Digital Collections

A single volume scrapbook documenting the 1927 National Apple Week activities in the Yakima Valley region. The scrapbook includes clippings, telegrams, correspondence, and numerous photographs and illustrations.

A booklet on manners "compiled by the house council of 1929-30 because it felt a need on our campus for the knowledge therein contained."--Cf tp Includes sections on chaperons, table manners entertainment, dress, and campus courtesy.

12 p. of photographs printed on a sheet folded in accordion format

Program lists candidates for degrees on page four including the first student to earn an official graduate with a degree of Master of Science, William Hurford Lawrence.

Graduate work at the State College of Washington was first announced in 1896. No specific courses were designated, but students interested in advanced work were invited to make application to the President.

"Issued under the co-operative community plan of Oregon- Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. ... Planned and executed by Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau. Portland, Oregon"

A 17 cm. booster keepsake card with text extolling Pullman and the region. The image is a somewhat fanciful illustration of Downtown Pullman as it looked before the fire of 1890, which destroyed most of the businesses.

1 sheet : ill. ; 16 X 48 unfolded. Contains panoramic views of "Residential District of Pullman, Washington" and "Business section of Pullman, Washington"

This is the first copy printed of the first issue of the Pullman Herald. This was a single folded sheet, four 58 x 43 cm. pages, printed on a hand press, and also included one small additional single-sided 29 x 18 cm. supplement.

A twenty-two minute promotional movie for Washington State College narrated by Edward R. Murrow in 1952.

1 sheet [2 p.] ; 18 x 43 cm. Signed in type by more than 100 persons, including A.A. Danny, John J. McGilvra, H.L. Yesler, Ezra Meeker, G.W. Kimball and C.D. Boren.

We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

More than 800 photographs of Pullman, Washington, selected from an exceptional collection assembled by Ivan Shirrod, as well as the Cities and Towns Collection, PC 2. Pullman was first settled in 1874 by Bowlin Farr.

WSU's yearbook, the Chinook, was first published in 1899 and continues today. This collection runs from 1899 to 1986, 87 volumes and 37992 pages.

This collaborative project seeks to create a database with thematic coherence that will engage online researchers in thinking more deeply about the significance of the rich primary resources available in museums, libraries, and historical societies.

The database includes 690 photographs taken by Ralph Raymond Hutchison. Hutchison was raised on a farm near Endicott, Washington. As a professional photographer, he later operated studios in Endicott, LaCrosse, Pullman, and Moscow Idaho.

The Powwow, occasionally known as the Alumnus, was an alumni newsletter published from 1910 to 1969, and documents campus events as well as the lives of our students and graduates. The complete run covers 421 issues.

Frank Arthur Banks was a Bureau of Reclamation engineer who supervised the construction of the Owyhee, Grand Coulee and other dams. This collection consists of project histories, ephemeral engineering publications, printed items of restricted circulation, and Banks' correspondence, notes and papers.

The database includes 281 images, mostly photographs, taken by William Delbert Barkhuff during the 1890s. W. D. Barkhuff enrolled at Washington State University on the opening day in 1892 and was the first editor of the college paper, then called the College Record.

This collection contains approximately 200 Washington State University programs dating from 1906 to 1972.

This database includes newspaper clippings collected and organized in the late 1930's by historians working for the Works Progress Administration to document Pacific Northwest life from 1900-1938. Subjects include: the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams, mining, Native Americans, government, the CCC and the WPA, and many more.

George Ritchey lived in Pullman at least as early as 1897. He apparently worked in a Pullman grain elevator in the 1890s. In 1910, he was a house painter living on Military Hill with his wife and children. His father, William, a carpenter, boarded with him, according to the city directory.

This collection compiles WSU's student newspaper, the Evergreen, from existing originals. This collection is still under construction, and includes the 1919-1920 school year plus issues beginning in 1892 and moving forward chronologically.

A growing repository of freely available resources on all aspects of the Palouse Bio-region

Cull A. White collected photographs of the history of the peoples of north-central Washington. His 260 images focus on the lives of Native Americans and the lives of pioneer settlers.

This still-growing collection contains approximately 50 Washington State University campus histories, departmental histories, and other WSU-specific histories. Most of the items in this collection are secondary historical works.

This collects the full text of 46 government documents relating to the Columbia River, its dams, and associated issues. It was part of the WSU Libraries' participation in the Western Waters Digital Library.

80 photographs from the H.E. Maris of photos of the 1914 Toppenish Roundup. Includes images of Native Americans, regional cowboys, and period entertainments.

The historical photographs which comprise the WSU Buildings Image Database were selected from various collections including (but not limited to): William Delbert Barkhuff Photographs, 1892-1921; Myron Samuel Huckle Photographs.

The papers of Catherine May Bedell, United States Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Washington, 1959-1970.

Seattle-based photographer Irwin Nash documented the experiences of both Yakima Valley migrant workers and Yakima and Seattle-based agricultural protest movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Over 100 of MASC's 16000+ images are digitized here.

Over 600 images include photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbook items, and printed ephemera of women from Washington State University and the surrounding community, including military, theater and dance, home economics, sororities, clubs, and other organizations.

The 197 oral histories in this collection were conducted by WSU students between 1970 and 2005, and document the evolving role of women in the Pacific Northwest.

63 images from the papers and photographs of Homer M. Hill, a newspaper publisher and community ativist in Seattle from the 1880s to 1930s. Topis of note include the Seattle Fire of 1889 and Seattle Anti-Chinese Riots in 1890.

The collection contains over 350 digitized photographs, postcards, book illustrations, and certificates documenting women's athletics at WSU from 1899-2000.

A collection of documents from Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections with special relevance to the history of women in Washington State.

Found in a trunk by a resident of Richland, seven of the eighteen photographs in this collection appeared in Tri-City Herald on April 3rd, 1979. Taken (or at least printed) by the Wilkin Photo Service Lewiston, Idaho.

A collection of materials from the papers of president Holland and the WSU University Publications collection related to the 1918 Influenza Epidemic at WSU (then the State College of Washington).

185 photographs from the Collection of Lucullus V. McWhorter. The images include portraits of prominent Nez Perce warriors and battlefield sites from the 1877 Nez Perce war.

The collection consists of 800 images selected from 894 5x7 inch glass negatives taken by Avery during the period 1901 to 1916 when Avery was assigned to the Colville Indian Agency.

This collaborative project seeks to create a database with thematic coherence that will engage online researchers in thinking more deeply about the significance of the rich primary resources available in museums, libraries, and historical societies.

73 images of Nez Perce individuals and groups, most in studio settings, ca. 1877-1905. The images comprise several unrelated sets of pictures, all purchased at auction in 1989.

Cull A. White collected photographs of the history of the peoples of north-central Washington. His 260 images focus on the lives of Native Americans and the lives of pioneer settlers.

This database includes newspaper clippings collected and organized in the late 1930's by historians working for the Works Progress Administration to document Pacific Northwest life from 1900-1938. Subjects include: the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams, mining, Native Americans, government, the CCC and the WPA, and many more.

The L. V. McWhorter Native American Artifact Collection contains cultural and historical relics of the Yakama, Nez Perce, Bannock, and Flathead tribes. Between 1926 and 1935.

The National Park Service Nez Perce Historic Images Collection consists of over 1500 images related to the Nez Perce culture. The photographs are housed at the Spalding (ID) Visitor Center/Research Center, Nez Perce National Historical Park.