University Archives
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Description
The Archives of Washington State University contain materials of permanent administrative or historical value that originates with Washington State University, including its administration, faculty, staff, and students. The University Archives document the activities and history of Washington State University and the people associated with it. These archives include official documents and papers, published and unpublished records, printed resources, ephemera, theses and dissertations, and audio and visual materials. These Archives exist for both historical and administrative purposes. Common uses involve university public relations, architectural research, departmental histories, past athletic events, older university publications, theses and dissertations, biography, and technical questions.
Some of these records are maintained by law, and access to portions of the University Archives is restricted. Though most records are readily available; certain situations may require filing a public disclosure request with the department which originated the records. A small portion of the records are covered by privacy laws and may be unavailable. The University Archives does not maintain student records/transcripts; please contact the Registrar regarding these.
Collection Guides
Collection Guides, or Finding Aids, are guides, inventories, registers, lists, or indexes that describe the contents of a collection. These Collection Guides provide an overview of specific collections in varying degrees of detail. Please note that more resources are available in MASC than indicated by this list of guides.
A
- Ad Hoc Accreditation Committee: Records, 1957-1972
- Admissions Office: Records, 1940-1980; Records, 1948-1976
- Agricultural Economic Survey and Studies, 1912-1965
- Agricultural Engineering Department: Records, 1932-1974
- Agricultural Experiment Station Irrigation Branch, Prosser: Reports, 1919-1960
- Agricultural Extension Service: Reports, 1908-1960; Reports, 1917-1942; Reports, 1963-1977
- Agricultural Extension Service: County Agents Reports, 1913-1976
- Agricultural Extension Service: County Leaders Reports, 1916-1922
- Agricultural Extension Service: Project Summaries, 1927-1942
- Agricultural Extension Service: Pullman Weather Data, 1893-1961
- Agricultural Extension Service: Specialists Reports, 1915-1960
- Agricultural Extension Service Director of Extension: Reports, 1913-1961
- Agricultural Research Center: Mt. St. Helens Ash Research Records, 1980-1981
- Agricultural Research Center: Office Files, 1901-1948
- Agricultural Research Center: Reports, 1891-1971
- Agricultural Research Center, State Chemist: Records, 1906-1907
- Agriculture College: Columbia Basin Project Records, 1941-1968
- Agriculture College: Land and Space Files, 1966-1981
- Agriculture College: Records, 1932-1936
- Agriculture College Assistant Dean: Records, 1947-1950
- Agriculture College Dean: Records, 1893-1948; Records, 1944-1980; Records, 1945-1979
- Agriculture College Director of Resident Instruction: Records, 1964-1985
- Agronomy and Soils Department: Records, 1940-1973
- Alternatives for Washington Project: Films, 1974-1975
- Alumni Association: Records, 1951-1975
- Animal Sciences Department: Records, 1944-1977
- Anthropology Department: Records, 1964-1976; Records, 1949-1989
- Architectural Drawings of Campus Buildings, 1899-1975
- Architecture Department: Records, 1957-1975
- Architecture Department: Carpenter Hall Rededication Records, 1991-1992
- A.S.W.S.U.: Annual Budget Reports, 1912-1942
- A.S.W.S.U. Activities Board: Records, 1966-1967
- A.S.W.S.U. Activities Center: Records, 1935-1974; Records, 1947-1981; Records, 1948-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. Board of Control: Records, 1922-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. President: Records, 1953-1975
- A.S.W.S.U. Radio Broadcast Committee: Records, 1977-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. Vice President: Records, 1962-1967
- Associated Women Students: Records, 1910-1974, Records, 1954-1986
- Athletic Department: Records, 1894-1976, Records, 1975-1992
B
- Beasley Coliseum: Event Recordings, 1980-1993
- Biological Science Division: Records, 1945-1955
- Black Studies Department: Records, 1970–1981
- Board of Regents: Minutes 1891-1998
- Board of Regents President's (Harold Romberg): Protest Papers, 1970
- Botany Department: Records, 1938-1957
- Budget Office: Records, 1967-1978
- Business Administration College: MBA Special Projects Papers, 1958-1979; MBA Special Projects Papers, 1961-1983; MBA Special Projects Papers, 1965-1981
- Business Administration Department Teaching Evaluation Committee: Records, 1969-1974
- Business and Economics College: Records, 1951-1976
C
- CAHNRS and Extension Marketing and News Services: Biographical Files and Slides, 1969-2009
- Campus Building Survey Records, 1902-1983
- Capital Planning: ADBF Building Files 1990-2001 & Architect/Consultant Selection Files 1975-1996
- Capital Planning: Building Files, 1957-2007 (bulk 1985-2002)
- Capital Planning & Facilities Development: Building Files, 1963-1999
- Centennial Oral History Project: Oral Histories, 1982-1988
- Chemistry Department Chairman: Records, 1895-1939
- Class Government Records, 1900-1966
- Class of '54 Washington State University Oral Histories, 2005-2008
- College Farm: Records, 1914-1928
- Coman Hall: Records, 1964-1975
- Commencement Audio-Video, 1977-2006
- Commission on General Education: Records, 1986-90
- Commission on the Status of Women: Records, 1973-1991
- Communication College: Murrow Event Recordings, 1973-2002
- Communications Department: Masters Projects, 1969-2002
- Communications Department (History of Communications): Class Papers, 1956-1978; Class Papers, 1971-1979; Class Papers, 1988
- Community Hall: Records, 1938-1968
- Computer Science: Records, 1962-1979
- Computing Service Center: Records, 1960-1974
- Continuing Education: Records, 1947-1980
- Continuing Education Task Force: Records, 1980
- Controller's Office: Contract Files, 1893-1973; Contract Files, 1948-1957
- Controller's Office: Records, 1918-1979
- Cooperative Extension Service: Annual Reports, 1957-1969
- Cooperative Extension Service: Policy Records, 1961-1991
- Cooperative Extension Service: Publications, 1967-1986
- Cooperative Extension Service: Records, 1914-1938; Records, 1960-1984
- Cooperative Extension Service Agronomy Specialist (Morrison): Records, 1955-1969
- Cooperative Extension Service Alternatives for Washington Project: Records, 1974-1975
- Cooperative Extension Service Cow Testing Association: Reports, 1916-1928
- Criminal Justice Department (Police Science): Office Files, 1941-74
D
- Dairy Herd Improvement Associations: Annual Reports, 1932-1996
- Davis Hall: Records, 1955-1968
- Dean of Men: Records, 1933-1935
- Dry Land Research Unit (Lind): Records, 1918-1946
- Duncan Dunn Hall: Records, 1956-1968
E
- Earth & Environmental Sciences: Aerial Photos and Soil Surveys of WSU Agricultural Facilities, 1934-1978
- ECA Film Project: Records, 1951-1953
- Education College: Records, 1911-1958; Records, 1958-1975
- Education College Dean: Records, 1965-1975
- Electrical Engineering Department: Records, 1945-1974
- Emeritus Society: Oral Histories, 2010-2011
- Engineering and Architecture College: Records, 1961-1997
- Engineering College Advisory Board: Minutes, 1956-1981
- Engineering College Dean: Records, 1945-1982
- Engineering College Highway Research Section: Papers, 1947-1967
- Engineering College Research Division: Reports, 1936-1987
- Engineering College Research Division Assistant Dean: Records, 1939-1978
- Ephemera, 1905-
- Evergreen & College Record: 1892-1904 Index, ca. 1930s
F
- Facilities Planning Department: Building Files, 1940-1973; Building Files, 1946-1972; Building Files, 1960-1984; Building Files, 1963-1983
- Facilities Planning Department: Building Specifications, 1925-1964
- Facilities Planning Department: Office Files, 1946-1976; Office Files, 1947-1981
- Faculty Council: Records, 1972-1985
- Faculty Executive Committee: Records, 1934-1971
- Faculty Senate: Minutes, 1971-2011
- Fire Department: Records, 1922-2005
- Football Program: Bob Burks' Scrapbooks, 1912-2000
- Forestry and Range Management Department: Records, 1912-1973; Records, 1961-1982
- Friends of the Library: Records, 1938-1979
G
- Genetics Program: Records, 1946-1972
- Germans from Russia Conference: Recordings 1984, 1998
- Geology Department: Office Files, 1896-1975
- The Great Russian: Production Films, 1960
H
- History Department Faculty (Susanne P. Lloyd): Records, 1950-76
- History 398 (Women in the West): Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1979-1986; Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1979-1994; Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1996-2005
- History 469 (Thompson Hall & College of Liberal Arts Histories): Papers, 1999-2001
- Home Economics College: Records, 1907-1998
- Home Economics College Dean: Records, 1938-1952
- Home Economics Research Center: Records, 1942-1979
- Horse Heaven Hills Study Group: Records, 1930-1972
I
- Indonesia Project: Recordings, ca. 1979-1984
- Intercollegiate Athletics - Basketball: Films, 1941-1986
- Intercollegiate Athletics - Basketball: Films & Records, 1958-1977
- Intercollegiate Athletics - Football: Films, 1929-1976; Films, 1950-1979; Films, 1971-1983; Films, 1983-1986; Films, 1986-1988; Films, 1940-1989
- Intercollegiate Athletics: Pac-10 and NCAA Records, 1954-1983
- Intercollegiate Athletics - Track: Films, 1929-1977
- Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education: Records, 1947-1993; Records, 1958-1975
- Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education Director: Papers, 1924-2001
- Intercollegiate Knights: Papers, 1941-1985
- International Programs, Campus Coordinator: Records, 1971-1984
- International Programs, Office of: Records, 1948-1983; Records, 1959-1975
- International Programs Support Office, Western Sudan Agricultural Research Project: Records, 1976-1986
- Irrigated Agriculture Research and Experiment Center (Prosser): Grapes/Wine Research Records, 1940-1984
- Irrigation Experiment Station (Prosser): Records, 1910-1979
J
- Jordan Valley Agricultural Service Project: Recordings, ca. 1982-1988
K
- Kabul University Masters in Public Policy and Administration Theses, 2010
- Kennewick Man on Trial: Recordings & Records, 1996-2004
- Kruegel-McAllister Hall: Records, 1964-1974
- KUGR Radio Station: Program Logs, 1968
- KUGR Radio Station: Records, 1962-1984
- KWSU Radio Station: Records, 1916-1977
L
- Library: Accession Record Books, 1892-1982; Moldenhauer Transaction Records, 1973-1982
- Library Administration: Office Files, 1971-76
- Library Faculty and Library Faculty Affairs Committee: Minutes, 1970-2012
- Library Faculty Affairs Committee: Records, 1974-1978
- Library Faculty (Humanities / Social Sciences): Minutes, 1984-2010
- Library Micrographics: Records, 1940-1965
- Library Roundtable: Records, 1968-1976
- Library Serial Record: Records, 1952-1978
- Library, Social Science Library: Records, 1942-1978
- Library Staff Association: Records, 1946-1979; Records, 1951-1993
- Library Staff Association Committee on Higher Education Personnel Board: Records, 1966-1977
- Library Systems: Records, 1965-74
- Library Task Force on Library Administrative Organization: Records, 1977
- Library University Senate Delegation: Records, 1969-1975; Records, 1975-1977
M
- McCroskey Hall: Records, 1920-1968
- Mechanical Arts & Engineering College: Records, 1892-1943
- Mechanical Engineering Department: Records, 1910-1976
- Mechanical Engineering Department, Student Competition on Relevant Engineering: Records, 1973-1977
- Military Education Committee: Records, 1969-1972
- Military Science Department: Records, 1967-1975
- Mines and Geology School Dean: Records, 1929-1933
- Museum of Anthropology: Lucullus McWhorter Collection Administrative Records, circa 1959-1999
- Music School: Records and Photographs, 1922-1977
N
- National Gray "W": Records, 1980-1986
- National Youth Administration: Records, 1935-1944
- Native American Studies Program: Papers, 1969-1980, bulk 1974-1976
- Native American Studies Program: Records, 1965-1977
- Neill Hall: Records, 1963-1966
- News and Information Service: Records ca. 1945- ca. 1990
- News Bureau: Releases, 1918-1977
- Northwest Public Radio (NWPR): Audio Recordings, 1973-1999
- Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Unit (Mount Vernon): Records, 1948-1973
O
- Office of the President: Enoch A. Bryan: Records, 1888-1952
- Office of the President: Ernest O. Holland: Records, 1890-1950
- Office of the President: Wilson Compton: Records, 1944-1952
- Office of the President: Wilson Compton & C. Clement French: Records, 1948-1956
- Office of the President: C. Clement French: Records, 1957-1966
- Office of the President: Glenn Terrell: Records, 1953-1985; Records, 1967-1976
- Office of the President: Glenn Terrell Inauguration Documents and Photographs, 1967-1968
- Office of the President: Samuel Smith: Records, 1960-1991
- Office of the President: Audio and Video Recordings, 1937-2006
P
- Pakistan Project (WSU-AID Contract): Records, 1952-1972
- Partnership for Rural Improvement: Records, 1968-1985; Records, 1971-1987
- Pharmacy College: Grade Books, Fall 1968-Spring 1978
- Physical Education and Athletics, Director: Records, 1908-1967
- Physical Plant: Contracts, 1950-1966; Contracts, 1954-1981
- Plant Pathology Department: Records, 1941-1944
- President, Assistant to the: Records, 1954-1985
- Program for Local Government Education: Records, 1988-1994
- Puget Sound Marine Station: Records, 1908-1910
R
- Racism Workshop: Papers, 1970-1971
- Radio and Television Services: Records, 1922-1984; Records, 1946-1994; "WSU Presents" Recordings, 1992-2004
- Research Committee: Records, 1950-1967
- Regents Hill: Records, 1952-1968
- Research Council : Records, 1932-1955
- Residence Hall Association: Records, 1948-1979
- Residence Living Department: Records, 1966-1978; Records, 1968-1986
S
- Safety Division: Records, 1950-1980
- Safety Division Director: Records, 1968-1978
- Science and Arts College Associate Dean: Records, 1951-1957
- Science and Arts College Dean: Records, 1926-1939
- Scott Hall: Records, 1958-1968
- Senior Hall: Records, 1927-1934
- Snohomish County Extension Service: Records, 1916-2007
- Southwestern Washington Research Unit: Records, 1943-1975
- Space Priorites Committee: Records, 1956-1966
- Speech Department: Office Files, 1948-1974; Office Files, 1966-75
- Speech Department Chair: Records, 1923-1946
- Spokane Chancellor: Papers, 1979-2003
- STEEP (Solutions To Environmental and Economic Problems): Reports, 1974-2001
- Stevens Hall: Records, 1894-1966, 1998-2002
- Stimson Hall: Records, 1923-1976
- Streit-Perham Hall: Records, 1962-1974
- Student Affairs, Office of: Records, 1939-1974
- Systems and Computing, Office of: Records, 1967-1977
T
- "Tall Indians" Club: Records and Correspondence, 1958-1981
- Theatre: Records, 1925-1965; Records, 1965-1978; Records, 1966-1981; Records, 1979-1986, Records, 1980-2011
- Theatre: Media, 1983-2001
- Tree Fruit Research Center, Wenatchee: Records, 1924-1973; Records, 1929-1967
U
- United States Department of Agriculture / WSU Cooperative Projects: Reports, 1931-1971
- United States Department of Agriculture / WSU Palouse Conservation Field Station and Agricultural Research Service: Records, 1931-1977
- University Accountant: Records, 1900-1905
- University Architect: Records, 1923-1956
- University Publications, 1891- forward
- University Relations: Centennial Files, 1979-1990
- University Senate Library Committee: Records, 1945-1979
V
- Veterans Oral History Interviews, 1996-2001
- Veterinary Medicine College: Records, 1932-1975; Records, 1957-1973; Records, 1976-1978
- Veterinary Medicine College Associate Dean: Records, 1976-1978
- Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology Department: Records, 1954-1975
- Vice President for Business, Property Management: Records, 1967-1990; Records, inc. Branch Campus Site Studies, 1968-1991
- Vice Provost for Extended University Services: Branch Campus Site Studies, 1987-1991
W
- WAMI (Washington-Alaska-Montana-Idaho) Medical School Progress: Records, 1971-1988
- War Records, 1918-1950
- Western Veterinarian: Records, 1975-1980
- Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records, 1943-1959
- Western Washington Research and Extension Center: Records, 1895-1976
- Western Wheat Quality Laboratory: 1947-1995
- WHETS (Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System ): Records, 1973-1995
- Wilmer Hall: Records, 1952-1966
- Women Studies Program: Records, 1980-1983
- Womens Physical Education Department: Records, 1923-1976, Records, 1973-1981
- Womens Recreation Association: Papers, 1938-1968
- Womens Resource & Research Center: Survey, 1987
Y
- Young Mens Christian Association: Records, 1906-1971, Records, 1894-1995
Z
- Zoology Department: Records, 1944-1975



