynne Corn, legislative aide to Seattle Congressman Mike Lowry (1979-1989), on the Washington State Wilderness Act, 1979-1985 |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Cottrell and Helean Logging Company operated in Missoula, Montana. The collection contains general correspondence, financial records, legal documents and maps from 1945 to 1971. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of the family of John Heard Couch, one of the original developers of the townsite of Portland, Oregon, and his descendents, including members of the Glisan and Robertson families. Papers include correspondence, legal papers, land ownership records, clippings, family Bibles, journals of John Heard Couch, and papers concerning Couch's wife Caroline and their descendants Caroline Wilson, Clementine Lewis, and Elizabeth and Rodney Glisan. Of special note is John Heard Couch's logbook, 1853-1858, for voyages on the ships Chenamus and Madonna; and the travel diary of Nan Robertson, 1911-1912, written during a trip to San Francisco and Southern Asia. |
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| Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
| Summary: | The collection contains background and case materials for claims cases brought to the Court of Claims, Supreme Court, and Indian Claims Commission by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and other western Oregon tribes from 1940-1955. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Crossley was a lawyer in Winterset, Ia., a member of the Iowa State Senate, 1900-1907, and an active supporter of the statewide primary law. Collection includes correspondence (1894-1954): personal and formal, college class notes from Yale University (1898), addresses, legal documents, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, published materials, maps, photographs, his diary which documents his experiences during WWI, and other miscellaneous materials. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | James R. Dilworth was a cattleman who directed a cattle drive from The Dalles, Oregon, to Miles City, Montana, in 1881-1882. The collection consists mostly of his correspondence back to his wife during that drive, as well as other family correspondence. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records relating to flood control in the basin of the Duwamish and Green Rivers, 1922-1975. |
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| Repository: | University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections |
| Summary: | Materials from two archaeological excavations and surveys in which Professor Douglas Edwards of the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington) served as director or consultant. Most of the material is related the Khirbet Qana (also known as Khirbet Kana or Cana) archaeological project in Israel, on the site of a historical village of Roman Galilee, eight miles northwest of Nazareth, on the north side of an important trade route, the Bet Netofa Valley. Other material is from the Chersonesos archaeological project (Black Sea Project), on a site in present-day Sebastopol, Ukraine. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | A collection of documents, photographs, and architectural drawings related to projects from Elaine Day LaTourelle and Associates. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Northwest conservationist, lobbyist, and civic leader |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Mining reports, speeches, writings, maps, plots etc. related to an engineer, geologist |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | The John Fahey Papers consists of a manuscript and research materials for Fahey's book, "The Flathead Indians," and materials related to the "Reese Affair" at Eastern Washington College of Education. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, a coalition of hiking and outdoor recreation groups in eight Western states, 1947-1981. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Portraits of immigrant Filipino men who settled on Bainbridge Island, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of Hoh-Bogachiel River trail & surrounding area before and after a hurricane struck the Washington Coast on January 29, 1921, Mt. Olympus, band of elk, and the Hoh River. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Organizational records documenting the regional conservation activities the Northwest Office of the Friends of the Earth. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Gals Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) was a grassroots air quality organization active in Missoula, Montana, in the late 1960s. The collection details the organization and history of GASP and documents general air and water pollution conditions in Montana and in the United States. |
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| Repository: | George Fox University Archives |
| Summary: | This collection is the historical materials on the campus and buildings of George Fox University. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records from two nonviolent groups, the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and the Pacific Life Community, which protested the nuclear arms race, particularly Trident nuclear submarines at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base in Kitsap County, Washington |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Aubrey L. Haines Papers include the major notes and indices he created while researching and writing on Yellowstone National Park and other topics; correspondence pertaining to research, service, and career matters; maps of Yellowstone National Park, the Oregon Trail and other locations; original handwritten and typed manuscripts of published and unpublished works; diaries and field notes documenting Haine's employment with the National Park Service. The subjects of research interest include; Yellowstone National Park; the Oregon Trail, Mount Ranier and mountaineering, history of Montana, the Nez Perce Indians and the battle of the Big Hole. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Tape-recorded interview describing the shipwreck of the troop carrier "Tuscania" on the coast of Scotland, his survival and recuperation |
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| Repository: | University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center |
| Summary: | Thomas S. Harrison was a prominent petroleum geologist and consultant in Wyoming and Colorado from 1901-1956. His collection contains research files, professional and personal journals, personal papers, and copies of Harrison's publications. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a corporation executive, real estate investor, civil engineer of Corning, N.Y., and of Hoquiam, Raymond, and Grays Harbor, Washington |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | The Paul Helsing Papers consists of charts, manuscripts, maps, financial records, news clippings, legislative materials, and correspondence relative to the influence of Columbia River dams on salmon and other fish, and to fisheries in the river. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Herbert J. Wunderlich participated in the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II; he developed standards for postwar Japanese textbooks. The collection centers on Wunderlich's time in Japan during World War II, his activities under General MacArthur, and his subsequent writings on these subjects. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an author and former director of University Relations Office concerning his book and other materials |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs and textual documentation concerning the Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, manuscripts, writings, diaries, research files, clippings, ephemera, photographs, film reels, sound cassette, videocassettes, map of a historian of the Northwest. |
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| Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
| Summary: | Records kept by Frank W. Guilbert and his son David, two automotive pioneers of Eastern Washington and leaders in the Spokane County Good Roads Association and the Inland Automobile Association (IAA). The collection also includes materials from five other local, state, and regional automobile groups as well as the American Automobile Association. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, notes, reports, clippings, ephemera, newsletters, maps, and other records of the Issaquah Alps Trails Club, which promotes and protects hiking trails and open spaces in the Cascade Mountain foothills near Issaquah, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Designs for and locations of fish traps in southeast Alaska |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a forester concerning his work for the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, around 1930-1960 and the Western Forestry and Conservation Association of Portland, Oregon |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The collection consists of family papers and business records of James Fergus, rancher, businessman, political figure and pioneer of Armells, Montana, and papers of his son Andrew Fergus. The collection also contains papers of Pamelia Dillin Fergus and her family including the Dillin, McHose and Neill families as well as correspondence of the families of the Fergus daughters including the Gilpatrick, Hamilton and Maury families. Materials consist of correspondence, financial and legal papers, business records, photos, and ephemera. The collection represents the social, political, and economic conditions of ranchers, families, businessmen and early pioneers of Montana from the 1850s to the 1920s. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Maps related to mining and mining activities in Washington State, Idaho, Alaska, and British Columbia |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ruth Hopsen Keen (1906-1998) was a naturalist who studied the Collier Glacier, an educator and Geology professor, an author, and the first female to become a (Park) Ranger Naturalist at Crater Lake National Park. The collection (1930s-1970s) contains correspondence, diaries/journals, a Crater Lake Ranger Naturalist manual, Geological Society publications (of which Keen was president), geology and mineralogy publications, Keen's teaching records from the UO and dissertation, printed matter, reports, subject files, maps, slides, negatives, glass lantern slides, audio, film, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Washington |
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| Repository: | Central Washington University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection comprises materials on the cultural history of the upper Kittitas Valley of Washington state from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. |
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| Repository: | Lane Community College Archives |
| Summary: | The records document the administration of Jerry Moskus, president of Lane Community College, 1990-2001. The collection contains correspondence, administrative records, legal records, maps, videos, photographs, and writings of Jerry Moskus. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of public policy consultant concerned with utilities and other energy or community resources and how to conserve them for the benefit of the poeple in Washington State |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Reports, legal proceedings, manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, maps, and other research materials used by conservationist Carsten Lien as he wrote two books related to the Olympic National Park, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Maps, census data, memoirs, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to Madrona a Seattle, Washington neighborhood. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Organizational records of a local history society in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers and manuscripts of a Seattle author and conservationist. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | correspondence, writings, audio, maps, and photographs detailing the discovery of the Tse-Whit-Zen village |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington and civil rights activist for Japanese Americans |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an environmentalist/political scientist and property owner in Stehekin Valley at the head of Lake Chelan in the North Cascades, Washington |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers include in-depth material on Joseph L. Miller's crusade to collect and organize information on the Bull Run Reserve and watershed and to expand public awareness of threats to its famed pristine water through formation of the Bull Run Interest Group (BRIG) and lawsuits he initiated against the U.S. Forest Service. Bull Run is the main source of water for Portland, Or., and other smaller communities in the area. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of Mountaineer Dee Molenaar, an artist, mapmaker and author |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Paper related to a Mountaineers (Society) on Trails Advisory Committee from Seattle |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | Douglas D. Martin was a long-time member of the Western History Association and a recognized scholar of Native American/white relations. Dr. Martin published widely. Dr. Martin's areas of specialty included the socio-cultural history of the United States, the history and literature of the American frontier, American environmental history, and Indian-White relations in American history. This special collection contains 16 boxes of manuscript materials relating mostly to Native Americans in the Northwest. Box 15 in the collection contains various small objects, such as arrowheads. While most of the donation consisted of monographs that were added to the Library's holdings, the collection also included manuscript materials described within this document. |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | Jeffery LaLande worked as an independent historian outside of his Forest Service career, and this collection resulted from his independent research. These papers include correspondence with researchers on various topics; files from essays, articles, book reviews, and books he has written; and his peer reviews, requested by various editors, of manuscripts submitted for publication. |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | Local historian and author Kay Atwood has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood's collection includes her publications, accompanied by her research notes, correspondence and photographs. Related publications, many written for cities and forest agencies, are also included. |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | The collection holds 127 different maps from locations all over Oregon and California, with a focus on Josephine and Jackson counties of Southern Oregon. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | The collection focuses on maps from the Southern Oregon area and includes notes regarding local geological studies. |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | The Lincolnshire broadsheet folios are a collection of broadsheets, texts, plays, sketches and other ephemera bound into four volumes. The materials date to the 1800s. A few of the items appear older. The items originated in Lincolnshire England. |
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| Repository: | Southern Oregon University, Hannon Library |
| Summary: | The Dennis M. Powers papers contain research materials including interviews and notes used in the authorship of several books |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a political organizer and the first openly gay person to run for public office in Seattle |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection contains papers from Joseph Mussulman’s work with the Friends of the Rattlesnake to create the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness, and his research regarding the history of music in Montana. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Correspondence, memoranda, financial statements, grant applications, agreements and maps relating to the Neighborhood Development Program. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Administrative papers of a Seattle company involved primarily in acquiring, processing, marketing and trading of seafood |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of Seattle City Council Member Judy Nicastro, dating 1999-2003, including Subject Files and Land Use Committee Records. Of particular interest are records related to her work on the Housing and Land Use Committees. Also included are records documenting issues related to campaign finance contributions from an adult entertainment club whose land use application was before the City Council. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs, textual materials, audio-visual materials, and ephemera regarding the Nippon Kan Theatre and the Japanese American community. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle-area buisness man who opened the second video store in the country |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Northern Pacific Coal Mining Company of San Francisco set out to establish a mining claim between Coos Bay and the Coquille River, on the coast of Oregon. The collection (March 25, 1873) consists of a prospectus for the mining claim that includes a chemist report and a map of the claim. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Oregon Homestead Company was real estate firm that formed with the purpose of encouraging settlement in Oregon, and to profitably subdivide large tracts of land. The collection (1891) contains maps, broadsides, and a share of stock. |
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| Repository: | Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center |
| Summary: | The Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory (ERSAL) Records document the projects undertaken by the Laboratory to forward the application of remote sensing technology to a variety of natural resource and environmental problems. ERSAL was established at Oregon State University in 1972 with funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of John Osseward, a Seattle environmentalist. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Between August 1916 and March 1917, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company undertook a "Fundamental Plan Survey" of Portland, Oregon, that gathered population, business, firm, and rent value statistics, telephone estimates, and rate schedules. The collection (1916-1917) contains the final report and correspondence related to the population survey. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of a migrant to Oregon who served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory and Oregon State Legislator. Papers include: correspondence; typescript copies of diaries, including travel diaries for trips throughout the northwestern United States; original government documents; letters sent to Palmer's wife, Sarah Ann Derbyshire Palmer; and letters from Palmer's descendants. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a professor of home economics and authority on historic costume |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers and correspendence regarding Spokane area history |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Plats to Accompany Schedules of Allotments on the Crow Indian Reservation consist of a series of blueline prints of individual townships which make up the reservation area. The bound maps are arranged by township number first ( 1 through 9 South) and thereafter by range number (27 through 38 East of the Principal Meridian). Specific holdings are identified by hatch marks or bold lines along the parcel boundaries with the name of the owner printed within. All Crow family names have been rendered in English. |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Forestry and forestry consultant |
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| Collection Title: | |
| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Hydrographic and geodetic engineer, astronomer, mariner, inventor, and explorer |
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| Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
| Summary: | The collection contains maps depicting locations of reservations and the distribution of Native American language groups throughout the United States. A majority of the maps focus on reservations in Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Reminiscences of Mountaindale, Or., by residents, compiled by Eilleen Riddell, including information on schools, parks, stores, and people. Contributors include Retha Raffety Brandenberg, Elmo Gardner, Vernon Hahn, Lucile Essner Stovall, and Melvin Van Domelin. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of RIDGE, a Roslyn-based community organization focused on environmental and land use activism in Upper Kittitas County, Washington from 1988 until 2014. Records in the collection include litigation material related to the development of the Suncadia Resort, RIDGE office files, newspaper clippings documenting RIDGE’s projects and activism, land use maps, and RIDGE promotional material. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection of photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, engineering reports, land surveys, and maps pertaining to the life and work of Robert E. Hickson, engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers in Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Professor of mining engineering and dean of College of Mines, University of Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, newspaper clippings, files, and other materials related to the Jones Act of 1920 and to the career of Robert C. Rose, who worked for the Alaska Steamship Company and on the waterfront in Seattle, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a businessman relative to his business activities in shipping, railroad construction and fisheries in Seattle, Alaska, and Siberia |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Letters, notes regarding her research on Seattle Jewish history and a information on several manuscipts written by Helen Bornstein Rucker, a Seattle Jewish writer |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Environmental activist and author born in 1952 |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | An Oregon resident between 1943 and 1950, Edna Stinsman assembled a valuable collection of secondary material regarding some of the Pacific Northwest boundary disputes between the United States and Great Britain, focusing on the San Juan Island dispute and the Oregon Question. The collection contains correspondence and gathered research regarding the history of Oregon boundary disputes. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of San Juan County, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs of nuclear bomb testing sites, the Hanford nuclear plant and camp |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Frederick H. Saylor was a collector of Native American legends and a writer of articles for pioneer publications. The collection contains a manuscript, scrapbooks, correspondence, ephemera and mementos mostly regarding myths, legends, and traditions of native peoples of the Pacific Northwest and California. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the Seattle Engineering Department's Court Engineering division. Records include annual reports, maps, drawings, correspondence, and documentation of legal proceedings. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Engineering and property records concerning a proposed freeway in Seattle. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the Seattle Department of Engineering consisting of correspondence between the Department and grantees of utility franchises. Also included are agreements, maps, drawings, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records concerning Seattle neighborhood planning. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Planning records for Seattle's Boundary Dam. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the division that manages Seattle City Light properties |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records concerning the management of Seattle City Light facilities on the Skagit River |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Planning records for the Seattle Commons. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records concerning the implementation of Seattle neighborhood plans and projects. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Annual reports for the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation from 1894 to 1984. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the Parks Department's Facilities Maintenance Division. The records document changes and improvements in Seattle parks as well as the planning, design, and construction of new parks. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records related to operations of the Seattle Water Department. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the society collected by Sherwood as chair of its historical committee |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Stearns and Chenoweth was a hardware store located in Oakland, Oregon, that dealt in hardware, stoves, tinware, guns, pistols and sewing machines. The collection (1855-1912) contains deeds and legal papers, account books, a map, and correspondence. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle cultural leader documenting her active and influential life as a society matron, and wife and widow of a Seattle business leader. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of an environmental activist related to campaign for Protection Island, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Joseph V. Thebaud (1888 - ) served in the Philippine Constabulary in 1912, resigned in 1915, and later served as an officer in the U.S. Army. The collection (1912-1916) contains diaries covering Thebaud's experience in the Constabulary, manuscript maps, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Thielsen family of Prussia and of America includes the following members: Bune Thielsen of Flensburg, Prussia, his son Hans Thielsen, who moved to Oregon, and Hans Thielsen's sons, Henry B., Horace W. and Julius. The collection contains correspondence, letter press books, business documents, maps and blueprints. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Township Plats for Gallatin County consist of hand-drawn maps done by the Works Progress Administration. These maps show land ownership, operating units, and land use for Gallatin County, Montana. Arranged by township and range numbers, the maps show little detail other than color coded parcels with owner identification and acreage numbers. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
| Summary: | Collection of papers related to transportation in all forms, focusing primarily on Oregon and the northwestern United States. Inlcudes manuscripts, ephemera, clippings, and other materials relating to ships, railroads, automobiles, highways, aeronautics, bicycles, and other modes of transport. The collection was created by the Oregon Historical Society with materials drawn from a variety of sources. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Administrative papers of a city-wide coordinating body for affiliated local unions |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, memoranda, notes, agendas, minutes, handbooks, manuals, and other records documenting the actions of the University of Washington Faculty Senate, which is responsible for establishing policies, rules, and regulations for the entire University |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the University of Washington Transportation Office |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a Seattle attorney and civic activist who was a leader in the effort to acquire a site for the city's Discovery Park. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection consists primarily of travel diaries, notes, correspondence and ephemera related to research about shrines and religious ceremonies for several manuscripts that Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951) was working on. There is also correspondence about pieces of art that she and her husband were collecting to bring back to the United States for a museum exhibit. The bulk of the materials are about Japan during the time period of 1909-1923. Ms. Warner was the founder and director emeritus of the University of Oregon Fine Art Museum. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, legislation, newsletters, testimony, resolutions and clippings of citizens' lobbying group based in Olympia, Washington |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Correspondence, administrative files, minutes, resolutions, conferences, financial records, membership records, legislation, newsletters and ephemera related to a social welfare organization |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of a Seattle environmental organization formed in 1979. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Journals and notebooks of Seattle businessman and canoeist with an overview map of his travels in Canada and Alaska |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Western Wood Products Association (WWPA) is a trade association representing softwood lumber manufacturers in the 12 Western states. The collection (1960s-1980s) contains administrative records, subject files, tree farm reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, and maps. |
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| Repository: | University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Thain White was a Montana historian who focused on the history of western Montana, particularly the Flathead valley. The collection contains maps, artifacts, and documents concerning a variety of Montana historical topics. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The Clark Moor Will papers contain materials concerning the Aurora Colony of Marion County, Oregon and the Salem Water Department. The Aurora Materials cover all aspects of the colony, including the band, music, women, daily life, site maps, correspondence and architecture. The collection also includes manuscripts and articles written by other authors concerning the Aurora Colony. The Salem Water Department materials cover the history of the department and Salem's water supply, as well as speech transcripts. The collection includes two solander cases of oversize materials. |
