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Washington (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:

Blaine H. McGillicuddy collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 788
Abstract

Collection includes a typescript carbon copy document titled "Yacolt Fire, Clark County, Washington, 1902," containing an interview with Herbert Straub of Eugene, Oregon, and the press record of the fire; and a typescript carbon copy document titled "Mima Prairie Notes," with maps of a proposed ship canal from the Columbia River to Puget Sound.

Dates: 1967

Archibald Menzies journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1593
Abstract

Photocopy and microfilmed versions of journal kept by botanist Archibald Menzies during George Vancouver's scientific voyage to the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1790-1794

Oral history interview with Gwen V. Miller

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9475
Abstract

Oral history interview with Gwen V. Miller conducted by Charles Digregorio on December 17, 1975. Miller talks about her grandparents' overland journey to Oregon, about life in 19th-century Oregon, and about the relationship between white emigrants and Native people.

Dates: 1975 December 17

Minority without a champion: Kanakas on the Pacific coast, 1788-1850

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2436
Abstract

Typescript carbon rough draft research paper, circa 1950-1972, exploring the history of Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: circa 1950-1972

Mizuta family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2636
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera, primarily relating to the Mizuta family's incarceration at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming; clearance for family members to leave the incarceration center to operate a farm; and family members' military service during the war. Family members represented in the collection include Fred Mizuta, George Mizuta, Haruye Izuta, Ito Mizuta, and Nobuo Mizuta.

Dates: 1941-1947

Lee Moorhouse photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 104
Abstract

Photographs taken by Major Lee Moorhouse between approximately 1897 and 1919, depicting Cayuse, Umatilla, and other Native peoples and their settlements in the Columbia River Basin and Umatilla County; landscapes in Oregon and Montana; the Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, and rodeos in other locations.

Dates: circa 1897-1919

Thomas Mountain and Raphael Brunn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2310
Abstract

Thomas Mountain (1822-1915) was a member of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, a river captain, and and employee of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Collection consists of deeds for land in Couch's Addition, Portland, Oregon, deed for cemetery plot in Multnomah County, Oregon, and receipts and correspondence, 1873-1899, of Thomas Mountain; land claims and other legal documents in Washington Territory, 1853-1865, of Raphael Brunn.

Dates: 1853-1899

Mt. Tacoma from American Lake

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5139
Abstract

Watercolor sketch of Mt. Tacoma (Mt. Rainier) as seen from American Lake in Washington, by J. H. Houghton.

Dates: circa 1900-1939

John F. Noble papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1000
Abstract

Papers of an Indian agent, stock rancher, and Army officer of Oregon and Washington State. Includes an incomplete overland diary of 1849; an 1860 diary of a hunting trip on the Deschutes River; a diary of a trip of 1864-1865 through Indian country; survey notes; Chinook vocabulary; papers of Noble & Scholl relating to stock raising near The Dalles, Oregon; military papers; and papers regarding an Indian depredation claim by Brooke, Bomford and Company.

Dates: 1849-1950; Majority of material found within 1849-1900

Oral history interview with Donald G. Onthank

 Collection
Identifier: SR 73
Abstract

Oral history interview with Donald G. Onthank conducted by Dorothy C. Rich and Dick F. LaPore on October 29 and November 12, 1977. Onthank discusses his mountaineering experiences in the Cascade mountains of Oregon and Washington, in the Columbia River Gorge, and on Mount Shasta in California in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1977 October 29-November 12