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This box includes records, minutes, by-laws for Columbia College.

Records of Spokane College, a Lutheran higher education institution that existed from 1905-1929. The records were transferred to Pacific Lutheran College when the Spokane College ceased operations. The records include legal documents, subscription lists, Spokane College Ledger, Spokane College Bulletin and Course Catalog, Collfax, Echo, and Aromaz publications, and photographs.

The Oral History collection contains the recorded interviews of 282 men and women who emigrated from Scandinavia and settled in the Pacific Northwest. The project was started during an experimental course on Scandinavian Women in the Pacific Northwest. Students in the course were encouraged to interview women and learn about their experiences as immigrants to the United States. The project was continued and expanded with support from the president’s office and by grants from the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, from the Joel E. Ferris Foundation and the Norwegian Emigration Fund of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The project was directed by Dr. Janet E. Rasmussen. Upon completion, the collection was transferred to the Archives and Special Collections Department.

The oral history collection is open for personal and scholarly work. For commercial use, please contact archives@plu.edu.

The Office of the Provost Records contain materials from and collected by former provosts of Pacific Lutheran University, material created by the Provost Council, information regarding the search for a provost and about the university’s faculty, and the provosts’ correspondence with the American Lutheran Church. Included are meeting minutes and notes from the Provost Council and various other academic councils, correspondence from individual provosts, documents pertaining to faculty salary, credit hours, sabbaticals, and so on, and various other documents that belong to to departments headed by the Provost.

Contains C. Rupert Swanson’s sermons and a few sermons and articles he collected. Correspondence from while he was president of the Columbia Conference (1913-1929) is located in the Columbia Conference Collection at PLU.

Contains correspondence and books written by Edith G. Traver.

Contains the obituary, Ministerial Book, and correspondence of Henry Rieke (1855-1919). Also included is the obituary of Carl Anton Horn (1855-1915) written by Henry Rieke.

Contains materials related to the career of Roland Swanson mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, including items from his time as an archivist, his correspondence, and his work on church history.

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.