NTE2cg961.xml Guide to the Nick Manring Collection 1880-2005 Manring (Nick) Collection Finding aid prepared by Talea Anderson Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2023 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2023 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Cage 961 Manring, Nick Nick Manring Collection 1880-2005 6.8 Linear feet of shelf space 15 Boxes + 1 Oversize folder Photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, objects, and ephemera documenting the history of towns in eastern Washington state from 1880 to 2005. Garfield and Elberton, Washington, are particularly well represented in the collection. Collection materials are in English

This collection contains historical materials from the towns of Garfield and Elberton, Washington, as well as other Whitman County locations. The collection primarily consists of photographs and negatives, newspaper articles and clippings, correspondence, artifacts from Whitman County businesses, school and regional memorabilia, as well as published and unpublished histories.

This collection includes correspondence with Benjamin F. Manring, author of The Conquest of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokanes and Palouses: The Expeditions of Colonels E. J. Steptoe and George Wright (1912). In some letters, Manring responds to inquiries about his book and regional Native American history. Included are exchanges with Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944), a rancher and activist who documented histories of Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest. Manring also interacted with members of the Ku Klux Klan in Colfax and Vancouver, WA. In correspondence, he identifies as a Klansman with an interest in supporting white supremacists in state and regional politics.

The materials in this collection are arranged into seven series organized around material formats. Within series, folders are ordered chronologically.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions may apply.

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Nick Manring Collection, 1880-2005 (Cage 961)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Nick Manring donated these materials to the Washington State University Libraries in multiple installments beginning in 2002 (MS.2002.25, MS.2003.16, MS.2005.28, MS.2023.11).

This collection was processed by Talea Anderson.

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.

Manring, Nick -- Archives Garfield (Wash.) -- History -- Sources Elberton (Wash.) -- History -- Sources Whitman County (Wash.) -- History -- Sources Garfield (Wash.) -- Photographs Elberton (Wash.) -- Photographs Whitman County (Wash.) -- Photographs Washington (State) Series 1. Business Documents 1 1 Appraisal of 4th and Manring 1993 1 2 Bank records circa 1910s-1922 1 3 Deeds 1897-1902 1 4 Discharge papers 1894 1 5 Elberton ballots 1938-1948 1 6 Expense ledger circa 1906-1908 1 7 Expense ledger circa 1959-1961 1 8 Garfield incorporation 1888 1 9 Garfield School circa 1920s-1950s 1 10 Garfield Union Warehouse ledger 1941 1 11 Ledger for Ladies Aid Society of the M.G. Church, Garfield, WA 1906-1908 1 12 Ledger for Ladies Aid Society of the M.G. Church, Garfield, WA 1911 1 13 Ledger for Ladies Aid Society of the M.G. Church, Garfield, WA 1912-1915 1 14 Ledger for Ladies Aid Society of the M.G. Church, Garfield, WA 1924-1932 1 15 Legal claims 1892 1 16 Methodist Episcopal Church meeting minutes 1912 1 17 Mining rights 1950 1 18 Northern Grain and Warehouse Co. Ledger page 1922 2 1 Stock certificates 1906-1955 2 2 Whitman County elections 1992 Series 2. Correspondence 2 3 James Taylor Burcham correspondence 1904-1906 2 4 May Foreman correspondence circa 1890s-1920s 2 5 Garfield National Bank correspondence circa 1890-1912 2 6 Gulf War correspondence 1990-1991 2 7 J.C. Lawrence correspondence 1910-1912 2 8 Benjamin F. Manring correspondence 1923-1924 2 9 Benjamin F. Manring correspondence 1935-1942 2 10 Nick Manring correspondence 1973-1992 2 11 Reardan baseball correspondence 1905 Series 3. Ephemera 2 12 Calendars 1972 2 13 Annie Dodds scrapbook 1904 2 14 Elberton schools 1903-1922 2 15 May Foreman scrapbook 1901-1905 3 1 Funeral programs circa 1950s-1990s 3 2 Garfield elementary school 1891-1989 3 3 Garfield High School 1902-1910 3 4 Garfield High School 1911-1944 3 5 Garfield High School 1952-1994 3 6 Garfield High School scrapbook and GHS German Grammar Text Book 1912, 1906

Text book includes a hand-written list of the 1908-1909 German students at GHS.

 3 7 Garfield Women’s Club 1932-1982 3 8 Miscellaneous events 1913-1992 3 9 Signed WSU Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Founders Day Banquet Menu 1926 March 07 4 1 Regional brochures and postcards circa 1950s-2000s 4 2 State Normal Schools 1912-1915 4 3 Telephone directories 1939-1949 4 4 University of Hard Knocks excerpt 1920 Series 4. Histories and Reports 4 5 Agriculture Study Unit (RP3) 1985 4 6 Bishop and Lake families undated 4 7 Cashup Davis and His Hotel on Steptoe Butte 1967 4 8 Commissioners’ Journal, Whitman County 1897 4 9 Davidson genealogy undated 4 10 Elberton 1897-circa 1920s 4 11 Elberton circa 1961- 4 12 Elberton, Whitman County undated- 4 13 Elberton Historic District Application 1977 4 14 Elberton Levee 1938-1945 4 15 Elberton Methodist Episcopal Church undated 4 16 Elberton returns 1916 4 17 Environmental Impact Statement, Whitman County 1973 4 18 Explorations Northward 1973 4 19 Garfield School 1986 4 20 Klemgard Park 1974 4 21 The Last Palouse undated 4 22 JW Leid recollections undated 4 23 Wieber Lied interview 1976 4 24 LC Lewis veterinary report 1918 4 25 JE Love Company Timeline undated 5 1 JE Love Historical Outline undated 5 2 Ahira Manring speech 1991 5 3 McCroskey family circa 1980s-1990s 5 4 Virgil T. McCroskey 1983 5 5 Native Americans 1914-1923 5 6 Oakedale Flour Mill 1891 5 7 Officials of Washington Cities 1958-1967 5 8 The Old-Fashioned Town 1979 5 9 Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Co. Report 1916 5 10 People and the Plow 1987 5 11 People of Washington 1890-1952 5 12 Pioneer Days in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho 1942 5 13 William L. Powers House 1977 5 14 “Precious Memories,” by Mina Haun 1990-1991 5 15 Public Opinion Study, Schools 1984 5 16 Recollections of J. Orin Oliphant 1972 5 17 Regional bridges and highways undated 5 18 “Reliable Report of the Late Indian Fight” undated 5 19 The Secret Saga of Five-Sack 1975 5 20 A Short History of James A. Pickard circa 1975 5 21 Standard Community Industrial Survey undated 5 22 Stairet family history 1976 5 23 State of Washington Report of the Census Board 1944 5 24 A Story of Garfield undated 5 25 The Story of My Life, by John Lawrence (excerpt) undated 5 26 Sunnyside Orchard Tracts Addition to Palouse 1987 5 27 The Thresherman’s Prayer 1898 5 28 John Ellis Trimble biography 1981 5 29 Washington State Data Book 1985 5 30 Washington State Name, Flag, Seal, Song, Bird, Flower 1933 5 31 Whitman County Auditor’s Annual Report 1915-1918 6 1 Whitman County Cattlemen of the Year 1962 6 2 Whitman County Historic Resource Survey 1986 6 3 Whitman County history 1901 6 4 Julius Zittel undated Series 5. Newsletters and Newspaper Clippings 6 5 Bunchgrass Historian 1973-1974 6 6 Bunchgrass Historian 1975-1976 6 7 Bunchgrass Historian 1977-1980 6 8 Bunchgrass Historian 1981-1982 6 9 Bunchgrass Historian 1983-1984 6 10 Bunchgrass Historian 1985-1989 6 11 G-Hi Scoop undated 6 12 Newspaper clippings, index circa 1980s 7 1 Newspaper clippings 1890s-1910s 7 2 Newspaper clippings circa 1920-1929 7 3 Newspaper clippings circa 1930-1939 7 4 Newspaper clippings 1940s-1960s 7 5 Newspaper clippings 1970s 7 6 Newspaper clippings 1980s 7 7 Newspaper clippings 1990s 7 8 Newspaper clippings undated 7 9 The Pioneer, GHS student newspaper 1943 June 01 Series 6. Photographs and Negatives 8 1 Belmont school house undated 8 2 Dailey family at Elberton picnic circa 1918 8 3 Dodds family circa 1900s 8 4 Elberton, WA circa 1895-1910s 8 5 Elberton, WA circa 1970s 8 6 Elberton, WA (photographs by Archie E. Irwin) 1892-1962 8 7 Elberton, WA (photographs by Archie E. Irwin) 1892-1962 8 8 Elberton, WA (photographs by Archie E. Irwin) circa 1900s 8 9 Elberton, WA (photographs by Nicholas Manring) 1975 8 10 Elberton, WA, panoramas 1900-1913 8 11 Elberton school and Sunday School circa 1905 8 12 Farmington, WA 1974-1975 8 13 Shane Fisher circa 1900-1920 8 14 Ford, WA 1940 July 8 15 Forman family circa 1900-1960s 8 16 Garfield, WA 1890s-1910s 9 1 Garfield, WA 1890s-1910s 9 2 Garfield, WA circa 1950s-1980s 9 3 Garfield grade school circa 1880s-1908 9 4 Garfield High School circa 1910s-1970s 9 5 Garfield Union Warehouse Co. undated 9 6 Lindsey Gartin 1890 9 7 Gaskill family undated 9 8 Jacob Lausch house, Elberton, WA circa 1897-1910s 9 9 Love family circa 1890s-1910s 9 10 Manring family circa 1917-1975 9 11 R.C. McCroskey family circa 1900s-1980s 9 12 R.C. McCroskey house 1900-1910 9 13 R.C. McCroskey house 1960s-1970s 9 14 R.C. McCroskey house 1974 9 15 R.C. McCroskey house 1980s 10 1 Nye family, Garfield, WA undated 10 2 Oakesdale, WA circa 1975 10 3 Palouse, WA undated 10 4 Pickard family circa 1900s 10 5 Pullman High School undated 10 6 Ethel Brugger Scott 1966-1975 10 7 Scottish Rite Reunion 1944- 10 8 Spangle, WA undated 10 9 Steptoe Butte 1904 10 10 Unidentified photographs undated 10 11 UPRR tracks, Garfield, WA 1992 10 12 Waite family circa 1910 10 13 Thomas J. Walch funeral 1933 10 14 Washington State College circa 1920-1924 10 15 Wilson family undated 10 16 Downtown Garfield and around the R. C. McCroskey house, showing damage from a windstorm (17 photos) 1995 July 10 17 Garfield Grade School 8th grade class, labeled, and at Steptoe Butte circa 1938-1939, 1939 Spring 10 18 Garfield Methodist Sunday School class photo, taken outside the church 1943 10 19 Garfield High School Class of 1943 reunion, labeled circa 1960 Series 7. Oversized 11 1 Building Program, 1913 Pledge List 1912-1917 11 2 Deeds 1880-1920 11 3 Garfield Town Boundaries 1893 11 4 Garfield Line 1966-1970 11 5 Garfield Line 1971 11 6 Garfield Line 1972 11 7 Garfield Line 1973 11 8 Garfield Line 1974 11 9 Pullman Herald 1938 12 1 Northern Pacific Railroad 1887-1918 12 2 Elberton photographs 1918 12 3 Garfield High School photographs undated 12 4 Sprinkler blueprints 1990 12 5 Washington Territory real estate agreements 1888-1889 12 6 Whitman County school records 1896 13 66 glass plates featuring the following topics: Carter House, Garfield, WA; Garfield High School women’s basketball, 1913; Lewis C. Love farm near Garfield, WA; T.W. Love with corn harvest undated 13 2 printing blocks: R.C. McCroskey house, Garfield, circa 1900; Methodist Church, Garfield, WA circa 1900s 14 1 decorative wood engraving undated 14 1 mounted advertisement for Garfield Trading Company undated 14 1 framed image of McGill’s Cash Store, Elberton, WA undated 14 Assorted fair and election buttons circa 1970s 14 Assorted pill boxes and advertisements for Eitel’s, Princess Theatre, and DeWitt’s undated 14 Four negatives featuring historic buildings in Whitman County, 1974-1975; Farmington, WA, 1974; Barron Flour Mill in Oakesdale, WA; Powers house in Palouse, WA; DA and Evelyn Davison in Elberton, WA, 1977 1974-1977 15 1 Garfield Trading Company fan undated 15 1 copy of Pullman: A Special Centennial Publication 1988 15 Images of Elberton, WA; Colfax, WA; and Garfield United Methodist Church circa 1900-1970s 15 Calendars, flyers for May Day festival 1954-1991 15 3 issues of Garfield Enterprise 1901 March-April 15 General Election Poll Book and Tally Sheet, Garfield, WA 1926 November Oversize Folder Elberton panorama 1913 Oversize Folder Strike sign: Machinists District Lodge 130, AFL-CIO undated