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Article: Cultural record keepers the Myron Eells Northwest History Collection, Whitman College.(Essay)
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- Libraries and the Cultural Record
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Myron Eells (1843-1907) was a Pacific Northwest native, missionary, scholar, and collector. His books, papers, and artifacts, which were donated to Whitman College after his death, became important nuclei of the college's library, archives, and museum. Today these collections are curated by the Whitman College and Northwest Archives and the Maxey Museum at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.
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The younger son of pioneer missionaries Cushing and Myra Eells, Myron Eells was born near what is today Spokane, Washington, three years before Great Britain and the United States divided up the old Oregon country along the present ...