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Whitman College and Northwest Archives is creating a digital archive of the Walla Walla community’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. As our community begins to reopen, it is important to reflect on our experiences of the pandemic, including our experiences at work and school, our social and family interactions, and the changes to our routines. We welcome submissions from all members of the Walla Walla and regional communities. In partnership with the Walla Walla Mutual Aid Network and the Socially Engaged Art Committee of the Walla Walla Immigrants' Rights Coalition, we hope to highlight voices that are not always included in archival records of our community. By collecting and archiving stories, we hope to shed light on disparities that immigrant and other marginalized communities face, while also highlighting their resiliency and their ongoing vital contributions to our community. To read more about the project and how to participate, visit our website. We invite continued submissions of stories to this project. To make a submission, click here. Continuamos aceptando cuentos para este proyecto. Si gusta mandarnos su cuento, oprima aquí.

This collection includes an assortment of Walla Walla regional material including journals, manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and publications.

The collection consists of items related to Walla Walla's Pioneer Pageant of 1923 and 1924. It includes notes, minutes, and agendas of pageant officials; correspondence; financial reports and records; publicity records; photographs of the performances; published programs and script; tickets and other ephemera. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.

The collection consists of logs containing daily notations of weather data, newspaper clippings, a journal of letters received, and expense reports collected by the United States Department of Commerce Weather Bureau. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.

The Wallace Gendron Papers includes photographs of World War II (1941-45), featuring aftermath photos of bombing raids carried out by Army Air Force pilots. Gendron, an Army Air Force photographer, would follow up on bombing raids, showing the results of air attacks on German targets. Items also include personal memorabilia collected by Gendron during his three years of service, including a survival kit issued to soldiers in the event they are captured. There is also correspondence and photographs of Walla Walla Air Base. These photographs are a selection from the overall collection.

This collection consists of records kept by the Alumni Office. Some of the records include: Alumni Association records, statistical records on alumni classes; records of events and programs; records concerning Alumni Office staff retreats and conferences, and individual files for deceased alumni. These photographs are a selection of the overall collection.

This collection consists of the Whitman College and Northwest Archives Newsletter ranging from 1978 to 2010.

The collection consists of correspondence, commencement committee minutes, records of recipients of honor degrees, and commencement programs. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.

A collection of recordings from lectures, presentations, artists talks, and visiting speakers held at Whitman College. The events are a selection of the overall collection.

The administrative record of regular meetings of Whitman College faculty, from the founding of the college to the present. The folders contain the minutes of the Faculty Meetings for an academic year, starting late August/ early September and ending May or June. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.

The Whitman College LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, hosted by the Whitman College and Northwest Archives and supported by the Whitman History Department, was created in 2019 in order to document and preserve the story of Whitman's LGBTQ community. Initially the project was focused on the long-time LGBTQ+ student group PRISM, which was previously known as the GLA, GLBA and GLBTQ, and took the place of the activist group, Coalition Against Homophobia. Due to the confidential and historically off-campus nature of GLBTQ, there had been little record of LGBTQ+ life and activism at Whitman. Thus, the project hoped to address this incomplete history by conducting oral history interviews with alumni, as well as former staff and faculty, who were involved in Whitman’s LGBTQ+ community.

During the 2019-2020 academic year, the project was expanded beyond just the history of student groups to cover LGBTQ+ experiences at Whitman more generally in order to be inclusive of all LGBTQ+ community members. The fall 2019 semester was dedicated to recording the stories of trans and gender non-conforming alumni. Trans experiences are frequently left out or sidelined in LGBTQ+ historical work, and the project leaders wanted to prevent this from happening to this project by providing a space to intentionally include and prioritize trans narratives.

The collection consists of statistics, budgets, recitals, programs, announcements, events, correspondence, history, newsletters, and sheet music. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.

The Whitman Undergraduate Conference is an annual, day-long celebration of the scholarship and creativity of Whitman students.The conference gives students from every academic area of the college the opportunity to share their research and creative projects with the campus community and interested public. Conference presentations reflect original work produced by Whitman students through course study, senior theses, faculty-student collaborative research, independent projects, summer fellowships and internships, and study abroad.

The collection consists of printed materials including receipts, letters of correspondence, enrollment records, and charters related to Whitman Seminary. These documents are a selection of the overall collection.