WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections houses correspondence, business and financial records, photographs, printed material and other records belonging to Clyde Pangborn, donated by his brother Percy Pangborn in 1962. The collection is extensive and most of it must be viewed at the holdings but some of it can be examined at WSU Libraries Digital Collections.
Here is a video of former WSU archivist Mary Avery discussing the Pangborn Papers—originally from KWSU-TV’s Mosaic series in 1967—now available on WSU Libraries’ Films YouTube channel:
The Queering the Archives Initiative at Washington State University Pullman evoked emotions while highlighting the LGBTQ+ community’s historical experiences. » More ...
“We want to build a broad coalition of folks who are vested in this archive and taking a sense of collaborative ownership,” Cohen-Rodriguez said. “That’s very empowering.”
Other archives in the Pacific Northwest are taking this approach, and Cohen-Rodriguez and Norton-Wisla had the opportunity to visit several of them in July 2023, thanks to a WSU 2023 Transformational Change Initiative (TCI) grant. TCI grants are awarded annually by the … » More …