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Includes correspondence, writings on local history, and material related to the movement to build a library branch in the Fern Hill area.
Nels Bjarke
Includes correspondence, writings on local history, and material related to the movement to build a library branch in the Fern Hill area.
Nels Bjarke
Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest Collection
Includes publications by the California Joint Immigration Committee of San Francisco, newspaper clippings, government orders, proclamations, and other papers relating to a campaign in the 1920s and 1930s to bar Japanese people from West Coast states, a locally organized campaign to stop Japanese individuals from owning farmland, and the relocation and incarceration of Japanese citizens during World War II.
Includes photographs, correspondence, writings, and documentation related to Westling's career as an educator.
Tyra Melvia Westling
Includes scrapbooks created by various individuals, families, organizations, and businesses. Some creators are unidentified. Scrapbooks may include photographs, newspaper clippings, writing, and ephemera.
Independent Newsletters and Periodicals
Includes organizational newsletters and periodicals published independently.
Reverend David Alger Interviews
Includes video interviews conducted by Reverend David Alger with religious leaders in and around the Tacoma area.
Reverend David Alger
Tacoma Public Utilities Records
Records for the various departments of Tacoma Public Utilities including the Belt Line, Data Processing, Light and Water Divisions along with budgets, reports, public relations material, and newsletters. Within the various Divisions can be found monthly and annual financial reports and budgets, various papers and studies, plans, examinations, and public relations material.
James R. Merritt Architectural Records
Includes project studies, project images, and drawings for architectural projects created by James R. Merritt and the various architectural firms he was associated with between 1970-2015.
James R. Merritt
"Alpine News" was a newsletter published by Tacoma Chapter of The Mountaineers. Articles included mountain rescues, events, tips, future climbs, history, stories of recent climbs and other mountain climbing news.
"The Masonic Journal" was a monthly publication that was first published with its March 25, 1922 issue. The publication centered on "Masonic ideas and ideals," and was published at the Provident Building in Tacoma, Washington. "The Masonic Journal" would change its title to "Washington Masonic Journal" for the April 1924 issue through the August or September issue of 1925, which it then reverted back to its original name.
Holdings: 1922/03-1925/08, 1925/10-1926/02, 1926/04-1928/11.
Tacoma bi-monthly then quarterly publication was a project of ArtRod and was “a group of artists and community members dedicated to promoting the arts and cultural life of Tacoma and the South Sound.” Toby Room’s editors/publishers were Jared Pappas-Kelley (Issues 1-2, 4-10), Sarah Keliher (1-2, 4-7) and Michael Lent (8-10). The magazine featured writings and interviews among established and emerging local and regional visual artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers.
Holdings: Vol. 1, Issues No. 1-2, 4-10
Includes plays and short stories written by Nessenson. Correspondence and ephemera are also included.
Elsa Nessenson
Includes plywood standard manuals, trading information, US Forest Service Publications, Weyerhauser and other regional lumber company publications, and research materials related to the lumber industry. Also included are photos from Tweedie's travels as well as other personal and professional records.
Jim Tweedie
Includes correspondence, reports, research files, and other documentation related to Kaiser's work as the Director of Tacoma Public Library and as a leader in national, regional, and state library associations. Research files and related correspondence are also included in the papers, particularly on the topics of school librarians and the restoration of the name of Mount Tahoma. As Library Director during World War I and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Kaiser's papers also intersect with these topics and their impact on libraries.
John Boynton Kaiser
Tacoma Community History UWT Student Projects
In 1990, the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington Tacoma began offering oral history classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. Primarily led by Professor Michael K. Honey, students enrolled in these courses conducted oral histories that document local churches, labor unions, ethnic communities, neighborhoods, businesses, and civic leaders in Tacoma and the South Puget Sound.
Lorraine Hildebrand Research Files
Includes research files compiled by Lorraine Barker Hildebrand on the experiences and history of Chinese migrants living in the Pacific Northwest.
Lorraine Hildebrand
Includes programs from storytelling events in Washington, and the meeting minutes and scrapbooks created by the League.
Wyche Story League
Includes scrapbooks, meeting minutes, membership rosters, and writings created by members of the Tacoma Writers Club.
Tacoma Writers Club
Bing Crosby Historical Society Records
Includes programs, photographs, correspondence, and copies of "The Crooner" newsletter.
Bing Crosby Historical Society
Includes scrapbooks, photographs, teaching materials, and ephemera related to Margaret Rawson Goheen's career as a music educator. Also included are manuscripts for her musical play "Men and Models."
Margaret Rawson Goheen
Includes photos and documents related to the Vietnam War and the related anti-war movement. The photos are undated, documenting what appears to be the experience of soldiers, including portraits of Vietnamese people and group photos, and pictures of soldiers. The documents that are dated range from 1969-71, and consist of anti-war posters for events and rallies, many of them held by students at the University of Washington along with documents and letters from local organizations such as Tacoma Women for Peace.
Beaver Hill Mining Company Records
Includes records gathered by George Watkins Evans related to the operations of the Beaver Hill Coal Mining Company, including plans and blueprints, photographs, correspondence, and reports.
Beaver Hill Coal Mining Company
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.
Includes items created for a short term purpose that have been retained for their long term historical, informational, or research value. These include pamphlets and brochures, tickets, and event programs.
Includes local and regional cookbooks and recipes produced by community organizations, churches, and businesses.
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
Includes correspondence, reports, and other documentation primarily related to the Washington State Library War Council during World War I.
Bishop Frederic Keator
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 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.