Washington (State)

Small collection of black and white photographs depicting the area around the site of the Maryhill Museum in Maryhill, Washington, and construction of the museum.

Oral history interview with Arthur J. McCourt conducted by Charles Digregorio on March 13, 1979. McCourt was an accountant at Weyerhaeuser Company, and later served as director of the company's archives.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Oral history interviews and written recollections gathered by the Oregon Historical Society after the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, as part of a project to preserve memories of the mountain before it erupted. Participants in the project include lodge owners and employees, timber workers, and a fire lookout; visitors to lodges and youth camps near the mountain; mountaineers, hikers, and skiers; and a geologist who studied Mount St. Helens.

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.