Abstract

Albert Weimer Bash of Port Townsend, Washington, was involved in the development of a scheme to extend U.S. railway lines across the Pacific Ocean and on through mainland China between 1895 and 1912 and was associated with the American China Development Company and the China Investment and Construction Company. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, maps, clippings, publications and papers.

Abstract Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943) was a landscape artist best known for her oil paintings created en plein air, or outdoors, depicting the scenery of the American West. Her work was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), St. Louis World’s Fair (1904), the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland (1905), the Jamestown Tercentennial (1907), and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle (1909). The Abby Williams Hill papers include 39 boxes of correspondence, journals,...