A presentation regarding online resources for loacal history research, with a case study for researching the removal of Indians from Spokane, Washington.

1. A Northwest Historian’s Tour of the Internet
Larry Cebula
Washington State Digital Archives
Eastern Washington University
Spokane Mayor Burch with "Biggest Indian" Contest Winner Charles Libby, 1909.

2. www.northwesthistory.blogspot.com

3. American Journeys

4. Documenting the American South

5. Fold3.com

6. Google Book Search

7. Washington State Digital Archives

8. LOC Digital Collections

9. LOC Chronicling America Historic Newspapers Project

12. Northwest Digital Archives

13. Digital Collections from WSU

14. Case Study:
Indians and the City Beautiful in Spokane, 1880-1910
•What online resources are
available?
•Where do we look?
•What necessary resources are not
available?
•Do we find things that we would
have overlooked in traditional
research?

15. Google Book Search for keyword “Spokane” limited to full text

16. C. B. Carlisle,
Spokane County
as it Is: Solid
Facts and Actual
Results
(Spokane, 1883)
42-43.

17. Matsura Collection Images matching the keyword “Spokane.”

19. Historical Newspapers in Washington from the Secretary of State

20. Advanced Searching of Historical Newspapers in Washington

21. Spokane Falls Review
» 6/16/1883 » Page 2
» Column 2

22. To Be Removed
Spokane Falls
Review » 1/19/1884
»
Page 3 » Column 4

23. Two Articles from
Page 1 of the
Spokane Falls
Review:
“Somewhat
Tough”
and
“An Indian
Ishmaelite”

25. The Making of America database has a
sophisticated search engine.

27. Washington State Digital Archives

28. Death
Certificate
for Spokane
Garry, Jan.
14, 1892

29. Jeremiah Indian,
11/20/1904

30. UVA Historical Census Browser

31. Univ. of OK:
Indian Claims
Commission
Records

32. PDF versus Scanned Text!

33. Additional Possible
Online Sources
Census Data
Additional Historical Image collections
Digitized Oral histories
A good starting point for Spokane history
is this page at the MAC:
http://www.northwestmuseum.org/index.cfm/R

34. What are We Missing?
Modern Secondary Sources
– Ruby and Brown, Children of the Sun
– Youngs, Fair and Falls
Most Archival Records
Newspapers not Digitized
Holding of Small Historical Societies
Etc. etc.

35. Needs and Prospects
Digital primary sources have a place in the
classroom
Digital primary sources have a place in
published scholarship
Historians need to keep up!
We need a centralized resource page for
“deep” digital archives

36. www.northwesthistory.blogspot.com