The Pacific Northwest Publication Collection includes books, periodicals, memoirs, and other published materials related to the history, culture, and people of the Pacific Northwest.
Description: 28 pages ; 21 cm. Notes: For the most part a reprint, with omissions, of Gibbs, G., Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon. "Pilling, Bibl. of the Chinookan languages, 1893."
Full title: History of the Pacific Northwest; Oregon and Washington; embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the ... original territory of Oregon; also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a ... description of the climate, soil, productions ... of Oregon and Washington ... Author: North Pacific History Company of Portland, Oregon company; Evans, Elwood, 1828-1898. Description: 2 v. plates (part fold.) ports. 31 cm.
The Nisqually Plains Collection consists of materials on local history of the PLU area collected by Dr. Arthur Martinson. Records include historical Tacoma postcards and promotional materials, correspondence on establishing the Nisqually Plains Room, interviews with former students of Harts Lake School, and listings of photos in the collection.
Full title: A history of the Puget Sound country, its resources, its commerce and its people; with some reference to discoveries and explorations in North America from the time of Christopher Columbus down to that of George Vancouver in 1792 ... Author: Prosser, William Farrand Description: 2 v. fronts., plates, ports. 28 x 22 cm.
