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Pandora

  • 5.3.44
  • 1970 - 1976

Pandora was a feminist newspaper based in Seattle, Washington that ran from 1970 to 1979. It was published biweekly until May 1974 when it started being published once a month. Pandora focused on women's issues and topics like, motherhood, reproductive rights, personal safety, misogyny, sexual assault, and lesbianism. These topics were discussed in the form of news articles, opinion pieces, and creative writings like poetry. Pandora also gave its readers resources and information about women's groups or activist organizations in the region.

Penelope Loucas Papers

  • 3.5.4

Includes exhibition information, teaching materials, research files, and other documentation related to Penelope Loucas' career as a gallery owner, art curator, and teacher. Also includes extensive research files on artists and art in the Northwest.

Penelope Loucas

Peninsula Gateway

  • 5.3.3

The Peninsula Gateway is a weekly newspaper serving the city of Gig Harbor and the Kitsap Peninsula in Pierce County, Washington. It began publication in 1917 as Bay Island News and changed its name in August of 1923. Its covers mostly local events, and includes news, features, sports, editorials, classified and commercial advertisements.

Peninsula High School Publications

  • 4.1.24

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

Perry Keithley Papers

  • 4.3.1

Includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to Keithley's career as an educator in and around Pierce County.

Perry Keithley

Pierce County Recorder

  • 5.2.24
  • 1930/10/10-1932/5/12

The "Pierce County Recorder" was a weekly newspaper that changed its name from the "Roy Recorder" on October 17, 1930. It covered the areas of Brookdale, Longbranch, McKenna, Parkland, Roy and Spanaway among others in south Pierce County. It focused primarily on local and state news, church and social events, sports including Valley League Baseball and schools including Pacific Lutheran College.

Pierce County Veterans' Burial Cards

  • 7.3.1

These burial cards were produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Agency under the Veterans' Grave Registration program in Pierce County, Washington. The range of dates spans from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. A majority of the individuals listed on these cards are identified as veterans of the Civil War, but also included is the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, and World War I. The information on the cards contain the person's name, rank and organization in the military, what war they are a veteran of, along with the date/place enlisted and date/place discharged by the military. Additionally, the burial information includes the name and location of the cemetery; the grave number, location, and condition of the plot; and the date of the burial along with any marker information. Also included is the date, location, and cause of death, along with a line for name and address of next of kin. Not all fields are complete on all cards. The burial locations in Washington include Tacoma, Puyallup, Orting, Sumner, Spanaway, Roy, Alder, Fort Lewis, Fox Island, and Buckley.

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

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 

Poetry Appreciation Club Records

  • 3.5.9

Includes lesson plans, writings, club yearbooks, meeting minutes, and other records relating to the operations of the Poetry Appreciation Club from 1934 to 1979.

Poetry Appreciation Club

Port of Tacoma Records

  • 7.1.2

Includes reports, studies, plans, and promotional materials related to the operations of the Port of Tacoma. Also included are "Master and Seamen Release Logs" from approximately 1910-1942.

Port of Tacoma

Postcard Collection

  • 9.2

Postcards with a focus on the city of Tacoma including images of local buildings, landscapes,and people. Other postcards are from around the Puget Sound region and Washington state along with some national and international cards. Postcards are arranged either by named collection or by subject and feature a front and back image. Postcards feature black and white, color, and colorized photography plus sepia and text only formats.

Prue Stuckey Photographs

  • 1.5.3

Includes photos taken by Prue Stuckey during his time as a photographer for the City of Tacoma and Tacoma Police Department.

Prue Stuckey

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

Public Works Department Records

  • 1.3.7

Includes reports, budgets and financial information, departmental communications, and project files related to the operations of the Public Works Department of the City of Tacoma.

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.

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

Puyallup High School Publications

  • 4.1.50

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

Puyallup Police and Fire Department Annual Reports

  • 7.2.1
  • 1977-1982

Annual reports from the Puyallup Fire Department and Puyallup Police Department including notes on accomplishments, department statistics, personal/organization charts, union activities, and training reports, among other information.

Puyallup Tribal School System Publications

  • 4.1.25

Includes a yearbook produced by the Puyallup Tribal school system showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Puyallup Tribe Land Claims Settlement Records

  • 7.1.1

Includes drafts, revisions, and finalized settlement documents, reports, minutes, press conference recordings, and other material related to the 1990 Land Claims Settlement reached between the Puyallup Tribe, the state of Washington, the city of Tacoma, Pierce County, private entities, and the federal government. Also included are extensive research files related to impacted lands and waterways, fishing rights, the history of the Puyallup Tribe, and other similar legal settlements.

Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League Records

  • 3.3.1
  • 1960-1975

Contains four scrapbooks and one file of photographs. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, JACL local and national newsletters, meeting minutes, event programs, and photographs.

Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League

Ralph W. Thompson Papers

  • 2.5.2

Includes legal documents and correspondence related to Thompson's work as an attorney mainly operating in the lumber industry.

Ralph William Thompson

Real Change

  • 5.3.56
  • 2002 - 2013

Real Change describes itself as the "Puget Sound Newspaper of the Poor and Homeless." The publication's first issue was in 1994. Real Change is published by the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project which is a nonprofit organization that "organizes, educates, and builds alliances to create solutions to homelessness and poverty. We exist to provide a voice for the poor people in our community." The Real Change newspaper is published every other Thursday and sold by the poor and homeless of Seattle. Real Change publishes on local political issues, homeless advocacy, employment information etc. It also publishes creative writing like poetry as well as book reviews.

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

Reverend David Alger Interviews

  • 3.7.5

Includes video interviews conducted by Reverend David Alger with religious leaders in and around the Tacoma area.

Reverend David Alger

Richards Studio Photographs

  • 2.1.1

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

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

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