bibliographer for the whole Pacific Northwest, so Miss E. Ruth Rockwood, reference librarian of the Portland Library Association, is bibliographer for Oregon and is an historian of books. She was born in Rensselaer Falls, New York, and came to Oregon in 1883. For a while she attended the old Portland High School, later the Portland Academy, and was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1900. She has been head of the reference department of the Portland Library since 1902 and in cooperation with Miss Anne M. Mulheron has built up one of the finest collections of Pacific Northwest books, newspapers and documents in existence. She has made the following compilations: the Portland Library's part of Smith's Pacific Northwest Americana and of the Union List of Periodicals, and the Oregon part of the Union List of Newspapers; Books on the Pacific Northwest for Small Libraries, 1923; Checklist of Oregon State Documents 1843-1925, Ms.
Books About Oregon
From the Preface to Books on the Pacific Northwest for Small Libraries, 1923
Following were some of the higher prices for 1922 as listed by Miss Rockwood : J. Henry Brown : Brown's Political History of Oregon — $40 to $62.50; John Meares: Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the Northwest Coast of America — $15; Alexander Ross: Fur Hunters of the Far West —$25 to $35; E. W. Wright: Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest — $7 to $10; J. Quinn Thornton: Oregon and California in 1848 —$15 to $20; Pacific Monthly, volumes 1-16—$60 to $75; Oregon Native Son, volumes 1-2 — $50 to $75.
Since the publication of the new edition of the Checklist of Pacific Northwest Americana, compiled by Mr. C. W . Smith, a demand has come from the smaller libraries for a list of books for purchase. This list has been prepared in response to that demand and, like the Checklist, has been sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association.
It has been compiled with the needs in mind of the library of from ten to twenty thousand volumes. I have thought it best to make it rather inclusive that it may admit of some selection, and serve as a guide to the more important books, starring those titles essential for even the smallest libraries. I have listed a few very rare and almost unobtainable items because they might possibly be found in the possession of old
