Historical Records of Washington State: Records and Papers held at ...

Historical Records of Washington State:

Records and Papers held at Repositories

COMPILED FOR THE BOARD BY THE STAFF OF THE WASHINGTON

STATE HISTORICAL RECORDS AND ARCHIVES PROJECT

1981

THE WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL RECORDS ADVISORY BOARD

RICHARD C. BERNER, Seattle

ALBERT H. CULVERWELL, Spokane

EARL T. GLAUERT, Ellensburg

HOWARD LOVERING, Seattle

SIDNEY F. McALPIN, Olympia Chairman

JAMES D. MOORE, Mount Vernon

NANCY B. PRYOR, Olympia

JAY W. REA, Cheney

JAMES SCOTT, Bellingham

THE WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL RECORDS AND ARCHIVES

PROJECT STAFF

Project Administrator and Supervisory Editor:

JOHN F. BURNS

Editors:

TIMOTHY E. ECKERT, LAWRENCE R. STARK

Assistant Editors:

LYNN ELLEN STARK, B. TOYLYN COLLIER, KENNETH MUNSELL, KRISTIN RAVETZ

Computer Systems Coordinator:

DAVID W. HASTINGS

Data Entry Coordinator:

KATHLEEN M. WILCOX

Keyboard Operators:

DANA BERGLUND, LINDA SPROULL, CINDY GIBSON

Regional Supervisors:

TIMOTHY E. ECKERT, RICHARD S. HOBBS, DAVID W. HASTINGS,

LAWRENCE R. STARK

Survey Team Leaders and Field Workers:

ERIC ANDERSON, JAMES M. BAILEY, MICHAEL BETZ, GAIL BROWN, SCOTT

CLABAUGH, B. TOYLYN COLLIER, MICHAEL DOLE, CYNTHIA FLATLEY, STEVE GOBAT,

MARY GRADY, NANCY GREEN, LYNN HARRISON, CRAIG HOLSTINE, ANN K. HOYT,

ELIZABETH JAHNKE, GARY KARNOFSKI, KAY LANDOLT, JANICE LARSON, WAYNE

LAWSON, BARBARA LYNCH, VIRGINIA MILLER, STEPHANIE OGLE, BEVRA

PATTERSON, SARA PATTON, LEE PENDERGRASS, CHARISSE PETERS, GREGORY

RANCE, KRISTIN RAVETZ, JULIE REUWSAAT, KATHLEEN RILEY, MICHAEL SULLIVAN,

VANNETTA UPSHAW-CASH, KATHLEEN WAUGH, ALFRED WILLIS,

PAUL WHEELWRIGHT

Secretary:

KATHLEEN M. WILCOX

PREFACE

In 1976 the first Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board was appointed by the governor at the request of the National Historical

Publications and Records Commission, known in archival circles as the NHPRC. The Board's charge was to begin a program statewide that

would improve access to archives and manuscripts material for researchers, and to generally suggest remedies to improve the condition of

historical records-keeping in Washington State.

Responding to this assignment the Board devised a plan for the first comprehensive historical records survey in any state since the end of the

original historical records survey of the Depression Era.

Understanding that a thorough knowledge of what historical records existed in the state was a precondition to addressing other problems, the

Board decided to put a premium on such identification. The staff of the Washington State Historical Records and Archives Project was

fortunate to be entrusted by the Board in 1977 to launch such a survey process and to publish the results. This was done with the substantial

support of grant funds provided by the NHPRC.

I order to involve concerned citizens with the project, the first step taken was to hold a series of workshops across the state to provide basic

education on archival and records management techniques to public officials and private records custodians. The individuals attending the

workshops were then able to assist the survey workers in completing their inventories. Through the balance of 1977 and 1978 staff surveyors

and countless contributors from the agencies and organizations being surveyed labored mightily to uncover historical records materials and

organize them sufficiently to compile listings. In their work they braved the hazards of dirt, rodents, unstable structures and extremes of cold

and heat. Their efforts were magnificent. Over 1,500 institutions were contacted, and survey data compiled on over 25,000 record groups,

collections and series of records and papers. The field workers' listings were then edited and indexed by editorial staff, and processed using the

SPINDEX III system of computer programs developed by the National Archives. Utilizing this system will also allow Washington State data

to be automatically incorporated into the national data base of historical records currently under development by the NHPRC, an ancillary

benefit that may have tremendous impact on the availability of archives and manuscripts for research in the years ahead.

About one quarter of the data assembled appears in this volume, over 6,400 descriptions of collections in over 250 large and small repositories

in the state. Three other volumes contain the remainder of the data. One is a hardcopy publication that describes records held in the

Washington State Archives and its system of regional depositories. Two further guides will be produced in Computer Output Microfiche

(COM), one to public records held by agencies such as courthouses, city halls, and special districts in the state, and the other describing

historical records and papers held by private organizations and individuals. Collectively they will constitute the most comprehensive collection

of data on historical records in one state anywhere in the nation. Our hope is that these publications will promote access to primary source

material essential to the study of the history of the state and its localities and regions. We believe that advantage will also accrue to those

involved with contemporary problems. Lawyers and public officers involved in issues of the day will gain better knowledge of a body of

resources that can assist them in their work. By having this data available, countless dollars in terms of research hours will be saved. That is

our purpose, to enhance access to historical materials, both for scholars and for contemporary researchers, in order that their task may be made

easier and that the citizens of the state, and ultimately the nation, might benefit.

The staff of the records project could not have begun to complete this work without the aid of hundreds of organizations and individuals

throughout the state. The sage advice and support of past and present members of the advisory board was critical to the project's success. To

the chairman, Sidney McAlpin, and members Richard Berner, Al Culverwell, Earl Glauert, Bruce Harding, Phil Lothyan, Howard Lovering,

Jim Moore, Nancy Pryor, Jay Rea, George Scott, Jim Scott, Bruce LeRoy, Nat Washington, and Karyl Winn go many thanks. Various

institutions throughout the state generously provided facilities from which the project could operate. Central Washington University graciously

agreed to allocate space for headquarters activities. Field offices and other services were provided by the State Archives, University of

Washington, Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, Western Washington University, Whitman College, Everett and

Skagit Valley Community Colleges, the state departments of General Administration, Social and Health Services and Transportation, the

Eastern Washington State Historical Society, the Benton-Franklin Governmental Conference, the Chelan County Government, and KCPQ-TV.

Individuals who offered key assistance included Georgia Allison, Linda Stosalovich, Janet Brown, Ladd Allison, Terry Abraham, various

members of the Du Pont Historical Society, Sandi Diebold, Sister Rita Bergamini, Gary Lundell, Nigel Adams, Edward Harrington, Kent

Richards, Sally Maddocks, the students in Bill Scofield's class at Yakima Valley College, and State Archives staff members Dave Owens,

"Doc" Ellenwood, Mike Saunders, and Pat Hopkins. So many others also helped that space does not allow individual mention. The

contributions of officials in the thirty-nine county government auditor's, clerk's and other offices, in over two hundred municipal governments,

and in the various local government associations, were essential to our inventory of public records. Similarly, the assistance of librarians,

curators and organization leaders was critical to our completion of the survey of private sector materials. To those anonymous contributors, as

well as the organizations and persons listed above, goes enormous gratitude on our part.

Finally, I must cite the records project staff for their outstanding performance. Most selflessly devoted many overtime hours for which they

were not compensated, under working conditions that sometimes approached the impossible. Through this they bore the mental and physical

stresses with great perseverance and excellent humor. No finer group of individuals has ever worked together. To them goes my personal deep

and heartfelt thanks. What success this project has had, and what benefits the publications will bring, is due principally to their extraordinary

efforts.

JOHN F. BURNS

Project Administrator and Supervisory

USER¡¯S INTRODUCTION

This guide presents a reasonably comprehensive listing of archival holdings found throughout the State of Washington. Not included are

materials held at the State Archives and its system of regional depositories, which are listed in a companion volume. Also excluded are a great

many small and single-item collections and record groups held at three larger repositories, the libraries of the University of Washington,

Washington State University, and the Washington State Historical Society. Omissions have been made only at these three institutions.

Researchers are advised that these libraries have internal guides and finding aids which can supplement the listings in this guide.

The guide is organized in alphabetical order based on city names, with individual institutions listed alphabetically within each city. Holdings of

institutions appear as alphabetical lists of the manuscript collections and record groups located at each respective institution. Some exceptions

to alphabetical order appear, principally where a university archives and a manuscripts repository are combined. In these cases the guide

generally employs an alphabetical listing of holdings of each component.

Users will note a system of hierarchic numbers which identify each entry and also govern arrangement of the guide. These numbers are based

on a system developed by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for the purpose of arranging and indexing guides. Use

of these numbers is restricted to guides and the numbers are not employed by the holders of the actual records to identify materials in their

custody.

Examination of the alphabetical order of collections will disclose that this sequence is obscured by the use of normal word order in titles, as

opposed to the inverted form often seen in bibliographic citations. Users will also note that traditional, library-oriented title rules have not been

used, as such prove unfeasible in a compilation such as this. Consequently, titles follow pragmatic practices which allow a restructuring of

titles, the creation of titles in cases where none exist, and the general intent of presenting information rather than form.

General rules for titles are these:

1) Titles should be similar to those used by repositories.

2) Titles should show the provenance of records, that is, the agency which created or collected the records.

3) If the repository itself appears to be the only identifiable agent of provenance, the "institution-as-collector" title is used.

4) In cases where no title other than a descriptive phrase is available, it is generally presented in upper case letters.

The presentation of information about individual collections also departs from the traditional form of annotated bibliography. Instead, this

guide employs a computer-aided feature which places recurrent "headers" in positions which identify each component of an entry. Some data is

presented without these headers, especially birth and death dates, which simply appear in the upper right-hand position of an entry, identifiable

as vital dates by the abbreviations "b." and "d." Occasional variant titles also appear without the computer-generated header, positioned in

indentation below the main title.

Certain abbreviations are employed throughout the guide. The most commonly used are "c.f." and "l.f.," two units of measurement used

extensively by archivists to express quantity, either as cubic feet or linear feet of shelf space. This guide occasionally uses the convention of

expressing very small quantities as "0.1 c.f." In other instances, small quantities have been expressed in item count, if such information was

available to the editors of the guide.

Users should also be aware that certain conventions have been used for the data identified by the header ¡°finding aids." Nomenclature in this

area of archival practices is chaotic, with a wide variety of names used to identify similar types of descriptive devices. Often the editors of this

guide have used the general term ¡°inventory," even if the finding aid in question might be more properly called by some other name. Users

should be aware that the varied terms for the finding aids all essentially mean a detailed list, usually kept typewritten pages, but occasionally on

cards. Those doing research at archival institutions should expect to encounter instances in which the terms used for finding aids may differ

from those presented in this

guide.

26800000

250400003

Aberdeen Public Library

Anacortes Museum, Autograph Books Collection

Aberdeen Public Library

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1880's -1940's

Date:

Volume: 10 c.f.

1885-1898

Date:

Volume: 3 volumes

Photographs, draft histories, diaries, maps, and other

materials, chiefly the collection of a disbanded local

historical society.

Personal autograph books.

250400004

Anacortes Museum, Bills and Receipts Collection

26800001

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

HISTORICAL RECORDS

1870's -1945

Date:

Volume: 0.1 c.f.

Aberdeen Public Library

1880's -1940's

Date:

Volume: 10 c.f.

Includes accounts of land purchases by W.G. Beard

from the 1870's to 1883, and other items.

Maps, diaries, a manuscript on the Olympic Peninsula

by Lucille Cleland, photographs by George Wolfe, an

early businessman, historical research materials of Ann

Cotton, various draft histories of Grays Harbor County,

and other documents.

250400005

250400000

1872-1940

Date:

Volume: 0.3 c.f.

Anacortes Museum, Documents Collections

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Deeds, marriage licenses, leases, legal complaints, and

stock certificates.

1860's Date:

Volume: 11 c.f.

250400006

Materials from Anacortes, Fidalgo Island, Whidbey

Island, Guemes Island, and other islands along the ferry

route. Photographs, business records, miscellaneous

personal papers, scrapbooks, and maps, all chiefly

concerned with Anacortes, Washington, and vicinity.

Anacortes Museum, Letters Collection

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1853-1942

Date:

Volume: 0.1 c.f.

A letter (1892) from the Oregon Improvement

Company to the Anacortes City Clerk regarding a water

franchise, a letter (1895) to Douglass Allmond, and

various speeches and poems.

250400001

Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Records

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1890-1892

Date:

Volume: 1 volume

250400007

Anacortes Museum, Map Collection

Minute book.

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1870

Date:

Volume: 1 c.f.

250400002

City of Anacortes, Records

Washington Territory west of the Cascade Mountains

(1870), plat of Anacortes (1890), Sedro (1891), Fidalgo

City (now Dewey Beach) (1890's), and other maps.

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1890's -1920 (approx.)

Date:

Volume: 0.5 c.f.

City council resolutions (1907), ordinances (1915-16),

and election-related records from the 1890's, along with

a 1905 voter register.

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250400008

250400013

Anacortes Museum, Photograph Collection

D. Matson, Papers

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1860's Date:

Volume: 3 c.f.

1890's Date:

Volume: 1 volume

The collection depicts Skagit County and Anacortes

history, focusing on buildings and economic and social

activities, along with two albums on the travels of A.D.

Malet, a Victoria, British Columbia, businessman.

Log of patients served by Matson (1892) while a

physician at Lincoln, Nebraska, along with Matson's

autobiography and Civil War recollections, apparently

composed in the late 1890's, while practicing medicine

at Bellingham, Washington.

250400009

250400014

Anacortes Museum, Registers, Bankbooks, and

Ledgers Collection

Mrs. M. Watkinson, Papers

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1892-1967

Date:

Volume: 1 c.f.

1907

Date:

Volume: 1 volume

Bankbook from Anacortes First National Bank (1890's),

record book of Fern Hill Cemetery listing burials (189294 and 1967) and lots sold (1892-1966), and T.B.

Childs' accounts (1901-11).

Diary of an Englishwoman's trip to America; entitled

British Baker Diary.

250600000

Anacortes Public Library

250400010

Anacortes Public Library

Anacortes Museum, Scrapbook Collection

1850's -1940's

Date:

Volume: 1 c.f.

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1880-1962

Date:

Volume: 28 volumes

Library board records and a photograph collection

assembled by the Skagit County Oral History Project.

Chiefly clippings; subjects include: San Juan Islands,

Anacortes history, Indians (ca. 1900), 7 volumes of

state and local history compiled by Alice Cahail, a

WCTU scrapbook on the evils of alcohol; scrapbook of

the Anacortes Chamber of Commerce (1962), and

Anacortes Parent-Teacher Association scrapbooks

(1947-58).

250600001

Anacortes Library, Records

Anacortes Public Library

1909-1941

Date:

Volume: 0.5 c.f.

Records include library board minute books (1909-41),

an accounting ledger (1909-18), and an accessions book

(1911-12). Records include library board minute books

(1909-41), an accounting ledger (1909-18), and an

accessions book (1911-12).

250400011

Anacortes Public Schools, Records

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1892-1903

Date:

Volume: 0.1 c.f.

250600002

Report cards, graduation certificates, enrollment lists,

and an honor roll, all associated with elementary

schools at Anacortes, Washington.

Skagit County Oral History Project, Photograph

Collection

Anacortes Public Library

250400012

1850's -1940's

Date:

Volume: 0.5 c.f.

Farmer Four Telephone Company, Records

Approximately 250 negatives detailing Skagit County

history, collected to supplement Skagit County Oral

History Project interviews.

Anacortes Museum of History and Art

1908-1919

Date:

Volume: 1 volume

Corporate minutes of a small telephone company,

apparently located in Skagit County, Washington.

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