A.M. "Bert" Kendrick Collection
The photos contained in Mr. Kendrick's collection span nearly 50 years, depicting early agricultural techniques (planting and harvesting etc.) in the Big Bend region, interiors and exteriors of towns, scenes of the Northern Idaho wilderness, and a look at general day-to-day life on the farm. Kendrick was born in Northport, Washington on August 23, 1896 and moved to Ritzville in 1935. From 1935 until his death in 1976, Kendrick was the area's main portrait and studio photographer.

Library Cornerstone Collection
When the Ritzville Public library was constructed in 1907 a time capsule was placed in a cornerstone of the building—a metal box with old letters and documents pertaining to the building of the library, a few old coins, newspapers, and more. Various newspaper articles placed in the time capsule documented the cornerstone laying ceremony. Governor Albert E. Mead attended the celebration. The library was built with money donated from Andrew Carnegie.

Ritzville Heritage was the first project of Washington Rural Heritage, an initiative to digitize historically significant materials residing in cultural institutions and private collections throughout Washington State. The collection includes photographs, documents, and artifacts which tell the stories of Washington's small and rural communities.

Ritzville Library District #2 (formerly known as Ritzville Public Library) is home of the A.M. Kendrick Photo Collection and other bits of history about the Big Bend region of Eastern Washington state. Located 54 miles west of Spokane off of Interstate 90, the library is at the center of one of the most productive dry land wheat producing areas in the Pacific Northwest.