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National League for Woman's Service of Pierce County Records

  • 3.4.7

Contains the registration forms for Pierce County women residents signing up to volunteer for national service. The forms range from April-May 1917 and are arranged numerically by form number from numbers 0-1247. The forms contain some biographical information about the registered women including their age, address, amount of schooling received, current occupation, and the nationality of their parents. Additionally, there is a list of services needed that women can denote interest or experience in, some examples are Social Club Work, Cooking, Gardening, Industrial Shops or Factories, Medical and Nursing, Motor Driving, and Clerical work.

National League for Woman’s Service of Pierce County

Pixler Family Papers

  • 6.2.7

Includes genealogical information about the Pixler and Moriarty families, along with information and accounts of life in Kosmos, Washington including photographs taken before the creation of the Mossyrock Dam, and activities at the site since 1968 up to 2014. The residents of Kosmos were displaced in 1967 to make way for the dam project.

Pixler Family

William Hocking Papers

  • 2.2.4

Includes blueprints, correspondence, contracts, and financial records related to Hocking's work as an architect and members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

William Hocking

Public Broadcast Foundation Records

  • 3.7.6

Includes information related to the Public Broadcast Foundation and SOS-13 (Save Our Station 13) and their effort to prevent the private sale of the public channel 13.By-laws, correspondence, citizen petitions, meeting minutes, and correspondence are included.

Public Broadcast Foundation

Topaz Circle Records

  • 3.6.5

Includes meeting minutes, programs, and other records related to the operations of the Topaz Circle, the Tacoma branch of the Women of Woodcraft national organization.

Topaz Circle

E.D. Geddes Maritime Logs

  • 2.7.6

Includes Edward D. Geddes’s ledgers used for maintaining a record of operational data relating to a ship. The ledger labeled “Cash Book” tracks Captain Geddes’s arrivals and departures from 1952 through 1960. It also contains of the ship master’s cash account. The black leather-bound book labeled “Journal” also contains the ship master’s expense account during Geddes’s captainship of the S.S. Wendell Phillips in 1942. The composition book tracks the port arrivals and departures of the S.S. Wendel Phillips from 1942-1943.

Edward D. Geddes

The Good Fruit Grower

  • 5.3.43
  • 1949 - 2014

The Good Fruit Grower publishes stories and news related to fruit farming in the Pacific Northwest. The periodical provides sections that report on production in the fruit farming industry and highlights events for the farming community. Good Fruit Grower is owned and published by the Washington State Fruit Commission.

Different Times

  • 5.3.51
  • 1993/12-1997/02

Different Times was based in Seattle Washington and focused on disability rights. The publication was "dedicated to the proposition that all are created different, but equal." Different Times included articles about important events in the news that pertain to those with disabilities, articles that gave advice, like how to file an ADA complaint, opinion pieces, etc. Different Times was published mostly monthly, with short stints where it was published weekly, and every two months.

The Negro History Bulletin

  • 5.3.48
  • 1953-2001

The Negro History Bulletin, now known as The Black History Bulletin, was first established in 1937 by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. It was published first monthly, then bi-monthly in 1976 and changed to quarterly in 1979. The Black History Bulletin publishes articles on important Black historical figures, moments of Black history, and current events relating to the civil rights and lived experience of Black Americans. The Bulletin has also featured advertisements for colleges, historical exhibitions, and Black History Week/Month.

The Homefinder

  • 5.3.53
  • 1944 - 1981

The Homefinder was published by Children's Home Society of Washington quarterly and focused the adoption, fostering, and education of children in Washington state. The title was Washington Children's Homefinder from its inception up to September 1964 (Vol.66 No.3). The publication would often include pictures of children and information on adoption, fostering, homeschooling, and social services.

Lutheran Service Center Records

  • 3.7.9

Includes correspondence, reports, directories, and program information related to the Lutheran Service Center.

Lutheran Service Center

Sixth Avenue Baptist Church Records

  • 3.7.10

Includes publications (bulletins, newsletters, cookbooks, etc.), operational records, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church.

Sixth Avenue Baptist Church

General Photograph Collection

  • 9.17

Includes photographs covering a wide range of locations, events, buildings, and people that are not part of a specific photograph collection or created by an individual photographer.

Puget Sound Environmental Atlas

  • 7.1.5
  • Collection
  • 1987

Contains volumes 1 and 2 of the 1987 Puget Sound Environmental Atlas and the 1992 Update. Volumes 1 and 2 have corporate authors: Untied States Army Corps of Engineers, Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, United States Environmental Protection Agency, D. R. Systems Inc. and Evans-Hamilton Inc. The 1992 Update has corporate authors: Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, Washington State and Puget Sound Estuary Program.

Puget Sound Water Quality Authority

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