Collection is open for research.
Donated by the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, in 1973, after 1978, and on March 28, 2007. The accession numbers are retro-0017 and 2007-033.
In 1934 the Inland Empire Waterways Association was established as an advocacy group to represent the interests of the transportation industry, forestry, agriculture, energy producers, and local governments in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Most notably, they lobbied at the federal level for the construction of the locks and dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
In 1971, as the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, the association was expanded to include Puget Sound and coastal members. Today, the association represent over 100 members in public and private sectors in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and California. Members include public ports, navigation, transportation, international trade, tourism, agriculture, forest products, energy and local government interests.
Original order, when preserved, has been followed. Some separated materials are noted.
The Pacific Northwest Waterways Association Records, which dates from 1907 to 2007, contains the correspondence, reports, maps, financial records, and other materials pertaining to the meetings and the annual conferences held by the association between 1930 and 2007.
These files contain extensive correspondence and subject files for the association, which includes contacts with United States Congressmen, associated waterways organizations, and leaders in cities and towns concerned with development of the Pacific Northwest rivers. Reports of Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) hearings and state and U.S. congressional bills are contained here. In addition, river transportation discussions can be found here, from barges to bridges, freight rates to tonnage.
At least two donation groups resulted in the split arrangement. Both are per association alphabetizing. Boxes 1-33 contain correspondence from 1934-1957; boxes 34-41 contain correspondence from 1958-1977.
Incomplete records of the Washington Public Service Commission hearing, cause number T-8332, docket number 29458, Inland Navigation Company versus Big Creek and Telocaset Railroad Company.
Articles of incorporation and personnel biographical files for board members and regional county vice presidents.
Records of lobbying efforts include contacts, donors, photographs, financial reports, statements, and agendas. Also found here are the records of testimony given to various governemnt agencies. The association also labeled these records "overall programs."
Detailed records of each year's planning and organization, agendas, speeches, resolutions, committee reports, and board meetings.
Records of yearly meetings, including correspondence, planning notes, brochures, meeting notes, speeches, resolutions, finacial reports, photographs, registration materials, and plans and reports for visits to Washington, D.C.
Administrative records of resolutions.
Material on the World Meterological Organizations conference held in Washington, D.C.
Records of receipts and expenditures.
This contains cancelled checks, check and deposit registers, bank statements, and deposit books. The most complete group is registers, which cover 1934-1967. Other items cover the time frame 1957-1971.
This ledger is a record of an account with Baker-Boyer National Bank.
The account ledger kept by James W. Davis.
This contains material relating to social security taxes, unemployment compensation, and payroll.
Album of images featuring Attalia Tank Farm, Port Kelley Wheat Elavators, and images of dam building and river travel.
Photographs of dignitaries, dam dedications, river transportation, and association members attending meetings. Oversized items are rolled.
Rolled and foldered maps of dam areas, dam dedication plans, maps of the Pacific Northwest, Corps of Engineers' surveys, and United States Geological Survey maps.
Promotional newsletters, flyers, programs, brochures, correspondence with printers, printing dies, and other print material. Also, there is a small section of what are labeled business books, to include a dictionary and a book detailing how to save estate and gift taxes.
The newspapers are the 1968 Tri-Cities Herald John Day Dam Edition series.
Photographs and maps, with some notes.
This contains records of planning for dedications of dams the association lobbied for, as well as dedications of other construction projects in the Pacific Northwest.
Contains loyalty oaths, biographical material, and membership and recruitment lists, from individuals, counties, and ports.
These are the records of the organization that dissolved in 1971 and immediately joined the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association.
These scrapbooks contain clippings of newspaper articles pertaining to issues of interest to the association.