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Yakima Valley Museum collection
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15 pgs. of textual records
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The Sundquist Research Library at the Yakima Valley Museum is the principal regional repository specifically devoted to local history. The Sundquist Library contains over 6,500 historic photographs of the region; 200 maps of the Valley; 73 recorded oral histories, bound copies of the Yakima Herald-Republic from 1890 to 1952; 1,100 linear feet of personal and local business papers, pamphlets, scrapbooks and other ephemera; and 95 linear feet of newspaper clipping files. Function: Yakima Valley Museum in Yakima, Washington, U.S.A. presents the region's natural history, American Indian culture, pioneer life, early city life and the roots and development of the valley's fruit industry.
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The pages in this collection are photocopies of several newspapers articles from the Yakima Daily Republic and the Seattle Sunday Times and one small publication. Most of the material is about Belinda A. Mulrooney Carbonneau and her business successes in Dawson City, Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. As well her life after the Gold Rush in Yakima, Washington is discussed. Other articles are accounts of Judge James Wickersham, Alaskan delegate to Congress and his visit to Yakima and the part played by Margaret Mulrooney, sister to Belinda, in bringing the Judge to Yakima.
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