HTMWCMss592.xml Guide to the Val Jensen Scrapbook 1938-1942 Jensen (Val) Scrapbook Claire Drown Whitman College and Northwest Archives 2018
345 Boyer Avenue Walla Walla, WA 99362 Archives@whitman.edu https://library.whitman.edu/archives/
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-04-10. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. English Whitman College and Northwest Archives
345 Boyer Avenue Walla Walla, WA 99362 Archives@whitman.edu https://library.whitman.edu/archives/
Val Jensen Scrapbook Jensen, Val Jensen, Mary Ellen WCMss.592 1.0 linear feet 1 flat box 1938-1942 The Val Jensen Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and advertisements. This scrapbook, which dates 1938 to 1942, also consists of photographs.

Collection is open for research.

Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Mary Ellen Jensen on August 9, 2018. The accession number associated with this donation is 2018-035.

Cristen Valdemar Jensen, commonly referred to as Val, was born in 1888 in Denmark, and came to the United States in 1907. He moved to Walla Walla, Washington in 1912 to work for the A.M. Jensen store. In World War One he was a member of Company A of the National Guard, and received a commission as a second lieutenant in 1919. After the war, Jensen opened Criterion, a women's clothing store. In September 1923 he also opened his own Jensen's store, independent of A.M. Jensen. He was elected mayor of Walla Walla in 1938. Val Jensen died in 1955.

The Val Jensen Scrapbook consists of a scrapbook compiled by employees of Val Jensen during his time as the mayor of Walla Walla, Washington from 1938 to 1942. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, advertisements, photographs, and letters, including a letter signed by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, related to his campaign and tenure as mayor.

 Jensen, Mary Ellen Walla Walla (Wash.) Politics and Politicians