Scope and Content: Correspondence, convention and campaign files, minutes, financial records, resolutions, speeches and writings, and lists, of the Washington Commonwealth Federation; 1934-1945.

Scope and Content: Ephemera, newsletters and other serial publications, clippings, and scrapbook collected by Robert E. Burke. Subjects include: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, labor, the Communist and Socialist parties and the Spanish Civil War.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, notes, conference and convention files, speeches, writings, and research files; ca. 1947-1990.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, research notes, course history files, conference presentations, indexes, typescripts, typescripts of others, dissertations of others, and research related material; 1910-1994. The bulk of these papers is composed of source material on Hiram Johnson, U.S. Senator from California; the Hearst newspapers; and E.W. Scripps and the Scripps West Coast newspapers. Course history files and correspondence with Garland Publishing regarding Burke's editorial responsibilities are the other major series. Also notable are the indexes compiled for references to Hiram Johnson in the N.Y. Times, Congressional Record, books, articles, theses and in manuscript respositories and archives (1911-1981).

Scope and Content: Lecture notes and bibliography for his undergraduate course History of the Pacific Northwest; ca. 1959. Included are Burke's background notes on early collectors of Pacific Northwest historical sources: H.H. Bancroft, Elwood Evans, Daniel Bagley.