Provenance

Copies of the Gould architectural drawings of the Larrabee mansion
were donated by Barry Gough. Consuelo Larrabee formally donated the Larrabee
family papers to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies in 2005. C.X.
Larrabee donated additional records in 2006. The most recent donations were in December 2008 when Consuelo Larrabee tranferred additional materials, and in January 2009 through a loan from K.B. Milton.

Processing Information
The collection contains only a fragmented part of the papers probably created by the Larrabee family. The Larrabee papers arrived at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies with no internal order. J. Gordon Daines III processed the Larrabee Family Papers for the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies in February 2000. In February 2004, Ruth Steele re-engineered the collection. Following transfers of additional Larrabee family papers in 2005-2006, Ruth Steele re-engineered the collection and its finding aid, with assistance from Emiley Jensen. Rozlind Koester incorporated the 2008 addition and copied the loaned materials in 2009, returning the originals to the donor's possession. At this time she also updated the finding aid.

Related Materials

Some additional images of Larrabee family members are located in the Gates family papers at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies.

Separated Materials

The Montana Historical Society Research Center in Helena, Montana houses an additional collection of Charles X. Larrabee papers.  

Bibliography

Larrabee, Charles Xavier. Larrabee. Anacortes, Wash.: Fairhaven Alumni Association, c2003.

Petruzzi, Tom. "Larrabee, Frances Payne (1867-1941): Community Builder and Consummate Clubwoman." History Link, available at: http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=8603