Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Fred G. Rounds Papers
1918-1967
Cage 231
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Biography/History
- Scope and Content
- Arrangement
- Administrative Information
- Names and Subjects
- Detailed Description of Collection
- Personal and Professional Correspondence
- Kiwanis
- Planning--local, county, and regional
- Civil Defense
- Community Congregational Church
- Misc. Pullman and WSC
- Humor
- Social Clubs and Other Organizations
- Miscellanous
Summary Information
- Repository
- Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
- Title
- Fred G. Rounds Papers
- ID
- Cage 231
- Date [inclusive]
- 1918-1967
- Extent
- 9 linear feet, 18 boxes, plus oversize.
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- Includes correspondence, reports, and photographs concerning civic organizations, civil defense, land-use planning, the Pullman (Wash.) planning commission, the Kiwanis Club, and a number of residential architectural projects.
Biography/History
Fred Grafton Rounds was born January 6, 1893, at St. Paul, Minnesota. He was graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1916. During the First World War, Rounds was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He was discharged as a 1st Lieutenant in April 1919. Rounds began his career in architecture for the firm of Croft and Hoerner Architects,in Minneapolis. In 1923, Rounds joined the WSC Department of Architectural Engineering in 1923, where he served as an assistant professor of architecture and as an assistant designer in the college architect's office. He also joined with his colleague, Stanley A. Smith, in the architectural firm of Smith and Rounds. The partnership designed many residences in Pullman in the late 1920s, along with several sorority and fraternity houses. By the late 1920s, Rounds left his post at WSC to pursue a full-time private architecture practice in Tacoma and Chehalis.
In 1932 he designed the center unit addition to the Pullman High School. In 1934 he returned to the WSC campus to oversee several college building construction project sponsored by the federal Public Works Administration. From 1937 to 1950, Rounds he served as superintendent of the State College's Department of Buildings and Grounds. He retired from WSC in 1958. Fred G. Rounds was a civic-minded resident of Pullman. He joined the local Kiwanis club, serving on numerous committees. He was elected its president in 1943, and in 1955 served as the Pacific Northwest District Governor. In addition, Rounds was an organizer and long-time member of the Planning Commission and the Whitman County Planning Commission. He served on the Pullman School Board and the Pullman Memorial Hospital Board; and he was director of the Pullman-WSC Civil Defense program and chairman of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce. Rounds was a member of the Pullman Community Congregational Church, where he served as a deacon and as chief usher. He also oversaw the design and construction of the congregation's new house of worship in the mid-1950s. He was also active in Masonic lodges. In 1919, Rounds married the former Ruth Wikoff. The union brought three children, Mrs. Harold (Jeanne) Olsen, Mrs. Earl (Margery) Muir, and Fred G. Rounds, Jr. Ruth Rounds died in 1949. In 1955, Fred Rounds married the former Mrs. John P. (Dora) Sanger. Rounds died on May 2, 1972.
Scope and Content
The papers of Fred G. Rounds consist of correspondence, reports, enclosures, and photographs concerning civic organizations, civil defence, land-use planning, employment at Washington State College, and Rounds' private architectural contracts. The larger and more significant series concern the Pullman City Planning Commission, the Kiwanis Club, and a number of residential architectural projects done as private contracts. Most materials date from about 1940 to about 1960. The papers are arranged in nine series, reflecting an apparent original order. Within series, the arrangement is alphabetical subject folders.
Arrangement
Series list: Series 1. Personal and Professional Correspondence Series 2. Kiwanis Series 3. Planning--local, county, and region Series 4. Civil Defense Series 5. Community Congregational Church Series 6. Pullman and WSC Series 7. Humor Series 8. Social Clubs and other Organizations Series 9. Miscellaneous
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open and available for on-site research use. Researchers will be instructed to wear gloves. Though the images vary widely in their physical condition, reproductions in the form of digital scans and prints will be available for most of the items in the collection.
Acquisition Information
Washington State University Libraries acquired the Fred G. Rounds Papers in two accessions, the first prior to 1970 and the second (MS 75-7) in May 1975, from the WSU School of Architecture. The drawings in folder 276 were received later, with a collection of architectural drawings from the Pullman Community Congregational Church (MS.2008.28), and added to this collection in 2018.
Names and Subjects
Subject(s)
- Washington State University--Faculty--Archives
- Architecture--Washington (State)--Pullman.
- Civil defense--Washington (State)--Pullman--1950-1960.
- City Planning
Detailed Description of Collection
1 Personal and Professional Correspondence |
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box-folder | ||||
H. H. Waples, personal 1934-1936 |
1/1 | |||
H. H. Waples, Treasury Department 1934-1935 |
1/2 | |||
Chapin Foster, Sec.-Director, Washington State Historical Society 1944-1947 |
1/3 | |||
Personal Correspondence |
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box-folder | ||||
1956 |
1/4 | |||
1957 |
1/5 | |||
1958 |
1/6 | |||
1959 |
1/7 | |||
1960 |
1/8 | |||
1961 |
1/9 | |||
1962 |
1/10 | |||
1963 |
1/11 | |||
1964 |
1/12 | |||
box-folder | ||||
Around the World Trip 1963 |
1/13 | |||
College Architect Office Data |
1/14 | |||
Logan G. Kimsey, M.D., residence 1940 |
1/15 | |||
Kappa Sigma House, alterations 1952 |
1/16 | |||
Hollingsworth Apartments, alterations 1953 |
2/17 | |||
W. W. Durham, High School, Kellogg, Idaho, plans 1953 |
2/18 | |||
Kappa Kappa Gamma, porch railing 1954 |
2/19 | |||
Ralph Fowler, residence 1954 |
2/20 | |||
John S. Peterson, residence 1954 |
2/21 | |||
Guy Murchland, residence 1955 |
2/22 | |||
Dean Sanders |
2/23 | |||
Architectural journals and bulletins |
2/24 | |||
Miscellaneous clippings |
2/25 | |||
Product brochures |
2/26 | |||
Associated General Contractors, Spokane 1953 |
2/27 | |||
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2 Kiwanis |
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Kiwanis, Pullman Club |
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box-folder | ||||
"What Is Kiwanis?" 1960, 1962 inc. |
2/28 | |||
Membership 1922-1962 |
2/29 | |||
Annual officers and members roster 1940-1965, inc. |
2/30 | |||
By Laws, Local and International |
2/31 | |||
Committee on education, fellowship, club history, and laws and regulations |
3/32 | |||
Support of Churches Division |
3/33 | |||
Pullman club charter correspondence 1922 |
3/34 | |||
"Facts about Pullman Kiwanis Club," prepared by Education Committee March 1945 |
3/35 | |||
"Facts about Pullman Kiwanis Club," prepared by Education Committee May 1947 |
3/36 | |||
"Annual Achievement Report of the Kiwanis Club of Pullman, for the Year 1938 |
3/37 | |||
Circle K House 1938 |
3/38 | |||
Circle K Fraternity 1947 |
3/39 | |||
"Former Members, Deceased or Moved Away," A through K |
3/40 | |||
Membership |
3/41 | |||
"Kiwaniquiz" 1962-1963 |
3/42 | |||
Fred G. Rounds' corr. 1920s |
3/43 | |||
Newspaper Clippings |
3/44 | |||
Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook 1957-1958 |
3/45 | |||
Passion Play, Bryan Hall Auditorium December 1955 |
3/46 | |||
Photographs |
4/47 | |||
Misc. correspondence 1950s-1960s |
4/48 | |||
Kiwanis History, including Pullman Weekly Bulletin |
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box-folder | ||||
1926-1928 and 1935 |
4/49 | |||
1940-1954 |
4/50 | |||
1955 |
4/51 | |||
1956 |
4/52 | |||
1957 |
4/53 | |||
1958 |
4/54 | |||
1959 |
4/55 | |||
1960 |
4/56 | |||
1961 |
4/57 | |||
1962 |
5/58 | |||
1963 |
5/59 | |||
1964 |
5/60 | |||
1965 |
5/61 | |||
1966 |
5/62 | |||
1967 |
5/63 | |||
Kiwanis, Pacific Northwest District |
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Board Meeting |
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box-folder | ||||
Seattle February 1955 |
5/64 | |||
Seattle February 1962 |
5/65 | |||
Seattle November 1962 |
5/66 | |||
Portland January 1963 |
5/67 | |||
Vancouver, B.C. February 1964 |
5/68 | |||
Seattle November 1964 |
5/69 | |||
District Convention |
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box-folder | ||||
Salem, Oregon 1956 |
5/70 | |||
Penticton, B.C. 1957 |
5/71 | |||
Tacoma 1958 |
5/72 | |||
Eugene 1959 |
5/73 | |||
Vancouver, B.C. 1960 |
5/74 | |||
Spokane 1961 |
5/75 | |||
Yakima 1962 |
5/76 | |||
Anchorage 1963 |
5/77 | |||
Portland 1964 |
6/78 | |||
Seattle 1966 |
6/79 | |||
box-folder | ||||
Kiwanis, International Convention, Denver 1962 |
6/80 | |||
Kiwanis, International Convention, Portland 1966 |
6/81 | |||
Misc. convention programs |
6/82 | |||
Kiwanis, Fred G. Rounds, Pacific Northwest District Gov. |
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box-folder | ||||
Election as governor 1964 |
6/83 | |||
Personal scrapbook during tenure as district governor |
6/84 | |||
Pacific Northwest District Audit Report for the period January 1, 1954 to December 31, 1954 |
6/85 | |||
Governor's Tour of Alaska 1955 |
6/86 | |||
New Club Building 1955 |
6/87 | |||
New Club Building Committee 1955 |
6/88 | |||
Public Relations Committee 1955 |
6/89 | |||
Education and Fellowship Committee |
6/90 | |||
Attendance Committee 1955 |
7/91 | |||
Convention Program Committee |
7/92 | |||
"On to Cleveland," international convention 1955 |
7/93 | |||
District Bulletin 1949-1966, inc. |
7/94 | |||
District Directory 1953-1959 |
7/95 | |||
International Directory 1956 |
7/96 | |||
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3 Planning--local, county, and regional |
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box-folder | ||||
Pullman Public Schools, Durham Report, 1949, and newspaper clippings |
7/97 | |||
City-College Relations, Special Committee 1946 |
7/98 | |||
Pullman Housing Authority, corr., part 1 |
7/99 | |||
Pullman Housing Authority, corr., part 2 |
7/100 | |||
Pullman Community Hospital Board 1952-1964 |
7/101 | |||
Pullman, City of Pullman City Plan |
7/102 | |||
Capital outlay |
7/103 | |||
Subdivision Ordinance No. A-217 |
7/104 | |||
Mobile Homes |
7/105 | |||
Studies and Master Plan 1960 |
8/106 | |||
Public Schools |
8/107 | |||
Bond Issue 1958 |
8/108 | |||
Ivan Bloch and Associates 1957 |
8/109 | |||
To-do Items |
8/110 | |||
Misc. |
8/111 | |||
Photographs |
8/112 | |||
Pullman City Planning Commission |
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box-folder | ||||
General |
8/113 | |||
Business and Development Committee 1960 |
8/114 | |||
Minutes 1947-1951 |
8/115 | |||
Minutes 1952-1955, inc. |
8/116 | |||
Minutes 1956 |
8/117 | |||
Minutes 1957-1958 |
8/118 | |||
Minutes 1959 |
8/119 | |||
Minutes 1960 |
8/120 | |||
Minutes 1961 |
9/121 | |||
Minutes 1962 |
9/122 | |||
Minutes 1963 |
9/123 | |||
Minutes 1964 |
9/124 | |||
Commission and Board of Adjustment Minutes 1957-1958 |
9/125 | |||
Fallout Shelters |
9/126 | |||
Misc. |
9/127 | |||
box-folder | ||||
Planning, misc. |
9/128 | |||
Highway Advertising Control |
9/129 | |||
Association of Washington Cities, corr. 1939-1940 |
9/130 | |||
City of Pullman, "Budget for 1953" |
9/131 | |||
"Accident Report Study for the City of Pullman" 1960 |
9/132 | |||
"Washington Street and Highway Need Study, Report for the City of Pullman" January 1960 |
9/133 | |||
Master Plan for Pullman 1957 |
9/134 | |||
"Hillside Terrace, A Proposed Addition to the City of Pullman, Washington" 1959 |
9/135 | |||
Pullman, Washington, Zoning Ordinance No. 649, as amended |
9/136 | |||
"Proposed Zoning Ordinance of the City of Pullman" January 1961 |
9/137 | |||
"Report of Planning Studies, Pullman, Wash., January 1960" |
9/138 | |||
Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks, City of Pullman and misc., building construction |
9/139 | |||
Whitman County Planning Commission |
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box-folder | ||||
School Consolidation |
10/140 | |||
"A Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan for Whitman County, Washington," Preliminary Draft July 31, 1965 |
10/141 | |||
"Whitman County Agriculture, Washington," County Agricultural Data Series, 1965, by Port of Whitman County |
10/142 | |||
State Parks and Recreation |
10/143 | |||
Sub-Division Ordinance |
10/144 | |||
Trailer Courts and Mobile Homes |
10/145 | |||
Whitman County Parks and Recreation |
10/146 | |||
Airport Zoning |
10/147 | |||
County Zoning |
10/148 | |||
County Plan, M-1-L Zone |
10/149 | |||
County Plan, Parks |
10/150 | |||
County Plan, Parks and Recreation--Wash. State Sportsmen |
10/151 | |||
County Plan, Public Relations |
10/152 | |||
Minutes 1957-1960 |
10/153 | |||
Minutes 1961 |
10/154 | |||
Minutes and misc. |
10/155 | |||
Weed Control Plan 1959 |
11/156 | |||
Reorganization 1959-1960 |
11/157 | |||
"The Comprehensive Outdoor Plan for Whitman County, Washington" 1966 |
11/158 | |||
Misc. corr. |
11/159 | |||
General 1961-1965 |
11/160 | |||
Whitman County Zoning Resolution 1958 |
11/161 | |||
County Planning Commission Plan for Whitman County |
11/162 | |||
Whitman County Plan, to-do |
11/163 | |||
"County Commissioners' Land Use Planning Guide," Wash. State Assoc. of County Commissioners, May 1959 |
11/164 | |||
Planning Assoc. of Washington, 1964 convention, Yakima |
11/165 | |||
Whitman County Port District |
11/166 | |||
"An Economic Summary and A Comprehensive Plan for the Port of Whitman County," by H. E. Bovay, Jr., Consulting Engineers 1961 |
11/167 | |||
"The Port District and the Comprehensive Plan for the Port of Whitman County" |
11/168 | |||
Inland Waterways Association, corr. 1958 |
11/169 | |||
Inland Waterways Association, misc. |
11/170 | |||
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4 Civil Defense |
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WSC-Pullman Civil Defense |
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box-folder | ||||
Notices of Meetings and Minutes |
12/171 | |||
Test Problem No. 1 1952 |
12/172 | |||
Yellow Alert February 24, 1952 |
12/173 | |||
Red Alert May 6, 1952 |
12/174 | |||
"Basic Plan for Civil Defense" |
12/175 | |||
Misc. |
12/176 | |||
Moscow-Univ. of Idaho 1951-1952 |
12/177 | |||
American Legion Auxiliary |
12/178 | |||
Clippings 1952-1960 |
12/179 | |||
Washington State Defense Council |
12/180 | |||
WSC, Plan for Civil Defense 1952 |
12/181 | |||
WSC, Civil Defense Manual |
12/182 | |||
Univ. of Washington, "Report Recommending a Division of Safety" 1950 |
12/183 | |||
Univ. of Washington, Civil Defense |
12/184 | |||
The Civil Defense Alert |
12/185 | |||
U.S. Civil Defense Council |
12/186 | |||
Charts: WSC-Pullman Civil Defense (drafts?), 2 versions circa 1940s-1950s |
Oversize / 276 | |||
U.S. Civil Defense |
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box-folder | ||||
Publications, order invoices |
12/187 | |||
Fallout shelters |
12/188 | |||
National literature, part 1 |
12/189 | |||
National literature, part 2 |
13/190 | |||
State of Washington |
13/191 | |||
Fallout Shelter Design and Evaluation Workshop [1961], Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization |
13/192 | |||
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5 Community Congregational Church |
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box-folder | ||||
Annual reports 1958-1963 |
13/193 | |||
Board of Deacons |
13/194 | |||
Budget 1950s |
13/195 | |||
By Laws |
13/196 | |||
Church building designs and styles |
13/197 | |||
Church organization |
13/198 | |||
Equipment and supplies |
13/199 | |||
Funding for new building |
13/200 | |||
Installation of the Rev. Theodore C. Edquist... 1961 |
13/201 | |||
Memorials |
13/202 | |||
Misc. |
13/203 | |||
New Manse |
13/204 | |||
Organization |
14/205 | |||
Pilgrim Firs Camp 1964 |
14/206 | |||
Plan of Organization 1961-1962 |
14/207 | |||
Sermons |
14/208 | |||
Ushers |
14/209 | |||
New Construction |
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box-folder | ||||
Bascom's Cabinet Works, Keene, Texas, pews and chancel furniture |
14/210 | |||
Blueprints |
14/211 | |||
Building |
14/212 | |||
Building committee |
14/213 | |||
Building program |
14/214 | |||
Busboom and Rauh, general contractors |
14/215 | |||
Robert L. Durham, architect |
14/216 | |||
Furniture--chancel and pews |
15/217 | |||
Kitchen cabinets and misc. bids |
15/218 | |||
Misc. invoices, bids, and corr. |
15/219 | |||
Standifer Refrigeration and Heating |
15/220 | |||
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6 Misc. Pullman and WSC |
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Pullman |
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box-folder | ||||
Recreation circa 1947 |
15/221 | |||
Fire Department 1966 |
15/222 | |||
Honor Roll, Men Serving in the Armed Forces 1945 |
15/223 | |||
WSC |
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box-folder | ||||
Buildings and Grounds Manual |
15/224 | |||
"Report onthe Use of Space Devoted to Instructional Purposes, First Semester, 1953-54" |
15/225 | |||
Room Scheduling Procedures 1950-1951 |
15/226 | |||
Safety, traffic, parking area |
15/227 | |||
Space Priorities Committee, meeting minutes 1954-1958 |
15/228 | |||
Space Priorities Committee 1956-1958 |
15/229 | |||
Traffic Engineering |
15/230 | |||
Description and date: Speech: The State College of Washington: Its Origin, History, and Present Development, circa 1940-1941 |
15/230.1 | |||
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7 Humor |
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box-folder | ||||
Cartoons, part 1 |
15/231 | |||
Cartoons, part 2 |
16/232 | |||
Clippings, misc. |
16/233 | |||
Heyer Cartoon and Idea Book |
16/234 | |||
Humor |
16/235 | |||
Limericks |
16/236 | |||
Quotes |
16/237 | |||
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8 Social Clubs and Other Organizations |
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box-folder | ||||
Alpha Rho Chi fraternity, misc. |
17/238 | |||
Alpha Rho Chi fraternity, The Anthem 1945-1962, inc. |
17/239 | |||
Alpha Rho Chi fraternity, The Archi 1939-1960, inc. |
17/240 | |||
American Automobile Association, Spokane, Wash. |
17/241 | |||
B.I.L.--P.E.O. |
17/242 | |||
Camera Club of Pullman 1965 |
17/243 | |||
Chamber of Commerce, Pullman 1925-1964 |
17/244 | |||
Estes Park, Colorado [YMCA conference] 1965 |
17/245 | |||
Freemasonry, "General Information Concerning the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry..." [1963] |
17/246 | |||
Friends of the Library, WSU 1941-1964 |
17/247 | |||
Knights Templar, Masonic Lodges |
17/248 | |||
Quarter Century Club, WSU 1959-1966 |
17/249 | |||
Pullman, church, Episcopal [construction] |
17/250 | |||
Pullman, church, Presbyterian [construction] |
17/251 | |||
Royal Arch, Masonic Lodges |
17/252 | |||
Scarab fraternity |
17/253 | |||
University of Illinois, Class of 1916, 50th Anniversary |
17/254 | |||
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9 Miscellanous |
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box-folder | ||||
American Express Credit Card 1962-1966 |
18/255 | |||
Auto Accident enroute to Bellevue 12-23-1965 |
18/256 | |||
Automobiles 1950s-1960s |
18/257 | |||
Cards--Bridge |
18/258 | |||
Chinese Rugs 1931 |
18/259 | |||
Communism, clippings and pamphlets |
18/260 | |||
Drafting Machine |
18/261 | |||
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority [Marge Rounds, pledge, 1950] |
18/262 | |||
Military Records, World War I discharge |
18/263 | |||
News clippings |
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box-folder | ||||
John F. Kennedy Assassination 1963 |
18/264 | |||
1964 elections |
18/265 | |||
1965-1966 |
18/266 | |||
A.S.E.E. convention 1966 |
18/267 | |||
Pullman people |
18/268 | |||
Cemetery |
18/269 | |||
Misc. |
18/270 | |||
box-folder | ||||
Republican Party 1960s |
18/271 | |||
Scale Modeling of Buildings |
18/272 | |||
Talks--slides 1965 |
18/273 | |||
Whitman County Navy certificate |
18/274 | |||
Margery Rounds drawing, Fred Rounds, jr. |
18/275 | |||
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