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Guide to Pacific Northwest Native American materials in the Melville Jacobs collection and in other archival collections in the University of Washington Libraries
(Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington, 1982) Seaburg, William R.
This Guide is divided into three parts. Part I describes the Native American-related sound recordings and manuscript papers in the Melville Jacobs Collection. Part II provides summary descriptions of the papers of four additional anthropologists and one student of anthropology whose research interest in Pacific Northwest Indians is reflected in their collections. Part III provides synopses of twenty-eight historical collections in the University Archives and Manuscripts Division whose contents document early views of Native culture and especially Indian-EuroAmerican relations in the pre-1900 Pacific Northwest.
Interviews of Senator Warren Magnuson’s Commerce Committee Staff for When the Senate Worked for Us
(2019-10) Pertschuk, Michael
Between the early 1960s and the late 1970s an impressive number of consumer and environmental protection laws come out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Michael (Mike) Pertschuk worked for the Committee for thirteen years. The Committee was chaired by Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington. Pertschuk interviewed a representative sampling of the most entrepreneurial of the Magnuson Commerce Committee staffers for his 2017 book When the Senate Worked for Us. Pertschuk donated transcripts of those interviews to the Senator Warren G. Magnuson Archives at the University of Washington Library in Seattle, Washington. These interviews join other materials from Magnuson staffers. The Magnuson Archives offer a rich history of Washington. Magnuson was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 and to the Senate in 1944. He served as chairman of the Commerce Committee between 1955 and 1977. Much of the consumer protection and automobile safety legislation was enacted by the Committee during Magnuson’s chairmanship. He was also responsible for significant health care legislation and funding. Magnuson was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1977 to 1981. He was President pro tempore of the Senate from 1978 to 1981.
The Whacking of Ship Scalers Local 541
(2018) Costantini, Peter
"The Whacking of Ship Scalers Local 541" attempts to capture the context and trajectory of the reform movement of the late 70s and early 80s, and digs into the history of the Laborers International Union of North America as well - trying to understand why and how the mobbed-up International destroyed the reform movement.
Leroy Soper Oral History Interview
(2009-03) Soper, Leroy; Orton, Tom
Three sound cassettesfor an oral history interview with Leroy "Lee" Soper, conducted by Tom Orton between March 6 and March 18, 2009. Interview topics include Soper's early life in school and during World War II, the beginning of his career at the Walla Walla Book Store, his work at the University Bookstore and Raymar Northwest Book Company, his involvement and board work with the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers Association, authors and bookstore employees with whom Soper worked, and the overall state of bookselling and publishing (particularly for independent bookstores in the age of large chain and online stores).
Washington State Labor From the Great Depression to the Cold War: A Bibliography of Published and Unpublished Sources, 1935-1948
(2015) Dembo, Jonathan, 1948-
I intend this bibliography as a guide to historical research in the Washington State labor history from the Great Depression to the Cold War. I have taken the passage of the Wagner Labor Relations Act in 1935 as my beginning point; I end with the beginning of the Cold War in 1948. This bibliography directs researchers toward historical resources, both published and unpublished, including manuscripts, theses and dissertations, articles, books, newspapers and periodicals, and websites, relating to the workers, labor organizations, and issues, activities, and events that relate to workers in Washington State during this period.
Maritime Labor in the Pacific Northwest: A Bibliography of Published and Unpublished Sources, 1850 – 2012
(2015) Dembo, Jonathan, 1948-
I intend this bibliography as a guide to historical research in the maritime labor history of the Pacific Northwest from 1850 to 2012. It directs researchers toward historical resources, including manuscripts, theses and dissertation, articles, books, clippings, and other published works, relating to the workers, organizations, issues, activities, and events that are involved in the maritime industries of the Pacific Northwest. It includes materials relating to the sea, sounds, rivers, and lakes of the Pacific Northwest from San Francisco north to the Bering Sea. It includes materials relating to seamen, sailors, fishermen, longshoremen, warehousemen, ferrymen, shipbuilders, shipyards, cannery workers, the organizations that represented them and the individuals and organizations that employed them.
UniverCity : the city within city, the story of the University District
(University Lions Foundation, 1986) Nielsen, Roy G.
History of the University District in Seattle, WA from it's beginnings through approximately 1973.
Stevens trial, May 12 - July 10, 1856, from Official Court records, 2nd District Court, Wash. Terr.
(1856)
In late March, 1856, Charles WREN, John M'LEOD, L.A. SMITH, Henry SMITH and John M'FIELD, Pierce County residents, were arrested by order of Gov. Isaac STEVENS for alleged ''giving aid and comfort to the enemy" (Indians). Within two days of their arrest, Lawyers Frank CLARK and W.H. WALLACE on behalf of the defendants prepared a Petition for a Writ of Habeus Corpus for their release. Learning that the application was to be made, Gov. STEVENS proclaimed Marshal Law on April 3, 1856, partially in an attempt to circumvent the legal process.
The LESCHI Murder Trial as Transcribed from the Official Court Ledger, 2nd Judicial District, Wash. Terr., 1856 - 1858
(1857)
On November 13, 1856, Leschi, a Puget Sound Indian, surrendered himself to W.T. authorities for the alleged murder of A. Benton Moses, a white settler whom Leschi and others considered a casualty of the on-going Indian wars of the time. The authorities thought differently, however, and indicted and tried Leschi for murder shortly after his surrender. The Jury that was convened in the Pierce County Judicial District at that time was unable to agree on a verdict and was discharged.
Leroy Soper Audio Interview
(2009) Soper, Leroy; Orton, Tom
Oral Interviews with Leroy W. Soper conducted by Tom Orton in 2009. Soper (1924-2016), born in Pomeroy, Washington, was fondly known as Seattle's "Mr. Books". He worked at the Walla Walla Bookshop (1952-1958), the University Bookstore (1959-1969, 1977-1993), and Raymar Northwest Book Company (1970-1976). Soper was one of 5 people who founded the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association in 1960.
Historical Records of Washington State: Records and Papers held at Repositories
(Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1981) Burns, John F.; Eckert, Timothy E.; Stark, Lawrence R.
In 1976 the first Washington State Historical Records Advisory Board was appointed by the governor at the request of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, known in archival circles as the NHPRC. The Board's charge was to begin a program statewide that would improve access to archives and manuscripts material for researchers, and to generally suggest remedies to improve the condition of historical records-keeping in Washington State.
Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscripts Collection and to the Personal Papers in the University Archives
(University of Washington Libraries, 1980) Priestly, Marilyn
The history of the Manuscripts Collection and University Archives at the University of Washington mirrors that of similar collections nationwide. Growing awareness of the importance of such collections and their authoritativeness as documentation has been generated, it is exuberant compared with the era before 1959.
An Historical bibliography of Washington state labor and laboring classes.
(1978) Dembo, Jonathan, 1948-

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