2005/03/23 Council Agenda Packet

Washington Preservation Initiative 9 2005 Grant Application Group Two: (920 pages) Everett Theater Business Records from 1904 to 1906. (920 pages) Built in 1901 by the Everett Improvement Company, (railroad tycoon James J. Hill's development company in Everett),the Everett Theater is the city's only surviving historic theater. Theater financial records from this time period are rare. The Everett Theater records give a glimpse of the business side of operating a turn-of-the-century opera house,providing details of ticket sales, expenditures, advertising,distribution of"comps", amounts delivered to performers,how much specific performers were paid,what amount went to the theater company, and payment to stage hands, etc. This material was donated to the Everett Public Library by the Duryee Realty Company in Everett,the Duryee family once having been a part of the original Everett Improvement Company. Risk and Work Plan: This index is Endangered,use conditions posing a threat to the materials. Presently these records have been placed in archival boxes and are stored in the library's climate- controlled archive. They are available upon request,for use in the library. Preservation microfilming would insure both archival and accessible copies,and the original version would be preserved. Group Three: 100 pages Edwin Fox WPA Writer's Project—Writing under the pen name of Edward Friberg,Everett resident Edwin Fox coordinated the Snohomish County Writer's Project during the 1930s Great Depression. A good writer himself,Fox carefully kept copies of these materials in his home until his death in the early 1990s. These materials were then given to the Everett Public Library. Most of the writings were never published in any form other than the manuscripts and have not been found in the collection of Washington State WPA writers' project materials. Writings in this collection include various essays on Snohomish County history, special essays on women(pioneers,artists,politicians, women in social circles);various biographies; a piece on Croatian fishermen; and a trailer court study. Risk and Work Plan: The Everett Library received these materials in 1994 and,to date,staff have sorted, inventoried,evaluated and filed materials in the library's vault. Most of the materials were typed on highly acidic depression-era typing paper; some are merely carbon copies. All are Endangered. Photocopies are presently being used to make these materials available to the public. Preservation microfilming would insure their longevity and make them easily accessible. Group Four: 154 pages An Everett Massacre miscellany a. Research Notes for Timber, a Historical Novel of the Pacific Northwest by Edwin Parker(129 pages). In the 1950s, industrial architect and writer Edwin Parker interviewed 57 individuals regarding their experiences during the labor troubles known as the 1916 Everett Massacre. Parker did not record interviewees on tape but, instead,kept notes during the interview that he typed and assembled into a notebook for his own use as background for a novel he was writing. Timber never received much critical acclaim but definitely sparked interest in the tragedy, and Parker's notes compiled from these interviews are essential to a study of the personalities that relate to the Bloody Sunday event. Those interviewed include 11of25 4e