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Washington (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

The Cayuse War

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2901
Abstract

Typescript history, 34 pages, regarding the Whitman killings. Manuscript is unfinished and author is anonymous.

Dates: circa 1850-1900

Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2678
Abstract Records compiled by Barbara Mackenzie, who directed a U.S. government project to remove and relocate Native residents of the fishing communities of Spearfish, Washington, and Celilo, Oregon. The communities were displaced by the government's construction of The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in the 1950s. The collection includes case files on individuals, including biographical information and photographs of housing; correspondence; minutes of advisory committee meetings; and relocation...
Dates: 1948-1957; Majority of material found within 1954-1957

Celilo Railroad Bridge collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2896
Abstract

The Celilo Bridge, also called the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge, crosses the Columbia River just south of where Celilo Falls was located. Collection includes a general plan of the bridge and a typescript description of the bridge's construction with descriptions of photographic views.

Dates: circa 1912

Oral history interview with Ed Chaney

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2700
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ed Chaney, conducted by Clark Hansen in two sessions, on May 4 and May 5, 1998, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral Histories Series. Chaney, founder of the Northwest Resource Information Center, discusses his opposition to the fish conservation policies of the organizations that manage the Columbia River Basin and the dams in the basin.

Dates: 1998 May 4-5

Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12344
Abstract

Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel, conducted for The Immigrant Story by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, Juniper Yarnall-Benson, and additional unidentified interviewers. The interview was conducted in three sessions from January 15 to January 27, 2020. Choephel discusses her early life in Tibet and Nepal; her arranged marriage, which brought her to Camas, Washington; and running a food truck called Tibetan Family Momo in Dallas, Texas.

Dates: 2020 January 15-27

Oral history interview with Chuck T. Collins

 Collection
Identifier: SR 2755
Abstract

Oral history interview with Chuck T. Collins conducted by Michael O'Rourke on October 19, 1999, as part of the Northwest Power Planning Council Oral History Project. Collins was a member of the council, now known as the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, from 1981 to 1986.

Dates: 1999 October 19

Columbia Communities Project oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: SRC 1
Abstract Oral history interviews collected by the Center for Columbia River History as part of the development of online exhibits about five communities in the Columbia River Basin: Camas, Washington; Cottage Grove, Oregon; Columbia Slough, Oregon; Umatilla, Oregon; and Sandpoint, Idaho. The exhibits focused particularly on changes in the communities since the 1930s, when construction of large hydroelectric dams in the basin began. The Center for Columbia River history was a joint project of the...
Dates: 1999-2000

Columbus Day storm collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 295
Abstract

Small collection of documents about a windstorm that struck the Pacific Northwest on October 12, 1962. Materials include a November 1962 summary of the storm by the U.S. Weather Bureau's state climatologist in Oregon; a surface analysis of the storm by the U.S. Forest Service; a copy of the official Weather Bureau record of the storm; and a brief first-person account by Frank K. Walsh.

Dates: 1962-1964

Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2934
Abstract

Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.

Dates: 1992

The corner store was across the river

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2393
Abstract

Typescript photocopy of "The Corner Store Was Across the River," 1976, an autobiographical account of Mildred Evans McLean's teaching experiences in Deep River, Washington, in 1913.

Dates: 1976