Collection is open for research.
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Sue Flexen in November, 1988, and Mary Humphries in 1980. The accession numbers associated with this donation is Retro-0379.
Henry Broderick was born in 1847 in England to Yetta Broderick. He immigrated to Walla Walla, Washington, where he worked as a photographer. He married Amelia Broderick, with whom he had two children, David and Minnie Broderick.
The Henry Broderick Papers consists of correspondence between Myron Eells and John Gill of the J. K. Gill Company regarding a Chinook dictionary, requests for historical material regarding Native American tribes and customs, and an order blank and prospectus for "Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States." These papers, which span from 1875 through 1904, also include an application for membership as a Fellow of the Society of Science Letters and Art of London, samples of literary journals, and "A Story of the Northwest" by Mrs. L.A.M. Bosworth for "In Overland Monthly," January 1893.