Washington (State)
Subject Source: archiveswest
Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Copeland Lumber Company records
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 Richard D. Daugherty
Oral history interview with Richard D. Daugherty, conducted by Clark Hansen on January 24, 2000, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Daugherty talks about his work as an archaeologist excavating the Marmes Rockshelter site in Washington. He discusses the flooding of the site after the failure of a levee that had been built to protect the site from inundation by construction of the Lower Monumental Dam on the Snake River in 1966.