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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Autobiography of A.B. Moe, a Norwegian immigrant who came to America in 1881. He lived in Poulsbo, Washington, for 41 years and served as its first mayor. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Adams and Company of California was a subsidiary of the Adams Express Company, a shipping and local delivery firm. The collection includes a single four-page list of items and services offered by Adams and Company of California. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | James F. Amis was an attorney who served as the first justice of the peace in Eugene, OR. Records include letters, legal documents, checks, receipts, cash book, one bound domestic bible with family records, and other miscellaneous items |
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| Repository: | Whitman College and Northwest Archives |
| Summary: | The George D. Anderson Journals documents the activities of George D. Anderson, who traveled from Lyon County, Kansas to Walla Walla Territory by way of Boise, Idaho in 1879, Methow Valley, Skagit, 1880, and had business transactions at Camp Spokane from 1880 to 1881. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Elisha L. Applegate (1832-1896) was the brother of Jesse Applegate who helped establish the Applegate Trail. Collection contains one scrapbook of biographical sketches, obituaries, addresses, and other clippings relating to Jacksonville and Ashland, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | The collection consists of a biography of Arthur Torgerson and family reminiscences, in addition to original personal and legal documents such as his baptismal record and citizenship records. Also included are Norwegian language clippings, a genealogical list of Torger Olson’s first and second family members, and Arthur’s application for a homestead in Canada. |
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| Repository: | Whitman College and Northwest Archives |
| Summary: | The Mrs. E.S. Babb Oral History, which dates from circa 1942, consists of reminiscences of emigration to the Washington Territory and of pioneer life. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Captain James Blakely (1812-1913) was a merchant and one of the founding members of Brownsville, OR. Collections contains one scrapbook of letters, programs, receipts, photographs, and other mementos relating to the career of James Blakely, Brownsville, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Rose Arrington Blanchard was the Oregon born daughter of emigrants to Scottsburg, Oregon. The Rose A. Blanchard "Memories of My Sister, Fannie Lyons Dimmick" collection contains an eleven page account of Blanchard's sister's life as a pioneer resident of Scottsburg and Coos Bay, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Bozeman Claim Association Minutes consist of photocopies of several pages torn from a bound notebook with transactions of the group recorded over the span of five meetings from August 9, 1864 to February 11, 1865. Items represented include the initial surveying boundaries, a failed motion to change the name of the town to "Montana City," the establishment of fees and procedures for making land claims, and election of the group's officers. The minutes were transcribed by William W. Alderson. |
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| Repository: | Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives |
| Summary: | James H. Bradley was a first lieutenant in the 7th Infantry Regiment, stationed at Fort Shaw and Fort Benton, Montana Territory. Bradley was an amateur historian who wrote about the history of Montana and the Northwest, and his own military career. He was killed at the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9, 1877. This collection consists of Bradley's writings, some correspondence, and miscellany. [Most of the writings were published in Volumes. II, III, VIII, and IX of Contributions to the Montana Historical Society. |
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| Repository: | Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives |
| Summary: | James Brisbin, a Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, native, served as an Army officer in the Civil War and the Indian Wars, 1868-1891. He was stationed at Fort Ellis, Fort Assiniboine, Fort Custer, Montana Territory, and many other western forts. Brisbin was also a writer and publicist. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence (1860-1890), and writings (1850-1891) concerning the Army, the Indian Wars, the West, and Montana Territory. |
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| Repository: | Western Oregon University Archives |
| Summary: | The Butler Family Papers is a collection of 70 original letters written by some of the pioneers who settled in Polk County, Oregon, and founded Monmouth University in 1856 (now Western Oregon University). |
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| Repository: | Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Summary: | This collection consists of correspondence between Albert Orris Cady and his wife Vesta from July 1894 to April 1895 about plans for their reunion on homesteading land near Collins, Idaho. Other papers include genealogical material and cash ledgers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | William M. Case and Isaac W. Case, brothers came to Oregon in the 1840s. Isaac Case was a merchant and banker. He went to the Idaho mines in 1862 and later settled in Astoria, where he founded the Astoria Savings Bank. This collection includes family letters, financial materials, family business papers, and other miscellaneous family papers. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Justin Chenoweth (1829-1898) was an Oregon pioneer and surveyor. Collection includes two containers of family letters, poems, important documents, Chenoweth's diary, and biographical and genealogical material. |
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| Repository: | Whitman College and Northwest Archives |
| Summary: | The Charles Clark Papers, which date from circa 1920, contains information about pioneer Charles Clark. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The papers of Mildred Colbert, author and daughter of a prominent Washington pioneer family, are comprised of biographical material, diaries, correspondence, financial materials, manuscripts, school materials, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous. |
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| Repository: | Whitman College and Northwest Archives |
| Summary: | The Lizzie Collins Papers, which date from circa 1922, house materials related to Lizzie Collins. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The collection contains Marianne Hunsaker D'Arcy's autobiography, both in handwritten form, and typed. D'Arcy was among the first generation of Americans to settle in Oregon. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The DeMuth Photographs are mostly images of the construction of the Hebgen Dam on the Madison River, taken by DeMuth prior to his death in 1913. A few images show DeMuth as a graduating student, a young man, and in the construction camp on the upper Madison River, and three images show the capture of young elk calves in winter by DeMuth and an unidentified companion. The construction pictures include images of the workmen's camp, the sawmill producing cut timbers for concrete forms and a water diversion tunnel, construction activity in winter and summer, and both steam and horse-powered earth moving equipment. |
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| Repository: | Pacific Lutheran University, Archives and Special Collections |
| Summary: | Handwritten family history by Esther Nelson Berglund born in 1890 in Tacoma, Washington. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Eva Gates Manuscript consists of a typescript of the early history and founding of Mineral County, Montana, by Eva and Elmer H. Gates. Included are town histories of Alberton, Fish Creek, Saltese (Silver City), Taft, Iron Mountain, Superior, Cedar Creek, Carter, Keystone, Amador, and Deborgia. There are accounts of mining activities, major structures erected in each town, early settlers, ethnic groups in the area, ferries, mills, fires, roads, and railroads. |
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| Repository: | University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. |
| Summary: | The Lucia Eugenia Lamb Everett diary (1862) describes her overland journey to Nevada in a horse-drawn wagon. She includes descriptions of buffalo skulls, encounters with Indians, and the crossing of rivers and creeks. |
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| Repository: | University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | This collection consists primarily of photographs of the Frei and Wallen families of Latah County, Idaho. Other images depicit farming, logging and livestock. Copies of poems and songs have also been saved in this collection. |
