Francis Wayland Hanawalt (1859-1933) was born in Monticello, Indiana. Hanawalt joined the University of Puget Sound in 1908 as Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy and served in this position until his death in November 1933. The Francis Wayland Hanawalt Teaching Notebooks consist of four small notebooks and one document created by Professor Francis Wayland Hanawalt.

Wood was a pioneer surveyor of the Pacific Northwest from 1883 to 1932 who worked at or visited sites including the Puyallup Valley, Auburn, Fort Nisqually, St. Joseph’s Mission near Yakima, Fort Simcoe, the Whitman Mission, Fort Dalles, Steilacoom, and other sites in Washington and Oregon. The collection consists of diaries and a photo album.