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Washington (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:

Clara Wing Stimson collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2687
Abstract

Collection includes a biography regarding Clara Wing Stimson's involvement with the Red Cross during World War I; a typescript of "A Trip Around the World" in two parts, 1926-1927, as told in correspondence to her parents, Frederick and Eva Wing of Seattle, Washington, and other documents.

Dates: 1926-circa 1970

Clarence Elzy Talbott reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2454
Abstract

Typescript reminiscences of Clarence Elzy Talbott, 99 pages, 1949-1950, recounting his childhood and youth in Oregon and Washington and his time at the University of Idaho.

Dates: 1949-1950

Kate D. Taylor letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2615
Abstract Kate D. (Catharine Dewees) Taylor was the wife of Captain Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, who was killed during the 1858 Steptoe Expedition in Washington Territory. She was a resident of Fort Walla Walla. Collection includes correspondence to Kate D. Taylor and Oliver Hazard Perry Taylor, 1859-1868, from Major William N. Grier, James Wheeler Jr., and others regarding events at Fort Walla Walla and Indian hostilities; correspondence, 1858-1859, from family and friends; and a biographical sketch...
Dates: 1855-1868

Oral history interview with Van Tran

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12330
Abstract

Oral history interview with Van Tran conducted by Sankar Raman and Shea Seery in 2019 for The Immigrant Story. Tran discusses her experiences as a young woman during and after the Vietnam War, and talks about operating Phở Lê, a Vietnamese restaurant now located in Vancouver, Washington.

Dates: 2019

Oral history interview with Tex Troutman, Janis Troutman and Wade Troutman

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2715
Abstract

Oral history interview with Tex L. Troutman, Janis M. Troutman, and their son Wade Troutman, conducted by Clark Hansen on April 9, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. The Troutmans discuss the history and operation of their family farm in Bridgeport, Washington.

Dates: 1999 April 9

Photograph albums of Umpqua River Jetty construction and Brubaker aerial survey of Northwest coast

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1424
Abstract

Collection consists of two albums containing photographs of the Pacific coastline taken between 1926 and 1947. One album contains aerial photographs taken by Brubaker Aerial Surveys of the Oregon and Washington coasts. The other contains photographs of the construction of the Umpqua River jetties. Notable locations depicted in the collection include Astoria, Tillamook, Lincoln City, and Reedsport.

Dates: 1926-1947

J. Enos Wait photographic negatives

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1441
Abstract

Collection consists of nitrate negatives of Oregon and Washington scenes from approximately 1905-1910, including images of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon. The photographs were taken by J. Enos Wait (1870-1947), a dentist from Superior, Nebraska.

Dates: approximately 1905-1910

Oral history interview with Tim Wapato

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2766
Abstract

Oral history interview with Tim Wapato conducted by Michael O'Rourke from August 4 to November 16, 2002, as part of the Northwest Power Planning Council Oral History Project. Wapato discusses his work on the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

Dates: 2002 August 4-November 16

Wesley Andrews photographic postcards

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 87
Abstract

Collection includes photographic postcards of landscapes in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Yellowstone National Park from 1904-1940. Wesley Andrews was both the photographer and the printer of these photographic postcards.

Dates: 1904-1940

Whitman Mission research scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2929
Abstract

Scrapbook containing brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, extracts from Narcissa Whitman's diary, and photographic postcards regarding the Whitman killings and the history of the Whitman Mission and the Cayuse Indians.

Dates: circa 1836-1966