NTE2cg512.xml Guide to the Washington State Grange Records 1954-1979 Washington State Grange Records Finding aid prepared by Harvey L. Young Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2022 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 512 Washington State Grange Washington State Grange Records 1954-1979 6 Linear feet of shelf space 8 Boxes The records contain the correspondence of the Washington State Grange with members of the Washington State Congressional delegation between the years 1967 and 1978, files concerned with such issues as the Family Farm Water Act campaign of 1976-1977, and various data concerning Grange public relations campaigns. Collection materials are in English

In September, 1889, Washington State farmers organized the Washington State Grange. They saw the Grange as a means of fraternal cooperation in the promotion of agricultural interests, and as a method of providing education and recreation for their families. The Grange was also a vehicle for increasing the public's awareness of farmers' issues and for winning legislation to ease farmers' problems associated with the high cost of goods and services, and the low prices received for commodities. The Grange in later years became one of the principal general farmers' organizations, and as such has since functioned as a public and legislative spokeman for agricultural interests. The Grange also takes public positions of advocacy or opposition on a variety of issues such as general economic policy, transportation, and public works projects.

This group of records consists chiefly of office files of the Washington State Grange during the time that A. Lars Nelson served as State Master. The records contain the correspondence of the Washington State Grange with members of the Washington State Congressional delegation between the years 1967 and 1978, files concerned with such issues as the Family Farm Water Act campaign of 1976-1977, and various data concerning Grange public relations campaigns.

The papers are arranged in two sequences. The bulk of the papers are alphabetically organized in a sequence of subject files. A small second series consists of reports and and conference papers associated with annual Deputy Conferences.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions may apply.

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Washington State Grange Records, 1954-1979 (Cage 512)

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

The records of the Washington State Grange were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in November, 1981 (MS81-54) by Jack Silvers, State Master.

Washington State Grange Records, 1889-1953 (Cage 218)

Crawford, Harriet Ann. The Washington State Grange, 1889-1924; a Romance of Democracy. Portland, Or.: Binfords & Mort;, 1940.

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.

Washington State Grange -- Records and correspondence. Agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Societies, etc. -- Records and correspondence. Agriculture, Cooperative -- Washington (State) -- Records and correspondence. Agriculture Washington (State) Subject Files 1 1 Agricultural Act of 1970 1970 2 items 1 2 Agricultural Dateline 1969-1974 37 items 1 3 Agricultural Dateline 1971-1972 40 items 1 4 Agricultural-Labor Relations Act 1971 16 items 1 5 Agricultural Marketing 1972 2 items 1 6 Anti-Corporate Farming 1971 9 items 1 7 "Banking, Currency, and Rural Credit" 1963-1967 2 items 1 8 Boy Scouts of America 1970 14 items 1 9 Chambers of Commerce 1971 10 items 1 10 Columbia River 1974 4 items 1 11 Committee for a New Tax Policy 1972 5 items 1 12 Commodity and Cooperative organizations 1961 80 items 1 13 Concerned Taxpayer 1973 2 items 1 14 Control of Noxious Canadian Weed Imports 1953 17 items 1 15 Conglomerate Corporate Farm Proposal 1975 19 items 1 16 Conservation 1965-1967 7 items 1 17 Cooperatives 1975 21 items 1 18 Congressional Correspondence 1968-1970 145 items 1 19 Congressional Correspondence 1969-1978 67 items 1 20 Congressional Delegation 1967-1970 43 items 1 21 Corporate Farming 1972 2 items 1 22 Corporate Farming 1973-1975 29 items 1 23 Corporate Farming Initiative 1976 19 items 1 24 County Initiatives 1975 5 items 1 25 Dairy Commission 1967 5 items 1 26 Department of Natural Resources 1970 15 items "Deputy Conference," 1 27 1966 34 items 2 28 1967 27 items 2 29 1968 16 items 2 30 Diamond Jubilee Celebration 1964 21 items 2 31 Family Farm Water Act 1976 17 items 2 32 Family Farm Water Act 1976 44 items 2 33 Family Farm Water Act 1977 48 items 2 34 Farm Journal 1970 2 items 2 35 Farm Labor Advisory Council 1977 10 items 2 36 Farm Radio and Television 1961-1962 7 items "Farm Radio and Television News," 2 37 1966 26 items 2 38 1967 30 items 2 39 1967 24 items 2 40 1968 21 items 2 41 1968 24 items 2 42 1969 25 items 2 43 Farmers' and Traders' Life Insurance Corporation 1971 4 items 2 44 Fund Raising and Trade Stamps 1965 3 items 2 45 Future Power Supply 1971 4 items 2 46 "Goss, Albert, Testimony" 1949 3 items 2 47 Grange Articles 1967 24 items 2 48 Grange Farm Day 1977 17 items 2 49 Grange Forum Reprint 1949 1 item 2 50 Grange Insurance Association Scholarship 1976 15 items 2 51 Grange Insurance Association Bylaws 1976 10 items 2 52 Grange Interstate Livestock Association 1960-1964 4 items 2 53 Grange Leadership Guide 1961 6 items 2 54 Grange Photographs 1963 12 items "Grange Power Bulletin," 2 55 1968-1970 26 items 2 56 1971-1972 24 items 2 57 1974 34 items 2 58 Grange Programs 1975 16 items 2 59 Grange Public Relations 1966-1968 2 items 2 60 Grange Retreat 1975 14 items 2 61 Grange Scholarships 1962-1963 38 items 2 62 Grange Supply Stores 1974 14 items 2 63 Grange Travel Service 1973 5 items 2 64 Hahn and Aller Biographies undated 2 items 2 65 "Haussler, Rep. Joe, File" 1974 29 items 3 66 "Hells Canyon, Senate Bill 2243" 1970 43 items 3 67 "Highway Condemnation, House Bill 138" 1974 3 items "Highway Users Federation," 3 68 1975 19 items 3 69 1971-1975 83 items "Highway Users Conference," 3 70 1970 23 items 3 71 1973-1974 48 items 3 72 "House Bill 776, Nuclear Power; Testimony by Lars Nelson" 1971 34 items 3 73 Industrial Alcohol for Wheat 1977 25 items "Initiative 59, Family Farming," 3 74-75 1976 59 items 3 76-77 1977 61 items 3 78-79 Initiative 59 Campaign 1977 38 items 3 80-81 Initiative 59 Promotion 1977 42 items 3 82 Initiative 59 Campaign 1977 17 items 3 83 "Initiative 256, Broken Bottles" 1970 10 items 3 84 Irrigation Development Planning 1977 47 items 3 85 Journal of American Judicature 1973 3 items 3 86 KIRO TV-Radio 1965 2 items 3 87 KTNT Farm Forum 1967-1968 26 items 3 88 "KTNT Farm Forum" 1968 55 items 3 89 Labor Legislation 1971 6 items 3 90 Labor News 1971 6 items 3 91 Land Owners' Tax Relief 1970-1972 10 items 3 92 Land Reform 1972 2 items 3 93 Landscape Gardening Project 1976 21 items 3 94 Land Use Planning Commission 1974 32 items 4 95 Leasehold Tax Committee 1973 23 items 4 96 Legislative Action 1971 4 items "Legislative Bulletin," 4 97 1971 9 items 4 98 1972 17 items 4 99 1973 23 items 4 100 1974 16 items 4 101 1975 18 items 4 102 Legislative Bulletin 1976 35 items 4 103 Legislative Milk Marketing Order 1961 29 items 4 104 Legislative Miscellaneous 1975 27 items 4 105 Legislative Progress 1972 11 items 4 106 Legislative Transactions Council 1972 3 items "Marketing," 4 107 1961-1963 33 items 4 108 1963-1965 14 items 4 109 Masters' and Wives' Conference 1971 25 items 4 110 Medicare 1971 1 item 4 111 Mexican-American Commission 1973 5 items 4 112 Milk Marketing Act 1971 14 items 4 113 Miscellaneous Congressional Correspondence 1968 15 items 4 114 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1975 29 items 4 115 Miscellaneous Political Letters 1966 5 items 4 116 National Apple Markets 1972 12 items 4 117 "Nelson, A. Lars, Speeches" 1966-1970 41 items 4 118 "Nelson, A. Lars, Memorial Scholarship" 1973-1977 27 items 4 119 "Newkirk, Marion; Speeches" 1967-1970 21 items 4 120 North Cascades Recreational Plan 1971 4 items 4 121 Officers' Conferene 1972 3 items 4 122 Omnibus Bill 1970 3 items 4 123 Open Space Land Use Bill 1972 49 items 4 124 "Peden, Beatrice: Analysis of the Washington State Grange" 1957 1 item 4 125 Post Office Controversey 1966 21 items 4 126 Public Relations 1966-1968 15 items 4 127 "Public Relations, KTNT" 1967-1968 19 items 4 128 Radio and Television 1971 12 items "Radio Grange Dateline," 5 129 1966 45 items 5 130 1967-1968 17 items 5 131 Radio Grange Forum 1966 30 items 5 132 Sales Tax 1971 3 items 5 133 Script for Public Relations 1967 29 items 5 134 "Silvers, Jack; Legislative Report" 1971 27 items 5 135 "Silvers, Jack; Registered Lobbyist" 1973 3 items 5 136 Soil Conservation Bill 1972 5 items 5 137 Special Tax Assessment Information 1970 5 items 5 138 Spokane County Research Project 1964 11 items 5 139 State Grangers' Correspondence 1969-1972 29 items 5 140 State Legislative Resolution for Rose Nelson 1965 3 items 5 141 State Marketing Orders 1971 2 items 5 142 The Atom Bomb 1954-1955 5 items 5 143 "The Judicial Article, #101" 1975 13 items 5 144 Timberland Regional Library 1971 2 items 5 145 Unfair Trade Practices Act 1962 6 items 5 146 Value Added Tax 1972 1 item 5 147 Vehicle Fuel Studies 1974 5 items 5 148 Washington Agricultural Statistics 1966 6 items 5 149 Washington Association of Soil and Water Conservation 1976 11 items 5 150 Washington Association of Wheat Growers 1975 16 items 5 151 Washington Cattlemens' Association 1972 11 items 5 152 Washington Conference on Unemployment Compensation 1972 10 items 5 153 Washington Council on Crime and Delinquincy 1970 3 items 5 154 Washington Egg Producers 1962 27 items 5 155 Washington Future Farmers and Homemakers of America 1976 21 items 5 156 Washington Grange Membership 1976 24 items 5 157 Washington Joint Highway Commission 1970 9 items 5 158 Washington Land Use Planning 1973 8 items 5 159 Washington Resources Council 1975 12 items 5 160 Washington School Tax System 1971 5 items 5 161 Washington State Association of Counties 1971 2 items 5 162 Washington State Beef Commission 1969 3 items 5 163 Washington State Council on Farmer Cooperatives 1975 27 items 5 164 Washington State Department of Agriculture 1975 26 items 5 165 Washington State Department of Commerce 1972 9 items 5 166 Washington State Department of Conservation and Ecology 1976 26 items 5 167 Washington State Department of Civil Defense 1970 2 items 5 168 Washington State Game Commission 1975 3 items 5 169 "Washington State Offices, Olympia" 1975 23 items 5 170 Washington State Reclamation Association 1976 9 items 5 171 Washington State Tax Committee 1969-1972 9 items 5 172 Washington State Transportation Tax Study 1974-1975 11 items 5 173 Washington State University Agricultural Economics 1975 16 items 6 174 Washington State University Extension Service 1977 25 items 6 175 Washington State 4-H Extension 1977 32 items 6 176 Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction 1974 14 items 6 177 Washington Trucking Association 1971 4 items 6 178 Washington Vocational Agriculture Education 1972 20 items 6 179 Washington Wheat Commission 1974 5 items 6 180 Water Rights 1974 6 items 6 181 Water Rights Representation 1972 7 items 6 182 World Residue Compost Study 1968 4 items 6 183 World Without War Council 1969 6 items 7 184 Yakima County Marketing Committee 1964 21 items 7 185 Yakima County Marketing Meetings 1965 6 items 7 186 Yakima County Marketing Correspondence 1965-1966 45 items Deputy Conferences 1956-1975 7 187 1956 1 item 7 188 1957 1 item 7 189 1958 1 item 7 190 1959 1 item 7 191 1960 1 item 7 192 1961 1 item 7 193 1962 1 item 7 194 1963 1 item 7 195 1967 1 item 7 196 Input-Output Tables for the Washington Economy (distributed with 1967 reports) 1967 1 item 7 197 1968 1 item 7 198 1968 1 item 8 199 1969 1 item 8 200 1970 1 item 8 201 1971 1 item 8 202 1972 1 item 8 203 1974 1 item 8 204 1975 1 item