Photographs, newspaper clippings and papers related to the career of Northwest
shipbuilder Henri A. Andersen; Biographical Note; Henri Aldof Andersen was born in San Francisco, California on July 19, 1891, to Norwegian parents Bernard and...
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Correspondence,
subject files, clippings, legislation files, reports, newsletters, meeting
minutes, legal case files, and other records of the Washington Environmental
Council, which works to protect and restore the environment in...
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COMMERCE.
Importance of the place due to its being the capital of the State, and the only C. carried 1897 was local C. bet. it and other places on Puget Sound, 97, 3444.
In 1897 the interests involved not important enough to warrant imp. of...
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Construction photographs of the Electron Plant, a hydroelectric facility on the Puyallup River, built by the Puget Sound Power Company, 1902-1904. This company was acquired by Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Company in 1912.
A spur...
2024-05-19
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Dr. Murray L. Johnson, M.D., was a Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and helped establish the mammalian collections at the Puget Sound Museum (now the Slater Museum of Natural History) in 1948. He was contracted by the Atomic...
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Papers of a British employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and later a U.S. citizen relating to his activities; Edward Huggins was born in London, June 10, 1832. In October 1849 he
joined the Hudson's Bay Company, sailing on the "Norman...
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Minutes, correspondence, speeches, articles, notes, and background materials; organization and government publications/documents of a writer and environmental activist; Board member and officer of Tahoma Audubon Society (vice-president) and...
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Pennsylvania, transmission network, 6
Pierce, Walter, 32
Pinchot, Gifford, 7 Plutonium, 47, 73
Plutonium production reactor, 72
Pope, James J., 29
Port Angeles, Washington, 6 Portland, Oregon, 16, 33
harbor, (photo), 47
photo, 9...
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Walla and Umatilla Valleys are served by extensions of the Pacific Power & Light Co. from Washington. In the sparsely peopled central and southeastern portions of the State, power production is largely limited to independent plants or small...
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1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smaller. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Title supplied by cataloger. Set includes various editions. "Surveyed in 1894-95". "Contour interval 50 feet. Datum is mean sea level." Diagram depicts which...
2024-05-19
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Photographs of
the Miller family, Seattle scenes, and other views, circa 1880-1953; Collection consists of: 105 black and white photographs of a visit of
Secretary of Interior Albert Fall to Mount Rainier; Seattle Fire of 1889;...
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Photograph album showing Pacific Coast
Company mining, steamship and rail operations in Washington, California, Oregon
and Alaska. Includes images of piers, coal bunkers, coal and passenger rail
depots, warehouses and other buildings...
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Images of a Washington Water Power Company billboard advertisement featuring school children; Homer Truett Bone was born in Indiana, but the family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1899. Homer studied diligently on his own, in addition to working...
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owned "reserved" land. In the opinion of the Court, the provisions of the Desert Land Act did not apply because that Act did not apply to "reserved" lands - although the distinction between "reserved" lands and other public lands in this...
2009-02-01
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1 map; 20 x 55 cm. Map shows route of the Olympian railroad with no topographic detail. Panorama photograph of the Olympian's cars above.
The Olympian was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company's attempt at transcontinental...
2024-05-19
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Papers of a
lumber company executive, banker, and political activist in Seattle,
Washington.; Edwin Gardner Ames, lumber company executive, banker, and political
activist, was manager of the Pope & Talbot interests in the Puget Sound...
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James R. Slater was founder and director (1930-1951) of the Puget Sound Museum of Natural History at the College of Puget Sound (now the James R. Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound). The collection contains files,...
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FEDERAL WATER RIGHTS LEGISLATION 23 of a navigable stream and carry away its waters for sale to provide interests without compensation to those deprived of them. We have never held that or anything like it * * *.103 The case going furthest in the...
2009-02-01
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Photographs
documenting air pollution in the Puget Sound area of Washington state,
including Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett; The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency--which covers King, Kitsap, Pierce,
and Snohomish counties--seeks "to protect...
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Records of the
Union; The Ship Scalers Union and
Seattleās Racial Progressivism in the 20th Century; Copyright by Adam Farley,
2011; Published as part of the
Waterfront Workers History Project, HSTAA 498D Winter 2010;...
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The Peter Buschmann family immigrated to Washington state in 1891 from Aure, Norway to seek fishing and salmon packing industry opportunities in southeast Alaska. This collection contains photocopies of the Buschmann family scrapbook, dating from...
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Photographs of the Carstens Packing Company of Tacoma, Washington a meat packing company; Album of photographs put out by Carstens Packing Company in 1909. It includes a portrait (probably of the President of the company), overviews of the...
2024-05-19
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The Maps of Washington (State) and the Pacific Northwest consist of historic and superseded maps depicting forest resources, geology, public lands and land use, hydroelectric projects, highways, and railroads in Washington and the Pacific...
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The Horner Museum Oral History Collection consists of more than 250 oral history interviews conducted or assembled by the Horner Museum. The interviews address a variety of topics including the stories of Oregon State University faculty, students,...
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The Thomas Caldwell Adams papers (1905-1971) consist of the personal and professional papers of Thomas Caldwell Adams (1901-1965), a professor of civil engineering at the University of Utah who specialized in hydrology.; Biographical Sketch;...
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