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Warren Wood Glass Negatives, Photographs and Appointment Notebooks, 1870-1932

Title: Warren Wood Glass Negatives, Photographs and Appointment Notebooks 1870-1932

Wood was a pioneer surveyor of the Pacific Northwest from 1883 to 1932 who worked at or visited sites including the Puyallup Valley, Auburn, Fort Nisqually, St. Joseph’s Mission near Yakima, Fort Simcoe, the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, Steilacoom, and other sites in Washington and Oregon. The collection consists of diaries and a photo album.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet; 15 boxes

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Bonney, W. P. (William Pierce), b. 1856. Early history of Fort Nisqually : typescript, n.d. / by William P. Bonney.

Title: Early history of Fort Nisqually : typescript, n.d. / by William P. Bonney.

ArchivalResource: 13 p.

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Wood, Warren. Warren Wood Diaries and Photo Album, 1870-1932.

Title: Warren Wood Diaries and Photo Album, 1870-1932.

The photo album contains photographs (taken 1915-1930?) of Wood's activities with Ezra Meeker, G.N. Talcott of Olympia, W.P. Bonney of the Washington State Historical Society, and others in locating various famous historical sites in Washington and Oregon. It contains photographs of Seattle (including Alki Point, Totem Pole Place, downtown, Volunteer Park, Woodland Park, and a convicts ship exhibition); Tacoma (including the first cabin on the town site, Point Defiance Park, Tacoma Hotel, Wright Park, and the Ferry Museum); Olympia (including the end of the Oregon Trail marker and Priest Point Park); Fort Nisqually (including original buildings, Ezra Meeker, C.B. Bagley and other pioneers); various Indian missions in the state; and more. The diaries are one to each year (1870-1932) and of a 3 x 5" size. The entries are short and succinct with no elaborate narrative descriptions or commentary of those times and places. Wood was a pioneer surveyor of the Northwest from 1883 to 1932 who worked at or visited sites including the Puyallup Valley, Auburn, Fort Nisqually, St. Joseph's Mission near Yakima, Fort Simcoe, the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, Steilacoom, and other sites in Washington and Oregon. The collection consists of diaries and a photo album.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear feet (4 boxes)

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McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944. Papers, 1848-1945.

Title: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Papers, 1848-1945

Correspondence, primarily with: W.P. Bonney, Red Fox Skiuhushu, Louis Mann, Mourning Dove [Catherine Galler, Christine Quintasket ], Buffalo Ben Olney, Chief Um-tee-bee; journals, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, manuscripts and printed material containing historical and anthropological information on the Pacific Northwest, mostly regarding the Nez Percés and Yakimas, Indian agents, government officials, anthropologists and historians relative to the Nez Percé Indian War of 1877 and the Indian war of the 1850s. Series 6 includes draft versions of Mourning Dove's legends and tales. Series 7 included Mourning Dove Correspondence, 1914-1935, undated, chiefly consists of correspondence, printed items, and fragments relating to Cogewea, publishing issues, and her association with McWhorter.

ArchivalResource: 26 Linear feet of shelf space (51 Boxes)

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Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Papers, 1848-1945

Title: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Papers 1848-1945

Correspondence, primarily with: W.P. Bonney, Red Fox Skiuhushu, Louis Mann, Mourning Dove [Catherine Galler], Buffalo Ben Olney, Chief Um-tee-bee; journals, clippings, memorabilia, manuscripts and printed material containing historical and anthropological information on the Pacific Northwest, mostly regarding the Nez Percés and Yakimas, Indian agents, government officials, anthropologists and historians relative to the Nez Percé Indian War of 1877 and the Indian war of the 1850s.

ArchivalResource: 51 containers.; 26 linear feet of shelf space.

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Bonney, W. P. (William Pierce), b. 1856. Letter from W.P. Bonney to Mr. Saloman regarding Edward S. Saloman, Washington Territorial Governor, 1930 February 23.

Title: Letter from W.P. Bonney to Mr. Saloman regarding Edward S. Saloman, Washington Territorial Governor, 1930 February 23.

This is a letter from W. P. Bonney, Washington State Historical Society Secretary, to a Mr. Salomon answering his request about information about Edward S. Salomon's term of office as Washington Territorial Governor. Mr. Bonney personally remembered the Governor and he sent a copy of the Governor's message. It is unclear if Mr. Salomon is a descendant of Edward S. Salomon.

ArchivalResource: 1 binder (1 letter)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213396847 View