Subject Guide - Environmental Humanities: Find Archival, Digital and Media Collections

The collection consists of images that show street scenes, buildings, harvest, landscapes, Whitman College and rural life. The Whitman Centennial and Pendleton Round-up are included. The 1931 Walla Walla flood is documented and a photograph album, sent to Washington, D.C. to document the need for the Mill Creek Project, is part of the collection.

The specific generational scope of this collection was limited to the figures of Dorsey Syng Baker, his subsequent wives, and his three sons. A small portion contains correspondence and records for Dorsey's parents-in-law, the Tibbetts. Throughout this collection are valuable records, correspondence, legal documents, and diaries relating many aspects of pioneer and early statehood life in the Pacific Northwest, especially for Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla, Washington. The records include those for transportation, banking and commerce, agriculture, mining, and land acquisition and management, as represented by the efforts of Dorsey and his sons. Thier activities and influence extended to the mid-twentieth century. In addition, there is a small collection of files kept by Baker family members on individual clients or associates. Overall, though the personal letters and diaries provide a few intimate insights, a substantial portion of the Baker Family Collection is a record of family businesses and political and legal interests.

The Howard C. Burgess Papers consist of biographical information, geneaological materials, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, honors and awards, scrapbooks, memorabilia from travel and other materials documenting the life of a veteran, author, and leader in civic affairs and an innovator in agricultural techniques.

Includes geological surveys, information about irrigation districts, correspondence, legal documents, and reports of Walla Walla well-drilling contractors; materials relate to several hundred contracts in the Northwest. Box-level inventory available.

The collection consists of photographs, postcards, brochures, souvenir booklets, and magazine articles that depict the construction of what was then the largest concrete structure in the world. A collection of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings about the project is also included.

The collection consists of records, clippings, and brochures for the Walla Walla Men's Garden Club and the Walla Walla Garden Club. For the Cultus Garden Club and the Evergreen Garden Club, membership information, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to club meetings and social and charitable activities are organized in scrapbooks.

The collection consists of a bound typewritten report, "The Complete Report upon the Properties, Business and Personnel of the Western Land and Irrigation Co. of Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon" (1908). The report includes information on the company founders, copies of its articles of incorporation, descriptions of its lands, water supply, and water rights, testimonials and other reports on soil quality and agricultural production in Umatilla County, OR.

Provides a wide range of significant resources on water in the Western United States. Available resources include classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and other material.

The Environment & Society Portal provides digital multimedia and interpretive materials in environmental humanities, including exhibitions, articles, journals, images, and recordings.

The world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos, from Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology.

The Western Soundscape Archive offers thousands of recordings of Western animal species and their environments.

A collection of datasets (and links to related publications) on various aspects of social, demographic, and agricultural characteristics of the Great Plains states.

The HathiTrust Digital contains thousands of public-domain texts.

Includes digitizations of millions of digitized texts. (Less well-organized than HathiTrust.)

A portal to collections held all over the United States.