Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Summary Information

Repository

Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections

Creator

Washington State Grange

Title

Washington State Grange Records

ID

Cage 512

Date [inclusive]

1954-1979

Extent

6 Linear feet of shelf space, 8 Boxes

Language

Collection materials are in English.

Abstract

The records contain the correspondence of the Washington State Grange with members of the Washington State Congressional delegation between the years 1967 and 1978, files concerned with such issues as the Family Farm Water Act campaign of 1976-1977, and various data concerning Grange public relations campaigns.

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Biography/History

In September, 1889, Washington State farmers organized the Washington State Grange. They saw the Grange as a means of fraternal cooperation in the promotion of agricultural interests, and as a method of providing education and recreation for their families. The Grange was also a vehicle for increasing the public's awareness of farmers' issues and for winning legislation to ease farmers' problems associated with the high cost of goods and services, and the low prices received for commodities. The Grange in later years became one of the principal general farmers' organizations, and as such has since functioned as a public and legislative spokeman for agricultural interests. The Grange also takes public positions of advocacy or opposition on a variety of issues such as general economic policy, transportation, and public works projects.

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Scope and Content

This group of records consists chiefly of office files of the Washington State Grange during the time that A. Lars Nelson served as State Master. The records contain the correspondence of the Washington State Grange with members of the Washington State Congressional delegation between the years 1967 and 1978, files concerned with such issues as the Family Farm Water Act campaign of 1976-1977, and various data concerning Grange public relations campaigns.

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Arrangement

The papers are arranged in two sequences. The bulk of the papers are alphabetically organized in a sequence of subject files. A small second series consists of reports and and conference papers associated with annual Deputy Conferences.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2022

https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Washington State Grange were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in November, 1981 (MS81-54) by Jack Silvers, State Master.

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Related Materials

Related Material

Washington State Grange Records, 1889-1953 (Cage 218)

Crawford, Harriet Ann. The Washington State Grange, 1889-1924; a Romance of Democracy. Portland, Or.: Binfords & Mort;, 1940.

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Subject(s) :

• Washington State Grange -- Records and correspondence.

Subject(s)

• Agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Societies, etc. -- Records and correspondence.
• Agriculture, Cooperative -- Washington (State) -- Records and correspondence.
• Agriculture
• Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

Subject Files
			box	folder
Agricultural Act of 1970 1970  2 items			1	1
Agricultural Dateline 1969-1974  37 items			1	2
Agricultural Dateline 1971-1972  40 items			1	3
Agricultural-Labor Relations Act 1971  16 items			1	4
Agricultural Marketing 1972  2 items			1	5
Anti-Corporate Farming 1971  9 items			1	6
"Banking, Currency, and Rural Credit" 1963-1967  2 items			1	7
Boy Scouts of America 1970  14 items			1	8
Chambers of Commerce 1971  10 items			1	9
Columbia River 1974  4 items			1	10
Committee for a New Tax Policy 1972  5 items			1	11
Commodity and Cooperative organizations 1961  80 items			1	12
Concerned Taxpayer 1973  2 items			1	13
Control of Noxious Canadian Weed Imports 1953  17 items			1	14
Conglomerate Corporate Farm Proposal 1975  19 items			1	15
Conservation 1965-1967  7 items			1	16
Cooperatives 1975  21 items			1	17
Congressional Correspondence 1968-1970  145 items			1	18
Congressional Correspondence 1969-1978  67 items			1	19
Congressional Delegation 1967-1970  43 items			1	20
Corporate Farming 1972  2 items			1	21
Corporate Farming 1973-1975  29 items			1	22
Corporate Farming Initiative 1976  19 items			1	23
County Initiatives 1975  5 items			1	24
Dairy Commission 1967  5 items			1	25
Department of Natural Resources 1970  15 items			1	26
"Deputy Conference,"
			box	folder
1966  34 items			1	27
1967  27 items			2	28
1968  16 items			2	29
			box	folder
Diamond Jubilee Celebration 1964  21 items			2	30
Family Farm Water Act 1976  17 items			2	31
Family Farm Water Act 1976  44 items			2	32
Family Farm Water Act 1977  48 items			2	33
Farm Journal 1970  2 items			2	34
Farm Labor Advisory Council 1977  10 items			2	35
Farm Radio and Television 1961-1962  7 items			2	36
"Farm Radio and Television News,"
			box	folder
1966  26 items			2	37
1967  30 items			2	38
1967  24 items			2	39
1968  21 items			2	40
1968  24 items			2	41
1969  25 items			2	42
			box	folder
Farmers' and Traders' Life Insurance Corporation 1971  4 items			2	43
Fund Raising and Trade Stamps 1965  3 items			2	44
Future Power Supply 1971  4 items			2	45
"Goss, Albert, Testimony" 1949  3 items			2	46
Grange Articles 1967  24 items			2	47
Grange Farm Day 1977  17 items			2	48
Grange Forum Reprint 1949  1 item			2	49
Grange Insurance Association Scholarship 1976  15 items			2	50
Grange Insurance Association Bylaws 1976  10 items			2	51
Grange Interstate Livestock Association 1960-1964  4 items			2	52
Grange Leadership Guide 1961  6 items			2	53
Grange Photographs 1963  12 items			2	54
"Grange Power Bulletin,"
			box	folder
1968-1970  26 items			2	55
1971-1972  24 items			2	56
1974  34 items			2	57
			box	folder
Grange Programs 1975  16 items			2	58
Grange Public Relations 1966-1968  2 items			2	59
Grange Retreat 1975  14 items			2	60
Grange Scholarships 1962-1963  38 items			2	61
Grange Supply Stores 1974  14 items			2	62
Grange Travel Service 1973  5 items			2	63
Hahn and Aller Biographies undated  2 items			2	64
"Haussler, Rep. Joe, File" 1974  29 items			2	65
"Hells Canyon, Senate Bill 2243" 1970  43 items			3	66
"Highway Condemnation, House Bill 138" 1974  3 items			3	67
"Highway Users Federation,"
			box	folder
1975  19 items			3	68
1971-1975  83 items			3	69
"Highway Users Conference,"
			box	folder
1970  23 items			3	70
1973-1974  48 items			3	71
			box	folder
"House Bill 776, Nuclear Power; Testimony by Lars Nelson" 1971  34 items			3	72
Industrial Alcohol for Wheat 1977  25 items			3	73
"Initiative 59, Family Farming,"
			box	folder
1976  59 items			3	74-75
1977  61 items			3	76-77
			box	folder
Initiative 59 Campaign 1977  38 items			3	78-79
Initiative 59 Promotion 1977  42 items			3	80-81
Initiative 59 Campaign 1977  17 items			3	82
"Initiative 256, Broken Bottles" 1970  10 items			3	83
Irrigation Development Planning 1977  47 items			3	84
Journal of American Judicature 1973  3 items			3	85
KIRO TV-Radio 1965  2 items			3	86
KTNT Farm Forum 1967-1968  26 items			3	87
"KTNT Farm Forum" 1968  55 items			3	88
Labor Legislation 1971  6 items			3	89
Labor News 1971  6 items			3	90
Land Owners' Tax Relief 1970-1972  10 items			3	91
Land Reform 1972  2 items			3	92
Landscape Gardening Project 1976  21 items			3	93
Land Use Planning Commission 1974  32 items			3	94
Leasehold Tax Committee 1973  23 items			4	95
Legislative Action 1971  4 items			4	96
"Legislative Bulletin,"
			box	folder
1971  9 items			4	97
1972  17 items			4	98
1973  23 items			4	99
1974  16 items			4	100
1975  18 items			4	101
			box	folder
Legislative Bulletin 1976  35 items			4	102
Legislative Milk Marketing Order 1961  29 items			4	103
Legislative Miscellaneous 1975  27 items			4	104
Legislative Progress 1972  11 items			4	105
Legislative Transactions Council 1972  3 items			4	106
"Marketing,"
			box	folder
1961-1963  33 items			4	107
1963-1965  14 items			4	108
			box	folder
Masters' and Wives' Conference 1971  25 items			4	109
Medicare 1971  1 item			4	110
Mexican-American Commission 1973  5 items			4	111
Milk Marketing Act 1971  14 items			4	112
Miscellaneous Congressional Correspondence 1968  15 items			4	113
Miscellaneous Correspondence 1975  29 items			4	114
Miscellaneous Political Letters 1966  5 items			4	115
National Apple Markets 1972  12 items			4	116
"Nelson, A. Lars, Speeches" 1966-1970  41 items			4	117
"Nelson, A. Lars, Memorial Scholarship" 1973-1977  27 items			4	118
"Newkirk, Marion; Speeches" 1967-1970  21 items			4	119
North Cascades Recreational Plan 1971  4 items			4	120
Officers' Conferene 1972  3 items			4	121
Omnibus Bill 1970  3 items			4	122
Open Space Land Use Bill 1972  49 items			4	123
"Peden, Beatrice: Analysis of the Washington State Grange" 1957  1 item			4	124
Post Office Controversey 1966  21 items			4	125
Public Relations 1966-1968  15 items			4	126
"Public Relations, KTNT" 1967-1968  19 items			4	127
Radio and Television 1971  12 items			4	128
"Radio Grange Dateline,"
			box	folder
1966  45 items			5	129
1967-1968  17 items			5	130
			box	folder
Radio Grange Forum 1966  30 items			5	131
Sales Tax 1971  3 items			5	132
Script for Public Relations 1967  29 items			5	133
"Silvers, Jack; Legislative Report" 1971  27 items			5	134
"Silvers, Jack; Registered Lobbyist" 1973  3 items			5	135
Soil Conservation Bill 1972  5 items			5	136
Special Tax Assessment Information 1970  5 items			5	137
Spokane County Research Project 1964  11 items			5	138
State Grangers' Correspondence 1969-1972  29 items			5	139
State Legislative Resolution for Rose Nelson 1965  3 items			5	140
State Marketing Orders 1971  2 items			5	141
The Atom Bomb 1954-1955  5 items			5	142
"The Judicial Article, #101" 1975  13 items			5	143
Timberland Regional Library 1971  2 items			5	144
Unfair Trade Practices Act 1962  6 items			5	145
Value Added Tax 1972  1 item			5	146
Vehicle Fuel Studies 1974  5 items			5	147
Washington Agricultural Statistics 1966  6 items			5	148
Washington Association of Soil and Water Conservation 1976  11 items			5	149
Washington Association of Wheat Growers 1975  16 items			5	150
Washington Cattlemens' Association 1972  11 items			5	151
Washington Conference on Unemployment Compensation 1972  10 items			5	152
Washington Council on Crime and Delinquincy 1970  3 items			5	153
Washington Egg Producers 1962  27 items			5	154
Washington Future Farmers and Homemakers of America 1976  21 items			5	155
Washington Grange Membership 1976  24 items			5	156
Washington Joint Highway Commission 1970  9 items			5	157
Washington Land Use Planning 1973  8 items			5	158
Washington Resources Council 1975  12 items			5	159
Washington School Tax System 1971  5 items			5	160
Washington State Association of Counties 1971  2 items			5	161
Washington State Beef Commission 1969  3 items			5	162
Washington State Council on Farmer Cooperatives 1975  27 items			5	163
Washington State Department of Agriculture 1975  26 items			5	164
Washington State Department of Commerce 1972  9 items			5	165
Washington State Department of Conservation and Ecology 1976  26 items			5	166
Washington State Department of Civil Defense 1970  2 items			5	167
Washington State Game Commission 1975  3 items			5	168
"Washington State Offices, Olympia" 1975  23 items			5	169
Washington State Reclamation Association 1976  9 items			5	170
Washington State Tax Committee 1969-1972  9 items			5	171
Washington State Transportation Tax Study 1974-1975  11 items			5	172
Washington State University Agricultural Economics 1975  16 items			5	173
Washington State University Extension Service 1977  25 items			6	174
Washington State 4-H Extension 1977  32 items			6	175
Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction 1974  14 items			6	176
Washington Trucking Association 1971  4 items			6	177
Washington Vocational Agriculture Education 1972  20 items			6	178
Washington Wheat Commission 1974  5 items			6	179
Water Rights 1974  6 items			6	180
Water Rights Representation 1972  7 items			6	181
World Residue Compost Study 1968  4 items			6	182
World Without War Council 1969  6 items			6	183
Yakima County Marketing Committee 1964  21 items			7	184
Yakima County Marketing Meetings 1965  6 items			7	185
Yakima County Marketing Correspondence 1965-1966  45 items			7	186
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Deputy Conferences 1956-1975
			box	folder
1956  1 item			7	187
1957  1 item			7	188
1958  1 item			7	189
1959  1 item			7	190
1960  1 item			7	191
1961  1 item			7	192
1962  1 item			7	193
1963  1 item			7	194
1967  1 item			7	195
Input-Output Tables for the Washington Economy (distributed with 1967 reports) 1967  1 item			7	196
1968  1 item			7	197
1968  1 item			7	198
1969  1 item			8	199
1970  1 item			8	200
1971  1 item			8	201
1972  1 item			8	202
1974  1 item			8	203
1975  1 item			8	204
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