Washington (State)
Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:
The Cayuse War
Typescript history, 34 pages, regarding the Whitman killings. Manuscript is unfinished and author is anonymous.
Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project 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 Ed Chaney
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.
Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel
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.
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.
Columbia Communities Project oral histories
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.