Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Original Writings
Series III: Biographical Material
Series IV: Interviews
Series V: Indian Materials
Series VI: Indexes and Lists
Series VII: Whatcom County Historical Materials
Series VIII: Pacific Northwest Historical Materials
Series IX: The Bernard N. McDonough Business Records
Series X: Legal Documents and Papers
Series XI: Scrapbooks
Series XII: Newspaper Clippings

Series XIII: Microfilm

Series XIV: Audio materials

Series XV: Maps

Series XVI: Photographs

Series I - Correspondence, 1938-1965

Series II - Original Writings, Undated

Box 2

2/1 "The Lummi River" I (10 draft chapters)
2/2 "The Lummi River" II (12 draft chapters)
2/3 Lummi Tales
2/4 Journal and Miscellaneous Notes
2/5 Writer's Projects
2/6 Drafts of writings on Northwest Washington topics
2/7 Archaeological notes and writings on Whatcom County
2/8 Manuscript: "Investigations of the Prehistoric Human Remains of the Lower
        Nooksack"
2/9 Manuscript: "California Report." This includes comments on historical
        materials found in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley and the Los Angeles
        Public Library
2/10 Miscellaneous Manuscripts
2/11 Notes on collections in various libraries and museums
2/12 Notes on miscellaneous Northwest Washington historical matters

Series III - Biographical Materials, Undated

Box 3

3/1 Notecards on the biographical materials
3/2 John Allen Family (and Mary Cecilia Allen Diary)
3/3 Solomon Allen (I)

3/4 Solomon Allen (II)
3/5 William T. Ballou
3/6 Ellis Barnes (I)

3/7 Ellis Barnes (II)
3/8 John Barnes
3/9 Carl Bell
3/10 John Broyles
3/11 Ray Buswell
3/12 A.C. Buswell
3/13 Eugene Canfield

Box 4

4/1 Francis Celestine
4/2 Phillip M. Clark
4/3 Edward Collier
4/4 Dan Cooper
4/5 Harrison Cowden
4/6 Lyman Cutler
4/7 David and Martha Dealy
4/8 Abner Dunn
4/9 Edward Eldridge
4/10 Teresa Eldridge
4/11 Charles and Lizzie Frank
4/12 Peter Gallagher
4/13 Roland Gamwell
4/14 Major Edson Gerry
4/15 Alfred Hamilton
4/16 Dan Harris
4/17 Lida Hawley
4/18 James G. Hedge
4/19 Eric A. Hegg
4/20 Ella Higginson
4/21 Charles H. Hurlbut
4/22 William Jarman
4/23 Charley Kahana
4/24 Lawrence "Smuggler" Kelly
4/25 William King Lear
4/26 Mary Frances Lysle
4/27 Frank Mahoney
4/28 Alexander Maclean
4/29 Bernard McDonough
4/30 John Munro
4/31 Pardon and Israel O'Brien
4/32 Russell V. Peabody
4/33 Gage Abner Pence

Box 5

5/1 Captain George E. Pickett
5/2 Frank Reid and "Soapy" Smith
5/3 Charles E. and Marie W. Roberts
5/4 Captain Henry Roeder
5/5 Chris Siegel
5/6 John A. Tennant
5/7 David E. Tuck
5/8 Guy E. Van Horn
5/9 Moses Yunkin
5/10 Miscellaneous Biographical Items
5/11 Articles relating to Whatcom County residents by P.R. Jeffcott

Series IV - Interviews, Undated

5/12 John Allen
5/13 Solomon Allen
5/14 W.E. Banks and E.A. Hegg
5/15 Henry Barrett
5/16 Carl Bell
5/17 Mrs. John Berger and Mrs. C.L. Annis
5/18 Mrs. Jack Bizer
5/19 Charley Bond
5/20 Mrs. Irene (Taylor) Bond on James H. Taylor
5/21 Mrs. George Boone
5/22 Mrs. Johanna Brown
5/23 Harry S. Byther
5/24 Mrs. Hallie Lysle Campbell
5/25 Julius Charles
5/26 Phil Clark
5/27 Mrs. John Clearwater
5/28 Mrs. Lelah Jackson Edson
5/29 Mrs. Frances U. Evans
5/30 Mrs. Nettie (James L.) Fox
5/31 Roland Gamwell
5/32 Bert Garris

5/33 William Gibson
5/34 Mrs. Sam W. Harden
5/35 Robert Emmett Hawley
5/36 Edmund S. Hincks
5/37 Mrs. Howard Holmes
5/38 Charles H. Hurlbut Sr.
5/39 Peter James
5/40 Percival R. Jeffcott and his wife
5/41 Sidney Jones
5/42 Mr. Johnston
5/43 Charley Kahana
5/44 Delia Keeler
5/45 Dr. William Keyes
5/46 L.A. Kibbe
5/47 Mabel Munroe Noffsinger Lameraux
5/48 Mrs. Anne Larson
5/49 Mrs. James Scott Lashua
5/50 Nellie Lee
5/51 Jim Lewis
5/52 Mrs. Fred Loveland
5/53 Mrs. Malmberg
5/54 Retta Markwood
5/55 Chief August Martin and John Brown
5/56 Mrs. Emily Mohrmann
5/57 Mrs. John Morrison
5/58 Mrs. John A. Munch
5/59 Harvey Nelson
5/60 J.B. Nicholls
5/61 Will D. Pratt
5/62 Mrs. Annie Tawes Ray
5/63 Ira Robinson
5/64 H. and Albert C. Rossell
5/65 Jack Sheilds
5/66 Fred Siegel
5/67 Henry Slater
5/68 Mrs. Fred Smith

5/69 Julia Wynn Smith
5/70 Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Stanley
5/71 Eugene Thurlow

5/72 George Trigg
5/73 Walter Wallace
5/74 Frank Wiffler
5/75 Mrs. Jennie (Stand) Robins Winter
5/76 Miscellaneous items

Series V - Indian Materials, 1867-1964

Box 6

6/1 Items on Indian languages including Chinook Jargon
6/2 Indian nomenclature
6/3 Indian Treaties
6/4 The Point Eliot Treaty
6/5 Lummi Indians
6/6 Lummi Indians
6/7 Lummi Indians

6/8 Lummi Indians

6/9 Lummi Indians: Jefferson v. Old Polan Case
6/10 Lummi Stommish programs, 1955-1964
6/11 "The Lummi Indians of the Pacific Northwest" by John Johnston
6/12 Manuscript: Wayne Suttles "Post White Culture Change at Lummi"
6/13 Lummi School, D.A.R. Essays (Contest)
6/14 Manuscript: Frances Mayhew, "Essays on Indian Topics" 1931
6/15 Photostat: letter of Edward Eldridge to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs
        August 8, 1867
6/16 Totem Poles of Whatcom County
6/17 "Squaw Men" of Whatcom County
6/18 Lummi Indian Reservation, 1883 allotments
6/19 Handwritten notes on Indian life
6/20 Letter from Hugh Eldridge to Roland Gamwell on Indian lore and life

        November 20, 1924

Box 7

7/1 Notes on Lummi Indians
7/2 Notes on Indians, mainly Lummi
7/3 Notes on matters conchological, archaeological, and geological
7/4 Buswell materials on Indian artifacts

7/5 Indian canoes and canoe races
7/6 Lummi Indian basketwork project
7/7 Letter from Andrew Mattson to Charles M. Buchanan, Superintendent
        Tulalip Reservation, on Indian tidelands, March 4, 1914
7/8 Buswell's notes on Theodore Winthrop's The Canoe and the Saddle
7/9 Report of the Planning Committee of the Tulalip Indian Agency, 1944-1957
7/10 H.D. McCullough, "Tulalip Ten-Year Program Summary" 1944
7/11 Materials pertaining to Dr. Charles Milton Buchanan on Indian matters
7/12 Skagit County: Sale of Liquor to Indians, 1893-1897
7/13 Lummi Indian Census Materials  1885-1950

Series VI - Indexes and Lists, Undated

Box 8

8/1 Book lists
8/2 Book reviews and book notices
8/3 Index to the Charles H. Hurlbut  Papers (it should be noted that these papers
        comprise the bulk of the legal documents contained in boxes 19-27 inclusive)
8/4 Indexes to interviews
8/5 Notes on the McDonough Business Records
8/6 Items relating to Buswell's map collection
8/7 Notes on the microfilm and photostats in the collection
8/8 Notes on miscellaneous published works
8/9 Newspaper collection list
8/10 Lists of photographs in the collection
8/11 U.S.G.S. indexes
8/12 Miscellaneous indexes and lists
8/13 Miscellaneous Notecards

8/14 Miscellaneous Notecards
8/15 Binder with Collection index (inaccurate)

Series VII - Whatcom County Historical Materials, 1858-1957

Box 9

9/1 County Auditor: Notes on tax rolls, etc.
9/2 Brickyards of Whatcom County
9/3 Bridges and ferries of Whatcom County
9/4 Cattle brands
9/5 Cemeteries and burial grounds
9/6 Checklist of suggested field trips for scouts
9/7 County Commissioners: proceedings
9/8 County Clerk and County Treasurer: various items
9/9 Notes on donation claims and homestead claims
9/10 Fisheries and fish traps
9/11 Livestock items
9/12 Nooksack River: various items and notes

9/13 Nooksack River: various items and notes
9/14 Old Settlers' Association of Whatcom County

9/15 Pamplets and Business Cards

9/16 Warrants, 1889-1891

9/17 Checks, 1901-1940

9/18 Taxpayers' League letters on Bellingham Prohibition Vote, 1910

9/19 Miscellaneous items

Box 10

10/1 Original survey of Whatcom County
10/2 Photographers of Whatcom County
10/3 Pioneer settlers of Whatcom County
10/4 Post offices of Whatcom County
10/5 Railroads of Whatcom County
10/6 Probate records of Whatcom County
10/7 Roads of Whatcom County
10/8 Schools of Whatcom County
10/9 Sheriff of Whatcom County
10/10 Shipwrecks, mainly in Whatcom County
10/11 Statistics of the 1860 Census: Whatcom County, compiled by Mrs. John B.
        Mayer, D.A.R., 1931-1932
10/12 Steamboats and river boats of Whatcom County
10/13 Steamboats- Captain James W. Tarte
10/14 The Telegraph Road
10/15 The Whatcom Trail and the Fraser gold rush
10/16 Miscellaneous Materials- Land claims, Lower Nooksack- Marietta, Lummi
10/17 Edson-Gerry: Formation of Memorial College: Younkin-Dealy-Monroe Land 

        Claims

10/18 Fishing License Applications

10/19 Programs and Pamphlets

10/20 Envelopes - Addressed and Stamped

10/21 Receipts and Accounts

Box 11

11/1 Bellingham: Housing Tour, May 21, 1957
11/2 Manuscript: "Historic Buildings of Bellingham and Whidbey Island" Compiled by

        Henry S. Byther, 1935
11/3 City of Bellingham: Poll Book, Tally Sheet and Official Census, November 1904

        General Election
11/4 Items on Eliza Island
11/5 Items on Fairhaven
11/6 Items on Lummi Island
11/7 Items on Marietta
11/8 The churches of Marietta
11/9 New Whatcom items: notices, ordinances
11/10 New Whatcom: additional items
11/11 New Whatcom: roll book of members of the New Whatcom Fire Department- June

        1895 on. Also includes lists of bicycle licenses  issued 1899-1901
11/12 Legal Agreement: City of New Whatcom and Charles E. Lind, 1900
11/13 W.G. Hawkins Papers

Box 12

12/1 Military affairs pertaining to Whatcom County, 1850's
12/2 Lists of Washington Territorial Volunteers
12/3 Photostat: Contract with Fitzhugh and Warbass to construct the Military Road from 

        Whatcom to Fort Bellingham, 1858
12/4 Copy of Inspector-General Mansfield's report on the Inspection of the Post of

        Semi-ah-moo, December 1858
12/5 Items on Fort Bellingham
12/6 Notes on local newspapers (Whatcom County)
12/7 Notes on the Marietta Messenger
12/8 Notes on the Northern Light and the Gazette (Victoria)
12/9 KGMI  radio editorials

Oversize Folder 1

Whatcom County Post Office Records (Copies from National Archives, map of Ferndale) ca. 1866-1909

Series VIII - Pacific Northwest Historical Materials, 1946-1959

Box 13

13/1 Exploration of the Pacific Northwest, particularly the Spanish explorations
13/2 Pacific Northwest river boats
13/3 Ships and shipping
13/4 Washington place names
13/5 The Donation Land Law of Oregon
13/6 Notes on archives and manuscript collections of the Pacific Northwest
13/7 Notes on the British Columbia Provincial Archives, including notes on a 1946 visit to the Provincial Archives
13/8 Notes on Pacific Northwest weather
13/9 United States District Court Records
13/10 Port Townsend Customs Records
13/11 Items on the San Juan Islands
13/12 Manuscript: "The San Juan Islands" by Walbert Peterson
13/13 The Marriage Laws of Washington
13/14 Notes on Pacific Northwest history
13/15 British Columbia items

13/16 Pamphlets

13/17 Salmon Can Labels

13/18 Map of Alaska, 1959
13/19 Miscellaneous items

Oversize Folder 1

Northwest American Water Boundary (photocopied Spanish, English and American maps) ca. 1791-1792, 1858-1859
Point Elliot Treaty and other treaty papers (Photostats) January 22, 1855
 

Series IX - Bernard N. McDonough Business Records, 1874-1913

Box 14

14/1 Buswell's notes on the McDonough Account Books
14/2 Miscellaneous accounts
14/3 Bills and Receipts
14/4 Personal Correspondence
14/5 Business Correspondence
14/6 Insurance documents and papers
14/7 Bernard N. McDonough- Army Pension Certificate

14/8 Account Books

Box 15

15/1 Account Book (no cover) 1874-1875

15/2 Account Book 1874-1876

15/3 Account Book 1877-1879

15/4 Account Book 1876-1881

15/5 Account Book 1882-1891

15/6 Account Book 1882-1884

Box 16

16/1 Account Book 1880

16/2 Account Book 1880-1881

16/3 Account Book 1881-1882

16/4 Account Book 1882-1883

Box 17

17/1 Account Book 1883-1886

17/2 Account Book 1886-1887

17/3 Account Book 1889-1891

Box 18

18/1 Account Book 1891-1898

18/2 Account Book 1898-1901

18/3 Account Book 1901-1904

18/4 Account Book 1877

Box 18a

18/5 Account Book 1900-1901

18/6 Account Book 1901-1902

18/7Account Book 1902

18/8 Account Book 1885-1913

Series X - Legal Documents and Papers, 1822-1925

Box 19

19/1 Bellingham Poultry Association
19/2 Pacific Woolgrowers Credit Corporation
19/3 Pomona Fair Association, Whatcom County
19/4 Aberdeen Packing Company
19/5 Apex Fish Company, Anacortes
19/6 Carlisle Packing Company, Lummi Island
19/7 Carlisle Packing Company
19/8 Carlisle Packing Company
19/9 Carlisle Packing Company
19/10 Exchange Fish Company, Bellingham
19/11 Fulton Oyster and Fish Company, Bellingham
19/12 Graham Fish Company, Bellingham
19/13 Haro Fish Company, Bellingham
19/14 Liberty Packing Company
19/15 Lummi Bay Packing Company
19/16 Lummi Rocks Fishing Company
19/17 National Packing Company, Port Angeles
19/18 Pacific American Fishing Company
19/19 Puget Sound Packing Company, Fairhaven

19/20 Puget Sound Packing Company Letterbook, 1900-1903
 
Box 20

20/1 San Juan Fishing and Packing Company, Seattle
20/2 Shaw Island Canning Company, Shaw Island
20/3 Miscellaneous lumber leases, Whatcom County
20/4 Materials concerning log booms
20/5 A-P Shingle Company (originally Windsor Park Shingle Company)
20/6 Bellingham Bay Boom Company
20/7 Bellingham Bay Shingle and Lumber Company
20/8 Bertram Shingle Company, Lynden
20/9 Burpee Brothers Company, Anacortes
20/10 Clearbrook Lumber Company, Bellingham
20/11 Cleaves-Dickerson Company, Whatcom County
20/12 Clipper Shingle Company
20/13 Cody Shingle Company, Bellingham
20/14 Custer Shingle Company
20/15 Enterprise Mill Company, Ferndale
20/16 Excelsior Lumber Company, Ferndale
20/17 Gilt Edge Shingle Company
20/18 Guaranty Lumber Company, Noon's Station, Whatcom County
20/19 Homestead Shingle Company, Bellingham
20/20 Kahlar-Bell Shingle Company, Bellingham
20/21 Marietta Shingle Company
20/22 Carl Miller Lumber Company
20/23 Miller-Kinyon Shingle Company
20/24 Modern Shingle Company, Custer
20/25 Mogul Logging Company, Whatcom County
20/26 National Mill Company, Bellingham
20/27 Pacific Fir Company, Seattle
20/28 Parker Shingle Mill Company, Blaine
20/29 Pillsbury and Cleaves Brothers Shingle Company, Ten Mile, Whatcom County
20/30 Red Cedar Shingle Manufacturers' Association, Seattle
20/31 Reull Shingle Mill, Whatcom County
20/32 Ritchie-Shelton Lumber Company, Whatcom County
20/33 Rollins and Adams Shingle Company, Whatcom County
20/34 Union Manufacturing Company, New Whatcom
20/35 Valley Shingle Company, Lake Padden
20/36 Walker Shingle Company, Lawrence
20/37 West Coast Timber Company
20/38 Whatcom Timber Company
20/39 Wyatt and Miller Lumber Company
20/40 Miscellaneous mining papers
20/41 Mining leases and indentures
20/42 Alaska Drilling and Mining Company, Bellingham
20/43 Bellingham Bay Coal Company, Sehome
20/44 Bellingham Coal Mines Company
20/45 Bellingham National Gas Company
20/46 Bellingham Placer Mining Company
20/47 Galena Mining Company, Whatcom County
20/48 Gold Sea Mining Company, Bellingham

Box 21

21/1 Hoosier Mining Company, Seattle

21/2 Hoosier Mining Co. Share Certificate Register, 1902-1906
21/3 Nooksack Bend Oil Company, Bellingham
21/4 Northwest Oil and Gas Company, Bellingham
21/5 Olympic Portland Cement Company, Bellingham

21/6 Olympic Portland Cement Company, Bellingham
21/7 Swift Creek Mining and Smelting Company, New Whatcom

21/8 Swift Creek Mining and Smelting Company, New Whatcom
21/9 Twin Sisters Mining Company, Bellingham
21/10 Fawcett Brothers Company, Bellingham
21/11 Pioneer Livery and Transfer Company, Bellingham
21/12 Bellingham Tug and Barge Company, Bellingham
21/13 Lynden Electric Motor Railway Company
21/14 Lynden Electric Railway and Improvement Company

21/15 Canfield-Caulkins Implement Co.

21/16 Materials regarding Edmund A. Smith's Fish Cleaning Machine Patent, 1905

Box 22

22/1 Seattle and Montana Railroad Company
22/2 Silver Lake Telephone Company Articles of Incorporation
22/3 Sumas Electric Light Company
22/4 The Whatcom Rochdale Company
22/5 Thomas Kelley and William T. Hatton: articles of co-partnership
22/6 Whatcom County: miscellaneous items on companies
22/7 Puget Sound Loan, Trust, and Banking Company

22/8 Sample Stock Certificates

22/9 U.S. Circuit Court, Northern Division Case #163: United States vs. Bellingham Bay

        Boom Co., filed June 13, 1895

22/10 U.S. Circuit Court, Northern Division Case #292: United States vs. The Skagit

        Boom Company, filed June 19, 1894
22/11 U.S. Circuit Court Case #626: John W. Lynch vs. the Steamer "Cascade," filed

        June 1893
22/12 U.S. Circuit Court Case #636: Charles O'Brien, et al, vs. the Barque "McNear",

        August 1893

22/13 U.S. Circuit Court Case #636: Charles O'Brien, et al, vs. the Barque "McNear"

        Testimony, August 1893

22/14 U.S. District Court Case #648: William S. Pulver vs. the Steamer "San Juan"

        September 27, 1893

22/15 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #26:   William Munks vs. the 

        Steamer "Susie", August 11, 1883

Box 23

23/1 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #660: Chris Paulson et al. vs

        the Steamer-Tug "Mystic", Testimony, September 25, 1893
23/2 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #661: W.B. Seymour vs. the

        Steamer "Ellis", Commissioner's Report of Testimony, September 13, 1893
23/3 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #675: S. Saunders, et al. vs the

        Steamer "Ellis", October 13, 1893
23/4 United States District Court, Northern Division Case # ?: George Nolte and Charles

        Nolte vs. the Steamer "Island Belle", December 7, 1893
23/5 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #755: Bellingham Bay Iron

        Works vs. the Steamer "Brick", May 23, 1894

23/6 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #755: Bellingham Bay Iron

        Works vs. the Steamer "Brick", Time Book, May 23, 1894

23/7 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #764: E.E. Libby, et al. vs. the

        Steamer "Buckeye", May 17, 1894

23/8 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #764: E.E. Libby, et al. vs. the

        Steamer "Buckeye", Ledgers, May 24, 1894

Box 24

24/1 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #1768: R.E. Gibbon, et al. vs.

        the Steamer "Newsboy", August 2, 1901

24/2 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #1768: R.E. Gibbon, et al. vs.

        the Steamer "Newsboy", Testimony and Evidence, August 2, 1901

24/3 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #1079: Puget Sound Sawmill

        and Shingle Co. vs. Pacific American Fisheries Company, October 1, 1904

24/4 United States District Court, Northern Division Case #1079: Puget Sound Sawmill and Shingle Co. vs. Pacific American Fisheries Company, Receiver's Report,  November 4, 1905
24/5 United States Circuit Court Case #2011: United States vs. L.J. Sennes,

        August 18, 1911

24/6 United States Circuit Court Case #2011: United States vs. L.J. Sennes,         August 18, 1911

24/7 United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Case #3153: United States vs. J.W. Romaine, January 6, 1919

24/8 United States District Court/United States Commissioners' Court Case #643: United States vs. C.F. Swan, June 13, 1893
 

Box 25

25/1 Legal papers concerning the state of Alabama, 1822-1866
25/2 Territory of Washington vs. Abner Dunn, Justice of the Peace transcripts,        October 22, 1862
25/3 Superior Court, Skagit County, Munks vs. Munks
25/4 Whatcom Co. Superior Court: Marianne C. Windsor vs. Andrew J. Pence,        May 26, 1900
25/5 Whatcom County vs. James Yellowkanim, July 6, 1906
25/6 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case # 746: State of Washington vs. R.F. Walker, Extracts of Testimony, September 24, 1907

25/7 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case # 746: State of Washington vs. R.F. Walker, Testimony, September 24, 1907

25/8 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case # 10752: A.E. Mead vs. John Heber and wife,  July 1913
25/9 Whatcom Co. Superior Court: C.S. Packard vs. W.G. Peters, December 30, 1914
25/10 Washington State Supreme Court Case # 11686: George Trigg, et al. vs. Charlie F. and E. Tinkerman
25/11 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case # 11716: Whatcom County vs. A.J. Zane,  et al, January 9, 1915

25/12 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case # 11716: Whatcom County vs. A.J. Zane, et al, January 9, 1915
25/13 Whatcom Co. Superior Court Case #13800: J.W. Tarte and wife vs. J.A. Edson and wife, February 26, 1919

25/14 An Act for Repealing an Act of the 12th Year of King George III, 1792, Undated.

Box 26

26/1 Court Documents concerning Hazard Stevens, 1873-1891

26/2 Deeds and Indentures concerning George and Lydia Foster, 1882-1891

26/3 Deeds and Indentures concerning James Buckley, 1882-1891

26/4 Indentures and Receipts concering Bailey Gatzert, 1882-1890

26/5 Abstract of Title, Tillamook, Oregon, June 1914

26/6 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1909

26/7 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1911

26/8 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1908

26/9 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1896-1905

26/10 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA.

26/11 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1902

26/12 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1908

26/13 Abstract of Title, Whatcom County, WA., 1905

26/14 Abstract of Title, Bellingham Bay Land Company's 2nd Addition to Bellingham, 1902

26/15 Abstract of Title, Eldridge's Addition to Bellingham, 1870

26/16 Abstract of Title, Fairhaven Block 44, 1890

26/17 Abstract of Title, 1st Addition to Fairhaven, 1902

26/18 Abstract of Title, New Ferndale Block 2, 1894

26/19 Abstract of Title, Fort Bellingham Land, 1879

Box 27
 

27/1 Abstract of Title, Eldridge's Addition to Marietta, 1890

27/2 Abstract of Title, Canfield's Addition to Marietta, 1918

27/3 Abstract of Title, 1st Addition to New Whatcom, 1889

27/4 Abstract of Title, New Whatcom Block 148 according to the "Whatcom County Tide Land Appraiser's Map of New Whatcom Tide Lands", 1891

27/5 Abstract of Title, Jamieson's Bay View Addition, Sehome Block 11, 1891

27/6 Abstract of Title, Silver Beach Plat Block 4, 1890

27/7 Abstract of Title, Eldridge's 1st Addition, Whatcom, 1900

27/8 Abstract of Title, Garden Addition, Whatcom, 1920

27/9 Abstract of Title, Whatcom Block 195 according to the "Supplemental Map of    Whatcom", 1886

27/10 Land Sale Agreement between James Seclamatan and G.J. Polinder, 1908

27/11 Declaration of Homestead made by Sam Olson of Van Zandt, 1903

27/12 Land Law Dissertation

27/13 Whatcom County Indentures

27/14 Whatcom County Leases and Mortgages

27/15 Whatcom County Agreements, 1906-1915

27/16 Affadavits

27/17 Notices to Vacate, 1903-1915

27/18 Wills and Executor Documents, 1880-1925

27/19 Letter from Senator S.M. Piles to Hurlbut and Nicholson including copies of three U.S. Senate Bills, Jan. 13, 1909

Series XI - Scrapbooks, 1941-1965

Box 28

28/1 Scrapbook 'A', Natural History, Science, History, etc.

28/2 Scrapbook 'B', Natural History, etc.

28/3 Scrapbook 'C', Natural History, History, Indian Lore, etc.

28/4 Scrapbook 'D', History: Natural, Pre-, B.C. to A.D., Local, Geology,         Anthropology, etc.

28/5 Scrapbook 'E', 50 Years of Progress

28/6 Scrapbook 'E2', Mrs. Roeder's Funeral

28/7 Scrapbook 'F', Museum Notes 1941 and Miscellaneous Science

28/8 Scrapbook 'F', Lummi Indian Tribe Clippings and Some Trivia

28/9 Scrapbook 'G', Whatcom County History

28/10 Scrapbook 'H', Whatcom County and Washington State Pioneer History

28/11 Scrapbook 'I', General Washington State History

28/12 Scrapbook 'J', Whatcom County History

Box 29
 

29/1 Scrapbook 'K', Whatcom County History and World Events

29/2 Scrapbook 'L', World War II and Whatcom County History

29/3 Scrapbook 'M', World's Largest Christmas Tree and Whatcom County History

29/4 Scrapbook 'N', Whatcom County History, Sea Pioneers, World's Largest Christmas

        Tree

29/5 Scrapbook 'O', Whatcom County History, Lummi Indian Tribe

29/6 Scrapbook 'P', Washington State History, Washington Names

29/7 Unlabeled Scrapbook, Whatcom County History

29/8 Bellingham to Washington, D.C. Scrapbook, Trip Memorabilia

29/9 Unlabeled Scrapbook, 'The Story of Enterprise' from the Ferndale Record, 1965

29/10 Unlabeled Scrapbook, Clippings of Poetry, Stories, Language

29/11 Biographical Clippings and Trivia Scrapbook

Series XII - Newspaper Clippings, 1891-1975

Box 30

Various newspaper clippings from the Bellingham Herald, Seattle Times, Seattle Star,

and the Seattle Sunday Times Magazine as well as other publications.  Clippings are

mostly concerned with Pacific Northwest History and Whatcom County History, 1891-1975
 

Series XIII - Microfilm, 1865-1946

Microfilm Reel 1

Whatcom County Commissioner's Reports - Book I undated

Microfilm Reel 2

Whatcom County Commissioner's Reports- Book II undated

Microfilm Reel 3

Whatcom County Commissioner's Reports - Book III undated

Microfilm Reel 4

Whatcom County Commissioner's Reports - Book IV undated

Microfilm Reel 5

Indian War Pension Claims undated

Microfilm Reel 6

"Topographical Memoir of the Department of the Pacific", 1865

Blaine Journal, 1889-1890

Bellingham Bay Express, August 11, 1892

Microfilm Reel 7

"Speculi Britanniae Pars. A Topographical Historical Description of Cornwall by John Norden", from the British Museum

Microfilm Reel 8

Census Reports for Lummi Reservation, 1885-1937

Microfilm Reel 9

Census Reports for Lummi Reservation, 1886-1912

Lummi School Rolls, 1906

Microfilm Reel 10

Whatcom County Post Office Records #28 - Records of Appointment of Postmasters and Site Locator Reports, 1857-1946

Series XIV - Audio materials, 1956-1964

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Series XV - Maps

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Series XVI - Photographs

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