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Northwest Digital Archives
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Guide to the Oliver Nelson negatives
This collection contains negatives of the Oliver Nelson family and relatives from Whatcom County, Washington.
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Guide to the Women's Maritime Association records
The Women’s Maritime Association (WMA) formed in 1980 as a support network for seafaring women. The records consist of administrative and legal records, newsletters, and clippings which span the dates 1980-1999.
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Guide to the John Dassow book collection
This is a collection of books related to commercial fish production and fisheries research in the Pacific Northwest.
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Guide to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies Miscellaneous Photograph Collection
This collection is comprised of miscellaneous photographs taken throughout Bellingham and Whatcom County, Washington. The images document a variety of topics such as buildings and structures, the C.S. Kale Canning Company in Everson, the Alspo...
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Guide to the Fish trap location maps
This is a collection of maps showing the location of fish traps in Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan Counties.
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Guide to the Fish Industry publications
This collection contains publications on various fishery topics such as food storage and transportation, common ocean fishes, marine baits, and optimum sustainable yield.
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Guide to the John McFarlane Cuthill papers
The collection includes files relating to James McFarlane Cuthill's career as cannery superintendent, land agent and attorney with the Alaska Packers Association and its successor, DMC Properties. Records reflect the history of salmon...
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Guide to the Bornstein Seafoods records
This collection documents Bornstein Seafoods and its fishing and retail activities. The collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, documentation of a fire at the plant, and reports.
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Guide to the Jane Clark photographs
These photographs were collected by Jane Clark of the Western Washington University Bureau for Faculty Research. The photographs pertain to commerical fishing (including boats and fish traps), and leisure boating activities throughout...
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Guide to the Charles Feller Papers
Charles Feller (1889-1966) became an Oregon fish merchant and wholesaler in Marshfield and Coos Bay, Oregon and established the Charles Feller Company which traded world-wide in canned, smoked, and frozen fish. The collection contains company...
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Guide to the Pacific Marine Supply Company Records
The Pacific Marine Supply Company Records comprise photographs, catalogs and brochures relating to the Pacific Net and Twine Company, later renamed Pacific Marine Supply Company. Also included in the collection are records relating to...
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Guide to the August Radke papers
These are the personal and professional papers of former Western Washington University history professor August Carl Radke. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, class notes and student files as well as research materials...
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Guide to the R. D. Hume and Company Records
The R.D. Hume and Company was founded by Robert Deniston Hume (1845-1908) who came to Oregon from California and created a commercial empire in Curry County. The collection contains ledgers, journals, cash books, inventories, statements, invoices,...
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Guide to the Wilbur J. Sandison photographs
The Wilbur J. Sandison photographs document early-Whatcom County houses, domestic scenes, fisheries, logging, local businesses, and theaters.
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Guide to the Oregon Canning Company Records
Oregon Canning Company was incorporated July 5, 1899 by W. F. Jewett, N. J. Cornwall, M. Herrick, and O. B. Hinsdale and was located in Gardiner, Oregon. Collection includes six volumes: a minute book, journal, ledger, stock certificates, stock...
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Guide to the Columbia River Meat Co. Records
Includes articles of incorporation, minutes of stockholders' meetings, stock record, and dividend record. The firm was a cannery. The incorporators were Milton Smith, C. R. Hallberg, and W. H. Cooper.
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Guide to the Nettie Spencer Papers
The Nettie Spencer Papers consist of letters to Spencer written by sailor William Barrett in 1884 and a scrapbook of programs and ephemera assembled by Spencer, primarily from Corvallis College. Spencer graduated from Corvallis College...
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Guide to the Gunnar Olsborg Papers
Papers of a Seattle, Washington, ship pilot and Norwegian American community leader.
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Guide to the Simeon Gannett Reed Papers
Typescript copies of the letters and private papers of a businessman, entrepreneur, railroad magnate, and land developer of Portland, Oregon, active in the late 19th century. Subjects include mining, railroad ventures, land...
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Guide to the Albert H. Farmer Papers
Papers of a Washington State longshoreman, labor organizer, and charter member of Local 38-76 (Everett, Washington) of the International Longshormen's Association.
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Guide to the Edwin Gardner Ames Papers
Papers of a lumber company executive, banker, and political activist in Seattle, Washington.
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Guide to the Moran Brothers Company Records
Records of a Seattle shipbuilding firm.
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Guide to the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths,...
Records of a Seattle, Washington, labor organization.
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Guide to the Harold M. Brown Photographs
This collection contains photographs taken by Harold M. Brown (1887-1956), a commercial photographer in Oregon and Washington, from circa 1909-1956. Subjects include photographs of the lumber and shipping industries in northwestern...
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Guide to the George Earle Chamberlain papers
Papers of a governor of Oregon, United States Senator from Oregon, and member of the U.S. Shipping Board. Includes extensive correspondence, including letters regarding Chamberlain's 1918 Senate speech on U.S. War Department...
