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Includes photographs related to a wide variety of local events and locations taken by Marvin Boland between the 1910s through the 1930s.
Marvin D. Boland
Includes photographs related to a wide variety of local events and locations taken by Marvin Boland between the 1910s through the 1930s.
Marvin D. Boland
Christopher Petrich Photographs
Includes photographs taken by Christopher Petrich of a range of locations and events in Tacoma including the Hawthorne Neighborhood, the Tacoma Dome, and a visit to Tacoma by Jacques Cousteau. Also included are photographs of various buildings and aerials.
Christopher Petrich
C. E. and Hattie King Photographs
Includes 14 photographs of Tacoma taken c. 1886-1900 by C. E. and Hattie King of Commencement Bay, Northern Pacific railroad tracks, local schools, and members of the Puyallup and other area tribes.
C.E. and Hattie King
Includes 22 8x10 photographs of the Browns Point Salmon Bake, circa 1960.
Kenneth G. Ollar
Inlcudes digital images and prints of street photography taken primarily in Tacoma and Seattle during the 1970s and 2000s. Also included are oversize photographs, photographic negatives, and photographic slides.
Stephen Cysewski
Includes waterfront, street, and building photographs by F. Jay Haynes.
F. Jay Haynes
Includes photos taken by Thomas H Rutter of local buildings, the waterfront, and long boats.
Thomas H. Rutter
Includes photos taken by Lee Merrill of construction projects, group outings, and a Daffodil Queen.
Lee Merrill
Albert Henry Barnes Photographs
Includes photographs of landscape and outdoor activities taken by Albert Henry Barnes.
Albert Henry Barnes
Includes photographs, mostly of building exteriors and interiors, taken by Arthur French.
Arthur French
Photographic negatives taken by Myron Kreidler. The negatives are mostly of Spanaway, Midland, and Parkland businesses and were taken by Kreidler for the Prairie Pointer newspaper in 1946. Other negatives include images of South Tacoma, as well as images of wind damage to Spanaway Park, the Pierce County Bresemann Park purchase, and outdoor activities such as fishing and skiing.
Myron Kreidler
Contains print photographs, 35mm color transparencies (slides), color stereo transparencies (3D slides), and photographic negatives (4x5, 6x8, and 9x12) taken by the Richards Studio from roughly 1910s through to 1980. These images depict a wide range of commercial subject matter including local clubs and organizations, business and industry, sports, public events, city and local government, weddings, and the armed services.
Richards Photography Studio
Alliance Addition Abstract of Title
Abstract of title for the "southwest quarter of northwest quarter and west half of southeast quarter of northwest quarter of section five in township twenty north of range three east of Willamette Meridian." The abstract documents the recorded legal history of this area beginning with the US to Thomas Hood (1869). Also included is documentation related to the Workingmen's Joint Stock Association (George Putnam Riley et al).
Tacoma Centennial Committee Records
Includes meeting minutes, programs, and planning documents related to the Tacoma Centennial Celebration.
Tacoma Centennial Committee
Citizen's Committee for Tacoma's Future Development Records
Includes reports, correspondence, and other documentation related to the operations of the Citizen's Committee for Tacoma's Future Development and its various subcommittees.
Citizen's Committee for Tacoma's Future Development
Tacoma-Pierce County Opportunity and Development, Inc. Records
Includes handbooks, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and other documentation related to local programs aimed at helping low-income individuals.
Tacoma-Pierce County Opportunity and Development, Inc.
The Jacki Skaught Papers cover the years 1980-2005. The records are divided into five series specifically concerning Jacki Skaught’s role with the Jury and the City of Tacoma: Tacoma Dome Jury of Recommendation Committee Member , Tacoma Dome Reconvened Jury Member, Tacoma Dome Continued Involvement, Other City of Tacoma Positions, and miscellaneous ephemera and memorabilia.
Jacki Skaught
Includes photos taken by Prue Stuckey during his time as a photographer for the City of Tacoma and Tacoma Police Department.
Prue Stuckey
Includes photographs taken by City of Tacoma photographer William Trueblood of city events.
William Trueblood
Includes correspondence, reports, research files, and other documentation related to Kaiser's work as the Director of Tacoma Public Library and as a leader in national, regional, and state library associations. Research files and related correspondence are also included in the papers, particularly on the topics of school librarians and the restoration of the name of Mount Tahoma. As Library Director during World War I and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Kaiser's papers also intersect with these topics and their impact on libraries.
John Boynton Kaiser
Includes correspondence, newspaper articles, speeches, writings, and financial documents related to Andrews' work as Director of Tacoma Public Library. Also included are Andrews' diaries from 1942-1945.
Aubrey F. Andrews
Includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and other documentation related to Jacqueline Noel's work at the Tacoma Public Library as the Head of the Reference Department and later as City of Tacoma Librarian. Also included is information related to Noel's genealogical research and involvement in organizations such as the Huguenot Society of America, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the North End Shakespeare Club. Collections of personal papers from Noel's family members, including Eleanor Noel, Jacob Noel, Anita Noel Mason, Thomas W Mason, and Thomas "Teddy" Mason were gathered by Noel and available as a part of her Papers. Extensive family photographs dating back to c. 1850s are included.
Jacqueline Noel
Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
These oral history interviews were conducted by Ruth L. Wett as part of an oral history project sponsored by the Tacoma Public Library from 1975 to 1976. Each interview provides insight into activities in various neighborhoods, the mixture of immigrant communities, and the reflections on everyday experiences living in Tacoma around the turn of the last century.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Book Notes Radio Program
Tacoma Public Library's Book Notes radio program was featured on KTNT radio Sundays at 10:30 pm. The show existed from the 1950s–1970s and featured content such as book reviews, oral histories, interviews, and poetry readings. The hosts included librarian Marile Creager, Gary Reese, Louise Morrison, and Georgeanne Schuler.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library All My Somedays Project Collection
Includes autobiographical novels by Pierce County residents who participated in All My Somedays writing project 1981-1983.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Scrapbooks
Includes scrapbooks compiled by Tacoma Public Library staff containing newspaper clippings, event programs and flyers, photographs, and other material related to the Library. Items identified as "Clippings Scrapbooks" contain only newspaper clippings.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Publications
Publications, research, and writings produced by Tacoma Public Library.
Tacoma Public Library
Includes correspondence and documentation related to Ibbotson's role as Director of the Tacoma Public Library.
Joseph Ibbotson
Includes photographs, architectural drawings, Board of Trustees meeting minutes, agendas and packets, correspondence, and other records relating to the operations of Tacoma Public Library.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Utilities Records
Records for the various departments of Tacoma Public Utilities including the Belt Line, Data Processing, Light and Water Divisions along with budgets, reports, public relations material, and newsletters. Within the various Divisions can be found monthly and annual financial reports and budgets, various papers and studies, plans, examinations, and public relations material.