Microform Publications for Sale

For information about prices, or to purchase the publications, please contact mcnews@u.washington.edu.

Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Record

A comprehensive graphic documentation of Pacific Northwest and Alaska Native Americans is contained in this collection. Over 4,000 images were selected from the photographs, explorers' journals, prints, engravings, and paintings in the Libraries' Special Collections. These have been thoroughly analyzed for ethnographic content, resulting in a 17,000-entry catalog which provides access through subject headings and tribal, place, and personal names, and gives notes on the photographers, artists, and collectors. Reproduction quality photographic copies may be ordered at reasonable rates.

Viola E. Garfield Albums on Totem Art

Anthropologist Viola E. Garfield (1899-1983) amassed a collection of 26 volumes of photographs and information on the totem art of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from Seattle to southeastern Alaska. The microfiche edition of these albums includes 1,794 photographs and Garfield's notes. The photographs are well documented as to location, cultural group, date, and provenance. Quality photographic reproductions may be ordered at reasonable rates. Perhaps no other single compilation either in manuscript or printed form comprises such a broad survey of totem cultures.

Mount St. Helens Newspaper Microfilm and Index

The Mount St. Helens Newspaper Microfilm and Index provides access to a part of the UW Libraries' extensive Mount St. Helens collection. The microfilm set is a compilation of diverse newspaper coverage of the 1980 volcanic eruptions and the resultant social, political, and environmental impacts on the regions around Mount St. Helens. Articles from over 80 newspapers dating from March 1980 through January 1981 are contained on the microfilm. While local coverage is emphasized, national and international newspapers articles are included.

An extensive index to the microfilm set is available on microfiche. The 15,000 citations, with Library of Congress subject headings and appropriate cross references, provide access to the thousands of articles in the microfilm set. A reel guide and description of the indexing project is included with the index.

Clark Kinsey Logging Photographs

The photographs of Clark Kinsey, who was active in West Coast forests from 1914 to 1945, have been preserved and identified in this set of 95 microfiche. More than 5,000 views of logging and milling operations, crews, equipment, towns, and landscapes present a comprehensive survey of social and technological innovation in the wood products industry. A 147-page inventory and description of the collection is included in the microfiche set. Reproduction quality photographic copies may be ordered at reasonable rates.

The Klondike Nugget

The UW Libraries has a complete run, 1898-1903, of the publisher's copy of The Klondike Nugget, an American owned and operated Canadian newspaper located in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, during the Klondike Gold Rush. The Nugget, unlike many other gold rush frontier newspapers, was multidimensional, so that in addition to boilerplate, it astutely covered mining, political, and social events. The beginning of a frontier community, development of municipal government, interrelationship between local and federal politics, social and cultural events, and eccentric characters such as Diamond Tooth Gertie and Captain Jack Crawford, are documented. The Nugget represents an American view of Canadian politics and life seen through the eyes of its Seattle publisher.

The microfiche index includes the entire run of the newspaper. Over 28,000 citations provide the researcher access to a multiplicity of Library of Congress subject headings, personal and corporate names, and geographic locations. A separate business index is appended at the end of the Nugget index.

Pacific Northwest Newspapers on Microfilm

The UW Libraries holds over 1200 regional newspaper titles on microfilm; Pacific Northwest Newspapers on Microfilm at the University of Washington Libraries is a checklist of these materials. Newspapers for which the Libraries hold negative microfilm are also available for purchase. For further information concerning the availability of newspapers titles and cost estimates, contact mcnews@u.washington.edu