XOE_CPNWS0380 Guide to the Dean Kahn Collection on Local History Kahn (Dean) Collection on Local History Finding aid created by Ruth Steele Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies 2022-05

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Finding aid created by Ruth Steele on 2022-05-27. Materials are in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Center for Pacific Northwest Studies Dean Kahn Collection on Local History XOE_CPNWS0380 Kahn, Dean 4 linear feet 2 boxes, 1 framed item approximately 1930s-2017 A small collection of materials relating to Bellingham (Washington) history, donated by Dean Kahn, long-time reporter, editor, and columnist for the Bellingham Herald newspaper. English .

A small collection of research files relating to Bellingham (Washington) history, donated by Dean Kahn, a long-time reporter, editor, and columnist for the Bellingham Herald newspaper, who retired in 2016. Materials include a subject file on reporter, historian and poet Frank Teck, as well as files on a skeleton found at the GP (Georgia-Pacific) plant, and about the removal of President Charles Fisher from the Bellingham Normal School. The collection also includes a copy of the Bellingham Herald's October 2003 publication "Bellingham Centennial: Celebrating Our History", and a framed front page of the Bellingham Herald from June 11, 1999, with headlines about the Whatcom Creek pipeline explosion.

Collection is open to the public for research.

Materials were donated to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies by Dean Kahn in 2021, alongside some published materials for transfer to Western Libraries Special Collections, and copies of Kahn's weekly columns (for the Archives Building Reference Library).

Dean Kahn Collection on Local History, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Archives and Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western Washington University

The Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS) houses a small collection of Frank Teck Papers. Additional materials relating to President Charles Fisher of the Bellingham Normal School are available in the Bellingham Herald Collection on Charles Fisher, with some references to President Fisher also in the WWU Centennial Oral History Project Records (both collections at CPNWS). Western Washington University's Archives also houses Board of Trustees and additional institutional records relating to the Fisher case.

CPNWS staff removed a small amount of material during processing that duplicates other collection content at the Center for Pacific Northwest, or that is available via the Western Washington University Archives.

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Teck, Frank C., -- 1869-1933. Fisher, Charles Henry, -- 1880-1964.. Journalists -- Washington (State) -- Bellingham. Records (Documents) Bellingham Colleges and Universities Media and Communication Journalism