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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 Wyoming, American Heritage Center |
| Summary: | Family papers of G.W.T. Beck and his wife and daughters, including correspondence and business records regarding the founding of Cody, Wyoming, and the construction of the Cody Canal. Beck partnered with Buffalo Bill Cody to form the Shoshone Irrigation Company, which undertook the canal. In addition to records on this and other business ventures of G.W.T. Beck, the collection contains personal correspondence and miscellaneous other materials. |
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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 Wyoming, American Heritage Center |
| Summary: | J.M. Boutwell was a geologist and mining engineer. The collection includes reports, maps, and documents on mineral resources in the western United States, especially Utah, and Peru. |
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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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| 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: | University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center |
| Summary: | Papers for this Wyoming businessman, attorney, and rancher, along with that of his daughter Margaret and son-in-law George Hewlett. |
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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. |
