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The Pacific Lutheran University & Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Grant Papers primarily center around the effects of and response to urban sprawl on the Clover Creek and the Chambers Creek Basin in Pierce County, Washington between 1955 and 2019. These materials include the administrative records of the South Suburban Sewer District, as well as materials relating to the organization’s annexations, correspondence, sewerage planning, and regional reporting on the sewer district’s activities. The material also includes records related to the Chambers Creek-Clover Creek Sewerage Plan, Pierce County organizations and community projects centered on environmental and heritage initiatives, as well as materials that center on the relationship between Pacific Lutheran University’s Environmental Studies Program and the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed.

The papers of Dr. Robert Ericksen includes information on his work as a historian, Holocaust scholar, and professor. The materials consist of manuscripts, poetry, articles, and books.

Interviews with the members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Tacoma Local 23 and other waterfront personalities conducted in the early 1980s. Originally recorded on cassette, these interviews have been digitized and are available online.

Contains sermons & speeches made by Dr John Howard Stough. These materials were donated by Catherine Stough Lotsberg.

Contains information on the Dr. Hans A. Stub family, including memorial memorabilia, anniversary memorabilia, Norwegian American memorabilia, news clippings, and photographs.

Contains papers and correspondence relating to Clarence Solberg's term as bishop, 1967-1982.

Contains correspondence and books written by Edith G. Traver.

Contains materials related to the career of Mikkel Thompson, including personal documents pertaining to his life as a pastor and his musical composition. Although a pastor, he also had an extreme love and passion for music, and music composition. Many of his compositions were written for the church, but he also wrote a number of pieces for his own pleasure that are not dated, nor, at this time, have any recognizable references. Also included here are musical selections he composed to various writers’ poetry, mainly Gertrud Schnackenberg whose father Walter Schnackenberg was a PLU history professor until his death in 1973.

Contains the records of Christ Lutheran Church in Farmington, Washington, including a booklet from their 75th anniversary, correspondence, a congregational statistical record, a congregational historical record, a bulletin from 1975, and a letter of call.

Contains the records of First Scandinavian Lutheran Church in Port Townsend, Washington, including constitution and membership record books.