Includes audio recordings from the Laureate Listening Project. This project, organized by Tacoma Poet Laureate Lucas Smiraldo, took place between 2013 and 2015 and recorded community members reflecting on the importance of a particular place in their using through the form of poetry.

The Suburban Times was a local newspaper created by the Meadowdale Publishing Company, beginning in 1963. It was the successor of Tacoma Suburban Times, which was established in January 1961 by combining The Lakewood Log (est. in 1937) and Suburban Press. The print newspaper served Pierce County local news as well as neighboring McChord Air Force Base and Fort Lewis, which has since combined to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

In 1980 the publication would become the Lakewood Suburban Times, reverting to The Suburban Times after January 20, 1981. The Publication would end entirely in 1982. In 2005, the publication would become an online newspaper and community space.

Holdings: Print, 1963-1972 (bound), 1973-1978, Jan. 1981-Jan. 1982.

Includes 22 8x10 photographs of the Browns Point Salmon Bake, circa 1960.

Includes publications produced by Lincoln High School. Early issues of The Lincolnian contain essays, editorials, and creative writing. Later issues serve as yearbooks showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year. Reunion Books were produced in conjunction with class reunions and contain information on alumni. Programs contain information on various theatrical productions staged by Lincoln High School students.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Includes organizational newsletters and periodicals published independently.

Includes annual meeting materials, membership directories, "They Represent You" brochures, studies, and scrapbooks.

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.

Includes interviews conducted by Franklin Pierce High School students for an Ethnic Studies class with teacher Dan Call. Students interviewed family, friends, and other community members about race, racial identity, microaggressions, and discrimination. Interview transcripts created by students have been produced for some audio recordings.

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.

Includes documentation related to Miller's work advocating for the clemency and release of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist of Lakota descent who was imprisoned in 1976 following the 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation, which left two F.B.I. agents dead. Along with issues of Miller's "Bayou La Rose" newspaper, the Arthur J Miller Papers features published documents from the Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network, issues of Native Resistance News and the Survival Network Newsletter, photos from rallies in support of clemency for Peltier, rally and march flyers, VHS video of rallies, and writing by Miller.

Photographic negatives taken by Myron Kreidler. The negatives are mostly of Spanaway, Midland, and Parkland businesses and were taken by Kreidler for the Prairie Pointer newspaper in 1946. Other negatives include images of South Tacoma, as well as images of wind damage to Spanaway Park, the Pierce County Bresemann Park purchase, and outdoor activities such as fishing and skiing.

Key Peninsula News, switching its name from Key Peninsula Newsletter in 1985, was a newspaper that operated as the "voice of the Key Peninsula Civic Center". The paper served to publish community announcements, advertisements, and voting information to circulate through the South Puget Sound's Key Peninsula area, which includes the towns of Wauna, Key Center, Vaughn, Home, Lakebay, and Longbranch.

Includes publications, reports, internal memos, newspaper clippings, and other documentation related to the operations, closure, and cleanup of the ASARCO site in Tacoma. Also included are extensive photographic documentation of personnel, facilities, and cleanup activities from 1948 to 2009.

American Forests was a monthly magazine published by the American Forestry Association that covered articles related to forests, soil, wildlife and outdoor recreation. It also advocated for forest resources and environmental policies that would protect forests.