Photographs
Frank S. Matsura Image Collection
Frank S. Matsura came to the United States from Japan in 1905 (perhaps as early as 1902), settling briefly in Seattle before crossing the Cascades to take a job as a handyman at the Elliot Hotel, Conconully, Washington. In 1907 he moved to Okanogan, Washington, and started work as a professional photographer.
Clyde Edward Pangborn Collection
Clyde Edward Pangborn was one of the great barnstormers of the early 20th century. After an ill-fated "automobile-to-airplane" transfer attempt at Coronado Beach, California in 1920, Pangborn partnered with Ivan R. Gates to form the Gates Flying Circus in 1921.
Thomas LaFargue Collection
Photographs and correspondence involving the students of the Chinese Educational Mission founded by Yung Wing in 1872. LaFargue's book about the educational mission, China's First Hundred, was published in 1942.
Frank Fuller Avery Image Collection
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.
Charles Pratsch Collection
The Grays Harbor region that Pratsch photographed between 1888 and 1913 may best be described as a small collection of recently formed company towns owned by timber and rail interests (Pope & Talbot Company and Northern Pacific).
Steamboat Photographs
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 Lewsiton, Idaho.
Northwest Illustrations Collection
This collection consists of 53 selected illustrations taken from the rare book, History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington, Embracing an Account of the Original Discoveries on the Pacific Coast of North America.
Paul Brians Image Collection
WSU English Professor Paul Brian's personal photograph collection, featuring images of Pullman, Moscow, and other Northwest locations.
World Civilizations
This site, the World Civilizations Image Repository (WCIR), consists of a series of image databases drawn from donated personal faculty collections and images located in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) at the WSU libraries.
Maps
Early Washington Maps A Digital Collection
More than 925 historic maps with links to high-resolution MrSID files; built in collaboration with WSU Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections and the University of Washington Libraries.
Oral Histories
WSU Oral History Project
In April 2004 the Golden Grad Class of 1954 commemorated their graduation from Washington State University (then Washington State College) by establishing a fund to create the WSU Oral History Project (OHP).
Civil Rights Oral History Interviews
In February of 2001, the Spokesman-Review produced a month long series of articles on black history titled "Through Spokane's Eyes Moments in Black History," focusing in particular on the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As part of that series, Rebecca Nappi conducted a series of interviews with individuals with ties to both the civil rights movement and to Spokane.
Black Oral History Interviews
The Black Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Quintard Taylor and his associates, Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins. They interviewed African American pioneers and their descendents.
Northwest History Documents
The Faith Beamer Cooke Collection (Added 7/1/2009)
Faith Beamer Cooke (1910-2001) was a Washington poet. This collection consists of selections from her papers, including poems, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and research materials she gathered for her creative work. This collection is intended to illuminate a little known aspect of women's history and identity in Cold War America.
The Frank A. Banks Collection
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.
Catherine May Bedell Congressional Papers
The papers of Catherine May Bedell, United States Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Washington, 1959-1970.
Washington State Women's History Selections
A collection of documents from Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections with special relevance to the history of women in Washington State.
The L. V. McWhorter Native American Artifact Collection
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.
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Project
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.
Western Waters Digital Library
The Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington State, the largest concrete structure in the United States, was a result of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project which aimed to bring into use half a million acres of arid, unproductive land of mid-Washington. The huge potential of the dam on a major Northwest river, the Columbia , was also realized in its capacity for hydroelectric power and flood control.
WSU History
Women at Washington State University (Added 7/1/2009)
Over 600 images selected from Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections. Includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbook items, and printed ephemera. Women from Washington State University and the surrounding community are the primary focus, including women students in the military, theater and dance, home economics, sororities, clubs, and other organizations.
City of Pullman and the Palouse Image Collection
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.
Hutchison Studio Photographs
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.
William Delbert Barkhuff Image Collection
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.
George Ritchey Image Collection
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.
WSU Buildings Image Collection
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.
Women's Athletics at Washington State University
The collection contains over 350 digitized photographs, postcards, book illustrations, and certificates documenting women's athletics at WSU from 1899-2000.
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 at WSU
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).
This is WSC [Video]
A twenty-two minute promotional movie for Washington State College narrated by Edward R. Murrow in 1952.
WSU Football Films
Approximately twenty football films featuring Washington State, dating from the 1916 Rose Bowl through the 1979 Apple Cup.
Individual Documents
US Constitution
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.
To the Republicans of Washington Territory
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.
Coeur D'Alene: Towns, Mines, Mountains and Lakes
12 p. of photographs printed on a sheet folded in accordion format
Pullman Washington, Center of the Famous Palouse Country, 1890
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.
Pullman Primer, 1911
"Issued under the co-operative community plan of Oregon- Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. ... Planned and executed by Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau. Portland, Oregon"
Pullman Washington in the heart of the worlds richest wheat belt: home of the State College of Washington, 1925
1 sheet : ill. ; 16 X 48 unfolded. Contains panoramic views of "Residential District of Pullman, Washington" and "Business section of Pullman, Washington"
Campus Courtesy
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.
Graduate School Announcement 1922-1923
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.
Commencement Day Exercises
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.
The Daily Evergreen Commencement number 1902
In 1902, William H. Lawrence earned the first Master's degree at WAC.--Cf. p. 8 Published every Wednesday during the College year by the students of the State Agricultural College and School of Science.