Waterfront Oral History Project records 1926-2006 2006

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Waterfront Oral History Project records 1926-2006 2006

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This collection comprises oral history interviews, transcripts and related materials generated through the 2006 Waterfront Oral History Project in Bellingham, Washington. Students at Western Washington University interviewed eighteen current and former employees of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation's pulp mill on Bellingham's industrial waterfront. Interviewees discuss plant operations and topics including research into chemical byproducts and their uses in other industries, relations between the GP corporation, mill employees, and the community (including Western Washington University), as well as labor and union activity. The collection includes audio-visual footage recorded by David Albright, portions of which were incorporated into his 2006 documentary "Smells Like Money: The Story of Bellingham's Georgia-Pacific Plant".

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Georgia-Pacific Corporation

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Waterfront Oral History Project

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The Waterfront Oral History Project was a collaborative effort between Western Washington University's Department of History and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. In 2006, students in Professor Chris Friday's History 400 class generated oral histories from interviews with eighteen current and former employees of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation's (GP) pulp mill in Bellingham, Washington. In 1925, Washington state businessman and mill owner, Ossian Anderson, acquir...

Western Washington university

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The WWU Centennial Oral History Project was initiated in 1993 by a dedicated group of staff and faculty. The stated goal of the project was the development of oral history interviews for use in the planned centennial celebration at Western Washington University, commemorating 100 years of scholarly achievement. The result was an invaluable set of interviews which document the history of the University and supplements the archival record. The history of WWU actually dates...