Includes research, writing drafts, correspondence, and other materials related to Tacoma's Japanese community gathered by Ronald Magden for his book "Furusato: Tacoma-Pierce County Japanese."

Contains correspondence, photographs, personal papers, clippings, and other assorted material that chronicle the life of the Stallcup and Smith families. These documents trace the family descendants beginning with John Calhoun Stallcup and Mary Pindell Shelby in the mid-1870s in Ohio and Kentucky through their life in Denver and eventual move to Tacoma, WA in 1899. The primary source material is organized with additional notes and research files compiled by the donor.

Includes diaries, legal documents, photographs, and artifacts related to the Byrd family who arrived in the Puget Sound region from Illinois in 1853.

Includes photographs, correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks created or collected by members of the Anderson family. Also included are correspondence and financial records related to the Anderson Supply Company.

Includes personal correspondence, financial materials, diaries, ephemera, and photographs of Tacoma in the early 20th century created or collected by the Lindstrom family. Pricing manuals, lumber maps, and other industry information related to Emil Lindstrom's work with the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company and the Lindstrom-Hanforth Lumber Company are also included.

Includes commencement yearbooks and memory books, scrapbooks, maps, correspondence, photographs, meeting minutes, directories, mementos of Tacoma area logging and lumber businesses, and ephemera such as event programs.

Includes dairies, correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and other documentation related to the Stanley-Mason family and their work as fur trappers in Alaska. Also included is information related to their "Alaska Friends" organization, a group for former Alaska residents living in Seattle. An unpublished manuscript, "Return to the Frontier," is also included.

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.

Includes scrapbooks, photographs, ledgers, and ephemera related to the Forsberg family.

Includes writings, diaries, genealogical research, family newsletters, and photographs relating to the Forsberg and Sauers families. Also includes is an an unpublished manuscript titles The Oakes Street Gang written by Malcolm Forsberg about his experience growing up in South Tacoma.

Includes four scrapbooks compiled by George Swasey and family containing photographs, report cards, newspaper clippings, programs, tickets, and other ephemera. Also included are drawings by Swasey.

These copies of the 1945 and 1946 Esquire's Jazz Book, published by Smith & Durrell, Inc. were owned by Marjorie Jane Windus during her time she worked in the Chicago Illinois Blue Note Jazz Club, from the 1940s and early 1950s. These books include autographs and messages from many prominent and lesser-known jazz musicians and singers from that time.

The Kalma Hagan Scrapbook includes pictures and newspaper clippings involving the Hawthorne neighborhood, the construction of the Tacoma Dome, and the aftermath of the construction.

Five scrapbooks of Senator Ralph Metcalf's column in the TNT chronicling his travels 1927-1936.