Revealing Hidden Collections in the Northwest
Item
Title
Revealing Hidden Collections in the Northwest
Description
Representing a broad range of institutions in the Northwest, records in this proposal range widely. Materials include government, religious, personal, and corporate records, and date from the mid-19th century to 2006. The primary geographic scope of the records is Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, although selected collections touch on Mexico, Virginia, California, and Nevada. Highlights include the records of recent Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, who served from 1998 until 2006, when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior. Natural resources in Oregon are documented through films, photographs, maps and textual records relating to forestry, irrigation, the wood preservation industry and agricultural methods and products. Oregon's women's history is highlighted through the records of women in both the political and the academic arenas. A broad range of topics on Alaskan history is represented, including Alaska Natives, World War II in Alaska, African American soldiers, reindeer herding, mining, and the gold rush. Montana and the larger creative community of writers are documented through correspondence in the Goedicke-Robinson Papers. Correspondents in this collection include two Nobel Prize winners and a number of luminaries of the writing/poetry world. Washington's history is explored through individuals key to the development of the Pacific Northwest as a frontier territory and as a state. Religious heritage is also a strong theme.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1848 - 2006
Spatial Coverage
Includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Mexico, and to a lesser extent California, Nevada, and Virginia.
Extent
1919 cubic feet
906 linear feet
30 objects
Identifier
Primary Contact
Jodi Allison-Bunnell