Selected Manuscript Resources in the Washington State University Library (Pullman, 1974). Microfilm material is listed in R. W. Hale, Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada (Ithaca, 1961).
Resources (12)
Alfons Horten (fl. early 20th c)
Papers, 1905–26, ca. 2,500 items. Mining assessor for the German firm of August Thyssen. Business correspondence, including letter press file copies, typescript transcriptions, and originals. In letters between Horten and various members of the Thyssen family (August, Fritz, and Joseph), and others, there is discussion of technical aspects of mining and mining concessions in Russia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Also, information on the relationship between international politics and the Thyssen firm's mining activities. Unpublished container list (NUCMC 71–1983).
Anna Biedel Weitz (b. 1907)
Papers, 1917–71, ca. 150 items. Local historian. Collection of materials about the settlement of Russian-Germans in the Pacific Northwest. Her hometown of Endicott, Washington, was a center of such emigrant settlements. Includes letters and miscellaneous historical documents.
Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson (1873-1947)
Collection, 1860–1939, 8 ft. Historian. She collected notes, clippings, manuscript material, and printed matter pertaining to Russian history (ca. 550 items). One subject covered is the Revolution of 1917. Unpublished container list.
Carl Parcher Russell (1894-1967)
Papers, 1920–67, 45 ft., 24,916 items. Historian, ecologist, and National Park Service administrator. Expert on the American fur trade, frontier, and mountain men. Includes works on Russians in North America (folder 56) and notebooks with data on the Russian American Fur Company (folder 282), Russian fur trade (folder 281), and on Russian guns in Alaska (folder 249). Reference to Gregory Shelekof, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, and Russian axes and cannon (several for the last 2). Published register, 1970 (NUCMC 69–569).
Catherine May Bedell (b. 1914)
Congressional papers, 1959–70, ca. 280 ft. U.S. congresswoman. Contains several folders on wheat sales to Russia. Published register, 1972. (NUCMC 71–1976)
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
Papers, 1917–67, ca. 2 ft., 335 items. English poet and literary critic. Includes correspondence of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew. Unpublished finding aid (NUCMC 76–840).
Edward Carl Johnson (1880-1962)
Papers, 1896–1959, 4 ft. Dean of the College of Agriculture at Washington State University. During several months in 1937 he traveled in Western Europe and the Soviet Union. His diary for the year contains observations on agriculture as well as travel notes. Unpublished finding aid.
Germans from Russia Conference
Recordings and Papers, 1984-1998. 1.75 linear feet of shelf space (3 boxes). The Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections department (MASC) of WSU Libraries hosted a conference called "Beginning the Second Century in America: Germans from Russia in the Pacific Northwest" in October 1984. Two prior conference had been held, in 1980 and 1982. The 1984 conference preceded the July 1985 national convention of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia held in Yakima. MASC offered recordings from the WSU conference for borrowing "as you prepare for the national AHSGR meeting in Yakima this summer" (MASC brochure). Collection is arranged in three short series, video followed by audio followed by print materials. Arrangement was primarily determined for ease of storage. . The audio cassettes preserved separate talks by Thomas Edwards, Richard Scheuerman, Eva Lindemann, and Joseph Voyles. The first video cassette compiled highlights from the three days of the conference. The second documented a panel discussion among Lindemann, Scheuerman, and Voyles and moderated by John Guido, head of MASC. Catalogue record: https://searchit.libraries.wsu.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=CP71249789550001451&context=L&vid=WSU&search_scope=WSU_everything&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US
Napoleon I (1769-1821)
French emperor. Signed letter, 18 July 1812, Ghloubokoe [Glubokoe], Russia to Eugene de Beauharnais concerning troop movements.
Paul P. Kies (1891-1971)
Collection of autographs, 1621–1970, 1,500 items. Includes signed letter, 11 November 1850, of Nicholas I.
Spanish, English and Russian discoveries on the Pacific Northwest Coast
Microfilmed pages from the Survey of De Fuca Straits, 1790, 1 reel, negative. Original in the British Museum (Add. Mss. 13,974).
Walter Franklin Horan (1898-1967)
Papers, 1943–65, 253 ft. U.S. representative. Includes materials on wheat sold to the USSR in 1962–64 (container 497), and on un-American activities in 1947–64 (containers 479–81). Published register, 1964 (NUCMC 66–1507).
