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1. Book, Composition - Blue Gold Composition book used by Mary House Roberts to write poetry. Inscription in the front dates it to 1930.

   1930

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2. Book, Composition - Triple XXX Composition book used by Mary House Roberts as a journal, between March 1942 and May 1944. Life in Longview (she lived at 2600 38th Ave.) during WWII.

   c. 1943

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3. Booklet - Pamphlet entitled: "Longview Fibre Goes to War!" Describes the products made by Longview Fibre used in the war efftort, as well as an article on the women employed by Fibre during the war in traditionally men's jobs. Also includes a list of employees serving in the military. Paper mills. Printed by the Longview Daily News.

   1944

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4. Booklet - Two Pamphlets entitled: "Longview Fibre Goes to War!" Describes the products made by Longview Fibre used in the war efftort, as well as an article on the women employed by Fibre during the war in traditionally men's jobs. Also includes a list of employees serving in the military. Paper mills. Printed by the Longview Daily News. One of them is stamped on the cover with National Housing Agency stamps, one for Portland, Oregon on May 25, 1943, and one for Seattle, WA on May 27, 1943

   1943

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5. Card, Holiday - Photo Christmas greeting card with a portrait of Hannah and Elmer House's grandchildren Barbara and John House, c. 1960.

   c. 1960

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6. Certificate, Marriage - Photographic paper copy of the marriage certifcate of Earnest E. House and Hannah A. Bengtson (misspelled Bengston), dated June 7, 1906 in Portland, OR and witnessed by Mrs. William Van Doren (Freda Bengtson) and Peter Bengtson.

   1906

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7. Discharge, Military - Documents relating to Peter Bengtson (aka Benson), including his Army discharge paper from World War I (WWI), a copy of his birth certificate, his 1950 death certificate and funeral records, and two letters to his sister Hannah House in Kalama. All are folded in a painted burlap folder with "World War / Service / My Discharge" on the front.

   1919

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8. Dress - Filmy sleeveless, heavily beaded dress, with four snaps on one shoulder. Belonged to Mrs. Alex Hay (May Hay). The top is off-white and decorated with pink beads. From the waist down it is pink or peach colored and decorated with brown and white beads. See photos for the bead patterns. There are a few small tears under one arm. Weighs at least ten pounds.

   c. 1920s or 1930s

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9. Letter - Letter, with birthday card and envelope, from Raymond Imus to Hannah House, on the occasion of her 90th birthday. The letter reads: Dear Hannah: A lot of water has gone down the old Columbia River since that day in Kiel, Germany where you were born. My hearty congratulations to you on reaching your ninetieth birthday! Few people ever enjoy this distinction and privilege. You came from good vigorous Viking stock and hae also lived a good life. I knew both your father and mother when your family lived out past the Shoffler place and east up the old Wickstrom Mill road. Your mother was a great help to my mother whose health was not good in those early days. I remember them telling about how your mother would buy a large sack of flour for a dollar at Lyson's Store and carry it on her shoulder six miles east to the farm beyond the Gore place. How many women in Kalama do you suppose could do this today? Mrs. Holmes, mother of Anna, Francis, Charlie, and John, started writing poetry when she was eighty. Each year after that she wrote a poem on her birthday of good quality and philosophy. These were all printed in the Kalama Bulletin and make very good reading. For you to have outlived your brother Peter and your sisters Frieda and Tilly shows the Lord has been real good to you, and you have a family of five sons and two daughters of whom you can be very proud. Futhermore how many people have 14 grand-children and 10 great grandchildren of whom they can be proud. This should be a great day for you, Tuesday January 20, 1970. What a magnificent view and grandstand seat you have there beside the grand old Columbia as the ships of the world pass to and fro as he rolls to the sea. Our best wishes and kindest thoughts are with you always but particularly on this important day. Sincerely you friend, Raymond Imus

   Jan. 17, 1970

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10. Letter - Three letters written to Hannah Bengtson in February 1900, on the occassion of the death of her mother Anna. The first letter, on Office of the Clerk of Town of Kalama stationary, is from Mrs. Peck. The second one is simply signed, "your loving friends". The third letter is from Mrs. Crane. See notes for text of the letters.

    Feb. 1900

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11. Magazine - Two copies of a Magazine about Longview Fibre Company - "13 years of progress" - reprinted from the March 1941 issue of Pacific Pulp & Paper Industry, Seattle. 30 pages

    March 1941

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12. Obituary - Newspaper clipping Obituary, with poem, for Freda Bengtson Van Doren, who died in Vancouver, WA on March 28, 1938. She was a sister of Hannah Bengtson House.

    1938

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13. Postcard - Postcard from Matilda "Tillie" Converse to her sister Mrs. Elmer House in Kalama, writing with information about her first husband Ira Demick, who died in 1911.

    July 14, 1953

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14. Souvenir - Small red souvenir picture book of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL, 1893. On the back page, Hannah Bengtson House has written her family's early movements, from her birth in Kiel, Germany in 1880, to Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota, then Portland, OR and Washington.

    1893

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15. Statement - Certified statement made by Hannah Bengtson House on June 23, 1942, which reads: "State of Washington, County of Cowlitz, ss. I, Hannah Amanda House, a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of the state of Washington, residing at Kalama therein, having been duly sworn on oath depose and say, that my maiden name is Hannah Amanda Bengtson, that I was born in Kiel, Germany, January 20, 1880; that my father was Sven Bengtson and my mother was Anna Gustafson and both were born in Sweden; that they were married in Germany in 1876; that they brought me to America with them in 1882 and that for a year we lived in Chicago, Illinois, where my father applied for citizenship, which he received in 1888, at Phillips, Wisconsin; that our family took up a homestead near Worcester, Wisconsin, which was about eight miles north of Phillips; that my brother PETER BENGTSON, was born on this homestead January 8, 1889; that our family name was frequently called "Benson" by others due to difficulty in pronouncing Bengtson, and that my brother assumed the name of Benson for that reason; that I have my father's citizenship papers in my possession; that I was nine years of age at the time of this birth (Peter Bengtson's) and that I remember this event for many reasons but chiefly because my mother almost died at the time. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this instrument at Kalama, Washington, this 23rd day of June, 1942 [signature] Subscribed and sworn to before me at Kalama, Washington the day and year last above written. [signature of Chas. H. Windnagle] Notary Public for Washington residing at Kalama."

    June 23, 1942

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16. Will - Last Will and Testament of Hannah Bengtson House, dated at Kalama, March 17, 1922.

    1922

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