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Vote for your fave Archives Treasure!

Vote for your fave Archives Treasure!

It’s time for March Madness, State Archives style. Over the past few days, we’ve featured three items or collections in our monthly Archives Treasures series. Now it’s time for you choose your fave. The three contestants are an 1857 map of the western half of Washington Territory, 1990 photos of a group of female state representatives known as the “Steel Magnolias,” and the 1859-1860 ledger of the Crosby Store in Tumwater. The online poll is open below. You have until…

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Archives Treasure #3: Crosby Store ledger, 1859-1860

Archives Treasure #3: Crosby Store ledger, 1859-1860

(Image courtesy of Washington State Archives) Business practices have changed just a little since 1860, and that’s what makes this handwritten ledger in the State Archives such a treasure. The book details the day-to-day transactions of the Crosby Store in Tumwater. The store was located on Reserve Street (now Deschutes Way). It was a general-merchandise emporium and important Tumwater fixture, operated by a settler named Nathaniel Crosby III. Thurston County’s earliest settlers and businesses fill the pages of this ledger,…

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