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Center for Columbia River History collection, 1854-2007
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Center for Columbia River History
- Title
- Center for Columbia River History collection
- Dates
- 1854-2007 (inclusive)18542007
1990-2000 (bulk)19902000 - Quantity
- 10.5 cubic feet, (22 document cases and 1 card file box)
- Collection Number
- Coll 292
- Summary
- Research files relating to aspects of the Columbia River Basin, including environmental, social, political, and cultural issues. Files were created by Donna Sinclair and Katrine Barber.
- Repository
-
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Center for Columbia River History was created in 1990. It was a consortium of the Washington State Historical Society, Portland State University, and Washington State University, Vancouver, and offered quality history programs about the Columbia River Basin to the general public. It cooperated with other institutions in the Columbia River area to promote research, develop curriculum, teach special courses, publish materials in electronic and text formats, and present public programs about the Basin. Directors of the Center included Katrine Barber and Donna Sinclair.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection consists largely of working files of Donna Sinclair, including subject files relating to the Columbia River Basin and its communities. Materials include notes, correspondence, and copies of source materials.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright holders.
Preferred Citation
Center for Columbia River History collection, Coll 292, Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in four series:
- Research Files--Umatilla
- Research Files--Cottage Grove
- Research Files--Columbia Slough
- General research files
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Series A: Research Files--Umatilla, circa 1902-2000, undatedReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | 308 Reports |
1943; undated |
1/2 | Umatilla Depot |
1996-2000; undated |
1/3 | Umatilla Depot Cont. |
1994-2000; undated |
1/4 | Umatilla Depot: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Disaster |
1955-1999; undated |
1/5 | Umatilla Working File: Umatilla River Basin |
1946-2000; undated |
1/6 | Umatilla Working File: Section V Umatilla Site, Umatilla
Today & Tomorrow |
1958-2000; undated |
1/7 | Umatilla Working File: Community History Biliography
CRBP |
2000; undated |
1/8 | Umatilla Working File |
1999 |
1/9 | Dept. of Labor Reports |
1988-2000 |
1/10 | Program Manager for Chemical
Demilitarization |
circa 1998-1999 |
2/1 | Misc. Articles & Other Docs |
1906-1999; undated |
2/2 | Misc. Articles & Other Docs Cont. |
1912-2000; undated |
2/3 | Misc. Articles & Other Docs Cont. |
1943-2000; undated |
2/4 | Umatilla Images |
1947-2000; circa 1950s; undated |
2/5 | Oral History |
1955; 1981 |
2/6 | Primary Docs. |
1984-1999; undated |
2/7 | McNary Dam |
1943 (?); undated |
2/8 | Population Data |
1999; undated |
2/9 | Northwest Passage, Journals of Lewis &
Clark |
undated |
2/10 | Umatilla Chemical Depot |
1998 |
2/11 | The Forgotten Tribes, Oral Tales of the Teninos and
Adjacent Mid-Columbia River Indian Nations |
1991 |
2/12 | "Open the Columbia to the Sea" by Lee B.
Reeder |
1902 |
2/13 | McNary Telegram |
1938-1958 |
2/14 | Correspondence |
1999 |
2/15 | Umatilla Indians, CTUIR |
1999; undated |
2/16 | Permissions to publish |
1999-2000 |
2/17 | Corps Report - McNary & John Day |
circa 1971 |
2/18 | Early Communities, Chinese |
1999; undated |
2/19 | Umatilla Highway Bridge |
1952-1957 |
Columbia Communities |
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Box/Folder | ||
3/1 | Umatilla Research: Umatilla Maps |
1964-1981; undated |
3/2 | Umatilla Research: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Working File |
circa 1994-1999; undated |
3/3 | Umatilla Research: Umatilla - Mexican
Americans |
1998-1999 |
3/4 | Umatilla Research: Umatilla To-Do |
1954-2000 |
3/5 | Umatilla Research--maps |
1942; undated |
4/1 | Umatilla Photos |
1999; undated |
4/2 | Umatilla Photos, continued |
1992; 1999 |
4/3 | Dams |
1975; 1999-2000 |
4/4 | Dams: Columbia Communities - Umatilla
Dams/Hydro. |
1991-1993; undated |
4/5 | Dams: Section IV - Making Way for Umatilla John Day
Site |
circa 1948-1999; undated |
4/5 | Dams: Section IV - Making Way for Umatilla John Day
Site |
circa 1958-1999; undated |
4/6 | Dams Cont. |
1983-1999; undated |
4/7 | To Add to Umatilla |
circa 1952-1998 |
5/1 | Umatilla oral history |
1999-2000 |
5/2 | Umatilla Indians |
1957-1999 |
5/3 | Umatilla Indians Cont. |
1975-1992 |
5/4 | Umatilla Research |
1956-2000 |
Box/Folder | ||
6/1 | Articles |
circa 1984-2000 |
6/2 | Colville |
1990-2000 |
6/3 | Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission |
1999 |
6/4 | Cascade Fishery--Paper by Robert C. Dunnell |
undated |
6/5 | Celilo Village Indian Colony |
1999 |
6/6 | Klamath Tribe |
1999 |
6/7 | Kalispel Tribe |
1999 |
6/8 | Nez Perce Tribe |
1999 |
6/9 | Shoshone Bannock |
1990-1999; undated |
6/10 | Yakama |
1962-2000 |
7/1 | Beckam, Stephen Dow, "Ethnohistorical context of
reserved Indian fishing rights : Pacific northwest treaties, 1851-1955" (report
for the court case "United States v. Washington") |
1984 |
7/2 | Sohappy Case |
undated |
7/3 | Columbia Communities - River Indians - Wanapum, Native
American Research |
1986-1998 |
7/4 | Columbia River Community History, Airport History, St.
John's Landfill |
1996; undated |
7/5 | Misc. Columbia Slough Documents (from black
binder) |
circa 1942-1994; undated |
7/6 | Misc. Columbia Slough Documents Cont. (from black
binder) |
1918-1972 |
7/7 | Misc. Columbia Slough Documents Cont. (from black
binder) |
1953-1996 |
8/1 | Canada |
1993-2000; undated |
8/2 | Umatilla |
1996-1999; undated |
8/3 | The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Its Resources & Development Potential |
1976 |
8/4 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Training manual for
interpreters of McNary Lock and Dam" |
1999 January |
8/5 | McNary articles |
circa 1938-1961 |
8/6 | Petticoat council
Includes papers by Shelly Furtner Wallace, "Umatilla's
'petticoat governemt' 1916-1920"
|
1950; undated |
8/7 | Pendleton Grain Growers, Army Depot |
1998; undated |
8/8 | Umatilla, Columbia Slough, Cottage Grove--oral history
questions |
1999-2000 |
8/9 | Dam breaching |
1999-2000 |
8/10 | Dam breaching--Umatilla, Salmon |
1999 |
Series B: Research Files--Cottage Grove, 1854-2000Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
9/1 | Cottage Grove Forestry |
circa 1909; 1970-2000; undated |
9/2 | Cottage Grove Forestry Cont. |
circa 1913-1999 |
9/3 | Dorena and Cottage Grove Dams |
1935-1997; undated |
9/4 | Primary Materials/Images Permissions CG |
1999-2000; undated |
9/5 | Cottage Grove Images |
1898-1999; undated |
9/6 | CG Flood Events |
1941; 1970; undated |
9/7 | Bohemia Mining |
1893-1970; undated |
9/8 | Bibliographies |
1986; 1994; undated |
10/1 | Misc. documents |
1854-1996 |
10/2 | Cottage Grove documents |
1884-1999 |
10/3 | Narrators (oral histories) |
1999-2000 |
10/4 | Willamette River today |
circa 1969-1999 |
10/5 | All-American city |
undated |
Series C: Research Files--Columbia Slough, 1870-2000Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
11/1 | Maps/General Info. |
1974-2000; undated |
11/2 | Maps/General Info. Cont. |
1979-2000; undated |
11/3 | Swindell Material--United States, Office of Indian
Affairs, Division of Forestry and Grazing, "Report on source nature and extent
of the fishing, hunting and miscellaneous related rights of certain Indian
tribes in Washington and Oregon together with affidavits showing locations of a
number of usual and accustomed fishing grounds and stations" |
1942 |
11/4 | Spokane Indians |
1999 |
11/5 | Burns Paiute |
1997-1999; undated |
11/6 | Warm Springs - Oral History Project |
1999-2000; undated |
11/7 | Corps Feasibility Study |
1999 |
11/8 | Misc. Documents |
1964-2000 |
12/1 | Slough Permissions: Slough - Images/Permiss.
Docs. |
1999-2001 |
12/2 | Slough Permissions: Oral History Permissions |
1999-2000 |
12/3 | Slough Permissions: Columbia Slough -
Correspondence |
1999-2001 |
12/4 | Slough Permissions: Columbia Slough - generaly info.
& project descriptions |
undated |
12/5 | Slough Permissions: Oregonian Permissions |
circa 1942-2001 |
12/6 | Portland International Airport |
1933-2009; undated |
12/7 | Columbia Slough Task Force |
circa 1972 |
12/8 | Columbia Slough Closure |
1870; 1997 |
12/9 | Columbia Slough Closure, 1968 |
1969-1987; undated |
12/10 | Columbia Slough Closure - North Portland Peninsula
Study |
1972 |
12/11 | MDD #1 Scrapbook |
1948-1993; undated |
12/12 |
Our place : environmental community,
Roosevelt High School
|
2002 |
13/1 | Kenton |
1995-2000; undated |
13/2 | Neighbors Between the Rivers |
1995-1999 |
13/3 | Slough-Enviro: Slough - Pollution |
1971-2000 |
13/4 | Slough-Enviro: Misc. |
1995-2000 |
13/5 | Slough-Enviro: Fishing on the Slough |
1994-1997; undated |
13/6 | Slough-Enviro: Slough - CSO's |
1970-1997 |
13/7 | Slough-Enviro: Col. Slough - Water Quality |
1959-2000; undated |
13/8 | Slough-Enviro: Columbia Slough - Recreation (PIR) (Golf
Courses) |
1972-2000; undated |
Slough Communities |
||
Box/Folder | ||
14/1 | Columbia Slough Oral History Class, Geoff Weherell
paper |
2000 |
14/2 | Hayden Island/Bridgeton |
1984-1999 |
14/3 | Commercial Communities |
1988-1998 |
14/4 | Vanport |
circa 1942-1990 |
14/5 | St. Johns Neighborhood |
1909-2000 |
14/6 | St. Johns Landfill |
circa 1971-2000 |
14/7 | Whitaker Panels |
circa 1994-2000 |
14/8 | Portland Neighborhoods |
1999 |
14/9 | Japanese Americans |
1980-1999 |
14/10 | Japanese in Oregon |
1995-1997; undated |
14/11 | Rivergate |
1967-1974 |
Box/Folder | ||
14/12 | Jantzen Beach Center |
1927-1999 |
14/13 | Hayden Island |
1903-2000 |
14/14 | Port of Portland |
1972 |
14/15 | Swan Island |
1976 |
14/16 | Columbia Slough Trail Project |
1903-1996 |
14/17 | Slough Organizations: Smith & Bybee Lakes, Audobon
|
1997-1999 |
14/18 | Slough Organizations: Friends of Blue & Fairview
Lake |
circa 1992-1999 |
14/19 | Slough Organizations: Northwest Environmental Advocates,
Willamette Riverkeepers |
undated |
14/20 | Slough Organizations: Columbia Slough Watershed Council
|
1999; undated |
15/1 | Oregon Historical Society oral histories |
2000 |
15/2 | CCRH Web Misc. |
circa 1998-2000 |
15/3 | CCRH Web: Columbia River Basin Project - Donna
[Sinclair] |
circa 1997-1999 |
15/4 | Community Hist. - Slough To-Do |
crica 1972-2000 |
15/5 | Maps: Columbia Slough Maps |
crica 1915-2999 |
15/6 | Maps: Basin Maps |
undated |
15/7 | Maps: Misc. |
1944 |
15/8 | Slough - photos |
circa 1998-2000 |
16/1 | Slough - photos |
1988-2000; undated |
16/2 | Slough oral histories |
1999-2000 |
16/3 | Slough Oral Hist.: Columbia Slough - Helen
Miles |
2000 |
16/4 | Slough - Primary Docs.: Misc. |
1948-2000 |
16/5 | Slough - Primary Docs.: Columbia Slough -
BES |
1989-2000 |
16/6 | Slough - Primary Docs.: Scanned Documents, Columbia
Slough |
1946-1995; undated |
16/7 | Research - Slough: Research info. - Slough |
1995-2000 |
16/8 | Research - Slough: Slough articles |
circa 1972-1997 |
16/9 | Research - Slough: Misc. research materials |
1945-1998 |
16/10 | Columbia River Slough--Research notebook (Donna
Sinclair?) |
undated |
16/11 | Slough capstones (Portland State University student
projects) |
1993-2000 |
17/1 | Planning Goals |
1997-1999; undated |
17/2 | Erosion & Sedimentation |
1997; 1999 |
17/3 | Columbia South Shore |
1997-2000; undated |
17/4 | Floods |
1970-1996; undated |
17/5 | Albina |
1945-1970; 1993 |
17/6 | Maps |
undated |
Series D: General Files, 1945-2007Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
OHS Oral Histories |
||
Box/Folder | ||
18/1 | Bernard Foster: OHS Oral History |
2004 |
18/2 | Bobbie Foster: OHS Oral History |
1999 |
18/3 | Mark Hatfield: OHS Oral History |
1998 |
18/4 | Malcolm Marsh: An Oral History |
2007 |
18/5 | Robert E. Jones: An Oral History |
2007 |
18/6 | Randall Kester: An Oral History |
2006 |
Dissenters |
||
Box/Folder | ||
19/1 | American Rivers |
1999 |
19/2 | Bonneville Power Administration |
1999 |
19/3 | Christian Enviro Groups |
1999 |
Box/Folder | ||
19/4 | Breaching Dams |
1991-1999 |
19/5 | Columbia River History |
circa 1995-2000 |
19/6 | Vanport Flood--Microfilm from Multnomah County Sherrif's
Office "Flood property thru slavaged autos."
Original color slides depicting damage from the 1948 flood in
Portland have been separated to Org. Lot 1218, Oregon Historical Society
Research Library.
|
circa 1946-1948 |
19/7 | Columbia R. - method |
circa 1984-1998 |
19/8 | Columbia River Alliance |
1999-2000 |
19/9 | Columbia River Basin and Estuary--Report by Angus
Duncan, et. al., "Overhaul of maintenance : a review of existing and proposed
governance institutions in the Columbia River Basin and Estuary." |
1999 January |
19/10 | Columbia River United |
1999 |
19/11 | Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign |
1999 |
19/12 | CRITFC ISSUES (FOR CIARIC) |
1996-2000 |
19/13 | Current Issues |
1999-2000 |
19/14-19/15 | Current Issues--Clippings |
1999-2000 |
20/1 | Current Issues--Clippings |
1999-2000 |
20/2 | Dams - Breaching |
1995-2000 |
20/3 | Dams - History
Includes: "Presentation for the Oregon Historical Society," by
Katrine Barber, 1998 May 16; "The Dalles Dam : the death of Celilo Falls and a
native culture," by Cathy Alzner, 1995 June 7.
|
1977-1998; undated |
20/4 | E. Oregon Trip |
2000 May |
20/5 | Endangerd Species Act, National Maritime Fisheries
Service |
1990-2000 |
20/6 | Endangerd Species Act, National Maritime Fisheries
Service, Federal Energy Regulation Commission |
1993-2000 |
20/7 | Ferries project |
2002 |
20/8 | Fish/CCRH |
1976-1999 |
20/9 | Fish - Idaho Statesman |
1968-1998 |
21/1 | Friends of Columbia Gorge |
1999 |
21/2 | Hanford - CCRH |
1989-1999 |
21/3 | Hanford Reach |
1999 |
21/4 | Harvest |
1998 |
21/6 | Hells Canyon CCRH |
1970 |
21/5 | Hatcheries |
1998 |
21/7 | General Outline of subjects (Managing the Columbia River
oral history project) |
undated |
21/8 | General River Management |
1976-1999 |
21/9 | Grand Coulee Dam |
1958; 1971 |
21/10 | Grazing--magazines |
1993 |
21/11 | Idaho - General pamphlets |
undated |
21/12 | Idaho Politics |
1996-1998 |
21/13 | Idaho Rivers United |
1995-1998; undated |
21/14 | Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mgmt. |
1998-1999 |
21/15 | Irrigation |
1978; 1998-1999 |
21/16 | Koberstein Articles |
1999 |
21/17 | Lewis & Clark Conference |
2000 |
21/18 | Names of Resources and Potential IVs, CCRH |
1949-2000 |
21/19 | Native Americans |
circa 1998-2000 |
21/20 | Native American Fishing Rights |
1999 |
21/21 | New CCRH Articles |
1999-2000 |
21/22 | Nuclear (issue of the
Boise weekly) |
1998 May 7-13 |
21/23 | Umatilla, Oregon Oral History Project,
1999-2000 |
1983-2000 |
21/24 | Pollution |
1997-1999 |
22/1 | Research (the Orange Folder) |
circa 1999-2000 |
22/2-22/3 | Power Issues ("That Dam File") |
1945-2000 |
22/4 | Publications Addressing Salmon Crisis |
1997; 2000 |
22/5 | River Network |
circa 1998-2000 |
22/6 | Salmon Recovery - general |
circa 1998-2000 |
22/7 | Save Our Wild Salmon |
1999 |
22/8 | Treaties - General |
1999-2000; undated |
22/9 | Tribes
Includes papers by Cain Allen, "They called it progress : water
development projects and the marginalization of Native Americans on the
Columbia."
|
1996-1999; undated |
22/10 | Trojan |
1971-1991 |
22/11 | Umatilla Reservation - general |
1993-2000 |
22/12 | Water Policy--"Ecosystem values and governance in
western river basins : a commentary and proposal," Angus Duncan |
1997 May 15 |
22/13 | Watersheds--
History, science, the law, and watershed
recovery in the GrandeRonde : a case study by Angus Duncan, published
by Sea Grant |
1998 |
22/14 |
Wild salmon forever : a citizens' strategy
to restore northwest salmon and watersheds, Save Our Wild Salmon
Coalition |
undated |
22/15 | Willamette River (article by Bill Monroe) |
2001 |
CFB-1 | Computer diskettes |
circa 1999-2000 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Human ecology--History--Oregon
- Human ecology--History--Washington (State)
- Indians of North America--Oregon
- Indians of North America--Washington (State)
Personal Names
- Barber, Katrine
- Sinclair, Donna
Corporate Names
- Center for Columbia River History--Archives
Geographical Names
- Columbia River
- Columbia Slough (Or.)
- Cottage Grove (Or.)
- Umatilla County (Or.)