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Multi-Resource Sites

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.)

The Internet Archive (archive.org) - An extensive multidisciplinary resource that includes books, photographs, movies, ephemera, and much more. For example, here's a publication from 1901 about the flora of the Palouse.
The Plateau Peoples' Web Portal - A collaboration between many northwestern and plains tribes, the WSU Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, and other organizations. This portal serves as an extensive repository of cultural materials from many different sources and across many different mediums. Includes hand written materials, photographs, audio/visual recordings, and more.
State of Washington Library Digital Collections and Resources Guide - A guide detailing the many online collections from the State of Washington Library.

Maps & Satellite Images

Maps

Washington State University Manuscripts and Special Collections Early Washington Maps Collections - Over 1200 historic maps of Washington in high resolution.
Washington State Library Historical Maps - A wide range of different types of historic maps regarding Washington State.
USGS Map Collection - A wide range of maps ranging from topographic to land use. Maps are searchable but the website can be cumbersome.
USGS Mineral Resources Online Spatial Data - Interactive and searchable maps regarding natural resources
USGS National Geospatial Program - Representing searchable historical geospatial data regarding topography, natural landscape, and manmade environments of the United States.
USGS Water Data for the Nation - These pages provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.9 million sites. The USGS investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters and disseminates the data to the public.
Library of Congress Map Collection - Large searchable collection of numerous types of maps.

*You can find maps by using the WSU Search It library catalog and limiting your results to display to display just maps. Click this link to see an image demonstrating how to limit your searches to display just maps.

Satellite Images

Google Satellite Time Lapse - Allows users to look at time lapse satellite images going back, in some instances, thirty-five years.
NASA Worldview - Allows users to create time lapse imagery of geographic locations taken from satellite images.

Land and Title Records

Bureau of Land Management Historic Records - Land survey and mineral information records from the General Land Office going back to 1812.
Bureau of Land Management Washington and Oregon Land Status & Survey Records - Historic documents and records pertaining to land surveys, ownership, and use.

Soil Surveys

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Soil Surveys - A subject gateway to soil surveys, soil geography, major land resource areas (MLRA) and ecological regions (CER), and a soil geochemistry spatial database.
USDA Historic Soil Surveys from the State of Washington - County by county historical soil surveys of Washington State.
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Modern and historic U.S. soil surveys.

Newspapers, Trade & Extension Publications

Newspapers and Trade Publications

For a full list of newspapers available to WSU affiliates, please read this WSU research guide.

Newspaper Source Plus
This database provides selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times as well as selected full text from hundreds of regional newspapers. International newspaper coverage includes cover-to-cover full text for The Times (London), The Toronto Star, The Australian, and more. Newswire coverage includes AP Online (Associated Press), Asia Pulse, Canadian Press Wire, World Stream Newswires and more.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) This link opens in a new window
This database Provides access to approximately 500 U.S. newspapers, published between 1800 and 1900. Includes titles from throughout the United States, many published in what were, at the time, only territories. Papers selected cover a broad spectrum, with a comprehensive geographical and chronological range.
Daily Evergreen (WSU Student Newspaper)
Washington State University, then the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, began classes on January 13th, 1892, and its first student-published newspaper, the College Record, was published the next month. The College Record was printed monthly throughout 1892 and the 1892-1893 school year. The next student newspaper, the Evergreen, began in Spring of 1895 and has been published regularly since. Today the newspaper is published five days a week and is known as the Daily Evergreen, although "Daily" did not become part of the title until 1979.
Seattle Times (1896-1984) (Readex)
This database provides full text coverage of the Seattle Times, a major Northwest newspaper, from 1896 to 1984. Currently contains material back to 1900, including articles and advertisements.
Nexis Uni
Provides access to full text legal and abstracted information from newspapers, magazines, company annual reports, and more
JSTOR
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html

Datasets

A datasset is the raw data that has been collected by researchers and government institutions. There are countless different types of datasets from countless organizations. Helpful datasets pertaining to these projects may include demographic information, opinion and market surveys, soil and horticulture maps, and so much more.

USDA: National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) - NASS conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers are only a few examples. Also see the USDA Open Data Catalog

USDA: Washington Agricultural Statistics Service - Provides various data sets and statistics as part of the USDA Northwest Regional Field Office.

Data.gov - The large government data repository. Provides open data from the federal to the local level across a wide range of topics from agriculture, consumer, manufacturing, and more.

US Census Information - Provides a wide range of historic demographic information.

Historic Photographs

Photographs

National Collections with Regional Content

Library of Congress Digital Collections - A very large collection of digital materials covering many subjects including agriculture and environmental sciences.
United States Geological Survey (USGS) - A searchable archive of thousands of USGS historic photos.

Regional Content

Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections - WSU Libraries Digital Collections provide access to the academic and cultural heritage of Washington State and the Palouse Region.
Washington State Library Photograph Collection, 1851-1990 - This collection consists of 5,274 images of various subjects related to Washington's history, people, geography, and economic development (1851-1990).
University of Washington Online Special Collections - Digital collections covering a wide range of subjects pertaining to regional history.
Whitman County (Washington) Rural Heritage Collection - Many historical images of agriculture around the state and on the Palouse.
Idaho State Archives / Historical Society - Collection of Idaho historic digital collections.
Idaho Transportation Photo Collection - 30,000+ historic pictures.
Idaho State Archives Photographs - The photograph collection includes over 500,000 images, dating from the territorial period to present day.

First Nations and Peoples

The Plateau Peoples' Web Portal (Collections) - The Plateau is a Peoples' Web Portal collaboration between many northwestern and plains tribes and the WSU Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation. This portal serves as an extensive repository of cultural materials including many photographs.
University of Washington American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection - An extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics.
Washington State University Manuscripts and Special Collections (MASC) Nez Perce Photograph Collection - Nez Perce Photographs, ca. 1877-1905. Also see the U.S. Library of Congress Nez Perce photograph collection.
- Browse the MASC Digital Collections to see many more images of First Nations and Peoples.

Libraries

Soil Sciences

Multi-Resource Sites

Maps & Satellite Images

Soil Surveys

Newspapers, Trade & Extension Publications

Datasets

Historic Photographs