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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Washington State attorney, congressman, and senator |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with Julian Agranoff |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of architecture with the University of Washington focused on design process, personal environmental relations, and photography. |
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Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
Summary: | The collection contains a transcript of testimonies to the tenth task force of the American Indian Policy Review Commission. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview of Regina Amira (née Barkey) conducted by Susan Weingarten and Ruth Sassoon |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with a member of Seattle's Sephardic community and banker |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with a Seattlite active in the Sephardic Jewish community |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history of Isaac Azose |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Audio and transcript from an interview with Solomon Azose on the Sephardic community in Seattle as well as his jewelry business |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Northwest painter and art teacher. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Trial transcript from the 1990 civil case of Berhanu v. Metzger in Multnomah County Court. Engedaw Berhanu sued Tom and John Metzger, leaders of the White Aryan Resistance, for the wongful death of his son Mulugeta Seraw, who had been fatally beaten by members of the Metzger's organization. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers and oral history interview of Blair documenting experiences in the military, the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, and theater. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with Jon Bridge conducted by Nancy Blase on March 10, 2020. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | The collection (1857-1862) consists of diary log, by Benjamin Brown, of his sea voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York. |
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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: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
Summary: | The Burger Letters are typed transcriptions prepared from the originals by Dr. Robert G. Dunbar, a history professor at Montana State University. The letters provide a picture of the social conditions of postwar Germany; the writer's memories of her activities as a girl and involvement with German youth organizations; as well as descriptions of life during the Weimar era, the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party, and political issues. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of a national commission that studied the freedom and accountability of the press. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Tom Copeland’s research materials on Elmer Smith, attorney for the Industrial Workers of the World involved in the Centralia Tragedy of 1919. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history with a Seattle-area Jewish American. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Washington political organizer, researcher, writer, and co-founder of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, as well as papers of his second wife |
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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: | Rev. James Croke (1827-1888) was a Catholic missionary priest who served in Oregon in the 1850s, reporting directly to Bishop Francis Blanchet of Oregon City, Oregon. This small collection consists of typed transcripts of letters from Croke to Blanchet concerning the details of his missionary work. The original letters are held privately. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a journalist, community activist, policy planner, communications consultant, artist, author |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview of Barbara Danz Daniels. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interviews conducted by Jack Chisholm as he asked Snoqualmie Tribal Elder Ed Davis about his tribal affiliation and experiences. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing printed ephemera related to ethnic groups of all origins, primarily in Oregon and Portland. Includes brochures, cabinet cards, correspondence, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, registration records, relocation records, reports, scrapbook, and transcriptions. Includes materials related to Japanese American relocation in World War II, and the Russian "Old Believer" community in Oregon. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with Ruth Fast conducted by Ruth Sassoon and Janice Rabkin on January 8, 2020. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Citations and transcripts of articles and notices of theatrical productions in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane and Walla Walla |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | John Finerty (1885-1967) was an attorney who worked for railroad companies before becoming involved with civil rights cases. The collection consists of case files, general files and personal records. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Two oral history interviews with transcripts and a small selection of personal papers of a Jewish American medical doctor from Seattle. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The Reta Gilbert Papers consists of newspaper clippings, research notes, and transcripts of campaign speeches made by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1923, 1936, and 1940. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers and oral history of a composer and music director of Temple de Hirsch, Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Interviews and documents related to Jewish community leader, Joshua H. Gortler who worked with the elderly and was Executive Director at Kline Galland Home for the Aged in Seattle |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history video and transcript of interview with Joshua. H Gortier and Michael Cohen about the history of the Caroline Kline Galland Home |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with an academic in Pathology at the University of Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a female artist from the Pacific Northwest. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of an organization dedicated to exploring and expounding the options and rights of active voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom (1909-1946) was a resident of Coquille, Oregon, and was an enthusiastic and expert riverboat man. The collection (1936-1939) contains ten volumes of trip diaries describing river travel, and related papers. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle labor and peace activist regarding his activity/membership in Citizen's Child Care Committee, and Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee and personal papers |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interviews collected by the Oral History Committee of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union between 2013-2017. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Content from a Jacobs Research Fund grant recipient |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history of a Jewish educator and writer from Seattle |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview with Lisa Kranseler conducted by Nancy Blase and Janice Rabkin on July 17, 2019. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Interview of a Seattle Sephardic Jewish community member who discusses his grandparents and parents who immigrated from the Island of Rhodes to Seattle. She also discusses about difficulties she had married to a non-Jew |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Federal Bureau of Investigation files on Karly Larsen and Ralph Nelson |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Historian, professor, and author from Tacoma, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Tape recorded interview of Seattle Jewish community member discussing the Seattle Jewish Community Center from 1978 to 1982 |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Monsen was a University of Washington professor of business, government, and society and of management and organization. He is also a collector of ceramics and photography. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history collection of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual narrators focusing on the conditions the narrators experienced before the activist period, the early homophile movement in Seattle, the founding or early days of activist and service organizations, and ongoing activism since those times. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history of a reform rabbi in Seattle |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Interviews of lawyer and politician Warren G. Magnuson's staff by former government official and public health advocate Michael Pertschuk |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Local coordinating arm of AFL-CIO |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Hope Hughes Pressman worked for the University of Oregon in the President's Office, for the University of Oregon Foundation, and for the University of Oregon Museum in addition to serving on several committees and councils at the city and state level. This collection contains materials relating to Pressman's involvement with those other committees and councils, including Aid for Families with Dependent Children (ADC), the Arts in Oregon Association, the Committee for Supplementary Cultural Activities, the Governor's Planning Council for the Arts and Humanities, Lane County Auditorium Association, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Oregon International Sculpture Symposium, dating from 1963 to 1977. Material includes correspondence, clippings, financial records, speech and interview transcripts, meeting minutes, and files regarding the 1972 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Visual materials of Ted Price and Bob Rodgers related to the development of the town of Leavenworth, Washington. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Interview with a native-Seattlite who is part of the Jewish American community |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history with two employees of Merrill & Ring, Ltd., a logging company located in Washington State. |
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Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
Summary: | A collection of interviews with prominent women associated with Seattle University as part of an oral history project titled Celebrating 70 Years of Women at Seattle University, 1933-2003 |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle art gallery owner. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history recording and transcript with Emily Shaffer about the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Washington and flyer advertising Hillel Night |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history interview of Elana Shippen conducted by Nancy Blase and Janice Rabkin on March 15, 2019. |
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Repository: | Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, Tribal Cultural Collections |
Summary: | The collection contains materials gathered from Siletz tribal members and residents for the Siletz Culture Project conducted from April-September 1985. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | A handwritten transcript of a portion of the travel diary that Jared Fox kept while emigrating to and living in the Oregon Territory, and documentation concerning the transcript's authorship. Jared Fox (1805-1865) emigrated to Oregon in 1852, but left the following year. It is believed that Fox's grandson-in-law, C. C. Bennett (1856-1935), wrote the transcript of Fox's account over a period of time from the late 1870s to the 1920s. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a Seattle labor official and labor historian |
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Collection Title: | |
Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a professor of architecture, University of Washington. |
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Repository: | Eastern Washington University |
Summary: | The William Stevens Papers consists of materials related to William Stevens' research concerning the 1948 Joint Committee on Un-American Activities of the Washington State Legislature. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a scholar in Chinese Studies and director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute at the University of Washington from 1946 to 1969. |
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Repository: | Oregon Historical Society Research Library |
Summary: | This collection contains records of Wallace Turner and William Lambert investigation of corruption into the International Brotherhood of Teamsters between 1946 and 1958. As a result of their reporting for the Oregonian newspaper, Turner and Lambert won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 1957. The collection contains photographs of source documents, recordings and transcriptions, notes, correspondence, legal documents, and newspaper clippings. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | In November of 1847, a small band of Cayuse warriors killed 14 settlers and took 53 others captive in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The collection consists of photostat copies of court documents describing testimony brought against Tiloukaikt, one of the Cayuse leaders brought to trial for the crime. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Records of UNITE HERE! Local 8, a union representing workers in the hospitality industry in Oregon and Washington as well as the records of earlier local craft unions which merged to form it. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | Paul and Henriette Van De Velde researched and wrote about culture, art, and life in Mexico in the 1920s-1930s, and about Oregon, specifically Waldport. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, research files concerning Mexico and Oregon, notebooks, diaries, interviews regarding Waldport, Oregon, books, and clippings. |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | John Joseph Villair (1876- ) was an Oregon pioneer and resident of Josephine County. The collection consists of a typed transcription of Villair's reminiscences as told to John C. Kuhns (1887-1901). |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Audio recordings and transcripts of 35 interviews with Chinese American immigrants |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Seattle film producer |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Oral history with a member of the Seattle Jewish community. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Biographical, clippings, tape-recorded interview and photographs of a sculptor and painter of Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Organizational material, correspondence, financial records, reports, exhibit/program development files, tape-recorded interviews, log of telephone calls, photographs, clippings, poster, oral history audio tapes and ephemera for a statewide grant project focused on women's lives in Washington State |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Correspondence, writings, artwork, and other papers of Wesley Wehr, a painter, composer, and paleobotanist in Seattle, Washington |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | oral history interview of Marianne Weingarten |
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Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
Summary: | This collection contains Western Union Telegraph Co. transcripts of reports of an exploration expedition to the Alaska-Yukon territory, 1865 to 1867. |
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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. |
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Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
Summary: | Papers of a lawyer and conservationist of Seattle, Washington. Much of the material relates to Winn's chairmanship of the Mountaineers' Conservation Division |