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WRVM Journal and Selected Articles
Summer Editon July 2008
From the Back Room: Tale of a Trunk: How objects help tell stories

Spring Editon April 2008
From the Back Room: Adding to the Artifact Collection

Winter Editon January 2008
From the Back Room: 2007 Donated items for the collection

Autumn Editon Oct 2007
From the Back Room: Researching Auburn Artist Marguerite Wing

Summer Edition July 2007
From the Back Room: Caring for Fragile Weavings

Mary Olson Farm: A Work In Progress April 2007
From the Back Room: Auburn’s First Ladies of Lace

The Demise of Lester January 2007
From the Back Room: Gus Lange: Prolific Pottery

America at War: The Art of Propaganda, 1942-1945 October 2006
From the Back Room: Artifacts from Telegraph History


In the Shadow of Stampede Pass - Lester July 2006

Cavanaugh Hardware Store July 2006

Mary Olson Farm March 2006

Recent Acquisitions: Diamond Mineral Springs Water Bottle March 2006

Go for Broke
The All Japanese American 442nd Infantry Regiment
  January 2006

The Reign of American Mail-Order Houses, 1870-1930  January 2006

The Treaty Wars Sesquicentennial  October 2005

Cleaning Time  October 2005
Simple Museum Techniques for Cleaning Hard-to-Dust Treasures

Auburn's Other Railroad  July 2005

Independence Day  July 2005
How We Celebrated

The White River Valley Steamboat Era  April 2005

Tintype Portraiture in Early Auburn  April 2005

Domestic Policy  January 2005
Homemaker's Guidebooks, c 1890-1920

Auburn's Named Corners  October 2004

The Vanity Set, 1890 - 1940  October 2004

Neighborhood  July 2004

Primary Sources  July 2004
at the White River Valley Museum

Roundhouse Days  April 2004
Northern Pacific Railway and Building the Auburn Yard, 1910-1913

Prudence Penny's Wartime Wisdom  April 2004

Ku Klux Klan in the Valley  January 2004
A 1920s Phenomena

Frozen in Time  January 2004
Winter Sports and Equipment in the Northwest

White River Rapscallion  October 2003
An Insight into C. D. Hillman

Picture This  October 2003
Historic Photographs from the Museum's collection now on the Internet

Auburn-Area Church Life  July 2003

She Wore a Teeny Weeny Bikini
  July 2003
...but not before 1946

Flooding, Dams and Renamed Rivers  April 2003

Gone Fishing
  April 2003
Two Traditional Northwest Coast Fishing Tools

"Press the button, we do the rest"
  January 2003

Auburn-area Churches  October 2002

Community Bands  October 2002

Tenas Wawa  July 2002
Chinook Jargon

George L. Kinkade (1905-1975)  July 2002

Auburn and Its Railroads  April 2002
Part II: Featuring the Northern Pacific's "Palmer Cutoff"

A Brief History of Auburn's Early Police Department  April 2002

How Auburn Became a Railroading Town  January 2002
Part I: Featuring the Northern Pacific's "Palmer Cutoff"

Opening the Time Capsules  January 2002

Shirakawa  October 2001
Stories From a Pacific Northwest Japanese American Community

Auburn Picture Bride  October 2001

Artifact Moves and Transfers  October 2001

Rolling Thunder  July 2001
Vintage American Motorcycles

Railroad Semaphore Signals  July 2001

Archaeology of the White River Valley  April 2001

Blacksmith Tools  April 2001
Blacksmith As Innovator

Diversion of the White River  January 2001

Early Postcards  January 2001
"A Penny For Your Thoughts"

Issei  October 2000
An Artwork, An Exhibit and a Way to Honor

First Street Will Now be Known as Main Street  October 1999
How Auburn Changed Its Street Names

Authur Ballard, and the Mythology of Southern Puget Sound  July 1999

Butsudan  July 1999
Japanese Buddhist Family Shrine

One Pioneer's Family's Story of War in the White River Valley  April 1999

Canoes of the Native Northwest Coast People  April 1999

One Family's Journey to Settle the White River Valley  January 1999

Covered Wagons of the Pioneers  January 1999

A Caboose of Our Own  October 1998

Quilts  October 1998

The Dauntless Desperado: Harry Tracy  April 1998

Dolls  April 1998

An Easy Country to Live In  October 1997

Auburn Public Market  October 1997

Pioneer Cemetery  July 1997

1920's Hats  July 1997

Issei in the White River Valley  April 1997
Early Japanese American Experiences

Irons  April 1997

The Lost Towns of the Upper Green River Valley  January 1997

Green River Valley Clay Becomes Architectural Terra Cotta  July 1996
Meade Pottery & the Northern Clay Company 1905 to 1927

The Hops Craze  July 1996

"A Strike Now Exists on the Northern Pacific Railway"  April 1996
Auburn and the Great Shop Strike, 1918-1923

Women's Sports  April 1996

The Road to Nationalization  January 1996
The Northern Pacific Railway at Auburn Yard

Patent Medicines  January 1996