Browsed by
Tag: Spokane tribe

Vote for your fave State Library jewel!

Vote for your fave State Library jewel!

If you like the State Library, cool historical documents and maps, or if you’re just a fan of online voting, then take part in the March version of the “State Library jewels” online poll below! Over the past week, we’ve spotlighted the 1913-15 scrapbooks of former Grays Harbor Congressman Albert Johnson; a rare 1888 map of the Northern Pacific railroad running through Stampede Pass and the Cascades; and, in honor of Women’s History Month, the manuscripts of Helen W. Clark,…

Read More Read More

“Library jewels” contender #3: missionary’s manuscripts

“Library jewels” contender #3: missionary’s manuscripts

(Photo courtesy of Washington State Library) Here comes our third and final “State Library jewel” for March, a collection of manuscripts written by Helen W. Clark, a missionary who worked with the Spokane and Makah tribes in the 1890s. So far in this month’s State Library jewels blog series, we’ve featured the 1913-15 scrapbooks of former Congressman Albert Johnson and an 1888 map of the Northern Pacific’s new railroad route through Stampede Pass and the Cascades . Later this week,…

Read More Read More