Altrusa International Club of Tacoma Records
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Includes newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, and information related to Altrusa projects and initiatives.
Altrusa International Club of Tacoma
Altrusa International Club of Tacoma Records
Includes newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, and information related to Altrusa projects and initiatives.
Altrusa International Club of Tacoma
Amzie D. Browning Papers and Photographs
Includes print photographs and glass plate negatives taken by Browning. Also included is documentation related to Browning's Sharpe Sign Co. and correspondence.
Amzie D. Browning
Washington State Fair Collection
A collection of photographs by professional and amateur photographers throughout the years of the Washington State Fair/Puyallup Fair from 1900-2011. Original photograph collection is held by the Washington State Fair and not at Tacoma Public Library. First and last names of the photographers are listed when known. Unknown photographers have been filed in the decade in which it was taken.
Includes correspondence, performance programs, and documentation related to Stave's employment with Sears, Roebuck and Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company in Tacoma. Also included are scrapbooks containing clippings, ticket stubs, business cards, brochures, menus, and other ephemera.
Clarence Stave
Includes correspondence and legal documents. Also includes material related to William Dudley Pelley and the "Silver Shirts" or "Silver Legion," a racist and anti-Semitic organization founded in 1933. Woodard's correspondence includes positive commentary on the organization.
Carrie Woodard
Includes correspondence, reports, and other documentation primarily related to the Washington State Library War Council during World War I.
Bishop Frederic Keator
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 correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, photos, and other documents related to Wanda Thompson’s life. Many of the documents pertain to Thompson’s career including her time as a model, job analyst for Puget Sound Bank, employee at the Washington State Department of Corrections, and the Executive Director of the Rehabilitation Council of Washington State. The papers also point to Thompson’s involvement with the community in Tacoma like her engagement with the Afro-Pageant and Show. Also included is an oral history with Wanda Thompson recorded on June 3, 2023.
Wanda Thompson
Includes scrapbooks, photographs, ledgers, and ephemera related to the Forsberg family.
Forsberg Family
Includes waterfront, street, and building photographs by F. Jay Haynes.
F. Jay Haynes
Includes photographs taken by City of Tacoma photographer William Trueblood of city events.
William Trueblood
Albert Henry Barnes Photographs
Includes photographs of landscape and outdoor activities taken by Albert Henry Barnes.
Albert Henry Barnes
Includes yearbooks produced by Foss High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Pacific Lutheran University Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Pacific Lutheran University showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Includes documentation from Morgan's career as a historian, writer, journalist, broadcaster, and teacher. Materials include: drafts and manuscripts of Morgan's books, articles, and unpublished writing projects; research files assembled by Morgan and containing clippings, reports, notes, and writing drafts; teaching materials such as lesson plans and lecture notes; photographs used in Morgan's publications or related to research topics; transcripts and notes from Morgan's radio broadcasts; audio and video recordings; personal materials, awards, and ephemera.
Murray Morgan
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 records related to various local social justice efforts and organizations including the Shalom Center of Associated Ministries, United for Peace and Justice of Pierce County, TAJO (Tacoma Arabs, Jews, and Others for Peace), Occupy Tacoma, and Stay in Your Homes. Topics covered in the papers include the South African Apartheid, the War in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the death penalty, foreclosures following the 2008 financial crisis, and others. Also included are correspondence, audiovisual material, and handbook and instructions related to activism.
Sallie Shawl
Includes maps of the northwestern United States from various sources. Coverage is primarily focused on Washington, Pierce County, and Tacoma.
Spanaway Lake High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Spanaway High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Sumner High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Sumner High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Washington High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Washington High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
White River High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by White River High School (Buckley) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Minutes from Tacoma City Council meetings. In addition to regular meetings, minutes from study sessions, budget meetings, and special meetings are also included.
Tacoma City Council
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.
Stallcup Smith Family
Born digital videos created by Tacoma-based filmmaker Paul Jackson, PhD including documentaries, interviews, and recordings of regional meetings and events.
Paul Jackson
Orting High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Orting High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Franklin Pierce High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Franklin Pierce High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
McIlvaigh Junior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by McIlvaigh Junior High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
A quarterly magazine focused on histories, profiles, essays, art, and photojournalistic documentation of aspects of Tacoma's society and culture. Each issue includes a supplemental art poster. This collection contains all issues of the magazine to the most current issue.
Grit City Magazine
Lost Tacoma Project Collection
The "Lost Tacoma" project was originally designed and conceived by archivist Jeanie Fisher. It includes blueprints and technical drawings of both proposed buildings in Tacoma which were never constructed and constructed buildings which are now demolished. This is a partial representation of the Lost Tacoma collection, constituting 116 of the total 560 blueprints across 26 locations. Digitization for this project was supported by a 2016 Pierce County Historic Preservation Grant.