Washington (State)

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.

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

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.

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.

Bound record book of the Oregon Washingtonian Society, containing constitution, minutes, and a list of members.

Oral history interview with John Osborn, conducted by Clark Hansen in two sessions, on April 8 and April 12, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Osborn discusses connections between the history of the Northern Pacific Railroad land grants, logging practices of companies such as Weyerhaeuser, and heavy metal pollution in the Pacific Northwest.

Typescript of "An Outline of the Pacific Northwest" by Ceylon S. Kingston and J. Orin Oliphant. Authors' working copy, with bibliographic citations pasted in and some handwritten marks.

Album containing 12 black and white photographs of exterior and interior views of the Panel & Folding Box Co. in Hoquiam, Washington. Subjects include employees at work, sawmill and planing mill scenes, dry kilns, and lumber.