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

[Pages:919]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 Aberdeen Public Library

Aberdeen Public Library Date: 1880's -1940's Volume: 10 c.f. Photographs, draft histories, diaries, maps, and other materials, chiefly the collection of a disbanded local historical society.

26800001 HISTORICAL RECORDS

Aberdeen Public Library Date: 1880's -1940's Volume: 10 c.f. 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.

250400000 Anacortes Museum of History and Art

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1860's Volume: 11 c.f. 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.

250400001 Anacortes Chamber of Commerce, Records

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1890-1892 Volume: 1 volume Minute book.

250400002 City of Anacortes, Records

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1890's -1920 (approx.) 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.

250400003 Anacortes Museum, Autograph Books Collection

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1885-1898 Volume: 3 volumes Personal autograph books.

250400004 Anacortes Museum, Bills and Receipts Collection

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1870's -1945 Volume: 0.1 c.f. Includes accounts of land purchases by W.G. Beard from the 1870's to 1883, and other items.

250400005 Anacortes Museum, Documents Collections

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1872-1940 Volume: 0.3 c.f. Deeds, marriage licenses, leases, legal complaints, and stock certificates.

250400006 Anacortes Museum, Letters Collection

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1853-1942 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.

250400007 Anacortes Museum, Map Collection

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1870 Volume: 1 c.f. Washington Territory west of the Cascade Mountains (1870), plat of Anacortes (1890), Sedro (1891), Fidalgo City (now Dewey Beach) (1890's), and other maps.

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Anacortes Museum, Photograph Collection Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1860's Volume: 3 c.f. 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.

250400009

Anacortes Museum, Registers, Bankbooks, and Ledgers Collection Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1892-1967 Volume: 1 c.f. 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).

250400010

Anacortes Museum, Scrapbook Collection Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1880-1962 Volume: 28 volumes 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).

250400011

Anacortes Public Schools, Records Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1892-1903 Volume: 0.1 c.f. Report cards, graduation certificates, enrollment lists, and an honor roll, all associated with elementary schools at Anacortes, Washington.

250400012

Farmer Four Telephone Company, Records Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1908-1919 Volume: 1 volume Corporate minutes of a small telephone company, apparently located in Skagit County, Washington.

250400013 D. Matson, Papers

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1890's Volume: 1 volume 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.

250400014 Mrs. M. Watkinson, Papers

Anacortes Museum of History and Art Date: 1907 Volume: 1 volume Diary of an Englishwoman's trip to America; entitled British Baker Diary.

250600000 Anacortes Public Library

Anacortes Public Library Date: 1850's -1940's Volume: 1 c.f. Library board records and a photograph collection assembled by the Skagit County Oral History Project.

250600001 Anacortes Library, Records

Anacortes Public Library Date: 1909-1941 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).

250600002 Skagit County Oral History Project, Photograph Collection

Anacortes Public Library Date: 1850's -1940's Volume: 0.5 c.f. Approximately 250 negatives detailing Skagit County history, collected to supplement Skagit County Oral History Project interviews.

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270400000

Anderson Island Historical Society Anderson Island Historical Society

Date: 1855 Volume: 9.2 c.f. plus 5 volumes

Anderson Island history; will also accept materials concerning the Puget Sound area. Area voter registers, community organization records, a general photograph collection, and materials concerning the evacuation of adjacent McNeil Island for use as a federal prison.

270400001

Anderson Island Historical Society, McNeil Island Collection Anderson Island Historical Society

Date: 1936 Volume: 0.2 c.f.

U.S. District Court orders for the condemnation of private lands on McNeil Island for use by the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary including abstracts-of-title, property descriptions, and a list of land owners.

270400002

Anderson Island Historical Society, History Collection Anderson Island Historical Society

Date: 1905 Volume: 7 c.f.

Photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, and ephemera detailing Anderson Island history, ferries, and farming. The collection also includes the logbook (1938-39) of the tugboat Pioneer, minutes of Utopian Social Club (1908), and financial records of the Anderson Island Social Club (1926-69).

270400003

Anderson Island Historical Society, Photograph Collection Anderson Island Historical Society

Date: 1890's -1977 Volume: 2 c.f.

Photographs (some glass plates), postcards, and stereopticon pictures of early Tacoma (buildings, street scenes, and railroad yards), Anderson Island (pioneers, buildings, homes, schools, ferries, and family groups), and Alaska.

270400004 Anderson Island Precinct, Records

Anderson Island Historical Society Date: 1916-1935 Volume: 5 volumes Poll books.

270400005 Washington Territory, Records

Anderson Island Historical Society Date: 1855 Volume: 1 item A proclamation calling for volunteers during the Indian War of 1855-56, asking for eight companies and showing the levy from each county.

340400000 Arlington Public Library

Arlington Public Library Date: 1914-1950 Volume: 2 c.f. Records of the Stillaguamish Pioneer Association, along with local history reference materials.

340400001 Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Association, Records

Arlington Public Library Date: 1914-1950 Volume: 6 volumes plus 1 c.f. Newspaper clipping scrapbooks on Arlington history compiled by local historian and millowner, Will Verd, along with photographs, correspondence, a scrapbook on the Arlington Volunteer Fire Department (1906-36), and pioneer association minutes (1916-50).

355200000 Mount Rainier National Park

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1897 Volume: 110 c.f. Administration Records of the park administration which have historical reference value, along with maps, photographs, diaries of park employees, collected draft writings about the park, and other similar materials, all concerning Mount Rainier National Park.

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355200001 E.A. Kitchen, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1934-1936 Volume: 6 c.f. Diaries of Kitchen, a naturalist for the Wildlife Division of the United States Department of the Interior, stationed at Mount Rainier National Park, recording each day's events and his observations of birds and wildlife.

355200002 James Longmire Family, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1850's -1950's Volume: 0.5 c.f. Mining certificates, a narrative biography of James Longmire, and other accounts of this pioneer Washington family, which established a resort, called Longmire, within the present area of Mount Rainier National Park.

355200003 F.E. Mathes, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1896-1922 Volume: 0.5 c.f. Geological accounts of Mt. Rainier and its glaciers, including a 1896 U.S. Geological Survey map of Mt. Rainier, a 1906 park map, and a 1915 topographical map of the mountain.

355200004 Mount Rainier National Park, Map Collection

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1910's Volume: 10 c.f. Maps compiled by the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey, and park personnel, depicting the park and specific areas within it.

355200005 Mount Rainier National Park, Photograph Collection

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1894 Volume: 20 c.f. General photograph collection about the park and related activities.

355200006

Mount Rainier National Park, Records Mount Rainier National Park

Date: 1905-1977 Volume: 72 c.f.

Correspondence, reports, plans, maps, and other records of the park administration, concerning such subjects as accidents, park boundaries, mines within the park, concessions, development plans, exhibitions and interpretation, fires, general information, geographic names, historical and archaeological sites, legislative history, memorials and dedications, mining history, monthly and annual reports, natural history, summit climbs, visitor activity, and weather reports.

355200007

Mount Rainier National Park, Unpublished Manuscript Collection Mount Rainier National Park

Date: 1950's Volume: 4 c.f.

Research reports, theses, and dissertations on various natural history subjects indigenous to the park, and to park development and history.

355200008

Mount Rainier Protestant Church Committee, Records Mount Rainier National Park

Date: 1943-1966 Volume: 1 volume

A notebook of records of the church, showing minutes, members' names and addresses, financial records, and correspondence.

355200009

PUBLICITY AND HISTORY PAMPHLETS (COLLECTION) Mount Rainier National Park

Date: 1897 Volume: 15 cf

Pamphlets and brochures prepared for public information, containing notes on natural history, park history, local history, local Indians, and park information

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355200010 Eugene Ricksecker, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1903-1910 Volume: 0.5 c.f. Letters, contracts, maps, and reports concerning Ricksecker's survey of Mount Rainier National Park (1903-13), the first for road development.

355200011 SURVEY NOTES (COLLECTION)

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1904-1938 Volume: 3 volumes plus 1 c.f. Three volumes of land survey notes detailing park boundaries and topographical features; also surveys of roads and trails (1904-38).

355200012 O.A. Tomlinson, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1929-1941 Volume: 0.5 c.f. Correspondence and reports of Tomlinson, superintendent of Mount Rainier National Park, relative to administration, policy, and special projects.

355200013 John Zug, Papers

Mount Rainier National Park Date: 1903-1913 Volume: 0.5 c.f. Road survey reports (1903-05), narrative reports on road construction progress (1906), cost reports (1911), cost estimates (1913), miscellaneous reports and correspondence (1907-13), and survey field books (1908-09), all concerning park road construction.

360500000 Asotin County Historical Society Museum

Asotin County Historical Society Museum Date: 1880 Volume: Principally photographs and maps of Asotin County, Washington.

360500001 Asotin County Historical Society, Map Collection

Asotin County Historical Society Museum Date: 1911-1920 Volume: 1 c.f. Maps of Asotin County; two maps show location of schools throughout the county.

360500002 Asotin County Historical Society, Photograph Collection

Asotin County Historical Society Museum Date: 1880 Volume: 3 c.f. A photograph collection of general thematic content, with emphasis on the area of Asotin and Clarkston, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho.

360500003 Joe Mackey, Photograph Collection

Asotin County Historical Society Museum Date: 1899-1900 Volume: 1 volume Album of photographs related to Spanish-American war in the Philippines.

375400000 Mukleshoot Tribal Council

Mukleshoot Tribal Council Date: 1850's Volume: Various historical materials, many in copy, pertaining to tribal people.

375400001 Mukleshoot Indian Tribe, Census Rolls

Mukleshoot Tribal Council Date: 1860's -1921 Volume: Tribal rolls and school census records of the Mukleshoot.

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