Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Collection

Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Collection, 1870-2002

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days
Title: Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Collection
Dates: 1870-2002 (inclusive)
18702002
Quantity: 3.1 linear feet, (2 manuscript boxes, 1 record carton, 1 flat box)
Collection Number: WCMss.311
Summary: The Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Collection houses materials related to the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days and its predecessors: the Southeastern Washington Fair, the Southeastern Washington Fair and Frontier Days, and Walla Walla Frontier Days. The materials date from 1870 to 2002.
Repository: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Penrose Library, Room 130
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA
99362
Telephone: 5095275922
Fax: 5095264785
archives@whitman.edu
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Languages: English

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The Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Collection consists of material related to Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days and its predecessors: the Southeastern Washington Fair, the Southeastern Washington Fair and Frontier Days, and Walla Walla Frontier Days. This collection, which dates from 1870 to 2002, consists of souvenir programs, newspaper articles, slides of the 1948 parade, correspondence, tickets, ribbons, photographs, and other Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days ephemera. Articles about and photographs of "Tex" MCLeod, copies of the "Premium List" and the 1949 "Silver Jubilee" scrapbook celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the return of the fair after its discontinuation during the First World War are also included.

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