Series I. Larrabee business records, 1890-1991 (bulk 1890-1942)
Series II. Larrabee personal papers, 1840-2000 (bulk 1890-1994)
Series III. Larrabee photographs, circa 1850s - 1999
Series IV. Larrabee architectural records, 1914-1928
Series V. Larrabee real estate and property records, 1890-2004

Series I. Larrabee business records, 1890-1991 (bulk 1890-1942)

General Business correspondence documents Charles X. Larrabee’s real estate interests and the management of his stock ranch in Montana. Researchers should note that the property and real estate series contains two maps of the Roslyn-Cascade Coal Co.

Sub-series 1. General Business Correspondence, 1891-1913
 

Box 1

Gates, Cyrus.

1/1 letter book, 1891–1894
1/2 letter book, 1896-1898
1/3 letter book, 1899-1902

Larrabee, Charles X.

1/4 letter book, 1899
1/5 letter book, 1912-1913
1/6 letter book, 1913

1/7 Blank checks and envelopes, circa 1890s-1910s

Sub-series 2. Larrabee Business Concerns, 1890-1991

Box 2

Brook-Nook Stock Ranche, 1890-1991

Financial Records

2/1 Account Statements, 1918-1919
2/2 Check, register 1915-1916
2/3 Check, (cancellation) 1915
2/4 Checks, 1913-1914
2/5 Checks, 1914
2/6 Checks, 1915
2/7 Checks, 1915-1916
2/8 Checks, 1916

Box 3

3/1 – 3/4 Checks, 1916-1919

3/5-3/10 C.X. Larrabee and Morgan horses - general reference material, circa 1900s-1990s

3/11 Horseshoe (“Pony Ned”), undated.
3/12 Jersey Cattle Club information, circa 1917-1918

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OV 1 Maps, undated

Box 3 (continued)

3/13 Registration Applications (American Trotting Register Association), 1917-1919

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Rural Spirit: A Weekly Journal for the Farmer & Stockman, 1905 March 3

Box 3 (continued)

3/14 Stock Ranch Cattle Inventory, 1918-1919
3/15 Trotting Stock Catalogs (Brook-Nook and Willow Run Stock Ranches), 1890, 1892
3/16 Trower, Richard L. “C.X. Larrabee and the Roots of Troubadour of Willamoor.” The Morgan Horse, 1991 July

3/17 Citizen’s Bank of Fairhaven - Certificate of Incorporation, 1900
3/18 Fairhaven & Southern Railroad - J.J. Hill Stock purchase, 1890
3/19 Fairhaven Hotel and Hotel Leopold– Stationary samples, undated
 

Fairhaven Land Company

3/20 Complimentary copy of Black Beauty, 1890.
3/21 Expense Account (William H. Fuller), 1897 October-December
3/22 Fairhaven mine (analysis of coke ash), 1894
3/23 J.J. Donovan re: rail line to Rosland (B.C.), 1897

3/24 Larrabee Real Estate Company pamphlet re. Edgemoor and Viewcrest "planned neighborhoods," circa 1950s

Oregon (Real Estate) Company

3/25 Check from C.X. Larrabee to Nelson Bennett, issued by the First National Bank of Portland (probably to buy out Bennett's stake in the company), 1891

Volume 1. Financial Journal, 1889-1921
Volume 2. Financial Ledger, circa 1889-1912
Volume 3. Financial Ledger, circa 1913-1922

Box 3 (continued)

Roslyn-Cascade Coal Company, 1897, 1936-1942

3/26 Financial correspondence, 1936-1938
3/27 Financial statements, 1936-1937, 1940-1941
3/28 Postal Receipts, 1920
3/29 Report - Anthracite Coal Property in Lewis County, Washington, 1942
3/30 Report - Performance of Baum-type jig at Roslyn-Cascade Coal Co., undated
3/31 Reports - General government and mining industry, 1936-1942
3/32 Roslyn Cascade Coal Co. Robber Stamp, undated
3/33 Newspaper Articles and Clippings, circa 1935, 1940, 1942.
3/34 Nicholls, Jasper William, The Story of American Coals, 1897

Box 4

4/1 Seattle Gas and Electric Co – cancelled mortgage bond, 1890

South Bellingham excavation operation (Charles Francis Larrabee)

4/2 State of Washington Safety Regulations, 1920-1922
4/3 Time Book, 1919-1920
4/4 Workmen’s Compensation and Industrial Insurance Forms, 1919-1921

Series II. Larrabee personal papers, 1840-2005 (bulk 1890-1994)

Larrabee personal papers comprise biographical and genealogical information, personal correspondence, and personal papers generated by individual family members.

Sub-series 1. Biographical and Genealogical Information, circa 1890-2000

Biographical and genealogical information contains a substantial amount of correspondence regarding Larrabee and Payne family history. Researchers should note that this correspondence includes re-typed and annotated transcriptions of original letters by family members including Charles X. Larrabee, Frances Payne Larrabee, and her father, Benjamin Howard Payne.

Box 4 (continued)

4/5 Articles and clippings re: Larrabee family members, friends, and acquaintances, circa 1890s-1980s

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OV 2 Articles and clippings re. Larrabee family members, friends, and acquaintances, circa 1890s-1980s

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OV 3 Duplicate copies of article and clippings re. Larrabee family members, friends, and acquaintances, circa 1890s-1980s

Box 4 (continued)

4/6 Obituaries and Notices of Respect, 1914, 1941, 1990
4/7 Cyrus Gates letter re: death of Charles X. Larrabee, 1914

4/8 Larrabee Family remembrance of Cyrus Gates, Jr., circa 1991 (originally attached to Charles X. Larrabee incoming letter from M.O. Stoddard with recommendation for Cyrus Gates, and Charles X. Larrabee outgoing letter to Cyrus Gates encouraging him to move to Fairhaven)
4/9 Correspondence re: Family History, 1963-1986
4/10 Correspondence re: Family History, 1989-1992
4/11 Correspondence re: Family History, 1992-1998

Box 5

5/1 Correspondence re: Family History, 1994, 2000, 2003
5/2 Correspondence re: Family History, undated
5/3 Genealogical material re: William Payne, circa 1914
5/4 Genealogical charts for Mary Adele Larrabee Bourque, undated.
 

General family history

5/5 "Chuckanut Chronicles" by Robert Thomas, 1971

5/6 "Lairmont Manor - 95 Years," undated

5/7 Miscellaneous historical information, undated

Sub-series 2. Personal Correspondence, 1840-1969 1991

Most of the correspondence arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, personal correspondence includes copies of letters from Charles X. Larrabee to his mother regarding Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train, and to Frances Payne prior to their 1892 marriage. Incoming correspondence of Edward Payne Larrabee contains a letter communicating the last words of “Old Annie,” his African-American nurse, dated 1907. Edward Payne Larrabee’s correspondence also includes references to the trials of I.W.W. workers following the 1919 Centralia Massacre. Payne family correspondence includes copies of a letter from Frances Payne Larrabee’s father, Benjamin Payne, to his uncle, and a letter from her maternal grandmother, Rachel Amanda Roy, to her sister.

Box 5

5/8 Larrabee, Charles X. – Incoming, 1911, 1913
5/9 Larrabee, Charles X. – Outgoing, 1865- 1914
5/10 Larrabee, Charles Francis - Incoming, 1914, 1921, 1944-1945
5/11 Larrabee, Charles Francis - Outgoing, 1945, 1947, 1992
5/12 Larrabee, Consuelo McMillan - Incoming, 1933-1936, 1944-1949, 1955, 1967, 1969, 1990s-2003
5/13 Larrabee, Consuelo McMillan - Outgoing, 1963
5/14 Larrabee, Edward Payne (Ned) Incoming, 1907, 1914, 1919-1944
5/15 Larrabee, Edward Payne (Ned) Outgoing, 1933
5/16 Larrabee, Frances Payne (Fannie, Gamoo) - Incoming, 1907, 1914, 1917, 1940s
5/17 Larrabee, Frances Payne (Fannie, Gamoo) - Outgoing, circa 1892-1930s, undated

Payne Family Correspondence

Rolled Document 1 Gray, Amanda Roy - Outgoing, 1840

Box 5 (continued)

5/18 Payne, Benjamin H. - Outgoing, 1847, 1863

5/19 Miscellaneous Larrabee Family correspondence, circa 1930s-1970s

Sub-series 3. Family personal papers, 1880-1946

Charles Francis Larrabee Papers

5/20 American Legion Tour, 1921
5/21 Anti-Narcotic Society, 1925-1926
5/22 Marriage announcement (with Mary Adele Brownlie), 1917

Box 6

Edward Payne Larrabee Papers

6/1 Antoinette “Ankey” Larrabee drawings and writings, circa 1927-1930
6/2 Ault, Norman, reviews and publications, circa 1941

6/3 British flag, undated

6/4 Diary, 1929-1930

6/5 Drawings, notes, poems, and other writings, circa 1930s-1950s
6/6 Estate, 1946

6/7 Lecture notebook - "Clinical Physiology" and "Respiration," circa 1920s

6/8 Lecture notebook - "Morbid Histology," circa 1920s
6/9 - 6/10 Lists of books read and other book materials, 1916-1933
6/11 Marriage license and certificate, 1919
6/12 Name misspellings, undated
6/13 Pamphlets and souvenirs, circa 1930s - 1944

6/14 Reed College "William Blake: Thrice Blessed Solitaire," 1923

6/15 Report of birth for Edward Conyers McMillen Larrabee, 1932 September 19
6/16 Sample business and calling cards, undated
6/17 Scrapbook (postcards), 1907
6/18 Stationary samples from England, undated

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Strang, Ian. Drawing from Fothergills, 1928

Box 6 (continued)

6/19 University of Oxford, 1925-1930
6/20 Washington State Parks Committee report, 1922

6/21-6/22 World War II materials, circa 1930s-1940s

Frances Payne Larrabee Papers

6/23 “An Arch of Peace” essay re: the Blaine Peace Arch, 1938.
6/24 Bequests to grandchildren, undated
6/25 Birth certificates (Edward Payne and Mary Adele), 1897, 1902
6/26 Family financial and shipping receipts, 1898
6/27 Last Will and Testament (First Codicil), 1938
6/28 Marriage Announcement, 1892
6/29 Motor Vehicle License, 1920
6/30 Notebook cover (leather), undated

6/31 Poem, 1885
6/32 Prescriptions, 1914-1935

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Sheet Music (some dedicated to Frances Payne Larrabee), 1880 - 1937

Box 6 (continued)

General Family Papers

6/33 Miscellaneous tickets, souvenirs, notes, and drawings, 1930s-1940s

6/34 Publications, circa 1940s

Series III. Larrabee photographs, circa 1850s - 1999

Box 7

People

7/1 Benjamin Larrabee, circa 1920s

7/2 Charles X. Larrabee, circa 1890s
7/3 Charles Francis Larrabee, circa 1914-1918
7/4-7/6 Edward Payne Larrabee (Ned), circa 1900-1930

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Edward Payne Larrabee (Ned), circa 1908, circa 1930
Frances Payne Larrabee, undated

Box 7 (continued)

7/7 Frances Payne Larrabee, undated
7/8 Larrabee Family photos (Charles X. Larrabee’s relatives), undated
7/9 Larrabee Family photos (Charles X. Larrabee and relatives), circa 1850s-1914
7/10-7/14 Larrabee Family photos (general), circa 1900s-2005

7/15 Larrabee Family photos (general) - Bellingham, WA reunion, 2005

7/16 Larrabee Family photos - Morgan horses, undated
7/17 Larrabee Family Friends 1931, undated

7/18 Wyatt [?], John A. and sons (Harry, John, Frank, and George), circa 1900s

Box 8

Places

8/1 Alaska (published book of early photos), circa 1900
8/2 Bellingham, England, undated
8/3 Montana, circa 1910s, 1990s
8/4 Roslyn-Cascade Coal Mine, 1944-1946
8/5 Swinomish gathering, undated.
8/6 Whatcom County – Fairhaven hotel, circa 1955, undated

8/7 Whatcom County - Mt. Baker, circa 1920s-2000s
8/8 Whatcom County – Sailing Ships in Pleasant Bay, 1904
8/9 Whatcom County – “The Vigilant,” circa 1936
8/10 Whatcom County – Whatcom Museum, circa 1970

8/11 Negatives, circa 1920s-1930s

Series IV. Larrabee architectural records, 1914-1928

The bulk of correspondence is between Frances Payne Larrabee and the architectural firm of Bebb & Gould, reflecting Frances Larrabee’s active role in the design of the family residence on Hawthorn Road, Bellingham. Incoming and outgoing letters are interfiled and arranged in chronological order. Researchers should note that this correspondence includes passing reference to the Bellingham YWCA building, rebuilt following a 1915 gift from Frances Payne Larrabee and her daughter, Mary Adele.

Box 8

8/12 Contract for the Larrabee house, 1914
8/13–8/17 Correspondence re: Larrabee house construction, 1914 February 20 - 1919 March
8/18 Correspondence re: Larrabee house construction, undated

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Blueprints of the Larrabee House (architectural drawings), 1914-1917 

1. The house--west elevation, 1914 August 15
2. The house--west elevation, 1915 April
3. The house--east elevation, 1914 August 15
4. The house--east elevation, 1915 April
5. The house--north elevation,  1915 April
6. The house--south elevation, 1915 April
7. The house--plan of the first floor, 1915 April
8. The house-- plan of the first floor, 1914 August 15
9. The house--plan of the second floor,  1915 April
10. The house--plan of the attic and roof, 1915 April
11. The house--porte cochere plan, 1915 June 4
12. The house--plan of living room bay, 1915 June 3
13. The house--plan of details of living room, 1915 June 30
14. The house--plan of living room mantel, 1916 February 8
15. The house--plan of leader head, 1915 July 26
16. The house--carved wood brackets plan, undated
17. The grounds--layout and plan, undated
18. The grounds--layout of landscaped garden, 1916 September 29,
19. The garden--plan of pergola, 1917 February 20

Box 8 (continued)

8/19 Carl F. Gould’s description of Mrs. C.X. Larrabee’s residence, 1928
8/20 Specifications for Charles Francis Larrabee residence, South Bellingham (Bebb & Gould architects), 1920

8/21 Unidentified architectural plans, possibly for basement of Larrabee residence, undated

Series V: Larrabee real estate and property records 1890-2004

Series includes correspondence and clippings pertaining to the family residence at Hawthorn Road and Larrabee-owned property around Whatcom County (including Chuckanut Bay lands designated as Larrabee State Park). Records also include maps documenting Larrabee real estate. The bulk of correspondence regarding the Larrabee family house is between C.X. “X” Larrabee (son of Charles F. and Mary Adele Larrabee), Joel Douglas (subsequent owner of the house) and local historians Tyrone Tillotson and Rosamonde Van Miert. The correspondence includes many references to the history of Fairhaven.
 

8/22 Correspondence re: Chuckanut Bay / Larrabee State Park lands, 1971-1992
8/23 Correspondence re: Larrabee family house, 1988-2004
8/24 Larrabee house – addition to National Register of Historic Places, 1975
8/25 Articles (fragments) re: Larrabee family house undated, circa 1995
8/26 Article re: bulb farm property, 1981
8/27 Articles re: Fairhaven property and history, circa 1890-1990
8/28 Check from Charles X. Larrabee to Nelson Bennett (copy), 1891

Map Folder 1

MF 1 Maps, circa 1890-1961

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