Historian and archivist, of Washington.
Research files in regional and local history, including correspondence,
clippings, copies of secondary sources, pamphlets, ephemeral items, ms. drafts
for Avery's book
Washington: The Evergreen State (1965), book reviews,
bibliographical material, copies of her articles, typescripts of history
lectures delivered by her at Washington State University, where she was
archivist, and maps, photos, and graphic materials gathered for inclusion in
her publications.
Repository:
Eastern Washington State Historical
Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives
2316 W. First Avenue Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: (509) 363-5313 Fax: (509) 363-5303 Email: archives@northwestmuseum.org
Languages:
Materials are in
English
Sponsor:
Funding for encoding this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Biographical Note
Mary Avery was the author of a number of books and articles on Pacific
Northwest history including
Government of the State of Washington,
1948, and
History and Government of the State of
Washington, 1961. Her
Washington: A History of the Evergreen
State, 1965, was widely used as a high school textbook in the state.
Avery served on many committees and survey projects related to historical
records and research projects; was archivist for the Holland Library at
Washington State University, 1957-1971; and archivist for the Eastern
Washington State Historical Society, 1971-1975.
Content Description
The collection consists of Avery’s research files in regional and
local history. They include some correspondence, clippings, copies of secondary
sources, pamphlets and ephemeral items, manuscript drafts for
Washington: The Evergreen State, book
reviews, bibliographical material, copies of articles by Avery, and typescripts
of history lectures delivered by her at Washington State University. Also
included are maps, photographs, and graphic materials gathered for inclusion in
her publications.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is not restricted.
Restrictions on Use :
Collection is open for use.
Preferred Citation :
Mary W. Avery Research Files (Ms 32), Eastern Washington State
Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.
Administrative Information
Custodial History :
Acquisition Information :
Donated by Mrs. Jack D. Pearson, 1975.
Processing Note :
Processed to the item level.
Duplicates weeded and audiotapes separated to oral history collection
circa 1999
Separated Materials :
Mary Avery Audiotape Collection (located with oral histories).
Bibliography :
Avery, Mary W.,
Washington: A History of the Evergreen
State (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1965).
Avery, Mary W.,
History and Government of the State of
Washington (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press,
1961).
Avery, Mary W.,
Government of Washington State (Seattle,
Washington: University of Washington Press, 1967).
Avery, Mary W. and Herman J. Deutsch,
Guide to Government of the State of
Washington (Pullman, Washington: State College of Washington Press,
Division of General College Extension, 1946).
Additional Reference Guides :
Nolan, Edward W.
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the
Eastern Washington State Historical Society (Spokane, WA: Eastern
Washington State Historical Society, 1987).
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Mary W. Avery inventory and
miscellaneous papers associated with the collection
(a) Inventory and guide.
(b) Mary Avery photographs that have gone into the general
collection, 1979 November 24.
(c) Mary Avery books and magazines consigned to resale, 1979
November 17.
(d) Mary Avery Cassette Collection inventory.
(e) Mary Avery Reel to Reel tape list.
(f) Author index to Mary Avery Reel to Reel tapes.
(a) Fox, Elizabeth Ann. “The Story of a Cattle Baron.” History
432 paper, 1969 December 15.(b) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Twenty-Eighth Biennial Report. 1966
July 1-1968 June 30.(c) Washington. Department of Agriculture. Washington Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service.
Annual Crop Report. 1968. [2
copies](d) Washington. Department of Agriculture. Washington Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service.
Annual Crop Report. 1969. [2
copies](e) Washington. Department of Agriculture. Washington Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service.
Annual Crop Report. 1970. [2
copies](f) Washington Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors,
Washington State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, and Washington
Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and cooperating agencies.
Directory for 1971.(g)
Land of Washington. By Orio W.
Krauter, State Conservationist. Spokane, 1963.(h) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
State Marketing Orders as used in
Washington. 1971.(I)
Dairying the State of Washington. By
Washington Dairy Council.(j)
Dairying. Washington State Dairy
Products Commission.(k)
" Farm-City Shift Not Over Yet." Spokesman-Review, 1970 May 27.
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Agriculture - Eastern
Washington
(a) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Ferry County, Washington
Agriculture. 1964.(b) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Stevens County, Washington
Agriculture. 1964.(c) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Walla Walla County, Washington
Agriculture. 1964.(d) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Yakima County, Washington
Agriculture. 1964.(e)
1965 Handbook, The Agricultural Conservation
Program for Whitman County. by Myron Pflugrad, Chairman, Colfax,
1965.(f) Schleicher, Robert.
Grape Culture in Lewiston-Clarkston
Valley. Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Wash,: Lewiston-Clarkston
Company, 1906.(g) Newspaper Clippings [7]
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Agriculture -
Irrigation
(a)
" Will Our Farmlands Survive." Spokesman-Review Magazine, 1973
April 29, p. 8.(b) Newspaper clippings [5]
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Agriculture – Western
Washington
(a) Olsen, Michael L. “Corporate Farming on Puget Sound: The
Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company.” [16 pages](b) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Gray’s Harbor County, Washington
Agriculture . 1964.(c) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Lewis County, Washington Agriculture
. 1964.(d) Washington. Department of Agriculture.
Skagit County, Washington
Agriculture . 1964.(e) Newspaper clippings [2]
(a) Daughtery, Richard D. "Archaeology of the Lind Coulee Site,
Washington,"
Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society 100 (1956 June ): 223-278.
(b)
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. By Dr.
Roy M. Chatters, Head, Pullman: Washington State University.
Avery, Mary.
Washington: A History of the Evergreen
State
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
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Avery, Mary.
Washington: A History of the Evergreen
State. Seattle: University of Washington. [17 rough draft chapters to
the book many of them duplicates and incompletes]
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Avery, Mary.
Washington: a history of the Evergreen
state. (notes)
(a) Miscellaneous notes and bibliography cards [50 items](b)
Western Bookman, Winter
1956-1957(c) Publisher book previews [3 items](d) Newspaper clippings [5]
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Bibliography -
General
(a) The Association of American University Presses.
A Catalogue of Books on Exhibit. New
York: A.A.U.P., 1961.(b) U.S., Superintendent of Documents.
Hobby Publications. Washington, D.C.
: G.P.O., 1955.(c) Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Caxton Catalog, 1970-1971. Caldwell,
Idaho: Caxton, 1970.(d) Francis Edwards, Ltd.
Early Navigators and Their Voyages,
Shipbuilding, Log Books, Pictures, etc. London: Francis Edwards
Ltd.(e) Washington. Office of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Elementary-Junior High School Library
List . (1955 supplement).(f) Washington. Office of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
High School library reading list.
1959.(g) Washington. Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Elementary-Junior-Senior High School Library
list. 1959.(h) Washington. Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Elementary-Junior-Senior High School Library
list. 1960.(I) Miscellaneous mimeographed bibliographies [4]
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Bibliography -
Microfilms
(a) Connette, Ann – Letter to Clark Memorial Library, 2005 W
Adams, Los Angeles, California.(b) Microfilms – WSC [3 pages](c) British Museums.
Survey of De Fuca Straits. [2
pages]
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Bibliography – Pacific
Northwest
(a) The Northwest Corner.
Library News Bulletin . (1952
September-October; 1953 July-August; 1953 September-October; 1958
October-December).(b) Check list of books and pamphlets relating to the Pacific
Northwest.
PNLA Quarterly . (1959 October; 1960
June; 1961 January).(c) Nostar, Roman and Todd, J. Ronald.
A Checklist of Pacific Northwest Newspapers
Held by the University of Washington Library. Seattle: University of
Washington, 1950.(d) Ye Galleon Press.
Book List: The Pacific Northwest and the
Northwest Coast. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press,
1972-1973.(e) Shorey Book Store.
Shorey Publications. Seattle. [3
catalogs](f) Washington. State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
A Bibliography of the Pacific
Northwest . 1964.(g) Washington. Central Washington College of Education.
Films on Washington and the Pacific
Northwest. 1953.(h) Hitchman, Robert.
Sighted from the Crow’s Nest.
Seattle: Robert Hitchman, 1966 December 27; 1967 June 10; 1967 October 16; 1974
April 1.(I) Miscellaneous mimeographed bibliographies on the Pacific
Northwest [12 items]
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Bibliography –
Survey of selected bibliographical guides
towards compiling a bibliography of Washington history.
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Bibliography –
Washington.
(a) Washington. Washington State Library.
A Selected Booklist on Washington and the
Pacific Northwest. 1961. [3 copies](b) Washington. Washington State Library.
Washington State Publications. (Vol.
1, No 1-Vol. 1 No. 3; Vol. 2, No. 1 – Vol. 2 No. 2; Vol. 2, No. 4 – Vol. 4, No.
1; Vol. 5,– No. 1 – Vol. 7, No. 1; Vol. 9; Vol. 11; Vol. 18). [21 items](c) Washington. Washington State Library.
Washington State Government and Politics
1845-1971 . 1971.(d) Washington. Washington State Library.
Washington State Authors. 1969 &
1971.(e) Washington. Washington State Library.
The Negro in the State of Washington,
1788-1967. 1968.(f) Washington. Washington State Library.
The Negro in the State of Washington,
1788-1967. 1970.(g) Washington. Washington State Library.
Washington State Publications . 1962
April 2; 1964 January 1-June 30; 1965 June; 1965 July; 1965 September; 1967
October 21.(h) Mac Echern, John and Cooke, Margaret B.
A Bibliography of Agriculture in Territorial
Washington. Pullman: State College of Washington, 1953. [2 copies](I) Recent additions to Washington author collection.
Library News Bulletin . 1951; 1952
November-December; 1953 January-February; 1953 November-December; 1954
January-February; 1954 July-August; 1955 March-April; 1955 May-June; 1955
July-September; 1955 October-December; 1956 January-March; 1956
October-December; 1957 October-December; 1958 January-March; 1958
July-September; 1959 October-December; 1966 January-March. [17 items](j) Washington. Washington State Library.
Washington State Fact and Fiction .
1967-1970; 1972. [6 items](k) Miscellaneous mimeographed bibliographies on Washington
state [3]
(a) Kowrach, Edward J.
How silently – A history of the catholic
church of the Big Bend Missions and St. Anne Church, Medical Lake.
Medical Lake: St. Anne Press, 1963.
(b) West. Otho.
I remember and the Congregationalists.
Pullman: Community Congregational Church, 1970.
(a) Washington. Division of Governmental Studies and Services.
Washington State University.
Proceedings of the Institute for County
Commissioners, Pullman, Washington, March 9-10, 1965.
(b) Washington state associations of County Commissioners and
County Engineers.
The book of the Counties. 1953.
(c) Washington state associations of counties.
Enactments by the Second Extraordinary Session
of the 42nd Legislature of Interest to Washington Counties. Olympia:
Washington State Association of Counties, 1972.
(d) League of Women Voters of Washington.
Statement of Mrs. Edmund H. Brand . . . on the
Columbia River Basin. Seattle: L.W.V.W., 1963.
(e) League of Women Voters of Washington.
Report from L.W.V.W. on Washington’s Pollution
Problems. Seattle: L.W.V.W., 1963.
(f) Washington. Department of Ecology.
Chapter 43.21A.
(g) Washington. Pollution Control Hearings Board of Washington.
Chapter 43.21B.
(h)
Northwest: The Sunday Oregonian
magazine, 1969 September 7.
(a) Beckett, Paul and Sunderland, Celeste.
" Washington State’s Lawmakers: Some
Personal Factors in the Washington Legislature." Western Political Quarterly 10 (1957
March): 180-202.
(b) Johnson, Claudius O.
" The Washington Blanket Primary." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 33 (1942
January): 27-39.
(c) Ogden, Donald M.
" Washington’s Popular Primary." Research studies of the State College of
Washington 19 (1951 September): 139-161.
(a) McGinnis, Charles.
Potentials of Irrigation in the Pacific
Northwest. Olympia: Department of Conservation. ?(b) U.S. Department of the Interior.
1964 report: U.S. Columbia River Power
System . 1964.(c) U.S. Department of the Interior.
1965 report: U.S. Columbia River Power
System . 1965.(d) U.S. Department of the Interior.
1969 report: U.S. Columbia River Power
System . 1969.(e) U.S. Department of the Interior.
Advance program, 1965-1975.(f) Newspaper clippings [17](g) Miscellanea [3 items]
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Electric Power – Columbia Basin
Project – Dams
(a)
Description of Grand Coulee Dam and its
construction. 19 p.(b)
Why fountains at Grand Coulee Dam; Proposal
to beautify the spillway.(c) Materials on Rocky Reach Dam. [13 items](d) Newspaper clippings [14]
2/42
Electric Power – U.S. and
Canada
(a) Newspaper clippings [6]
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Electric Power – Western States –
Compacts
(a)
Guardian of an empire. . . The Columbia
Interstate Compact.(b) Newspaper clippings [9]
(a) Washington. Department of Fisheries.
Salmon Hatcheries.(b) Washington. Department of Fisheries.
Pacific Northwest Marine Fishes .
1967.(c) Washington. Department of Fisheries.
Washington State Shellfish .
1964.(d) Washington. Department of Fisheries.
Report of Second Governor’s Conference on
Pacific Salmon . 1963.(e) Washington. Department of Fisheries. 77th Annual Report.
1967.(f) Washington. Department of Fisheries. 70th Annual Report.
1969.(g) Kincaid, Trevor.
The Oyster Industry of Wallapa Bay,
Washington. Seattle: Calliostoma CO., 1951.(h) Miscellanea [4 items]
(a) Fort Walla Walla Museum Complex.
Fort Walla Walla . . . Founding of Walla Walla
. . . Walla Walla in 1859. Walla Walla: Fort Walla Walla Museum
Complex.
(a)
The Amerindian: American Indian
Review, 1961 May-June.(b) Big West, 1969 June.(c) Center for the Study of Migrant and Indian Education.
Indian Education Bibliography.
Toppenish, Washington: Center for the Study of Migrant and Indian Education,
1971.(d) Clark, Ella E.
" The Pleiades: Indian and Greek
Versions." Research Studies. State College of
Washington.(e) Gunther, Erna.
" The Indians of the Northwest." The Mountaineer. 1953 December 15,
pp. 17-19.(f) Ewers, John C.
The Story of the Blackfeet.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1952.(g) Gunther Erna.
" The Search for the first
Americans." PS.(h) Washington. State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The Red Man in America. 1970.(I)
The Westerners. 1967.(j) Pictures of Indian scenes [9 - Kept in the Avery OV-3”
box](k) Miscellanea [4 items](l) Newspaper clippings [7]
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Indians - Art
(a) Magazine Articles [5]
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Indians – Coastal
(a) Nuckles, Madge E.
" Alec Thomas." 1970 March 7.(b) Newspaper clippings [3](c) Miscellanea [2 items]
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Indians – Culture and
language
(a) Culture Areas in Kroeber’s 1939 numbering system.(b) Linguistic families of Washington Indians.(c) Oregon Historical Society.
Indian Tribes and Languages of the Old
Oregon Country. Portland, Oregon: O.H.S., 1958.
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Indians – Inland
Empire
(a)
" Perpetuating the Indian
Heritage." Spokesman-Review, 1971 January
17.(b) Newspaper clippings [5](c) Photograph of a petroglyphs.
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Indians – Nez Perce
(a) Columbia-Snake River Park.(b) Baily, Joe.
" Nez Perce in Yellowstone." The Pacific Northwesterner. Winter
1967, pp. 1-12.(c) Black Eagle’s Narrative of the last fight, and Black eagle’s
dream forecasting his combat with the Grizzly bear.(d)
" Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce." Century Magazine, 1884 May.(e) Wot-to-len.
" Lewis and Clark, Explorers."
1926 October.(f) Chief Peopeotholekt.
" Origin of the war bonnet. Story of two
young men." 1926 July.(g) Chief Peopeotholekt.
" The Eagle bone war whistle of
Peopeotholekt." (h) Correspondence, 1932-1935. [3 items](I) Photographs and photocopies [19 items](j) Newspaper clippings [12](k) Miscellanea [5]
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Indians – Wanapum
(a) Prints [3](b) Newspaper clippings [2]
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Indians – Yakima
(a) Nolan, Edward W.
A bibliography of the Yakima. 1959
December.(b) Newspaper clippings [11](c) Miscellanea [2]
(c) Washington. Legislative Council.
Legislative Summary: Measures Enacted into Law
1957 Legislature Session.
(d) Washington. Legislative Council.
Ninth Biennial Report of the Washington State
Legislative Council Submitted to the 39th Legislature 1965 January.
(e) Association of Washington Industries.
Digest and Analysis of Enacted Laws
Thirty-Ninth Legislative Session, 1965. Seattle: A.W.I., 1965.
(f) Washington. Citizens Advisory Committee.
City and Suburb-Community or Chaos Report of
the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Joint Committee on Urban Area
Government. 1962.
(g) House of Representatives miscellanea [4 items]
(a) Avery, Mary. “Physical characteristics of the Pacific
Northwest.”(b) Avery, Mary. “Indian Culture.” 31 March 1970.(c) Avery, Mary. “Maritime Fur Trade.” 8 April 1970.(d) Avery, Mary. “Overland Fur Trade.”(e) Avery, Mary. “Missionary Period.”(f) Avery, Mary. “Evolution of Washington State from Oregon
Country.”(g) Avery, Mary. “Manifest Destiny; Indian Treaties.”(h) Avery, Mary. “Civil War: Anti-Chinese Riots.”(I) Avery, Mary. “Labor History: First World War.”(j) Avery, Mary. “The New Deal: World War II.”(k) Avery, Mary. “Government of Washington State.”(l) Avery, Mary. “British attitude toward ownership of
Oregon.”
(a) Avery, Mary. “Introduction and Colonial America.”(b) Avery, Mary. “The Constitutional Convention.”(c) Avery, Mary. “The Young Republic.”(d) Avery, Mary. “The Civil War and Civil War Background.”(e) Avery, Mary. “The Westward Movement.”
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Lectures 6-7
(a) Avery, Mary. “Manifest Destiny; Indian Treaties.”(b) Avery, Mary. “First World War.”(c) Avery, Mary. “The issue of slavery in the Oregon
Territory.”
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Lecture 8
(a) Avery, Mary. “Populism.”(b) Avery, Mary. “Legislation regarding minorities.”(c) Avery, Mary. “The New Deal.”(d) Avery, Mary. “World War II and aftermath.”
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Lectures 9-11
(a) Avery, Mary. “Labor history; First World War.”(b) Avery, Mary. “The New Deal.”(c) Avery, Mary. “The New Deal; World War II.”(d) Avery, Mary. “Government of Washington State.”
(a) Washington. Joint Committee on Governmental Cooperation.
Washington State Legislature 1961-1963
. 1963.
(b) Rossellini, Albert D.
Message of Albert D. Rossellini, Governor of
Washington to the thirty-ninth legislature. Olympia: ?, 1965.
(c) Webster, Donald. H., Campbell, Ernest H. and Smith, George D.
The Legislature and the Legislative Process in
the State of Washington. Seattle: University of Washington, 1966.
(d) Washington. Secretary of State.
Directory: Washington State
Legislature 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, and 1971.
(e) Rosters of members in the State legislature. [6 items]
(f)
Legislative Newsletter, 1967 January
23; 1967 January 27; 1967 February 24; 1967 March 10; and 1969 January 23.
(g)
The Washington State Voter, 1963
February; 1966 December; 1967 February; 1967 April; 1970 December.
(a) Loos, John L. “They opened the door to the West.”
(b) U.S. Department of the Interior.
Brief account of the Lewis and Clark
expedition from St. Louis , Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon
and return 1804-1806. 1906.
(c) Stevens, James. “Right of way west”, Macfarland, Robert. “The
Lewis and Clark country a century and a half later”
Lewis and Clark: Our National Epic of
Exploration 1804-1806. ?: Northern Pacific Railway Co., ?
(a) Washington. Department of Commerce & Economic Development.
Statistical Handbook of Washington’s Forest
Industry . 1964.
(b) Washington. Department of Natural Resources.
Forests of Washington State . ?.
(c) Washington. Department of Natural Resources.
Report on Log Export Problem .
1966.
(d) Washington. Department of Natural Resources.
Sixth Biennial Report, 1966-1968.
(e) American Hardboard Association.
The Story of Hardboard. Chicago:
A.H.A., 196?.
(f) Crown Zellerbach Corp.
Paper . . its story. San Francisco:
Crown Zellerbach Corp., 1950.
(g) Fisher W. Halder.
Report on Analysis of the Relationship of
Softwood Log Exports to the Economy of the State of Washington.
Columbus: Battelle Memorial Institute, 1964.
(h) Hardwood Plywood Institute.
The story of Hardwood Plywood.
Arlington, VA.: H.P.I., 1963.
(I) Schlosser, Mark.
" The log export problem of the U.S. and
the Pacific Northwest in particular." Washington state history,
1969.
(j) U.S. Department of the Interior.
Natural resources of Washington.
1963.
(k) Washington Committee of American Forest Products Industries.
Washington: Transition in the Timber.
Seattle: W.C. of A.F.P.I., 1966.
(l)
Totem, 1967 January, March, April,
June-December; 1968 February . [11 issues]
