I~ THE RECORD 1959
Friends of the Library tate College of Washington THE RECORD Last year's campaign to attract manuscript materials re sulted in collections coming to the State College Library at jln accel rated rate during 1958. The most extensive acqui sitions have been the Kuykendall, McGregor, and Howard collections. The Banks papers were received just as last year's Record was issued.
Collections Received Banks Collection The Banks collection consists of the unpublished materials prepared and gath red by the late Frank A. Banks, called the "Builder" of Grand Coulee Dam. During the forty-four years that he was an engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, he participated in the building of six major dams and was the Chief Engineer for Grand Coulee. Donors of the collec tion were the widow and son of the engineer, Mrs. Frank A. Banks and Mr. John Banks. The following ev 1 arion of the call ction appeared in eU's Items., published by the Washington State Institute of Technology, Vol. II, No.4, June, 1958, p. 6: "The material donated to Holland Library comprises fifty volumes of project histOry in addition to approximately twO hundred miscellane ous papers. According to WSC Profes or Charles 1. Barker, who has speciaLzed in hydraulic engineering, the proj a his tories are especially valuable. Previously unpublished, the manuscripts tell the story of the various projects that Banks worked on during his car r. .. or example the step-by- t p building of the tr mendous Grand Coulee Project is spread out through 18 volumes some over 300 pages long. Map, charts and photograph cover all the stages of construction. Also included are historical
1 r ferenc s nd acc unes of one mporary leO'islarion deaIin K rk n all w inrerested in all phas s of the d elopm or wirh Grand Coule . f rh pioneer r gions in hich he worked and wrot pro . ."In ddition to Gran Coulee, me Banks papers include: lifically and with insight abom rhem, his files comprise a slmdar hiscories f rhe Jackson Lake project in yo' "ealth of significant d rails about the history of central and o h d . nung. wy c m. tn Or gon-Idaho and the Boise projea in Idaho. southeasrern WIashingtOn. P~pers covenng Banks' work as a COn ulting engineer on the Tn 1958 after ili death of Judge Kuykendall, Mrs. Kuy glane Bhakra dam in India are also a parr of th donated col. kendall pre ented ro th SC Library me r maining man 1 Ie rion." scripts which Judge Kuykendall had colI eted. Hi interests, The papers have already pro ed their research value not outside his profession, had been largely historical. In face, only to the physic I scientisrs bur [0 the acial sci ntiSts who he 'as con id ted an auiliority on the history of southeasrern h ve used rh m as primary source material for the cudy of \\fashingt n and had paid patticular att nrion to Nez Perce human problem associ t d with the building and funcrioning whir r lationships. Thus his collection of articles, addresses of Grand Coulee. Profe sor Daniel Ogden of the SC en logical d ra, accounts of pioneer associarions, history of Political cience De arrmenc, for example has made th fol. local churches, correspondence in regard to conrrov rsial points lowin comm nt on the Banks coll tion: "The Fr nk Banks of local history nd diaries make an impressive addition to collection f materials in the Holland library was mOSt helpful hi earlier donation. The stress on Nez Perce history is to me in the r ene preparation of my monograph on co . particularly ptized for ur Library inasm ch as we have an ervation oLci s, 'Th tru Ie for Upstream co~age on th excellent nucleus in rhe McWhort r, Spalding, and Whitman Columbia.' Th c Ilection contain d importanr ma~erials on colleaions for ez Perce srudi s. the early history of the policies of upstream storage, an use uJ documenes On rhe ph ical charaCteristics f rhe Col umbia McGregor Collecti n Ii h runs On th fra er River. and similar ill terials which Mr. John McGregor of Hooper Washington, presented were essential in identifying the ingredients of me political to the WSC Library the cGregor papers, a larg colleetion controversy. orne of rhe items were available in no orh r f the arl business rec rd of rh McGregor Land and place in the L rary, and I might not have been able even to Live tock Company one f rhe 01 est carrIe ranches in h I arn of th ir xistence had i[ nOt been for their pr sence io Palouse region. Both th histOrians and the economists at the Banks colleaion." W C ate enthusiastic about the potential use which the col lection has as source mat rial for the histOry of the LvestO k Kuykendall Collection indusrry in eastern Washington; wage and pri studies for In 1949, Judge E. V. Kuykendall of Porn roy, an aaivc: the carrIe business at a given time; and gen raI economic m mber of Friends of the Library, gav to the WSC Library Conditions. The colleaion is extensiv enough to permit studi s a lar e coli tion of manuscriprs. mOst of which had belon . of this kind since th ledgers, account books, busines cor t~ his father, G. B. Kuyk ndall the first physician at Fort respondence, payrolls insurance r cords, abstracts of tirIe, and SlID a and later a doctor in Garfield Counry. ince Dr. man other types of daily business documents were preserve
2 3 One unusual part of the collection is material oncerning the Palouse Irrigation and Power mpany a priv te irri ation Smaller Collections and Individual Items company formed in 1912. The articles of in orporation and Gleason Collection some financial a counts have been ke t, and ince re or are The Library has received a large number of smaller collec e or for very few of the private irrigati n com anies, th tions and individual items which, in themsel es, are as irnpor represent a unique feature hich has added importanc use ant as many of the single pap rs in the larger groups. One of its scarcity. ~eneral collection of this type was presented to the Libra Howard Collection by Mrs. Jean itt and her brother, R?bert Glc:as n, of Seattle, Mrs. 1. O. Ho ard of Pullman donate to the Li rarv former WSC students. The collection c nslSts of the cor one of its most olorful and delightful collections, fr ill ~ respondence and other papers which their father, . p~~in J. M. human interest standpoint, the papers which her father-in-law, Gleason collected hen he was chaplain at the ClVl Ian n Mr. Mart A. Howard, collected from 189 to 1905 while he servatio~ Corps (CCC) Camp, Fort George right in was prospecting for gold in the londike. Mrs. Howard's Spokane during the 1930's. The letters give a vivid and late husband, Mr. 1. O. Howard, who was Dean of Mining detailed picture of the work don by the CCC men' ~he at WSC for many years, was a young boy in Massachusetts difficulties they encountered in their projeCts; and somethlOg at the time of his father's Klondike venture, and he and his of the personal problems of the depression period. I n addition mother spent one summer there with Mr. Howard. It to the orrespondence, there are bulletins issued by the camp; probably the son's personal experienc with the Klondike that official documents; and photographs of the men and work prompted him to preserve carefully th voluminous rec rds done by the camp. The collection represents a valuable addi of the trip which his father made. tion to our source material for the history of another phase The olleaion includes not only around a hundred pharo of the area's experiences. graphs (most of them mounted for exhibition as lides) ut long detailed letters written by Mr. Howard to his f il}' Business Records describing his experiences, diaries iving additional details, Business papers have been among the most prominent mementoes, and even bills of sale for supplies and equipment type of materials donated this past year, and both the historians which he bought in ttle for use and sale in the gold fi Ids. and the economists on the campus are highly pleased to have One cannot imagine having source material for a mor i id them available as source material for studies in economics and picture of daily life in the Klondike than these pap rs present, local history. The Scott Paper Company of Everett donated and because of the hazardous and dramatic StOry which they the Minute Books from 1932 to 1949 of the Soundview Pul tell, newspapers have been delighted to carry accounts of the Company, a firm bought recently by the Scott organization. colleaion. The resulting publicity in turn, has ca sed owners These records contain valuable data concerning the develop of other types of documents to offer them ro the Library. ment of the ulp industry in our state, a development which Weare particularly grateful to Mrs. Howard for making the is sufficiently recent that primary materials on it are difficult presentation this year when Alaska has become a state. to obtain. 4 5 Mr. . O. Druff I has pres ntOO early abstracts of title The second diary was kept by Miss Marion Dreamer of and a number of ledgers and account books of various kinds bepherd, Michigan, in 1929 hen she was a policewoman in which were kept by businessmen in'the han area during irs Detroit and in 1937 when she was a teacher at umber Five early period. One of particular interest is a ledger for the Day School for Indian children in Oglala, South Dakota. In first stor in Colton, which was a ned by J. B. Standley in both instances th e ents r orded have ignant human 18 9. The account book covers the period from 1884-8" interest a peal and are of value to sociologists and anthro and includes names of the early residents and rypes of m r. pologists because of her occupati n. chandise and services given with corresponding prices. Mr. Chester H. Victor of Clarkston gave the Library a Mr. A. W. Old of Albion found a similar account book journal k pt by his grandfather, Henry Victor, reporting on a for 1902 in the barn of a farm which he bought near Deary, trip taken from Pomeroy to Lake Chelan and back in 1883. Idaho. It had been kept by a Mr. Kul er. who operated a Derails given thra light on the rout , conditions of the general merchandise store in Anderson, Idaho, and the "do-it roads, and degree of settlement of the counrry at that time. yourself items" which constituted a popular class of sales items indicate what the daily life was like--tools for repairing shoes. PhotOgraphs pumps lanterns, shovels, and household items, such as "mos Photographs are another category of manuscripts which quito bar," are significant. are highl regarded as historical source material, and they are more plentiful than most other types since families retain Diaries them longer, as a rule, than diaries, letters, account books and Diaries are among the documents most highly prized as other kinds of family papers. In many instances, a photograph historical source material since they are lik ly to give not of some rly historical event or occupational technique gives only details of everyday life, but anitudes toward e nts of more detailed information than does a wrinen first-hand report regional or wider interest. This year we have been extremely since the latter contains merely the aspects which happened to pleased to receive two diaries and a shan journal. The more impress the observer-not necessarily the entire scene. Pictures extensive diary (from 1891 to 1928) was kept by Mr. James of pioneers or of individuals who influenced development of Porter, a civil engineer who mad surveys for mining operators this region are also desirable from a human interest standpoint, and engaged in mining himself. His diary entries contain a and chis past year we were extremely fortunate in this respect wealth of information on the location of mines details of their in receiving from Mrs. William H. Philips of Seanle a glass surveying and assaying, business accounts of ag s and prices plate photograph of the parents of E. A. Bryan, long-time in operating mines, and notes on his daily activities, including President of wsc. The Philips family of an earlier genera references to plays and other entertainments in Spokane and tion consists of an uncle and aunt of Dr. Bryan who had elsewhere. Me. Porrer's diary was donated to the Library by already settled in the Palouse counery when he arrived as his granddaught f, frs. Bill Jones, one of the s d nr assistants President in 1893. in the Archives Division of the Library. Ie had been in the The Rosalia celebration in June, 1958, of the centennial possession of her mother, Mrs. R. F. Becker of ttle. of the Steptoe Banle gave impetus for the community's resi
6 7 kind are very rarely preserved and are therefore difficult to dents to locate all possible photographs and other manuscripts obtain. They represent important source material for local from Rosalia's pioneer days, and their display of documents history. and artifacts was impressive and one f the highlightS of the Mr. and Mrs. John Gray of Washtucna, some f whose celebration. Through contacts made at that time, the WSC forebears were stationed at Fort Colville and Fort Walla Library was able to identify the owners of many of the manu Walla during the Washingron Territorial period, have a col scripts, and Mr. and Mrs. John Blank of Rosalia very kindly lection of photographs of the officers and their families ae donated to dIe Library pamphl ts and typed articles dealing chose forts and pictures of other phases of pioneer history. with Rosalia's history and allowed us to make copies of a They generously allowed the Library to make copies of the nwnber of photographs from the early days of that region. ones for which we would have the most demand, the foremost One series of photographs dealt with the hotel which Cashup example being an early photograph of Fort Coeur d'Alene. Davis buile and operated for a time on top of Steptoe Burre, a Another collection of photographs which we prize from structure about which many people had been curious. We family association as well as content is a group presented to Vi' re therefore particularly delighted to secure copies of the the Library by Horace H. Spalding of Spokane, grandson of photographs. Mrs. Roy Feldman, Secretary of the Rosalia Henry Harmon Spalding, the first missionary at Lapwai. In Study Club, like ise generously made copies for the Library addition to horographs of the latter's wife and children, there of biographical sketches of the pioneers buried in the early are pictures of the Almota MilJ, the first flour mill north of Rosalia cemeteries. the Snake River, of Felix Warren, a colorful freighter, of river Mr. Norman Sherwood, a WSC graduate student who is freighting, and one of Baroora Spalding daugbter of Horace, using the history of Elberton, Washingron (near Garfield), who, as a high school girl was bonored in 1936 at the cen as his thesis subject, has found that residents in that area have tennial celebration in Lewisron of th arrival of the Spaldings a vast amount of manuscript source material on irs early days in the Oregon country. The photograph shows her in pioneer when it was a thriving young city possessing three hotels and dress Standing by the printing press used by Spalding at during the fruie season sending our as many as sixteen carloads Lapwai-the first printing press in the Oregon country which of prunes in one day. Mr. D. A. Davidson of Elberton, Mr. is now in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society. The Weber Leid and Mrs. Ida Lemon of Garfield, and Mr. and WSC Library has a few pieces of type from the press. Mrs. John MacDonald of San Carlos, California, have donated Photographs of early WSC acti ides are al ays welcomed, photographs of the area at that period, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. too, since we have many gaps in the photographic record of Haun of Garfield allowed the Library to make a photographic the institution, and Mr. Horace Spalding conrribut d signifi copy of VoL I, o. 7, of the W hem Belt for December 24, cantly to that need, also, by donating a photograph of Squirt, 1892, a newspaper published at Elberton at that time. The the WSC mascot who preced d Bur h I--a dog which appears only other extant issue of the paper which they knew about to be largely fox terrier and which, in th picture, is being was the first nwnber for November 12, 1892, owned by.Mr. tossed in a blanket by a group of students, an indignity to Willard Worthy of Pullman, who kindly allowed us to make which, formnately, Butch cannot be subjected. There are a copy of it, also. Issues of defunct local newspapers of this 9 8 also pictures in the Spalding coHeaion of the WSC footbaU and related groups; and from Professor Paul P. Kies, who ream posed and in aaion around 1906. presented a record of one branch of his family, the Kraettli Mr. Harold Doolittl of pokane, who graduate fro genealogy. WSC in 1898, this year presented the Library with a group of photographs retained from his college years which help Reminiscences and Local History Items complete our pictures of the engineering students and the Pione r narratives and papers based on historical research surveying techniques of that time. Included also ate memen or a combination of the twO, also often form sourc material toes of the period, such as an invitation to the commencement for historical writings of a more ext nsive na reo One such exercises for 1898, a commencement program a glee club irem in the former category received this year is a colleaion program for 1896-97, clippings in regard to the Ferry Hall of fourteen chapters of unpublished sketches by Mrs. Rosa E. fire of 189 , a picture of the ruins, and records of other Causton of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, of her life as a young girl interesting events of that era. in the Kootenai country in the 1890's and accounts of Mr. C. R. Miller of Yacolt, Washington, also gave us Kootenai legends and custom'. A f w years ago, Dr. R. B. pictures of th Class of 1903 and other SC scenes from his Beccramson of Pullman gave a copy of the memoirs of his college days. grandfather, Mr. Lars Kongensholm N Ison, concerning his Mr. W. D. Griffin presemed a colleCtion of photographs early life in Denmark. The family had the r miniscences of Indians taken a num r of y rs ago when he as engaged mimeographed because of their human interest appeal and in paiming their portraits for the Library's art collections. specific detail on Danish life of that period. Mrs. 1. W. Mrs. Martha Kammerzell of Pullman donated to the DeWeese of Pullman allowed the Library to make a Veriiax Library an interesting photograph taken in Portland in the copy of a similar typed account by Mrs. Clement Pierce, 1880's of a group of friends and one of her husband, John "Memories of an Old Timer in Montana," and a biographical Kammerzell, one of the early Fairfield pioneers. sketch of O. H. Henderson, Mrs. DeWeese's father, who was also a Montana pioneer. Mr. D. W. Dow of Phoenix, Arizona, Genealogies gave sketches of his family's pioneer experience in North Genealogy is a subjea of increasing interest to people in Dakota, written by himself, and by his sister, L ana Do this region as its period of settlement extends through more Pettit of Backoo North Dak tao Miss Annie M. Steele of and more generations beyond the early settlers. Th' year Fruitland, Washington, donated sketches of early days in the t!he Library has received family hi tOries of interest in this Colville Valley which she had written as well as newspaper respeCt from Mr. Alfred W. Philips, Jr., of Cheney, whose clippings concerning that area. Miss Alice Latta of Pullman family records represent the following names: Bryan, Gal gave to the Lbrary notes on the versions of controversial braith, Wright, Taggart, Anderson and others; from Mrs. points of local history which she had heard as a child. H. R. Brannan of Pullman who donated par 'al genealogies Mrs. Della Mae Riggs of Rosalia p esemed to the Library of the Short and ilJoughby families; from Mrs. O. P. RickettS. rhineen pioneer narratives hich she had obtained through who deposited here a published account of the Clark family interview with early settlers who had answered detailed
10 11 que.stions cone rning the location and manner of obtaining the war boom when housing and other elements of daily theIr land, types of food, housing and equipment which were living were very difficult. available in the early days, and any significant personal ex Mrs. Guy Travis of Prosser, who combines first-hand peri nees. knowledge of east rn ashington, as a daughrer of pioneers, The Forest History Foundation, whose function is to locate with a serious interest in our regional history, has graciously manuscript materials pertaining to the history of lumbering consent d to give to the Library copies of the articles hich and forest conservation, also prepares pioneer narratives from she writes. We have already received a sketch on early interviews with lumbermen and foresters which are chen mailed Prosser, documented from letters newspaper articles, and to a depository in the area where the author of the narrative pioneer interviews, and are anticipating additional articles with was active. The WSC Library is a depository of the Forest keen interest. History Foundation for Pacific Northwest items, and we have Mrs. Van Putnam of Inchelium who is a frequent coo received three oral history interviews as well as field notes of tributor of articles of historical interest to the Inland Empire surveys made for the u.s. Forest Servic in the Cascades' notes Magazine of the lmday Spokesman-Review and other periodi for a history of the early lumbering industry in western cals. very kindly sends US the originals or photostatic copies of Washington; maps; and orthern Pacific Railroad guides. many items which she finds in her research. This year we received from her photostats of lie fises and statements of A number of our members are able to write articles of his operations for Central and Koor nai ferries issued in the 1880·s. torical interest because of their professional training and knowl· Mrs. N I Francis Wilson, whose book Little Old St. Paul's edge of the area. Mr. Homer J. Dana of Pullman, who falls in (history of the Episcopal Church in Port Townsend) was this category, graduat d from WSC in electrical engineering published recendy, donated to the Library the manuscripts in 1915, was for many years Director of the Engineering of the book containing additional notes and references along Experiment Station, and is now Professor of Elecrri al Engi with a num r of pamphlets on the hjstory of POrt Townsend neering and Research Engineer. He gave the Library a typed and the Episcopal churches of that region. copy of a ry useful brochure which he wrore-A HiItorical Mr. Leonard Hegnauer, who was for many years Extension Sketch DeIcribing the Growth of the Generati01~ and UIe of Agronomist ar WSC, has presented to the Library the manu Electricity in Putlmat~ and the It~land Empire. script of his HiItory of the W aIhit~gton State College Agri Mr. Ted Van Arsdol of Richland, Washington, also falls mlNira! Extension Service. in this group. He is a free lance writer who is ooe of the Mr. George Ganoon of Mabton, Washingron generously Library's most constant benefactors in sending us copies of his donated to the libraries of the region (including our own) own artid S, most of which concern the history of mining two copies of a book by Roscoe heller of unnyside, Ben or other phases of Pacific orthwest activity, and in donating Snipes, orthwest Cattle King, which gives a great deal of pamphlets which are rare and difficult to secure. His most information, hitherto unpublished on the development of the recent gifts were cwo colleCtions of our-of-print Cartoons by cattle industry in this area. Mr. Sh Her is another example Dick Donnell, which depiCt incidents in Richland's life durio of a person who is able to add to competent historical research
12 13 in printed sources a wealth of detail from his own memory and of other papers of northeastern Canada. Mrs. Ike Deeter from correspondence and interviews with pioneers in that field. presented to the Library early copies of the Spokesman-Review Mr. Sheller gave to the Library pamphlets which he had which were needed to complete our files. collected on various phases of the history of the Yakima area. Mrs. D. F. Kammerzell of Colfax contributed the unpub Microfilms lished History of Wilcox Commu1#ty hich was done as part The problem of storage space for bulk-y printed materials i~ of the Town and Community Sur,'cy of Colfax a few years ago. becoming acute not only for libraries, but also for govern ment agencies required to keep official records. County Letters courthouses, city halls, and other similar depositories are often The Library has received fewer individual letters this year forced to store their noncurrent records in rooms which are than last. Two such donations, however, have come from not fireproof and are sometimes deleterious to the documents Mrs. Francis LaPine of Chehalis, who gave three letters written because of dampness, temperature, and dirt. Consequently, to her grandfather, Phillip Meagher, concerning his claims as the county commissioners of Pierce, Spokane, and King counties a survivor of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry in the Civil War, and have taken advantage of th excellent storage facilities in the from Miss Hellon Davis, a WSC senior, who donated typed WSC Library to deposit here microfilms of their older, per copies of two letters written by her grandfather in 1891 and manent records which can then, in some instances, be destroyed 1892 describing Skagit County, Washington. in their original form. Several times a year, an additional Newspapers consignment of such microfilms arrives. Newspaper files take up so much space that the Library The University of Washington Library has very generously is having as many as possible microfilmed so that they can donat d to the WSC Library a microfilm of the Steptoe be stored in that form in a small fraaion of the room other colleaion purchased by the former institution from descendants wise required. For that reason, we do not, as a rule, accept of Colonel E. J. Steptoe, who figured prominently in the Indian copies of newspapers if they duplicate issues already present battles of the Palouse country and elsewhere. The collection in some form. If a person has made a colleaion of newspaper consists of letters written by Colon I Steptoe at various periods clippings, however, on some Pacific Northwest subjea or a of his life, the most important, from our standpoint, being general topi which is of public interest, we feel that having five written in the 1850's from Fort Walla Walla to relatives, the material available in this convenient form is often worth describing his life there. Present also is a long letter analyzing the space required. One group of this kind we were pleased the political situation in Utah Territory when he was offered to receive this year is the Ashmun Brown colleaion of newS itS governorship before coming to Washington Territory. We paper clippings which he made in the early 1900's as corre cannot thank our sister institution sufficiently for this important spondent for the Seattle Post-Itltelligencer and eattle Times gift. ince we have the original accounts made by the sur and later for the Provid nee, Rhode Island ]omnal. In addi vivors of the Steptoe Battle on itS fiftieth anni ersary, we tion, Mr. Mackenzie Furniss gave to the Library a copy of are indeed glad to have any other source material concerning an 1830 issue of the Montreal Gazette and photostats of c pies the participantS in and the background of that incident.
14 15 literary Writings own a copy because of the poignant portrait of him as a person Literary figures have again been generous in donating whose energies were so completely dedicated to the College to the Library copies of their books and manuscripts. Mrs. and so id otifi with it that it as his whole life. The Ethyl Townsend Goodsell of Spokane gave copies of antholo Friends of the Library organizatio also has a special intereSt gies containing her award-winning poems. Mrs. Ruth G. in the sale of the book since we hope that there will be profits Plowhead of Caldwell, Idaho, presented copies of her books to accrue to FOL as part of the revolving fund contributed for young people which have a Pacific orch t setting. roward th publication of the book. Copie may be ordered Mr. John McCallum gave the manuscript for his recent book, by mail from the State College Bookstore for 4.00 or pur Begimm-f Book of Fishing, 1958. chased there in person for 3.75.
Books and PampWets McWhorter Calendar Professor Nelson Ault, of the WSC English Department, Among the donors of books and pamphlets from their completed the prodigious task of making a calendar for the personal libraries are: Mr. Chester Vietor of Oarkston; the McWhorter collection, describing and indexing the 100,000 Rev. Mr. David H. Crawford of Craigmont, Idaho' Mrs. O. P. or more items which make up that vast group of papers icketts of Seattl ; Mrs. H. R. Brannan of Pullm n' Mr. D. C. written or gathered by the late 1. V. McWhorter in connection Dow of Phoenix, Arizona; and Dr. Philip Holland of Bloom with his study of Nez Perce history. The Friends of the ington, Indiana. Among the oldest are three works from Library Directors and Committee Members felt that the publi Dr. Hall nd's contributions: a first edition (1816) of Sir cation of this work auld represent a research tool of sufficient alter Scott's Tales of My Landlord; a 179 edition f the importance that FOL should mak every effort to get it into five- olume Works of Peter Pin ar; and the 1860-61 issues print. An arrangement was effected with the Editorial Board of an annual publication by Charles Dickens, All the Ye r of Research Studies. the general scholarly journal of WSc, Round. whereby the work is appearing in installments in that publica tion. The installments will then be bound together for sale E. O. Holland and the State College as a m nograph. The cost is being borne by FOi, Research At commencement time this past summer, Professor Wil Studies, and Mc horter funds a ailable from the sale of liam M. Land n's book 00 Dr. Holland's administration as HOtlT Me y Chiefs, the book published posthumously from President of the State College of ashington from 1916 to Mr. McWhorter's nares and rough drafts in the collection 19 was ready for sale, having been published by the College. presented to the Library by Mr. Mc arter's son, the late nybody who knew SC during those years would enj y V. O. McWhorter of Yakima. very much reading the book since it recreates vividly that period of time and reminds one of the constantly changing General Memorial Fund but never-ending problems facing the College administration Prior to this year, our purchases of books as memorials as it struggled to make a distinguished institution our of the have been only from specific funds set up to bonor a particular young choo!. Close friends of Dr. Holland will want to individual, such as the E. O. Holland, Wilmer, and the
16 17 Marian Kruegel Memorial Funds. Contributions are made board the sailing ship and of points on land where the ship to them from time to time so that they represent distinct anchored to tak on water and food. In our hemisphere, accumulative funds. For example, this past year, Mrs. W. C. these stops were made along the east and west coasts of outh Kruegel added money to the latter fund from which copies America and above Mexico to a point in present California. of current Broadway plays are purchased. This year, however, Detailed accounts of the customs of the Indians are given, a when Dr. and Mrs. Harry Zion wished to contribute books map of the world, as Captain Shelvocke conceived it, and to the Library in lieu of flowers as a tribute 0 the late Dr. ngra ings showing scenes on sea and land. We consider Charles E. Skinner, Chairman of the WSC Baaeriology De the book a significant addition to the Library's rare books and partment, the FOL Board realized that no machinery had been a fitting, lasting tribute to Dr. Skinner. set up to receive single contributions of this kind. Therefore The importance of such eighteenth-century travel books as ll. General Memorial Fund was created into which conttibution~ coUenors' items can be illustrated from an experience of last of any amount-small or large--may go for the purchase of year. We ordered a book which we saw advertised for forty books in memory of a particular individual. On the book. dollars in a catalogue from Switzerland-a 1789 English plate for each book, a statement is made that it was purchased edition of a similar voyage by John Meares, an Englishman from Friends of the Library funds in memory of the person who was actually engaged in the fur trade on our coast in so honored. A loose-leaf book is then kept in the Archives the 1780's. A few weeks later in an American book dealer's Division, listing the donors, the persons memorialized (with catalogue, the same book (except that the edition was one year a photograph of each here possible), and the books pur later) was advertised for 125. Although we sent our order chased. by air mail to Switzerland, the copy was already sold, and the In buying such books the staff tries to choose ones which Supervisor of the Library Acquisitions Section says that because relate, as much as possible, to some professional or avocational of our geographical location, book dealers in the East have interest of tbe deceased. For example, Dr. Skinner enjoyed bought the most desirabl items from European catalogues reading travel books and was also interested in Pacific North before the circulars even reach the west coast, so that it is of west history. Therefore, we decided to try to find one of the little use even to cable. Therefore, when we are able to secure ighteenth-century round-the-world trips which touched the a book at European rather than the normally higher American Pacific coast and formed a step in the development of the prices ware, of course, very much pleased. maritime fur trade between the Pacific Northwest coast and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Aveldson and Mr. and Mrs. Robert China that gOt under way in the 1780's. We w re fonunate Wilkinson of Omak and Mr. N. G. Bishopp of Seattle made to find offered for a sale in a rar book dealer's catalogue a copy donations in memory of Dr. C. W. Stone, Professor of Educa of George Sbelvocke's A Voyage round the World by the lV,ty tion at W C for many years. ince Professor Stone took a of the Great outh Sea: Performed in a Private Expedition keen delight in hunting and fishing, we pur hased books in during the War, which broke out with pain, in the Y his honor written by early sportsmen and naturalists, giving 1718. 2nd ed. (London 1757). The book more than met descriptions of the areas which he loved and illustrated with our expectations. Vivid descriptions are included of life on photographs from the 1880's and early 1900's: Nature Ram
18 19 bies in the Wallowas; Sketches of the Natural History of Northeastern Oregon by Elmo N. Stevenson, 1937; and Rustlings in the Rockies; Hunti,~g and Fishing by Moumain and Stream by George O. Shields, 1883. Then we added an .Ior.,. item which appeared in a rare book catalogue and which is fa •.R!'T.1nfiUICCQUCJfu;., IbJn..... f....bJ•. mofTJ5ttb.bl''''pulln[tnu Vtbll rrprr.l po seldom seen-the Potlatch number of Americana for 1911, rtm:IUIl." lID eTtTrn,ti loomo pl>Ifo Jilin trifnnlTo RUCIIJ(.w m5\1"'lU9. Of bl"Jr: a Pacific Northwest periodical published for a time in Seattle. [lim i m:onu r,,-trntf" ~urn' "t rr t411C'J[i t ...l tt poc.lt1li: lnaT pJUCO. blf,'puw...lr nJ This issue contains incidents of the settling of the coast, shaft ro....tr ,,,.,:llp.•rlr ""fu Dl(~" litrru .u DllaOXCntt111. lntrp;re\J.lmlutlbJbllo essays on Chinook jargon, place names, and other interesting nlo•.eoJI .1TII:~."mno",p.1rlM.r. :0ll.P!>:1Il(' ...... bc'" p1lLftlllO•.rud".lD features of Pacific Northwest history. nltl jt>:t~:VITO' 3D ,,"'opl~. 0' [I[.nor" ~ulJ~" f.mofuTunj foil menU lJIlt1"tI" In lilbul .lnurrur ,llc 01: otn'l.lq;; D,f«"", Mr. and Mrs. John B. Friel and Dr. and Mrs. Wilson rtr.."'Vp:cfu:lln•.frmp:: (emel">: flllYe. 'Otnpflt flli! Nc ",mlffun(' OCCO .olumt' Compton have recently made contributions in memory of Mrs. Y\Jtcr rnbrofmv tua n11m nlbuB:F!'tlo/l'wu.. .~.I. Wid IOqU.l r de reen bo A. A. Cle eland Mr. Howard Phelps, and Mrs. Homer Folger. munnfcul:l pafcrcnll.dcrn mlll\lneii .1pOlll>luB f.)Julud fIUlUlml1Wllil'lrr.1lJ:~ur .J. hi f\lllul n 3 pn.. rltetDbl .• ""'tll!lerl!tTlnii.qu.lr npo./IlIIICltu;: nlrm: probJll""'lllt1lr1: Books in their honor have not as yet been s leaed. "fcunru'ltJnO \II fe bofl"fU\ IX\lltDJr to· tt 3'nlClne 1I0ta pT(krd>.i,.~ onrna (011'. iln rrp,"-:lmmru qutnnl" "qm i mC ni'i lIlA nr 20 ..,; :c0 ...u ;> 0... ll. '"0 ....l... 0 '"u ~ :il Q., VI is c:f , .9 lJ ~ "0v <'I ~ • 0 I!> e 0... 0.0 -C :.E ...v \.<.l First issue of Wheat Belt, 1892 new paper published at Elber ton, ashingroo. Business Meetings of the Directors and Committee Members Mr. W. O. Druffel, President of FOL, called a business meeting last spring of the Directors and Committee Members at which plans for the year's projects were discussed. It proved so helpful co ha e the views of this comparatively large number chat Mr. Druffel set the policy of calling regular monthly meetings of this group. In discussing the books purchased and the manuscripts received, the members became interested in examining some of the collections themselves. Therefore, at the close of an occasional business meeting, Mr. Druffel has a presentation of one of our important collections with a question period, if rime permits. Dean John P. Spielman was very much inter ested in the slides in the Howard collection showing mining techniques in the Klondike at the turn of th century; conse quently, be showed some of them at one meeting, and they were so enjoyable that he has been asked by various com munity organizations to repeat the showing. Professor Nelson Ault described his experiences in pre paring the calendar for the Mc horter collection at a recent meeting and illustrated his points by showing sample folders of manuscripts in the collection. The memlbers found his presentation entertaining as well as informative and were glad to obtain more first-hand knowledge of one of our most im Sceae at bottom of Chilkoot Pass. (From the Howard collectioa.) pressive manuscript holdings. Professor Ault has also been asked to repeat his presentation to a community organization. Me. Mackenzi Furniss, who was on the campus on the day of another meeting, talked to the FOL group about the original drawings of his father who was an illustratOr for Punch for many years. Many of the drawings were on exhibit in the Orton Room at the time. 21 It happened that Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Compton were in The Library is ind d fortunate to have had these incu Pullman on the day of the November meeting; consequently nabula added to its collections. They serve an excellent pur at the close of the business meeting, which th y attended, a pose as examples of early printing, as reflections of European coffee hour was held for them in the Orron Room at which cultural development in the second half of the fifteenth century, around seventy-five people enjoyed having the opportunity of and as rarities to be admired, studied, and alued. talkin with them and discussing FOL plans informally. It can said that the fifteenth century closed the Middle Incunabula in the Library A and opened the modern era of history. The Medie al Church still held sway over Christianized Europe but the New JOHN 1fAcEACHERN L ning and ecclesiastical reformers were threatening that Associate Librarian supr macy. Theology and r ligion still remained the chief A recent listing of the fifty-five early rinted books in the subjects of most books; yet the Renaissance had rediscovered Library of the State CoIl ge transmitted to the editor of a the ancients, and the classical writers were being studied. fOrthcoming third revision of Incunabula itt American Libraries Writing in the vernacular languages had achieved status, and attracted renewed attention to these rarit~es. Printing with authors, then as now, were seeking publication. All these movable type was invented about 1450 in Germany by John factors contributed to the rapid strides which the early printers Gutenberg (as it is now generally conceded), and the art made in their art, and they, in competition with the scribes spread rapidly up the Rhine River, across the Alps into and transcribers, issued those works which would appeal and Italy and then throughout the whole of Europe. By 1500 which, of course, would sell. The writings of ancient authors, printing books in this new manner was the practice in all early Church Fathers, medieval scholastics and preachers, and European countries. Books printed through this year are humanists found their way into print. Types of all these are called "incunabula" (cradle-books), and they are alued for represented in the present collection of incunabula. many reasons. Philosophic writings served in the theological and religious These rar books have been acquired by the Library over discussions which occupied the attention of the mem val the years in various ways. Some have been gifts of individ schoolmen. Aristotle's Opera of prime importance to the uals: the late President E. O. Holland, Professor Emeritus scholastic philosophers, are contained in a volume print d in C. M. Brewster, Clifford Folger, Lindsay Staley, Will truppler, 1496 at Venice. A separate treatise by the same author, his Jack Graham, Colonel A. H. Oxholm, H. E. Doelly, Carl B. Oeconomicorum Liber, was issued at logne in 1493 by Warren, and Henry George & Sons. Organizations, such as Heinrich Quenrell, bo, a year later, also printed John Versor's the Friends of the Library and th Early Birds Club, have Quaestiones super Libros Ethicorum Aristotelia. Other philo donated copies to the collection. Classes of the College, sophic works are the Quaestiones taph,'sicaJes by Aegidius namel , 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1942 have added Memorial (Venice, 1499) and the Liber Meteoromm by Albertus Mag Gifts to the number of incunabula. And funds from the nus (Venice, 1488). President's office in years past have been set aside for the As might be expected, theological and religious writings purpose of making further purchases. comprise the subject matter of the greatest number of these 22 23 books. Augustine's City of God, printed at Venice in 1489/ (Nuremberg, 1494). Two other treatises of the heart are 90, is a fine Latin edition of this significant treatise of Christi printed. in One volume as issued by Michael Furter's press in anity. Sermons by great preachers, such as Leonardus de Basel some time before 1500: John. Chrysoscom's De Com Dtino and Bernard, fill sev ral volumes. Two compilations punctione Cordis and Augustine's Liber de Cordis Contf'itione. by the former were printed at Strassburg about 1483 and at The Bible is, of course, the most important book in the Vicenza in 1479. Bernard's sermons on the Song of Solomon Christian religion, and the Library possesses a fine specimen attracted consid rabl attention for their allegorical and mysti of the Vulgate text printed at Nuremberg by Koberger, ho cal exposition. The edition here is one issued in 1500 at bad issued his first Bible in 14 7 and re-issued it every year Brescia. Other sermons by Nicolaus de Blony (Strassburg, thereafter. The edition here is one fr m 14 O. 1495) and Gilbertus de Hoylandia (Florence, 1485) occupy other volumes. Historical treatises ecclesiastical and secular, came forth Almost in the same genre as sermons, yet composed under from the early printing presses. Dio Cbrysoswm's De Reg1JO different circumstances, are the orations. Here are included (Bologna, 1493) can be included here, as also Justin's sum Jacob Locher's "Panegyric upon Maximilian" among his poeti maries of early historical works (now lost), his Epitome in cal writings (Strassburg, 1497), and Stephanus Tegliatius' Troge Pompeii Historias and L1I£ii Flori Epitome, in a volume "Oration to Innocent VIII" (Rome, 1487). The Orationes issued at Venice by ]oannes Rubeus Vercellensis without any et Opuscula and the Epistolae by Francesco Filelfo, although date. (The Library has two copies of this particular incu issued separately in Venice in 1496 and 1495 respectively, are nabulum.) Other summaries of ancient history were compiled, here bound together in one volume. as for e ample, Pomponio Lew's Romanae Historiae Compen- A whole literature of pastoral theology and devotional di11-m (Venice, 1499), as well as the ancient texts themselves, compositions was produced. Especially useful to the parish as Suetonius' "Lives of the Caesars" and the Scriptores Historiae priests in their office as confessors were the Lavac-rum Con Augustae, together occupying volume printed at Venice in scientiae of Jacob de Gruycrode (Augsburg, 1492) and the 1490. Bonifacius imoneta's In Persecutionum Christianarum Summa de Casibus Conscientiae of Angelus de Clavasio Historia (Milan, 1492) can be added here as an example of (Venice, 1487), as well as Antonius' Summa Confesrionum ecclesiastical history. (Cologne, 1473). Lives of th saints were widel read, as Ecclesiastical law also became the subject matter of some Petrus de Natalibus' Catalogus Sanctorum et Gesto-rum Eorum of these early print books. Here are the important com (Vicenza, 1493) and Jacobus de Voragine's "Golden Legend," mentaries on Canon Law, written in 1279 by Marrinus Polonus, as it is usually termed. This latter work enjoyed. a wide called the Margarita Decreti (Strassburg, 1486). The author popularity in the original Latin as well as in all the vernacular itative issue of decisions, made in 1298 by Boniface VIII, the tongues of Europe. The edition here is a German translation Liher Sextus DecretaJium, and the "Clementines," another issued by Anton Koberger at Nuremberg in 1488. notable commentary usually accompanying it, are summarized The "Imitation of Christ," the famous Christian devotional by Michael de Dalen in a olume printed at Basel in 1479. treatise, is the first selection in Thomas a Kempis' Opera The deliberations of ecclesiastical councils also found their way 24 25 into print, for example, the Decreta Coneilii Basiliensis (Basel, and colored initials. Often they printed small letters in the 1499) . squares as indications to the illustrators who might be illiterate. This small collection of incunabula is ample for an initial Occ ionally these "initial directors" were omitt d. The study of the an of early printing and ind of the whole volumes here illustrat all stages of this rocess. Handcolored practice of bookmaking and relat arts. The physical can. ornamental initials have been inked or painted' in other place dition of the VOlumes, despite their age, is excellent. It is the original blanks remain. Some of the illustrative matter evident that a few have suffered through the years: water embellishing the pages is nOt that intende by the printers. stains, worm holes, tears. These minor disfigurements do nat, Readers and students are accustomed to mark up their own however, detract from the general good appearance of the books. Paragraph markings decorate some pages and capital bo k; rather, they seem to enhance them. It is doubtful if letters are line through in red, and in one volume an artistic any of the bindings date from the pericx:l of issue. scholar has drawn hands with the fingers pointing to the Most of the texts were printed with the black letter, the so emphasized textual passages. called Gothic, in various forms. Roman type was employed By the turn of the sixteenth century, printed books had in some, and one text the Ep-istolae Graeeae as its tide assum d all the features of modern books, although no one denotes, was printed with a neat Greek fane at the press of . en present contains all of them. In some volumes the Aldus Manurius in Venice (l 99). leaves are numbered. Indexes ("Tabulae") and pages of Illustrative matter adorns many a page. The volume of contents appear in others. "Title pages" listing at least the AristOtle's "Works" is replete with diagrams. The Poetiea ritle of the text begin many a olume. Astronomiea of H yginus (Venice, 1 88) contains drawings of Of the fifty-four separate incunabula in the collection, signs of the zodiac. The "Golden Legend" features hand those from Italian presses exceed those from the German colored woodcuts depicting among ther activities, the tortures pres Seventeen come from Venice; seven from Cologne; inflicted upon the saints. Th characterizations are crude but five from Strassburg. Milan and Nuremberg are represented arresting. The Bueh der Chroniken und Geschiehten (.. u with four each; Basel with three; twO each from Augsburg, remberg Chronicle") by Hartmann Schedel (Augsburg, 1500). Bologna, Bres ia, and Vicenza' and one each from Florence, an historical work, is copiously illustrated with pictures f Passau, Reudingen, Rome, Speier, and Tiibingen. As for the countries and cities and with portraits of kings, emper rs, languag of the texts, all bur three are in Latin; the Epistolae popes. (The same faces re-appear throughout the olume Graeeae is in Greek, and the "Golden gend" and the "Nu a er different names.) rna of the world is in John remberg Chroni I " are in German. A German translation, Esrwood's Sttmma Ast-rologiae ]udici4lis (V nic , 1 89). along with the original Latin apal message of Martin V, is The early printed books w r expect d to match somewhat included in the Staff/fa Provincf.aJia SaJisburgensia (Passau, the s Ie of medieval manuscripts and contemporary hand 1490) . ritten books in their patient ornamentati n. To facilitate Th se incunabula are aluabl not merely because they are that imitation, th printer omitt initial capital letter , b t exampl of the finest printing, that of the second half of th left blank squares to be decorated later by elaborately design fifteenth century. In this respeu they are indeed sourc 26 / 2 materials of th first ord r. They ar rare; yet they have a sc nes embody tremendous vitality, mocking glee or frenzy, intrinsic value for they mbody some of the literature, religio~ and vivid detail. and secular, of the period in which they were issued. Art critics do not agree on the precise date for Goya's com The practice of acquiring and possessing rare books es pOsicion of the Proverbs, but they are certain that th y were ially incunabula, by c lleg libraries has been questioned, made to ard the end of his life. One of his biographers, but th pr sence of the books answers the objections. Their Pierre Gassier, believes that they were tchOO sometime after intrinsic value and rarity demand that they have safekeeping 1819, the year hen he had a serious illness at age seventy-three for their historical significan and aesth tic appreciation. which deepe ed the depression that had been gradually settling They an be used to dev lop the interest and intellectual on him and added dreams or hallucin tions of a nightmarish curiosity of Students, alumni, and friends thr ugh their cultural, quality. Spectres from these " isions" appear in the Proverbs aesthetic and historical meaning. They publicize the library, and also in other works done during this period, particularly the ad rn exhibitions, and prove of value in the teaching and "Black Paintings" now in the Prado but which were done as research programs of the college. a mural for his own country home, a series of eird, sombre scenes done almost entirely in black and white with touches Goya Prints of ochre or garish color. It is interesting that during Goya's young, happy years when MARY W. AVERY he created gay lighthearted works, typical of Spanish art of Staff Member, Archives Librat'y the eighteenth century, he did not use engra ing techniques. One of the most valuable and distinctive of the collecti ns The etchings and lithographs come from his sombre, bitter purchased this year by the Library is a set of prints of Dis years of middle life and old age. There were four sets parates or Los Proverbios (commonly called Proverbs), etch the Caprichos (Caprices), the Desastres de /a Guerra (Disast ings made by the great Spanish artist Francisco ya. The ers of War), T auromaquia (Bullfighting), and the Disparates prints were made from the original plates in Madrid in 1864 or Proverbios (Follies or Proverbs), the first being published and are onsid red by art critics to be remarkably fine both when he was fifty-three years old. for clarity and delicacy of line in small detail, on the one A physical illness or change in Spain's political fortunes hand, and bold use of masses of black and white, on the other. marks a definite shift from one period of Goya's artistic life The etchin are satiric, caricaturing in the bitter, often to anoth r. He was born in 1 46 in northern Spain the violent manner of ya's later life the poverty and brutality son of a successful gilder, one who could apply gold as a eeor of c rtain facets of Spanish life for both upper classes and acion on objects of metal or wood. oung Goya therefore peasants. Ov rsized ghoulish creatures peer from the shad was in th company of artisans an artists from his earliest ows in many f them, laughing sardonically over the plight years and showed sufficient aptitude for drawing that he was of m n and beasts caught in some misfortune or occasion for apprenticed wh n he was fourteen to a local artist. His own ridicule. The fascination of the etchings comes oat only from genius seems, however, not to have been awakened at all the idea presented, but also from Goya' ability to make such until he took a ip to Italy sometime before 1771 when he 28 29 won a prize from the Royal Academy of Fine ArtS at Parma. in his own words: "In order to occupy an imagination morti Even hi work there was stereotyped and dull. This award fied by the contemplation of my sufferings and to recover, enabled him to secure commissions for murals in chur es partially anyhow, the expenses incurred by illness, I fell to when he returned to Saragossa in 1771, and in 1775 he was painting a set of pictures in hich I have succeed in giving asked to make sketches for tape tries into which were co be observation a place usually denied it in words made to order, woven hunting scenes to decorate the palaces of CharI III. in which littl scope is left for fancy and invention." The King was tired of the mythological or oth r non- panish His liberation in subject matter produced a corresponding themes used exclusi ely by artists and asked chat the paintings change in tone. ya began to use largely the black, brown, depict the actual Spanish life of the time. and gray colors which characterized his later works, relieved Goya quickly mastered the technique of making a painting by couches of primary colors-blue, yellow, or red. 1m a which could be copied into a tapestry, and the stimulus of tience with his physical pain showed in short, jerky strokes working from scenes which he knew was what he needed to and dabs of paint. The effect was dynamic and original for break away from the ha kneyed, conv ntional works which his time, and his art gained starore both because of the he had done up to that time. His gay scenes of court and realistic approach to his subject matter and the vitality of his village life, well executed in line and color and displaying a presentation. It was ar this time that the medium of etching freshness not seen before, pleased the King so much that for tOok on its strong a peal as a means of emphasizing bold line seventeen years Goya was a favorite at court, and in 1 86 he and economy of detail as well as the combination of black was named King's Painter, a post which carried a life pension. and white color. The Caprichos, published in 1799, were the In this role, he painted portrait of the Spanish nobility and first of his serie of etchings, consisting of eighty-two satiric carrie out other types of ainting assignments, all compet sketches of the foibles of the time which were more cau tic ently done and showing spontaneity and originality in subject and pungent than others of that day. Goya's disgust with the matter and approach. However they were, in essence, prosaic ph sical cruelries commonly accepted in eighteenth century and uninspiring and lacking in the force and intensity which Spain is beginning to be vident in this series in etchings his later works were to show. depicting th inquisition and witchcraft practices. It was an illness hich left him deaf in 1792 that marked In 1808 the second event occurred which confirmed him the change from the lighthearted court painter co the great in his sense of the large measure of brutality and sropidity artist. He as not only cut off fr m the world of ordinary exhibited by people generally. In that year Napoleon occu· sounds by his deafness he was tormented by a constant pied pain, and Goya was sickened by the horrors of the cacophanous buzzing in his ears and headaches which drove actual fighting and by dle starvation and squalor which him almost to esperation. His painting represented a re followed. In 1814 Goya's final disillusionment occurred lease from this misery, and he began to create pietlll'es as self when Ferdinand VII was restored to the Spanish throne and expression rather than as assignments from the court. With immediately began co persecute any nonconformist with as his first group of paintings done in this manner he sent a much savagery as had been shown by the French. Goya letter to the Academy of San Fernando putting this attirode expressed his feelings of fury and hopelessness in his second 30 31 set of etchings, the Disasters of War, hich he produced between 1811 and 1821. In 1815 he turned to the etchings d yet compelling the magic hicb a great artist can produce of the bull ring, and these are the least bitter of his groups IUlfr his own tragic life hen he has the genius to enable ~ edi f of etchings sine the carnage of the bull fight e idently seemed him to communicate his perceptions through the m urn 0 hwnane to him by comparison with the suffering elsewhere. the etcher's tools. Then in 1819 came his second severe illness from whose hallucinations he apparently roduced the series of etchings The Listening Laboratory represented by the WSC library collection-the DiJparateJ ILLIAM G. G EDINGER or Proverbios. Director, Audio-ViJuaJ Center The term "Proverb" is not to be understood here in its usual sense of a common pithy saying which, by implication. The spring semester marked the opening of a new study reveals some moral or homespun truth. These "Proverbs" reaching service in the Holland library as the newly completed are obscure allegories illustrating a sinister folly by the use Listening laboratory went into full-scale operation. of fantastic, nightmarish creatur which do, indeed su est TIlOse who recall the December, 1948, drawings for the the fearful creation of a fe ered mind. In faa, often the libr building may remember that an area in the southwest particular folly being lampooned is not deteaable. Aldous cor: of the third floor carried the designation "Recordings Huxley in his Foreword to a collection of The Complete Library." It might even be recalled that the drawings showed wirin~ Etchings of Goya, issued by Crown Publishers in 1943, c m some partitioning and assorted conduit and arrange ments: "That horse on a tight-rope, for example, with a ments for distribution of recorded sound to both large and oth~r woman dancing on its back; the men who fly with artificial small listening rooms associated with this area and to wings against a sl)' of in menace; the pries and e locations in the building. The new listening laboratory IS el phant; the old m n wandering among phantoms. at in that area, and represents a modernization of the pI ns and is the meaning of these things? And perhaps the answer projections made at the earlier time. . In its design and development the Listening Laboratory 15 to that question is that they have no meaning in any ordinary sense of the word; that they refer to strictly pri ate events intended to serve varied purposes with a minimum of control occup~~cy taking place on the obscurer levels of their creator's mind. and supervision. By far the largest share of its For us who look at them, it may be that their real point will be by Students of foreign languages. Howev r, proVISion and significance onsist precisely in the faa that they ima e has also been made for students requiring dictation praaice for shorthand and for certain uses students of speech. The forth so ividly and yet, of necessity, so darkly and incom by prehensibly, some at least of the unknown quantities that "heart" of the unit is a distribution center which provides thro~gh exi t at the very heart of every personality." agnetic tape and disk record reproduction six chan In the prints which we have, now on display in the Orton nels to the listening rooms. In these locations, selector Room of the WSC library, one can feel in his Own response switches permit the individual to connect a set of earphones to the powerful suggestion of a world of the mind frighteWn to any of s' . channels. A large listening room has forty-four booth-type listening stations, and twO smaller rooms each 32 33 offer six additional positions. For small-group purposes any Ellen Shaffer, the rare book librarian at that p blic of the ix channels may also be heard via loud speakers in library, r ports the servic of the irculation of some 2800 the two small rooms. cuneiform tablets in a ree nt arti Ie in th Library Jour-nat. Ocher facilities of the laboratory include two recording In 1930 a large collection of cuneiform writings was listening booths and portable equipment co use in them or received from John Frederick Lewis, a Philadelphia la er and to be taken into the two smaller rooms for various recording crustee of the Fr Library. Wh n scholars became inter sted or listening purposes. in the collection, Mr. Lewis suggested that, as they studied Initial use of the Li telling Laboratory has been under way chem and worked with them, they should pencil translations since December 2, when the first foreign language stud ms which could then be kept with the material. This proved a began to use the facility on a "shakedown" basis. One section valuable aid to librarians and others interested. In time it each of beginning classes in French, German, and Spanish was decided to circulate the cuneiforms to responsible borrow reported to the laboratory for oral-aural practice on a limited ers who in exchange for the courtesy, would return a transla but regular schedule. This preliminary period permitted in tion with each tablet. Dr. Baruch Weitz 1, curator for the structors to bain experience in planning and recording practice collection and a specialist in cuneiform, checks the accompany materials, and gave them an opportunity to work out opera ing translations as they are returned. tional problems before full operation got under way in The tablets cover a 2700-year span - from the third February. mill nium B.C. to the third century B.c., and are as varied in During the present semester, the laboratory will be oper form as in subject matter. They range in size from one inch ated forty-two hours a week, at hours selected to give all square to over a foot in length and consist of cylindrical and foreign language students the time they will need for practice barr I-shaped "books" to bricks, "nails," seals and parts of and to permit students of shorthand and speech to use the vases. In scope they deal with an amazingly broad field from listening facilities. Actual operation of the laboratory will be legal matters and business transactions to mathematics and carried on by students, under supervision of the Audio-Visual medicine. Center. Many specialises in cuneiform have consulted them, several doctorates have resulted through a study of th m, and some From the Literature of the local high school students, engaged in projects of study A G. SMITH ing cuneiform tablets, visit the Rare Book Department to see Junior Librarian the examples. (Source: Ellen Shaffer, "Circulating Cuneiform," Library Library patrons who believe that all valuable materials JOt~rnatJ July, 1958, pp. 2008-2009.) are kept under lock and key in carefully guarded, remote *. * areas of the library and, hence, inaccessible to the scholar, In 1869 Andrew hite set up a press at Cornell Uni ersiry will be heartened by a service rend red by the Free P blic to provide the students of journalism with a workshop and library of Philadelphia. the university a means of reducing printing costs. With this 34 35 press, the University presses in America may be thought of as handle the bulk of the scholarly journals and some assume having their inception. In spite of the faa that in 1884 the responsibility for all university bulletins and catalogs. the trustees at Cornell found the press wanting in the purpo~ In spite of the faa that most of the American university for which it as instituted, and ordered it discontinued, Johns presses have either been created or attained their growth in Hopkins soon thereafter establish d its press. Chicago and the last twenty years, the play a significant part in the Columbia followed in rapid succession and, by the turn of the publication of educational books. century, the three were succ sfully organized and became the (Source: Chester Kerr, "University Press Publishing," pioneers in American Wliversity presses. In one form or Library Trends July, 1958, pp. 38-49.) another presses were launched at the state universiti:s of Pennsylvania and California and, by 1913, Princ ton, Yale, and Harvard had entered book publishing. It is during the past twenty years, however, that the University presses have flourished. Commercial publishing houses are largely con centrated on the eastern seaboard or in or near Chicago. American university presses can be found in every section of the United States. Publishing programs of considerable size are to be found at Stanford the University of California, Texas, Norrh Carolina, Oklahoma, Michigan, Minnesota, Chi cago, Indiana, Illinois, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Rutgers, Harvard and other institutioDS. The Association of American niversity Presses, which requires its to members publish at the rate of five new/ titles a "!;rearJ' now includes some forty presses, an indication of the size and scope of the output. Each university press finds from 40 to 50 per cent of its list of contributors among the scholars on its campus. The remainder come from other outside scholars who either have no press at their universiti s or who prefer to go to other presses. Many of the presses deny any limitations to their fields of interest; others claim special interests. The most pronoWlced editorial preference among the greatest number of presses, howe er, appears to be an interest in region'lll material. In addition to the publication of books uni ersity presses 36 37 FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY Fi1J,:mce ommitte Board of Directors, 1959 aIr r Tison, Iron, C aIrman w. O. DR FFELJ President . Druffel CoIron Term Expires 0 ember, 1961 olE. Ferris Spokane Joel E. Ferris Spokane and ern Bank, pokan Fre C. Forr r, Pullman Mrs. oe Hi inbotham, 105 uth pring Street, Pulim n .Miss rgia Ja obs, Pullm n alter elson, Colton .Mrs. G. F. Jew tt pokane Miss Marguerite ilmer, 1 13 D Street, Pullman Lauren heir n Pullman T m Expires TO ember 1960 Memb rship Committee C. R. rmstrong, 611 Michi n Avenue. Pullman Ho ard Hughe Pullman, Chairman John H. Binns, 806 Washington Building, Tacoma C. R. Armstrong, Pullman Mrs. Wils n M. C mpron, n a Farms Herndon, irginia Paul T. Bockmier, Garfield . O. Druffel, Colton Adolph He ht, Pullman Term Expires ovember, 1959 C. 1. Hix, PuJ Lma idn y G. Ha k r, 600 Michigan Avenue Pullman ]. D. wis, Pullman Adolph Hecht 306 Derb Street, Pullman Mrs. John cGregor, Hooper Ernest E. Henry, 807 Titl and Trust Building 321 S.W. John agle Pullman Fo th A enu Portland 4, Ore a n :Miss 1 rguerit W.ilmer Pullman Mrs. Ralph Sundquist, 1716 West Yakima A enue, akima P"blications 'lnd Editorial Committee Ex Officio II n Miller, P l'man, Chairman Allen Miller 6 2 Glad tone treet Pullman lson Ault, Pullman Lauren Shelton Tr urer, 4 D rby tre t Pullm n Mrs. Emmer A ery, PulIm n nald Smith, unset Dri e, Pullman Fred Dudl y, Pullman Henry Gras hans Pullman Committe Mrs. oe Higinbotham. Pullman Acquisitions and Project Committe H rman ]. D utsch, Pullman Chairman CIa es of Membership Charles 1. Barker, Pullman (Fiscal J ar begins Lay 15) B. R. Bertran 00, Pullman Annual membership- 3.00 per year 1. E. Buch nan, Pullman Contributing membership- 5.00 per year .r r. Edwin Dummeier, heney Sustaining m mbership- 10.00 per year C. Clemenr French, Pullman Patron membership- 25.00 per year Royal D. Sloan, Pullman Life membership-- 100.00 John P. Spielman, Pullman Memorial membership-more than 100.00 38 39