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Locations of Source Documents for Natives in Puget Sound Jay Miller, PhD
The Seattle Public Library Pioneers File Seattle Room Northwest Regional Shelves
Museum of History and Industry MOHAI, Seattle (archives now at Georgetown away from new Lake Union museum) Photo Archives Denny Family Papers (Seattle founders), particularly David (1832-1903) Newspaper Files (P-I photos) Lucile Saunders McDonald (1898-1992) features and articles
Special Collections, University of Washington (until 2004 MSCUA = Manuscripts, Special Collections, and University Archives) Seattle Biography Files Isaac Stevens Papers (below, territorial governor, senator, Indian agent) Edmond Meany Papers (1862-1935, early Historian) Jerry Meeker 3 Notebooks (Puyallup Elder, Land Developer) Erna Gunther Papers (1896–1982, early anthropologist, museum director) Lushootseed Research Archives (Vi Hilbert’s notes, texts by elders) Melville Jacobs Papers (1902-1972, early linguist, folklore, Oregon coast) Seattle Directories, Local Histories, Biography Files, Newspapers John Peabody Harrington microfilms (1884–1961, early linguist) Hill Family (Nathan was local BIA agent at Holmes Harbor, 1850s) Anthropology Department Records Local Histories Microfilms & Newspapers John Peabody Harrington Files (early anthropologist) Willoughby Family (Sarah, artist, Charles, Quinault Indian Agent)
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Burke Museum, Seattle Erna Gunther Papers (see above) Leon Metcalf (first tape recordings in early 1950s of native languages) Director’s Files ~ car & boat use, correspondence Ronald Olson, typed Quinault stories
Lushootseed Research Archives {now @ UW SC above} Native language texts ~ transcriptions Elder biographies Vi Hilbert Biography Fieldnotes
Ethnomusicology Archives, UW, Seattle Lushootseed Research Video and Sound Tape Archives Thom Hess field recordings
Harriet Turner Archives (deceased 2015) Fieldnotes Photos, Tapes Hand drawn maps
Suquamish Archives Court Records Elder Interviews Tapes & Files
Duwamish Archives Recognition Petition
Filipino American National Historical Society, Seattle Biography Files Indapino [Indian – Filipino Offspring] Records
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National Archives and Records Administration, NARA, Seattle Homestead Records & Plats & Tract Books Reservation Agency Records Tulalip, Suquamish, Swinomish, Puyallup Census Records Microfilms ~ M5 > Washington Superintendency Records
Tacoma Public Library Pioneer Files Open Shelves by Locale (look the books) Local Histories Newspaper index
Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma Edwin Eells Papers (Pioneer, Indian Agent) Photo Archives Ezra Meeker Papers (1830-1928, Pioneer, Hops King)
State Library in Olympia Pioneer Files Newspaper Clipping Files George Gibbs Letters and Tribal Censuses, esp. Nez Perce Isaac Stevens Library (First Governor, Senator, Bureau of Indian Affairs Official, federal grant to purchase books for first state library)
Washington State Regional Archives in Bellevue King County Tax records (marked “I” for Indian)
White River Valley Museum Arthur Ballard (1876-1962) biography (lost copy of “Listen My Nephew”) Muckleshoot Records Hops Farming Records, Photo Archives
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Port Townsend, Jefferson County Historical Society Nathan Hill family records, Snoqualmie 1856 Census James Swan materials (his watercolors at Yale)
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley T T Waterman fieldnotes & drafts Arthur Ballard stories Erna Gunther Element Distribution (CED) manuscript (300pp)
American Philosophical Society Franz Boas (1858–1942) archive Herman Haeberlin (1891–1918) letters James Teit 1910 letters Ethel Aginsky (1910–1990) Puyallup linguistics (notebooks at Willits, Ca) Edward Sapir (1884–1939)
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian, DC George Gibbs (1815 - 1873), in the Northwest 1854–1859, native word lists Herman Karl Haeberlin (1891-1918), in NW 1916-17 ( Leslie Spier donation) Thomas Talbot Waterman (1885–1936), in Seattle 1918-1920 John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961), at UW in 1910, in NW in 1942.
American Museum of Natural History, New York Franz Boas (1858-1942), in Washington State many times, especially in 1910, 1927 Herman Haeberlin, (1891–1918), Tulalip 1916–1917, artifacts accession records
Royal Anthropological Society Archives, London Marian Smith, Puget Sound, Sto:lo (microfilm at RBCM Victoria, Ottawa)
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