Washington (State)
Found in 103 Collections and/or Records:
Celilo Railroad Bridge collection
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.
Oral history interview with Chuck T. Collins
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.
Columbus Day storm collection
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.
Converting the West: a biography of Narcissa Whitman
Typescript biography of Narcissa Whitman.
The corner store was across the river
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.
Richard H. Corning photographic collection on the site of old Fort Nez Percés
Five black and white photographs of the site where Fort Nez Percés was located, near Wallula, Washington.
Ralph Penniwell Cowgill photograph albums
Black and white photographs and cyanotypes, primarily in two albums. Scenes in one album relate to work by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Pacific Northwest from 1898-1900, particularly in Idaho; locations include Coeur d'Alene Lake, Spokane, Mount Adams, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood. The second album includes photographs of an irrigation project near Medford, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Barbara Elliott Davies
Oral history interview with Barbara Elliott Davies conducted by Charles Digregorio on July 18, 1976. Davies discusses the life and work of her father, Thomas Coit Elliott, at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, and of her grandfather, John Euclid Elliott, in the development of Walla Walla, Washington.
Degree of Pocahontas, Wahkiakum Council No. 40 records
The Degree of Pocahontas is the ladies auxiliary of the Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal organization founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1834. Collection includes correspondence, 1934-1953; membership forms, invoices, and reports, 1937-1952; Roll of Chiefs book for Improved Order of Red Men Tribe No. 65., 1918.
Kathie Durbin papers
Papers of a journalist who worked in Oregon and Washington state and specialized in environmental reporting. The collection includes personal information, early student essays, travel essays, poetry, articles published in newspapers and magazines, and material for three books. Included are background sources and notes to support articles and books.