University Archives
Mark O’English
509.335.2739
markoe@wsu.edu
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WSU’s University Archives contain materials of permanent administrative or historical value created at WSU, including by our administration, faculty, staff, and students.
We document the history, activities, and people of WSU.
Types of materials include official documents and papers, published and unpublished records, printed resources, ephemera, theses and dissertations, and audiovisual materials. We serve both historical and administrative functions.
Common uses of our archives include university public relations, architectural research, departmental histories, and information on past athletic events. We also provide resources for university publications, theses and dissertations, and biographies of people associated with WSU.
Some parts of the University Archives are restricted. Most records are available, but you may need to file a public disclosure request for others, with the department responsible for the records creation. Some records may be unavailable.
We do not maintain student records or transcripts. Please contact the Registrar about student records or transcripts.
Resources
- University Publications List
- Accession Register
- Campus Building History
- Starting University History Research
- Reproduction Policies & Prices
- Guidelines for Transfer of Records
Collection Guides
Collection Guides, or Finding Aids, are guides, inventories, registers, lists, or indexes that describe the contents of a collection. These Collection Guides provide an overview of specific collections in varying degrees of detail. Please note that more resources are available in MASC than indicated by this list of guides.
A
- Ad Hoc Accreditation Committee: Records, 1957-1972
- Admissions Office: Records, 1940-1980; Records, 1948-1976
- Aero Club: Minute Book, 1933-1937
- Agricultural Economic Survey and Studies, 1912-1965
- Agricultural Engineering Department: Records, 1932-1974
- Agricultural Experiment Station: Publications, 1891-1966
- Agricultural Experiment Station Irrigation Branch, Prosser: Reports, 1919-1960
- Agricultural Extension Service: Reports, 1908-1960; Reports, 1917-1942; Reports, 1963-1977
- Agricultural Extension Service: County Agents Reports, 1913-1976
- Agricultural Extension Service: County Leaders Reports, 1916-1922
- Agricultural Extension Service: Project Summaries, 1927-1942
- Agricultural Extension Service: Publications, 1920-1977
- Agricultural Extension Service: Pullman Weather Data, 1893-1961
- Agricultural Extension Service: Specialists Reports, 1915-1960
- Agricultural Extension Service Director of Extension: Reports, 1913-1961
- Agricultural Research Center: Mt. St. Helens Ash Research Records, 1980-1981
- Agricultural Research Center: Office Files, 1901-1948
- Agricultural Research Center: Reports, 1891-1971
- Agricultural Research Center: Washington State Commodity Commission Reports, 1976-2011
- Agricultural Research Center, State Chemist: Records, 1906-1907
- Agriculture College: Columbia Basin Project Records, 1941-1968
- Agriculture College: Land and Space Files, 1966-1981
- Agriculture College: Records, 1932-1936
- Agriculture College Assistant Dean: Records, 1947-1950
- Agriculture College Dean: Records, 1893-1948; Records, 1944-1980; Records, 1945-1979
- Agriculture College Director of Resident Instruction: Records, 1964-1985
- Agronomy and Soils Department: Records, 1940-1973
- Albrook Hydraulics Laboratory: Research Files, 1957-1996
- Alternatives for Washington Project: Films, 1974-1975
- Alumni Association: Records, 1951-1975
- Animal Sciences Department: Records, 1944-1977
- Anthropology Department: Architectural Drawings, 1980-1985
- Anthropology Department: Records, 1964-1976; Records, 1949-1989
- Arboretum Committee: Records, 1974-2006
- Architectural Drawings of Campus Buildings, 1899-1975
- Architecture Department: Records, 1957-1975; Records, 1958-1987
- Architecture Department: Carpenter Hall Rededication Records, 1991-1992
- A.S.W.S.U.: Annual Budget Reports, 1912-1942
- A.S.W.S.U. Activities Board: Records, 1966-1967
- A.S.W.S.U. Activities Center: Records, 1935-1974; Records, 1947-1981; Records, 1948-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. Board of Control: Records, 1922-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. President: Records, 1953-1975
- A.S.W.S.U. Radio Broadcast Committee: Records, 1977-1978
- A.S.W.S.U. Vice President: Records, 1962-1967
- Associated Women Students: Records, 1910-1974, Records, 1954-1986
- Athletic Department: Records, 1894-1976, Records, 1975-1992
- Audio Recordings, 1937-1947
- Audio/Video Materials, 1930-2005
- Award Certificates (from Expositions), 1904-1905
B
- Beasley Coliseum: Event Recordings, 1980-1993
- Biological Science Division: Records, 1945-1955
- Black Studies Department: Records, 1970–1981
- Board of Regents: Records, 1892-1914; Records, 1960-1990
- Board of Regents: Minutes 1891-2016
- Board of Regents President (Harold Romberg): Protest Papers, 1970
- Botany Department: Records, 1938-1957
- Budget Office: Records, 1967-1978
- Building Arts Committee: Records, 1974-1979
- Business Administration College: MBA Special Projects Papers, 1958-1979; MBA Special Projects Papers, 1961-1983; MBA Special Projects Papers, 1965-1981
- Business Administration Department Teaching Evaluation Committee: Records, 1969-1974
- Business and Economics College: Records, 1951-1976
C
- Cable 8 Productions: Videotapes of Student Programming, 1989-1997
- CAHE: Orville Vogel Press Files, 1966-1994
- CAHNRS and Extension Marketing and News Services: Biographical Files and Slides, 1969-2009
- Campus Arts Committee: Records, 1999-2006
- Campus Building Survey Records, 1902-1983
- Capital Planning: ADBF Building Files 1990-2001 & Architect/Consultant Selection Files 1975-1996
- Capital Planning: Building Files, 1957-1998; Building Files, 1962-2007; Building Files 1972-2003; Building Files 1980-2001; Building Files 1981-1999
- Capital Planning: Student Recreation Center Reports, 1997-2009
- Career Services: Reports, 1923-1993
- Centennial Oral History Project: Oral Histories, 1982-1988
- Chemistry Department Chairman: Records, 1895-1939
- Class Government Records, 1900-1966
- Class of ’54 Washington State University Oral Histories, 2005-2008
- College Farm: Records, 1914-1928
- Coman Hall: Records, 1964-1975
- Commencement Audio-Video, 1977-2006
- Commission on General Education: Records, 1986-90
- Commission on the Status of Women: Records, 1973-1991; Records, 1972-2012
- Communication College: Murrow Event Recordings, 1973-2002
- Communications Department: Masters Projects, 1969-2002
- Communications Department (History of Communications): Class Papers, 1956-1978; Class Papers, 1971-1979; Class Papers, 1988
- Communications School: Records, 1965-1996
- Community Hall: Records, 1938-1968
- Computer Science: Records, 1962-1979
- Computing Service Center: Records, 1960-1974
- Continuing Education: Records, 1947-1980
- Continuing Education Task Force: Records, 1980
- Controller’s Office: Contract Files, 1893-1973; Contract Files, 1948-1957
- Controller’s Office: Records, 1918-1979
- Controller’s Office: Records, 1892-1920s
- Cooperative Extension Service: Annual Reports, 1957-1969
- Cooperative Extension Service: Policy Records, 1961-1991
- Cooperative Extension Service: Publications, 1967-1986
- Cooperative Extension Service: Records, 1914-1938; Records, 1960-1984
- Cooperative Extension Service Agronomy Specialist (Morrison): Records, 1955-1969
- Cooperative Extension Service Alternatives for Washington Project: Records, 1974-1975
- Cooperative Extension Service Cow Testing Association: Reports, 1916-1928
- Crew (Rowing): Records, 1975-2011
- Criminal Justice Department (Police Science): Office Files, 1941-74 Crop and Soil Sciences: Wheat Trial Records, 1910-1955
D
- Dairy Herd Improvement Associations: Annual Reports, 1932-1996
- Davis Hall: Records, 1955-1968
- Dean of Men: Records, 1933-1935
- Debate Club: Records, 1972-1981
- Delta Gamma House: Architectural Drawings, 1994-1995
- Dry Land Research Unit (Lind): Records, 1918-1946
- Duncan Dunn Hall: Records, 1956-1968
E
- Earth & Environmental Sciences: Aerial Photos and Soil Surveys of WSU Agricultural Facilities, 1934-1978
- ECA Film Project: Records, 1951-1953
- Education College: Records, 1911-1958; Records, 1958-1975
- Education College Dean: Records, 1965-1975
- Electrical Engineering Department: Records, 1945-1974
- Electron Microscope: Records, 1936-1991
- Emeritus Society: Oral Histories, 2010-2011
- Engineering and Architecture College: Records, 1961-1997; Scrapbooks, 1963-1967
- Engineering College Advisory Board: Minutes, 1956-1981
- Engineering College Dean: Records, 1945-1982
- Engineering College Highway Research Section: Papers, 1947-1967
- Engineering College Research Division: Reports, 1936-1987
- Engineering College Research Division Assistant Dean: Records, 1939-1978
- Ephemera, 1905-
- Esquire Hall: Scrapbook, 1947-1954
- Evergreen & College Record: 1892-1904 Index, ca. 1930s
- Executive Budget Committee: Minutes, 1990-1997
F
- Facilities Development: Building Files, 1963-1998; Building Files, 1964-1995; Building Files, 1978-1996
- Facilities Planning: Building Files, 1940-1973; Building Files, 1946-1972; Building Files, 1960-1984; Building Files, 1963-1983
- Facilities Planning: Building Specifications, 1925-1964
- Facilities Planning: Office Files, 1946-1976; Office Files, 1947-1981
- Facilities Planning: Vancouver Campus Building Files and Records, 1986-1998
- Faculty Council: Records, 1972-1985
- Faculty Executive Committee: Records, 1934-1971
- Faculty Senate: Minutes, 1971-2013
- Ferry Hall: Scrapbook, 1947-1954
- Fire Department: Records, 1922-2005
- Football Program: Bob Burks’ Scrapbooks, 1912-2000
- Forestry and Range Management Department: Records, 1912-1973; Records, 1961-1982
- Friends of the Library: Records, 1938-1979
G
- Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center (GIESORC): Records, 2000-2015
- General Education Visioning Committee: Records, 2006-2009
- General Extension Service Bureau of Correspondence Courses: Course Materials, 1959-1973
- Genetics Program: Records, 1946-1972
- Germans from Russia Conference: Recordings 1984, 1998
- Geology Department: Office Files, 1896-1975
- The Great Russian: Production Films, 1960
- Graduate School: Centennial Papers, 2000-2002
- Graduation Certificates (Diplomas), 1896-1908
H
- History Department Faculty (Susanne P. Lloyd): Records, 1950-76
- History 398 (Women in the West): Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1979-1986; Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1979-1994; Oral Histories & Student Papers, 1996-2005
- History 469 (Thompson Hall & College of Liberal Arts Histories): Papers, 1999-2001
- Home Economics College: Records, 1907-1998
- Home Economics College Dean: Records, 1919-1957
- Home Economics Research Center: Records, 1942-1979
- Horse Heaven Hills Study Group: Records, 1930-1972
- Horticulture & Landscape Architecture: Display Garden Records, 2001-2014
- Housing and Residence Life: Perham Hall Bombing Files, 1979-1980
I
- Indonesia Project: Recordings, ca. 1979-1984
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Athletics Department: Recordings, 1938-2000; Films, 1993-2009
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Basketball: Films, 1941-1986
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Basketball: Films & Records, 1958-1977
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Basketball: Video, 2001-2015
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Football: Films, 1929-1976; Films, 1950-1979; Films, 1971-1983; Films, 1983-1986; Films, 1986-1988; Films, 1940-1989; Films, 1968-1978; Videotapes, 1985-2007
- Intercollegiate Athletics: Pac-10 and NCAA Records, 1954-1983
- Intercollegiate Athletics – Track: Films, 1929-1977
- Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education: Records, 1947-1993; Records, 1958-1975
- Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education Director: Papers, 1924-2001
- Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education Native American Advisory Board: Records, 1996-2003
- Intercollegiate Knights: Papers, 1941-1985
- International Programs, Campus Coordinator: Records, 1971-1984
- International Programs, Office of: Records, 1948-1983; Records, 1959-1975
- International Programs Support Office, Western Sudan Agricultural Research Project: Records, 1976-1986
- Irrigated Agriculture Research and Experiment Center (Prosser): Grapes/Wine Research Records, 1940-1984;
Photographs, 1919-1969 - Irrigation Branch Experiment Station (Prosser): Records, 1910-1979; Reports, 1919-1960
J
- JESSI (Junior Engineers and Scientists Summer Institute): Records, 1956-1964
- Jewett Observatory: Records, 1948-1956
- Jordan Valley Agricultural Service Project: Recordings, ca. 1982-1988
K
- Kabul University Masters in Public Policy and Administration Theses, 2010
- Kennewick Man on Trial: Recordings & Records, 1996-2004
- Kruegel-McAllister Hall: Records, 1964-1974
- KUGR Radio Station: Program Logs, 1968
- KUGR Radio Station: Records, 1962-1984
- KWSC Radio Station: Northwest Pioneer Scripts, 1938
- KWSU Radio Station: Records, 1916-1977
L
- Lambda Kappa Sigma, Mu Chapter: Records, 1917-1976
- Lambda Phi Epsilon: Records, 2012-2015
- Libraries: COM Catalog, 1986-1988; Holland Library Medallion Casts, 1949
- Library: Accession Record Books, 1892-1982; Moldenhauer Transaction Records, 1973-1982
- Library Administration: Office Files, 1971-76
- Library Faculty and Library Faculty Affairs Committee: Minutes, 1970-2012
- Library Faculty Affairs Committee: Records, 1974-1978
- Library Faculty (Humanities / Social Sciences): Minutes, 1984-2010
- Library Micrographics: Records, 1940-1965
- Library Roundtable: Records, 1968-1976
- Library Serial Record: Records, 1952-1978
- Library, Social Science Library: Records, 1942-1978
- Library Staff Association: Records, 1946-1979; Records, 1951-1993
- Library Staff Association Committee on Higher Education Personnel Board: Records, 1966-1977
- Library Systems: Records, 1965-74
- Library Task Force on Library Administrative Organization: Records, 1977
- Library University Senate Delegation: Records, 1969-1975; Records, 1975-1977
M
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration: Records, 1995-2020
- McCroskey Hall: Records, 1920-1968
- Mechanical Arts & Engineering College: Records, 1892-1943
- Mechanical Engineering Department: Records, 1910-1976
- Mechanical Engineering Department, Student Competition on Relevant Engineering: Records, 1973-1977
- Military Education Committee: Records, 1969-1972
- Military Science Department: Records, 1967-1975
- Mines and Geology School Dean: Records, 1929-1933
- Multicultural Student Services: Records, 1976-2008
- Museum of Anthropology: Lucullus McWhorter Collection Administrative Records, circa 1959-1999
- Music School: Records and Photographs, 1922-1977
N
- National Gray “W”: Records, 1980-1986
- National Youth Administration: Records, 1935-1944
- Native American Studies Program: Papers, 1969-1980, bulk 1974-1976
- Native American Studies Program: Records, 1965-1977
- Neill Hall: Records, 1963-1966
- News and Information Service: Records, 1947-1994
- News Bureau: Releases, 1918-1977; Scrapbooks, 1959-1978
- See WSUNews below
- NIDS (National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States), MASC: Microfiched Finding Aids, 1984
- Northwest Public Radio (NWPR): Audio Recordings, 1973-1999
- Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Unit (Mount Vernon): Records, 1948-1973
O
- Office of the President: Enoch A. Bryan: Records, 1888-1952
- Office of the President: Ernest O. Holland: Records, 1890-1950
- Office of the President: Wilson Compton: Records, 1944-1952
- Office of the President: Wilson Compton & C. Clement French: Records, 1948-1956
- Office of the President: C. Clement French: Records, 1957-1966
- Office of the President: Glenn Terrell: Records, 1953-1985; Records, 1967-1976
- Office of the President: Glenn Terrell Inauguration Documents and Photographs, 1967-1968
- Office of the President: Samuel Smith: Records, 1960-1991
- Office of the President: Audio and Video Recordings, 1937-2006
- Omicron Nu, Kappa chapter: Records, 1922-2015
P
- Pakistan Project (WSU-AID Contract): Records, 1952-1972
- Partnership for Rural Improvement: Records, 1968-1985; Records, 1971-1987
- Peace Studies Program: Records, 1980-1990
- Pharmacy College: Records, 1896-1996; Grade Books, Fall 1968-Spring 1978
- Phi Epsilon Kappa (Alpha Gamma Chapter): Records, 1952-1985
- Physical Education Department: Records, 1921-1962; Records, 1947-1983
- Physical Education and Athletics, Director: Records, 1908-1967
- Physical Plant: Contracts, 1950-1966; Contracts, 1954-1981
- Plant Pathology Department: Records, 1941-1944
- President, Assistant to the: Records, 1954-1985
- WSU Press: Records, 1948-1992
- Program for Local Government Education: Records, 1988-1994
- Protests: Ephemera, 1970-1972
- Provosts Office: Accreditation Records, 1960-2003
- Puget Sound Marine Station: Records, 1908-1910
R
- Racism Workshop: Papers, 1970-1971
- Radio and Television Services: Records, 1922-1984; Records, 1946-1994; “WSU Presents” Recordings, 1992-2004
- Research Committee: Records, 1950-1967
- Regents Hill: Records, 1952-1968
- Registrars Office: Admission Card File, 1899-1949; Reports and Papers, 1917-1974; School Registers, 1892-1919
- Research Council : Records, 1932-1955
- Residence Hall Association: Records, 1948-1979; Records, 1989-2001
- Residence Living Department: Records, 1966-1978; Records, 1968-1986
S
- Safety Division: Records, 1950-1980
- Safety Division Director: Records, 1968-1978
- School of Architectural Engineering: Records, 1923-1981
- School of Mechanical Engineering: Records, 1913-1940
- Science and Arts College Associate Dean: Records, 1951-1957
- Science and Arts College Dean: Records, 1926-1939
- Science College Dean: Correspondence, 1981-1994
- Scott Hall: Records, 1958-1968
- Senior Hall: Records, 1927-1934
- Snohomish County Extension Service: Records, 1916-2007
- Southwestern Washington Research Unit: Records, 1943-1975
- Space Priorites Committee: Records, 1956-1966
- Speech Department: Office Files, 1948-1974; Office Files, 1966-75
- Speech Department Chair: Records, 1923-1946
- Spokane Chancellor: Papers, 1979-2003
- STEEP (Solutions To Environmental and Economic Problems): Reports, 1974-2001
- Stevens Hall: Alumni Surveys, 1982-1984; Records, 1894-1966, 1998-2002
- Stimson Hall: Records, 1923-1976
- Streit-Perham Hall: Records, 1962-1974
- Student Affairs, Office of: Records, 1939-1974
- Systems and Computing, Office of: Records, 1967-1977
T
- “Tall Indians” Club: Records and Correspondence, 1958-1981
- Theatre: Records, 1925-1965; Records, 1965-1978; Records, 1966-1981; Records, 1979-1986; Records, 1980-2011; Media, 1983-2001
- Theatre and Dance: Records, 1924-2011
- Tree Fruit Research Center, Wenatchee: Records, 1924-1973; Records, 1929-1967
U
- United States Department of Agriculture / WSU Cooperative Projects: Reports, 1931-1971
- United States Department of Agriculture / WSU Palouse Conservation Field Station and Agricultural Research Service: Records, 1931-1977
- University Accountant: Records, 1900-1905
- University Architect: Records, 1923-1956
- University Communications Ask Dr. Universe: Files, 1998-2015
- University Publications, 1891- forward
- University Relations: Centennial Files, 1979-1990
- University Senate Library Committee: Records, 1945-1979
V
- Veteran’s Memorial Committee: Records, 1985-1992
- Veterans Oral History Interviews, 1996-2001
- Veterinary Medicine College: Records, 1932-1975; Records, 1957-1973; Records, 1976-1978; Records, 1976-1982
- Veterinary Medicine College: Subject Files, 1978-2014
- Veterinary Medicine College Associate Dean: Records, 1976-1978
- Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology Department: Records, 1954-1975
- Vice President for Business, Property Management: Records, 1967-1990; Records, inc. Branch Campus Site Studies, 1968-1991
- Vice Provost for Extended University Services: Branch Campus Site Studies, 1987-1991
W
- Waller Hall: Records and Photographs, 1942-2015
- WAMI (Washington-Alaska-Montana-Idaho) Medical School Progress: Records, 1971-1988
- War Records, 1918-1950
- Washington State Office of Commissioner of Public Lands: Land Grant Ledgers, 1901-1912
- Western Veterinarian: Records, 1975-1980
- Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records, 1943-1959
- Western Washington Research and Extension Center: Records, 1895-1976
- Western Wheat Quality Laboratory: 1947-1995
- WHETS (Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System ): Records, 1973-1995
- Wilmer Hall: Records, 1952-1966
- Wilmer-Davis Hall: Scrapbooks, 1937-2013
- Women Studies Program: Records, 1980-1983
- Women’s Center: Take Back the Night Posters, 2023
- Women’s Physical Education Department: Records, 1923-1976, Records, 1973-1981
- Women’s Recreation Association: Papers, 1938-1968
- Women’s Resource Center: Videotapes, 1985-2006
- Women’s Resource & Research Center: Survey, 1987
- WSU Fight Song: Papers, 1919-2019
- WSU Police Officer Papers, 1967-1972
- WSU Today: Records, 1990-2008
- WSUNews: Subject Files, 1940-2011
Y
- Young Men’s Christian Association: Records, 1906-1971, Records, 1894-1995
Z
- Zakarison, Elaine Yoder: WSC High School Summer Camp Papers, 1948-1949
- Zeta Tau Alpha House: Architectural Drawings, 1926-1930
- Zoology Department: Records, 1944-1975