Cage 227 Guide to the Joseph Donald Lewis Papers 1900-1968 Lewis (Joseph D.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Anne Frantilla Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
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Finding aid encoded by Mark O'English 2003 Finding aid written in English. Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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Cage 227 Lewis, Joseph Donald Joseph Donald Lewis Papers 1900-1968 7 containers. 6 linear feet of shelf space. Correspondence, financial records, newsletters, clippings, speeches, and a 16 mm. film, called Time Pulls the Trigger, by Lewis's anti-smoking organization, Nicotine Unlimited, founded in 1947; photographs and scrapbooks of his visit to Greece, 1953-1955; and photographs, scrapbooks and other papers relating to Lewis's employment at Washington Water Power, 1912-1953. Collection materials are in English

Born in Chester, Wisconsin on September 4, l884, Joseph Donald Lewis moved to Spokane in 1909. After working for a year as an electrician on the construction of the Old National Bank, he started working for the Washington Water Power Company. Lewis worked at Little Falls his first year at Washington Water Power, and at Long Lake from 1911 to 1915. After working in Lind, Okanogan and the Palouse area, Lewis became district manager in Pullman in 1928. In 1936, he was promoted to Division Manager. He retired from Washington Water Power in 1953 and accepted a two-year appointment in Greece with Ebasco Services, Inc. There, he was one of four district managers in charge of installing a new power plant.

Lewis was involved in many activities in retirement upon his return from Greece, such as the Whitman County Red Cross, Kiwanis, Toastmasters and Washington State Council for Youth and Children. Much of his spare time, however, was spent on Nicotine Unlimited, an anti-smoking organization which he founded in 1947. He corresponded regularly with the members of the organization and sent out occasional bulletins. As a functioning, active organization, Nicotine Unlimited appears to have depended entirely on Lewis' efforts. It was quiescent while he was in Greece, and seems to have halted operations entirely during his lingering illness in the last years of his life. Lewis died on June 11, 1969, survived by his wife, Alice, and a daughter, Mrs. Duane Bailey.

The papers and photographs of J.D. Lewis date from 1900 to 1968 but most of the material dates from 1947 to 1968.

The Nicotine Unlimited series consists primarily of correspondence between Lewis, members of the organization, and other anti-smoking organizations such as the American Cancer Society, American Temperance Society and the Non-Smokers Association of Canada. The anti-smoking literature dates back to 1905 and includes pamphlets, reports, clippings and magazine articles. The majority of material in the Subject Files concerns Lewis' civic and organizational activities and dates from 1955 to 1966. The small amount of Washington Water Power material is principally on an electric range sales campaign in 1940.

Almost one half of the bulk of the collection is photographs. A large number of them were taken between 1953 and 1955 when Lewis was working in Greece.

The largest number of photographs in the subseries Black and White Prints and Photograph Albums are from Greece. In the Washington Water Power folder, there are prints of stoves and kitchens from the early 1920s. The Scrapbooks and Clippings series contains material on Washington Water Power dating from 1912 to 1928 and on Lewis from 1938 to 1966.

There are four series: Nicotine Unlimited, Subject Files, Photographs and Scrapbooks and Clippings.

Ther subject files are arranged alphabetically.

The folder numbers in the first subseries in the photographs refer to the slide storage sheets. Within each of the three subdivisions-Pacific Northwest, U.S. and Canada, and Overseas- the transparencies are arranged alphabetically by place.

Lewis had his own indexing system for almost all of the rolls of 35 mm black and white negatives. Each roll is numbered and the contents listed in numberical order in a series of notebooks. The subjects of the negatives are indexed in each notebook. More detail on the people identified in the notebooks is recorded on a tape made by Lewis' son-in-law, Duane Bailey. The notebooks and the tape are in Container 4.

This collection is open for research use.

[Item Description]. Cage 227, Joseph Donald Lewis Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The papers of J.D. Lewis are comprised of three accessions. The first accession was donated to the Washington State University Libraries prior to 1970 by Mrs. J.D. Lewis. The second accession (MS 78-57) was donated in December 1978 by Al Butler and the third (MS 80-10) in March 1980 by Duane Bailey. The three accessions were processed as one collection in August 1983 by Anne Frantilla.

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.

Lewis, Joseph Donald, 1884-1968 --Archives Nicotine Unlimited Washington Water Power Company Greece--Description and travel Tobacco habit --United States--Prevention Irrigation Photographs Scrapbooks Washington (State)

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Nicotine Unlimited Correspondence 1 1-6 1947-1952 600 items. 1 7-12 1956-1961 600 items. 1 13-20 1962-1968 800 items. 2 21 Bulletins 1948-1968 75 items. 2 22 Business Papers 1948-1968 75 items. 2 23 Photographs 1949-1952 18 items. 2 24 Other Papers 1949-1968 50 items. 2 25-29 Anti-Smoking Literature 1905-1968 75 items. 7 "Time Pulls the Trigger" (16 mm film), produced by Nicotine Unlimited Series 2: Subject Files Kiwanis Club 2 30 Correspondence and other papers 1959-1962 30 items. 2 31 Bulletins and Newsletters l960-1962 50 items. 2 32 Lincoln Notes undated 50 items. 2 33 Red Cross Correspondence 1956 15 items. 2 34 Speech Notes 1961-1962 50 items. 2 35 Toastmaster's Club 1961-1962 50 items. Washington State Council for Youth and Children 3 36 Minutes 1960-1966 35 items. 3 37 Correspondence and other papers 1956-1966 50 items. 3 38 Travel Expenses 1961-1966 20 items. 3 39 Washington Water Power 1920-1956 45 items. 3 40 Other Papers 1910-1962 10 items. Series 3: Photographs 35 mm Color Transparencies Pacific Northwest 3 41 Albeni 1953 8 items. 3 42-43 Cabinet Gorge 1951-1952 23 items. 3 43 Long Lake 1950 15 items. 3 44 Manito Garden 1952 4 items. 3 44 Naches Pass undated 7 items. 3 45-46 St. John Kiddie Parade 1951 40 items. 3 47-48 Univ. of Idaho Homecoming Parade 1949-1950 40 items. 3 49 W.S.U. College Days undated 6 items. 3 50-52 W.S.U. Homecoming Parade 1951 60 items. 3 53-54 Washington Water Power Activities 1950-1953 24 items. 3 55 Wenatchee Apple Blossom Parade undated 20 items. 3 56 Whitman County 1950-1953 U.S. and Canada 3 57-60 Alaska 1951-1952 65 items. 3 61 Atlantic City 1950 20 items. 3 62 California undated 20 items. 3 63 Canada 1951-1953 1960 17 items. 3 64 Chicago 1952 16 items. 3 65 Dallas 1950 12 items. 3 66 Gettysburg 1960 20 items. 3 67-68 New Orleans 1950 29 items. 3 69-73 New York 1950-1952 99 items. 3 74 Washington D.C. 1950 1960 20 items. 3 75 Yellowstone undated 16 items. 3 76-77 Other Cities and States 1950 1960 32 items. Overseas 1953-1955 3 78-79 Egypt 32 items. 3 80-106 Greece 524 3 107-109 Italy 48 items. 3 110 London 20 items. 3 111-112 Turkey 35 items. 3 113-117 Others 1949-1955 84 items. 4-5 35 mm Black and White Negatives 1937-1942

The rolls of negatives are numbered 1-281; rolls 69-188 are missing. Lewis compiled a list of the contents as well as an index for rolls 1-213. The notebooks which contain these lists as well as a tape with other descriptive remarks are in Container 4.

 Black and White Prints 6 118 J.D. Lewis and Others 1948-1949 13 items. 6 119 Pullman 1935 2 items. 6 120 War Bond Drive 1942-1945 8 items. 6 121 Washington Water Power 1900-1945 60 items. 6 122 Bellydancers in Cairo 1953-1955 20 items. 6 123-124 Greece 1953-1955 300 items. Photo Albums 6 125 Washington Water Power 1911-1923 1 v. 6 126 W.W.P. and Palouse Scenes 1930-1939 l v. 6 127-128 Greece 1953-1955 5 v. 6 129-130 Others 1936-1955 4 v. Series 4: Scrapbooks and Clippings 6 131 Washington Water Power 1912-1928 1 v. 6 132 Lewis 1938-1953 1 v. 6 133 Lewis 1939-1966 32 items. 6 134 Lewis 1953-1957 1 v.