The WSU President’s Residence was built in 1912, though not ready for occupation until 1913. In addition to serving as a Pullman home for the President, it also served as a place to host events and guests. At the end of 2022, with the building now housing the Chancellor instead of the President, the building was renamed the Anderson House.
The collection consists of scrapbooks, images, and documents relating to events held in the President’s Residence for Washington State University, in Pullman, WA. Physcial scrapbooks cover 1993-2004, with a few additional events through 2007. CDs and DVDs cover 1997-2017. Box one contains the print materials and unbound scrapbooks, box two contains the digital materials, CDS and DVDs.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
The printed materials in box one are foldered and arranged in a chronological order, with a few specific events at the end. The digital materials in box two are retained primarily in their original order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Office of the President Files, 1993-2017 (UA2022-03)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Kristi Tattershall of the President’s Office donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries on February 10, 2022, where they were retained as UA 2022-03.
University Archivist Mark O’English accessioned this collection in August of 2022. Physical scrapbooks were unbound and foldered, retaining their original orders, and could effectively be considered processed. The digital CDs and DVDs have been copied to archival storage, and are retained here. Some with no effective ties to WSU were discarded, and five were non-salvageable, but the other are retained. These still need to be evaluated to determine if they need kept, and organized and described.
WSU MASC holds collections of papers form the Office of the President, as well as image sets relating to the President’s Residence.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.