Chemawa Picking Hops in Charles McNary Hop Yard, circa 1909. Yakima Community Public Access. Plateau Peoples' Web Portal.
Multi-Resource Sites
The following sites have many different types of resources (such as books, photographs, moving images, etc.)
National Resources
Regional Resources.
Historically, Extension programs provided a means of reaching farmers and homemakers while avoiding the time and hazards involved in travel. Today they cover a wide range of topics from agriculture, forestry, animal science, health and nutrition, gardening, home economics, and much more. Extensions are run out of the land-grant universities across the United States.
You can find extension publications at the following sites:
United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) Extension & Experiment Station Publications - A large collection of links to multidisciplinary online extension resources from nearly every extension in the United States. Includes extension reports, peer-reviewed publications, newsletters, images, etc.
Washington State University Digital Extensions Collection - A wide range of topics are covered within these materials. Various Extension publications are compiled within this collection dating back to 1892. The collection is currently being constructed. You can also find Extension materials, both physical and eResources, within the library's catalog. Additionally, you can find many of these extension resources, and other WSU research, within the WSU institutional repository, Research Exchange..
Washington State University Manuscripts & Special Collections (MASC) - MASC has an extensive collection of University and regional publications. Many are online.
You can find contemporary WSU Extension publications via the WSU Extensions Publications website.
Additionally, you can find Extension impact reports using this link. An impact report provides assessment and participation data from many Extension programs over the years.
Photographs
National Collections
Note: These national collections do have regional content
Regional Collections
First Nations and Peoples
Maps
*You can find maps by using the WSU Search It library catalog and limiting your results to display to display just maps. View this image demonstrating how to limit your searches to display just maps.
Satellite Images
Land and Title Records
Soil Surveys
Newspapers and Trade Publications
For a full list of newspapers available to WSU affiliates, please read this WSU research guide.