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Washington (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

John S. Hawkins letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1558
Abstract

Photostat manuscript letters from Lt. Colonel (later General) John Summerfield Hawkins, Royal Engineer, of Her Majesty's Boundary Commission, concerning the marking of the International Boundary at the 49th parallel between British Columbia and the Washington Territory.

Dates: 1859-1862

Henriot Brothers daybook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 781
Abstract

Bound daybook for the Henriot Brothers steam grist mill, Cowlitz Prairie, Lewis County, Washington.

Dates: 1881-1886

Paul L. Heslop papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2787
Abstract

Collection includes articles and photographs describing Kaplan turbines at the Bonneville Dam, 1937-1940, including descriptions of their special characteristics and installation. Also included are plans for the turbines. Paul Loveridge Heslop (1891-1956) was a mechanical engineer and chief of the Structural and Mechanical Section at the Bonneville Dam.

Dates: 1937-1940

The historical significance of Walla Walla Valley

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1041
Abstract

Typescript copy of "The Historical Significance of Walla Walla Valley," an address by Dr. Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose, March 27, 1929. Penrose (1864-1947) was president of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

Dates: 1929 March 27

History of the Cascades

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2481
Abstract

Photocopy typescript paper regarding the history of the Columbia River, particularly the areas of North Bonneville, Stevenson, and Cascade Locks, Washington.

Dates: 1935

David S. Hoyt journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2865
Abstract Entries in a journal begun by David S. Hoyt to record "observations on an expedition through Oregon and Washington territories and the Rocky Mountains for the exploration of the Northern Route for the Pacific Rail Road in the Summer and Autumn of 1853." The journal consists only of several pages of entries dated from June 22, 1853, to June 27, 1853. The entries describe Hoyt's journey by ship from San Francisco, California, up the Pacific Coast and the Columbia River to Vancouver,...
Dates: 1853

Humiston, Wilson and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 862
Abstract

Business papers of a wholesale liquor company in Portland, Oregon, including saloon orders (1862-1864) from mining camps and towns in eastern Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, which include news of the mines and business conditions in those areas. Also included are records and correspondence of the company's predecessor, Humiston and Ma'Dan (1859-1862).

Dates: 1859-1864

India Office Library materials relating to the Pacific Northwest

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1573
Abstract

Materials microfilmed from the British Library Oriental and India Office Collections relating to the Pacific Northwest, including: Canton Factory records; materials regarding ships sailing to the Northwest Coast; log of the ship Prince of Wales; and materials regarding the fur trade.

Dates: 1716-1817

F. M. Kettenring papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1632
Abstract

Surveying notebooks of townships in the area of Vancouver, Washington; Des Moines River, Clearwater and Snake Rivers, 1905; and "Report of Reconnaissance between Albany and Ontario, Oregon, September and October 1904."

Dates: 1904-1905

King-Jeffery family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2486
Abstract

Collection includes deeds in Portland, Oregon, for Amos and Melinda King, and a deed in Long Beach, Washington Territory, for E. J. Jeffery; wills for Melinda King and Edward James Jeffery; a baptism certificate for Nautilla Jeffery, née King; and a stock certificate for Edna J. Jeffery.

Dates: 1876-1897