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  1. 2024.FIC.086 - Booklet

    Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. Diary of Mabel Gladys Whitney Tonseth Ward, twenty-five pages from 1912-1954. Mabel Gladys Whitney grew up in Coeur d'Alene and Spokane. She met Magnus Tonseth in Methow when she came to help her sister Pearl Cook deliver her baby. Earliest diary entries are about friends and activities in Spokane. She came to Methow in 1913 and met Magnus soon after her arrival. They courted, were married, and ...

    Record Type: Archive

    Diary of Ambel Gladys Whitney Tonseth Ward
  2. 2024.FIC.087 - Booklet

    Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. Diary of Helen Tonseth Sopp, sixteen pages, 1929. Helen's diary chronicles her family activities during the first year of her father Magnus' death when she was thirteen. Activities included dinners with friends and relatives, horse riding, Mark Averill visited Mabel regularly, cold winter, school antics, playing at night.

    Record Type: Archive

    Diary of Helen Tonseh Sopp
  3. 2024.FIC.088 - Booklet

    Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. Autobiography of Olive Cook Cloud Hansberry Justice, twenty-seven pages. Olive's parents were Pearl Whitney and Rutherford Cook, and Olive was born in 1910 in Methow. Her remembrances include Cooper Rapids, Methow Rapids U-bolt, the Cook homestead, life on Johnson Flat, sister Blanche arrives, the neighbors, people and places in Methow Valley, discipline, a visit to Grandma and Grandpa Whitney, re...

    Record Type: Archive

    Autobiography of Olive Cook
  4. 2024.FIC.089 - Booklet

    From Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth, is explorer and Hudson Bay Fur Trading Company's manager out of Canada diary of his explorations along the Pacific Coast, the Columbia River and northeastern Washington Territory. Fort Okanogan was initially a trading company location, not a military fort. It was operational during the fur trading period of 1810-1850. The diary is sixty-nine pages and was originally published in the Wenatchee ...

    Record Type: Archive

    Old Fort Okanogan, Alexander Ross
  5. 2024.FIC.090 - Booklet

    Helen Krinke cookbook, a typed compilation of Methow Valley women's favorite recipes. Recipe categories are beverages, breads, cakes, candy, cookies, desserts, doughnuts, pudding, ice cream, frostings, left-overs, meat, fish, eggs, cheese, pies, pcikles, preserves, relishes, soups and vegetables. The recipes were contributed by Phyliis Filer, Gladys Ehley Cecilia Stokes, Elsie Sonnichsen, Sarah Brown, Bertie Filer, Shirley Stone, Reva Thomas, E...

    Record Type: Archive

    Cookbook index
  6. 2024.FIC.091 - Booklet

    Emma Trainman's autograph album with high school signatures. Emma was the daughter of pioneer Nels Trainman,who was also an artist and painter. Given to Emma by her father at Christmas. Friends' messages are from Henry Klinkert, Raymond Calmettes, Zola Martin, Cora Prewitt, Hattie Culberston, Maude Prewitt, Katherine Klinkert, Laura Prewitt, Ellis Dibble, Cecile Colwell, Stanley Parkinson, Bessie Davis, Alice Rader, Maggie Wright, Greta Magee, G...

    Record Type: Archive

    Emma Trainman's autograph album
  7. 2024.FIC.092 - Certificate

    Order of Eastern Star certificate issed to the Methow Valley chapter located in Twisp, date June 18, 1937. Inital members were Ellen Hayden, Lewis Coffin, Mabel Kennison, Lewis Rodepouch, Ella Scott, Nellie Bigelow, Hazel Christe, Hazle McFarlane, Loleta Airey, Gussie Bolinger, Fern Farmer, Nedra Horn, Vera Rodepouch, Sarah Henshaw, Sadie Weidenborn, Evelyn Allen, Lenora Hinds, Adeline Schaidt, Hannah Magnusson, Virginia Griffith. Ella Hofer, Ma...

    Record Type: Archive

    Order of EAstern Star certificate
  8. 2024.FIC.100 - Booklet

    Promotional marketing brochure for Sunny M Ranch, owned by Dr, Blende. The sections include fishing, hunting, ice skating, skiing, climate, accommodations and how to get there.

    Record Type: Archive

    Brochure for Sunny M Ranc, 1950s
  9. 2024.FIC.111 - Poster

    Antlers Tavern Sing-along booklet with words to songs inside. Owners were Bob and Ann Brandbenburg. Three pages for 50 songs from the early 1900s.

    Record Type: Archive

    Antlers Tavern Sing-along book

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