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Honor L. Wilhelm Papers

  • 5.5.2
  • c. 1897-1910

Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and writings by Honor L Wilhlem. Also included are business records related to "The Coast" magazine, edited by Wilhlem from 1900-1910, including subscription lists, advertising information, and financial records.

Honor L. Wilhelm

West Coast Lumberman

  • 5.2.3
  • 1904-1949

Periodical published in Tacoma with news, financial information, reports from various cities, and other coverage related to the lumber industry. Also included are obituaries and news of work related accidents by individuals employed in the industry. The West Coast Lumberman and the Puget Sound Lumberman were both founded in 1889. The two publications merged in 1896.

The Coast Magazine Photographs

  • 5.5.3
  • c. 1900-1910

Includes photographs taken by editor Honor L Wilhelm and others submitted for inclusion in "The Coast" magazine.

Honor L. Wilhelm

Astoria Iron Works Records

  • 2.6.1
  • 1893-1927

Includes correspondence and financial records related to the operations of Astoria Iron Works.

Astoria Iron Works

Building and Land Use Division Records

  • 1.3.3

Includes reports, appraisals, plans, and other files generated by the division. Many reports include detailed descriptions and photographs of buildings and land parcels.

Baker Junior High School Publications

  • 4.1.9

Includes yearbooks produced by Baker Middle School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Curtis Senior High School Publications

  • 4.1.14

Includes yearbooks produced by Curtis Senior High School (University Place) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.

Tacoma City Council Resolutions

  • 1.1.1
  • 1884-1985

Includes Tacoma City Council Resolutions and supporting documentation. Resolutions are non-binding statements made by the Tacoma City Council. They are formal expressions of a particular position that are endorsed and signed by the mayor. Though resolutions are not a law, they are a formal declaration of support from the City Council.

Also includes bound resolution duplicates in Box 221-230. Missing resolutions: 15400, 15854-15859, 16489-16490, 17484, 19899, 20590-20618, 22644-22649, 22900-22999, 23450, 24850.
Includes bound duplicate copies

Tacoma City Council

Lochburn Junior High School Publications

  • 4.1.16

Includes yearbooks produced by Lochburn Junior High School (Lakewood) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.

DeLong Elementary School Records

  • 4.1.17

Includes PTA meeting minutes, reports, and newsletters and newspaper clippings and a program related to the school's groundbreaking ceremony.

DuPont-Fort Lewis School District Publications

  • 4.1.29

Includes yearbooks produced by the DuPont-Fort Lewis School District showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Meeker Junior High School Publications

  • 4.1.21

Includes yearbooks produced by Meeker Junior High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.

Anderson Family Papers

  • 6.2.3

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.

Anderson Family

Lakes High School Publications

  • 4.1.42

Includes yearbooks produced by Lakes High School (Lakewood) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Cow Butter Store Records

  • 2.3.5
  • 1894-1940

Includes business ledgers containing financial information, store inventories, and other information about the operations of the Cow Butter Store. These ledgers also contain a wide range of enclosed material including correspondence, newspaper clippings, writings, and ephemera.

Cow Butter Store

Eatonville High School Publications

  • 4.1.48

Includes yearbooks produced by Eatonville High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Hilltop Heritage Middle School Publications

  • 4.1.47

Includes yearbooks produced by Hilltop Heritage Middle School (formerly Jason Lee Junior High School) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Gig Harbor High School Publications

  • 4.1.43

Includes yearbooks produced by Gig Harbor High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Stewart Junior High School Publications

  • 4.1.33

Includes yearbooks produced by Stewart Junior High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Tacoma Baptist School Publications

  • 4.1.35

Includes yearbooks produced by Tacoma Baptist School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Red Kelly Papers

  • 2.3.2

Includes audio and video recordings on various formats including cassettes, reel-to-reel and vinyl, correspondence, OWL Party items, oversized photos, band performance flyers and newspaper clippings, various subject files including writings on Red Kelly, Woody Herman book edits and Harry James book reviews, scrapbooks and sheet music.

Red Kelly

Puget Sound Computer User

  • 5.3.37
  • 1989 - 2005

Puget Sound Computer User was a free monthly publication with its main goals to provide information regarding trends, tools, and guides to the computer world as well as offering articles on business technology, office automation, and computers. Each publication also included ads highlighting local businesses specializing in computer or tech-related services.

Byron Larsen Papers

  • 2.4.3
  • 1960 - 1985

Contains yearly desk journals created by Byron I. Larsen documenting his daily work activities. His work was in geology, city planning, and civil engineering and his notes include dates and brief descriptions of what he was working on and where within the Puget Sound area. There is no journal for the year 1983. Also includes documents regarding a federal mining lawsuit.

Byron Larsen

Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce Publications

  • 5.2.18

Monthly publications by the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce that had six different titles, with some titles running concurrently. All periodicals provided Chamber and business news from around the city and county, but also the Puget Sound region and state. Also included were advertisements, discounts for member businesses, information about upcoming events and lists of new and current members.

Robert Ramsey Papers

  • 3.6.4

Includes newspaper clippings, reports, studies, correspondence, and scrapbooks related to Ramsey's research on environmental issues and service in groups like the Nisqually River Task Force, Citizens for a Solar Washington, and the McNeil Island Committee.

Robert Ramsey

Northwest Catholic

  • 5.3.36
  • 1999-

The Northwest Catholic is a monthly magazine published by Catholic Archbishop of Seattle, Paul D. Etienne. Its predecessor, The Catholic Northwest Progress, began publishing in 1911 and ended publishing in June 2013 along with it being printed as a newspaper. It started printing as a magazine in September 2013. It was published as a newspaper for almost 100 years on a weekly basis, and then changed to a biweekly newspaper and then to a monthly basis as a magazine. The library's collection of Northwest Catholic and The Catholic Northwest Progress begins in September 1999. The goal of Northwest Catholic is to inform Catholics who live in the Pacific Northwest about the religion and current events. It includes holiday editions, such as Easter and Christmas, as well as editions regarding significant changes in the leaders of the Catholic Church. The change to magazine format changed the content to be more of a lifestyle magazine, offering advice and interpretations of situations to readers.

Planning and Development Services Records

  • 1.3.4

Includes seven boxes of primarily historic and aerial photographs, CDs containing documents, reports, slide photos, and letters relating to the projects and work conducted by the City of Tacoma's Planning and Development Services.

Also includes documents, surveys and reports from the three agencies that merged into the Planning and Development Services in 1991: the City Planning Department, Community Development Department and the Human Development and Planning Department.

Planning and Development Services 

The Tacoma Mountaineers Records

  • 3.6.1

Includes scrapbooks, albums, membership records, publications, and photographic slides and prints. Also included are materials contributed by individual members of the Tacoma Chapter of the Mountaineers.

The Tacoma Mountaineers

The Forum

  • 5.2.15
  • 1907-1910

Branded as "Tacoma's Only Illustrated Weekly", The Forum was published every Saturday and featured local, regional and state news, political commentary, sports (primarily the Tacoma Tigers), legal notices and photographic profiles of regional figures. Office was located on 915 1/2 Commerce Street in Tacoma and Ella E. Ryan was the publisher and manager.

Holdings: Hard Copy 10/05/1907-12/24/1910 (Vol. 8-13), Microfilm July 17, 1903-Dec. 28, 1918.

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