Center for Columbia River History, Videos from Castles Public Programs. 1996-2001.
Scope and Contents
The videos represent some of the early public programs sponsored by the Center for Columbia River History. They include presentations and lectures from scholars with a focus on the Columbia River and regional history. Other programs includes dramatizations or performance pieces as well as discussion panels. The date range of programs in this collections extends from 1996 to 2001. There are 11 unique recordings in total with duplicate recordings for four of the programs. For more information on individual programs, view the collection inventory below.
Dates
- 1996 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is partitally available for research through digital surrogates. Access is restricted on those VHS tapes that are awaiting digitization.
Conditions Governing Use
The Washington State University Library acquired this donation from the Center for Columbia River History. They were later transferred to the Archives and Special Collections and accessioned under UA-WSUV-2010-001
Biographical / Historical
The Center for Columbia River History (CCRH) was an organization operating through a consortium of the Washington State Historical Society, Portland State University and Washington State University Vancouver that formed in 1990. CCRH served to promote the study of Columbia River Basin history. To this end, it supported numerous research projects and programs including the web-based Columbia River Communities Project, free public lectures on regional topics of history and teacher workshops. CCRH was under the directorship of Dr. Lauries Mercier (WSU Vancouver) and Dr. William (Bill) Lang (Portland State University) during the 1990s and early 2000s.
During its existence, CCRH featured many public programs about the Columbia River Basin during. These were primarily established through the James B. Castles Heritage Endowment. The Castles Public Programs, as they were called, were funded by an endowment from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, which Castles was a founding trustee and board member. Castles was an admirer and advocate of art, culture, and heritage of the Columbia and the American West. His endowment through CCRH served as a testament to his love of education and discussion about the history of the region. The funding supported three annual programs and also a fellowship known as the Castles Fellowship that supported the contribution of original research in the history of the Columbia River Basin.
Extent
15 VHS tape cassettes (One box containing 15 VHS (Video Home System) cassette tapes.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection includes 15 VHS tapes containing videos of public programs contributed by the Center for Columbia River History (CCRH) from 1996 to 2001. The presentations focus on the history of communities and life along the Columbia River. More broadly the content features Pacific Northwest history and includes topics on the demographic shifts and changes in relationship to the river over time. Many of the videos featured in this collection are a part of the James B. Castles lecture series, which funded many of the programs for CCRH during these years. All but one of these videos was produce by CCTV Channel 47 in Vancouver/Clark County.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in one box by date from ealiest to oldest. These are located in the Archives and Special Collections AV section. More information appears below in the collection inventory.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These videos are available for in-house use only because of potential copyright restrictions.
- Title
- Center for Columbia River History, Videos from Castles Public Programs. 1996-2001.
- Date
- October 17, 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Washington State University Vancouver, Archives and Special Collections Repository