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Guide to the Frank Church Papers
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, articles, press releases, reports, studies, legislation, case files, campaign files, scrapbooks, photos, films, audiotapes, and other papers, relating chiefly to Church's career as a U.S. Senator from Idaho,...

Guide to the Robert W. Straub Collection
Democratic governor of Oregon, 1974-1978. Papers include gubernatorial personal papers including office correspondence, administrative and subject files, staff files, campaign materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, video and...

Guide to the Institute for Freshwater Studies records
The collection consists of technical reports relating to local freshwater issues that were published by the Institute for Freshwater Studies at Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University).

Guide to the A.F. Harms photographs
The collection contains photographs taken by A.F. Harms for the Soil Conservation Service in the Skagit and Snohomish Soil Conservation Districts in Washington State. Photos depict irrigation implementation, ditch construction,...

Guide to the Fairhaven City Water and Power Company ledger book
Incorporated in 1890, the Fairhaven City Water and Power Company supplied water and power to Fairhaven, using Lake Padden as its source. In municipal elections held in December 1925, the city voted to buy out the company. This...

Guide to the Baker Family Collection
Contains the personal papers and business records of the Baker family of Walla Walla, Washington, from the materials of Dorsey Syng to those of his sons.

Guide to the James T. Gray Papers
James Taylor Gray (1852-1928) was a ship designer and transportation magnate involved in railroads and shipping in Oregon and Alaska. The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, plans and specifications for steamboat designs and...

Lewiston-Clarkston Improvement Company Records
Correspondence, business records, drawings, maps, and photographs of the corporate firms which established Clarkston

Report on proposed Lower Snake River Project.
Contains 5 page letter summarizing the findings of the proposal, photographs of the lower Snake river region, including one panoramic photograph, and a detailed blueprint (scale 1:400) of the profile and boring record at the proposed dam site. 1920-01-01

Papers
Correspondence, diplomas, certificates, a family tree, and other items, primarily related to David Lynde Huntington (1870-1929) and his wife, Helen Longacre Huntington. Includes a typescript entitled "Hydro-electric Power and Western Agriculture."...

Origins of names in Idaho south of the Salmon River
Arranged alphabetically by county, then by town or natural feature name. Author unidentified, but possibly J. Kuster, Jr., of Eagle, Idaho.

Columbia Basin Project
Collection consists of 196 slides depicting irrigation, schools and towns in the Columbia Basin area, documenting the growth of the school districts in conjunction with irrigation, c. 1952 - 1958.

Guide to the Edward Kolbe Research Notebook
The Edward Kolbe Research Notebook documents Kolbe's research on fishing trawl doors as an Oregon State University Extension Engineering Specialist at the Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Guide to the Archie W. Shiels papers
Archie W. Shiels was both a maker and a recorder of Alaskan history and folklore, and former president of Pacific American Fisheries. His papers consist of research material, publications, personal papers, maps and charts dating from...

Guide to the Tollman and Canaris Photographs
Photographs made by John W. Tollman and Frank H. Canaris depicting canneries and salmon fishing along the Washington side of the Columbia River in the 1890s.

Barbey Family Collection,
Papers, photographs, diaries, clippings, ephemera, and other materials of the Barbey family of Oregon, involved in the salmon canning industry.

Guide to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies Miscellaneous Scrapbooks collection
This is a collection includes assorted scrapbooks relating to the Pacific Northwest, Whatcom county, Bellingham, Lynden as well as information relating to local families and individuals. This collection also consists of twelve photo...

Guide to the Women in the Commerical Fishing Industry Research Collection
This collection of newspaper clippings, statistics, scholarly articles, and first hand account oral interviews pertain to women in the commercial fishing industry. They were collected by the then Western Washington University student,...

Guide to the Alaska Fishermen's Union Records
Minutes, correspondence and other materials generated by and of interest to the Alaska Fishermen's Union

Guide to the Alfred T. Pellicane Papers
The Alfred T. Pellicane Papers consist of the research materials, handwritten notes, a typed draft manuscript, typed biographical entries (many with correction notes), correspondence, photographs and related supporting materials assembled for the...

Guide to the Nick Lyons Ephemera Collection
The Nick Lyons Ephemera Collection includes the corporate history of the firm represented by the by-laws, assorted minutes, contracts and agreements with authors, business plans, financial papers and investors and publisher agreements. Original...

Guide to the Datus C. Proper Papers
The Datus C. Proper Papers consist of journals, correspondence, family history documents, literary manuscript drafts, galley proofs, research notes, publisher correspondence, photographs and other memorabilia which document Proper's life as a...

Guide to the Charles E. Brooks Papers
The Charles E. Brooks Papers consists of include some business and professional papers which include a biographical sketch; copies of book contracts and related correspondence; military records; tax forms and a videocassette and DVD copy of...

Guide to the Rubin Tikka film footage of Commercial Fishing in Clam Gulch, Alaska
This is a collection of film footage documenting commercial fishing activities in Clam Gulch, Alaska. 2013-06-19

Guide to the C. Briggs photographs
The collection comprises glass plate negatives and a small number of prints showing images of packing operations at a Bellingham warehouse, various locations in Minneapolis, and miscellaneous unidentified buildings and people.