The Lapwai Mission press, operated by the Spalding mission at Lapwai, Idaho, was the first printing press in the Pacific Northwest, used from 1839 to 1845 to print texts supporting the activities of the mission.
This collection consists of a fragment of one of the texts printed on the press, a calendar and Nez Perce-English vocabulary: Shapahitamanash suyapu timptki (fragments of the upper half of pages 7-14), and five pieces of type from the press. It also includes copies of related documentation: acquisition information and research documents used during processing.
This collection is open and available for research use.
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[Item Description]
Spalding Mission, Lapwai Press Collection, circa 1800-2011 (Cage 5020)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Clifford Drury presented these items to the WSU library in 1936 where they were originally cataloged in the Vertical File as VF 2475.
The collection was transferred from the Virtical File (VF 2475) in 2011.
Henry Harmon Spalding Papers, 1836-circa 1968
Spalding Family Papers, 1877-circa 1920s
Horace H. and Belle R. Spalding Interview Transcript, 1960
Spalding Warehouse Account Book, 1902-1905
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