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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: | 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 Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a mountaineer and cooperative leader detailing his climbs |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The Asklepiads Pre-Med Society is a student-run organization at the University of Oregon open to all students interested in the medical field. The collection (1929-1983) contains meeting minutes, ritual, photographs, and treasurer's reports. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a King County, Washington, Republic party leader. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | John H. Baldwin (1951-2005) was a professor in the Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM) program in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon (UO), the founding director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at UO, and was head of the Environmental Studies Program. The collection (1972-2005) contains Baldwin's faculty and administrative papers, professional research and service files, course materials, and personal papers. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Oscar Terry Peter Beck was a testing engineer in Portland, Oregon, circa 1900-1946. Collection includes correspondence with Clifton N. McArthur and Frederick Steiwer; notes on construction jobs; documents of the Portland Cement Co.; and reports and specifications regarding engineering activities in the Portland area. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a teacher and Democratic Party worker in Snohomish County, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of poet and former University of Washington Professor of English |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Quirinus Breen served as a professor at the University of Oregon form 1938 to 1964. Breen taught in the history department, focusing his studies on Greek, Roman and French history during the Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation eras. The majority of the collection consists of lecture notes and course descriptions from the history courses he taught at the University of Oregon as well as the course notes for a class in this History of Education at Grand Valley State College. Additional materials include Breen’s unpublished papers as well as his personal correspondence. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Swedish-American gold miner and amateur naturalist documenting his interests and activities, Swedish American matters and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Materials relating to Casey's life as a poet, including poems, correspondence, manuscripts, journals and notebooks. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an organization of Christian churches in Seattle, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a fisheries biologist, author and editor, federal official, and University of Washington professor. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Thomas Condon (1822-1907) was an Irish Congregational minister, a geologist and paleontologist who was appointed University of Oregon's first professor of geology in 1876 and continued as professor and chair of Natural Sciences until 1907. The collection (1897-1906) contains lecture notes, writings by Condon on a new fossil Pinniped, and books on skeletons and Pinnipeds owned by Condon. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Dentist and civic leader of Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Three record books for the Current Century Club, containing membership lists, meeting minutes, and by-law |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Game book and personal information kept while serving with the Army at Forts Vancouver, Dalles (O.T.) and Walla Walla (W.T.) |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The DeMoss Family Lyric Bards was a family of traveling musicians who began performing in 1872. The collection contains journals, engagement books, contracts, correspondence, manuscript music, published works, testimonials, programs, handbills, photographs, clippings, and mementos of travel. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Elwood Evans (1828-1898) was a lawyer, politician, and historian of the Pacific Northwest. The collection consists of a single notebook intended primarily as source notes for Evans' historical work. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Nooksack language research materials by Paul Fetzer, a graduate student at the University of Washington, Seattle |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Lovinia May Foreman Papers consists of materials created and collected by Lovinia May Foreman, a teacher at Cheney State Normal School (later Eastern Washington University). |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, and author |
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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: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers consist of one notebook and two examples of "vexel" (veksels). |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Washington pioneer, army officer and businessman |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | John Jacob Handsanker was a Christian Church minister, organizer of Portland Community Chest, director of Armenian and Syrian relief, and Northwest secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War. Collection includes a typed autobiography, notebooks of recollections, typed family history, and several typed family letters. |
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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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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of Robert Hitchman, who worked in insurance and researched Pacific Northwest history and place names in Washington State |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, writings, diary, research material, speeches, notes, publications, ephemera, clippings, maps, film, and audiotape of an American author of popular history and painter |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Poet, teacher, critic in Seattle, Washington, and Missoula, Montana |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of an Assistant United State Treasury Agent to the seal fisheries at St. George, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. Includes detailed notebooks and diaries containing observations on seals, foxes, coal, and other matters; fox and seal reports; census of St. Paul and St. George Islands; letters from U.S. Treasury agent Joseph Murray; and a diary of Judge's wife, Helen. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of zoology at University of Washington and oysterman |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Papers of a merchant, civic leader, and territorial legislator of Portland, Oregon. Includes correspondence, financial records, notebooks, and ledgers. Materials relate to King's enterprises, including the firms of Butler & King, King & Kittridge, and a lawsuit concerning King's work on the Erie Canal. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Eugene P. Lyle Jr. (1873-1961) was a journalist and a writer of pulp fiction who resided in Mexico for a number of years. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, printed works, subject files, photographs, and the papers of his son, Eugene Lyle III. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Lenore Glen Offord was a mystery and true crime writer, and a mystery book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle for thirty years. The collection includes correspondence with the Chronicle, and also research and unpublished manuscripts on the Cordelia Botkin murder case of 1898. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Financial records, meeting minutes, conference materials, and correspondence of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, which includes members from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and British Columbia. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an academic journal on East Asian culture published by Duke University Press with editorial support from the University of Washington |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | James Rorty (1890-1973) was an American writer and poet who tackled subjects such as American industries, Joseph McCarthy, labor, medicine, nutrition, advertising, and Jim Crow. The collection (1915-1972) contains James Rorty's literary manuscripts, journals, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs as well as manuscripts and correspondence by Rorty's sisters, the writers Eva Beard and Marion Bullard. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Swiss-American amateur composer who homesteaded near Yacolt, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Forester, labor organization leader |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of an early settler in Skagit Valley, Washington, and of his daughter. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Documents and related materials of a Washingon State painter who made a specialty of depicting birds. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Nellie "Nell" Miller Seely (1878-1968), a daughter of Oregon pioneers, became a songwriter, milliner, painter and poet. The collection contains correspondence, published and unpublished music manuscripts, music notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, and phonograph records. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Adolphe Smith and Gwen Smith Papers consists of news clippings, student notebooks, programs, and student notes, documenting student life at Cheney State Normal School. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle physician including study club materials, correspondence, account and case books, ephemera, photograph and a biography chart |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Farmer, Populist politician, and journalist in Eastern Washington and Seattle |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | The bulk of the collection consists of business and personal letters to Dr. Alden Hatch Steele. Also included are three personal letters to Mrs. Steele from G.H. Atkinson, a book of notes made by Dr. Steele concerning medical conditions and treatments, and receipts for various purchases and expenditures. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a female political activist, journalist, and author who observed the Communist revolution in China |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | J. William Terry (1895-1956) was a journalist, editor, columnist, and author. Collection contains editorial correspondence, manuscripts of books, short stories, articles, clippings, biographical material, notebooks, pamphlets, and memorabilia. |