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Includes photographs, architectural drawings, Board of Trustees meeting minutes, agendas and packets, correspondence, and other records relating to the operations of Tacoma Public Library.
Tacoma Public Library
Includes photographs, architectural drawings, Board of Trustees meeting minutes, agendas and packets, correspondence, and other records relating to the operations of Tacoma Public Library.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Publications
Publications, research, and writings produced by Tacoma Public Library.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Book Notes Radio Program
Tacoma Public Library's Book Notes radio program was featured on KTNT radio Sundays at 10:30 pm. The show existed from the 1950s–1970s and featured content such as book reviews, oral histories, interviews, and poetry readings. The hosts included librarian Marile Creager, Gary Reese, Louise Morrison, and Georgeanne Schuler.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library Bicentennial Oral History Project
These oral history interviews were conducted by Ruth L. Wett as part of an oral history project sponsored by the Tacoma Public Library from 1975 to 1976. Each interview provides insight into activities in various neighborhoods, the mixture of immigrant communities, and the reflections on everyday experiences living in Tacoma around the turn of the last century.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Public Library All My Somedays Project Collection
Includes autobiographical novels by Pierce County residents who participated in All My Somedays writing project 1981-1983.
Tacoma Public Library
Tacoma Police Department Records
Includes scrapbooks, notices, city council documents related to police misconduct, and a departmental manual from 1891. Also included are annual and monthly reports and crime scene reporters notebooks.
Tacoma Police Department
Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files
Includes photographs organized by topic and maintained by TNT staff. Some files may include a single photograph while others may contain many different photographs.
Tacoma News Tribune
Tacoma News Tribune Clippings Files
Includes newspaper clippings organized by topic and maintained by the staff of the Tacoma News Tribune. Most files contain an assortment of clippings on a related from the Tacoma News Tribune. Some files include clippings from other papers and research notes.
Tacoma News Tribune
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance Records
Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, programs, governing documents, and other materials related to the operations of the Tacoma Ministerial Alliance.
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance
Tacoma Land and Improvement Company Records
Includes articles of incorporation, correspondence, minutes of the Board of Trustees, Board of Directors, stockholders, and other committees, financial records including ledgers and stock registers, legal documents including deeds and resolutions, and reports to stockholders.
Tacoma Land and Improvement Company
Weekly newspaper produced by the "Tacoma Central Labor Council, and all the unions in the city" focusing on various union and labor activities in the Tacoma/Seattle region, statewide and nationally, along with some world news.
Holdings: Jan. 03, 1919 - Dec. 29, 1950; May 7, 1954 - December 26, 1958 (bound); Jan. 2, 1959 - Oct. 15, 1977.
Monthly newsletter funded by the Communications Division of the Tacoma Indian Center. The newsletter published event announcements, brief profiles of tribal members and officials, job postings, volunteer opportunities and notifications of new and available services. August 1975-August 1976.
Monthly newspaper published by the Puyallup Tribe Office of Native American Programs. Articles focus on local, regional, and national topics related to Indigenous communities. Coverage includes activism around fishing and land rights. Articles and classifieds were also solicited from the local tribal community. August 1974 - May 1982.
Tacoma Fire Department Records
Includes photographs, scrapbooks, fire statistics, fire investigation images, day books, reports, and other material related to the operations of the Tacoma Fire Department.
Tacoma Fire Department
Early Tacoma newspaper with local and regional news, editorials, and advertisements.
The Tacoma Daily Index is a daily newspaper published by Sound Publishing Inc. It features a daily story on the front page. It publishes legal notices, bankruptcies, liens, orders, calls for bids, federal court notices and auditors’ office notices. The Daily Index was founded on May 1, 1890, as the Daily Mortgage and Lien Record. (1)
Holdings: Nov. 1, 1916 - July 31, 1917; Aug. 1, 1917 - Dec. 30, 2021 (bound); Jan. 5, 2022 - Dec. 30, 2022.
Tacoma City Council Resolutions
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
Tacoma Centennial Committee Records
Includes meeting minutes, programs, and planning documents related to the Tacoma Centennial Celebration.
Tacoma Centennial Committee
Tacoma Baptist School Publications
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 flyers, posters, and brochures that cover many of the Tacoma Art Museum’s shows and events dating back to the2003 grand opening in their current building.
Tacoma Art Museum
Includes photographs and promotional materials for productions, fundraising information and promotional materials, scrapbooks, sheet music, and set design and costume sketches.
Tacoma Actors Guild
Sutton, Whitney, and Dugan Architectural Records
Includes architectural plans, specifications, and other documents related to building construction, renovation, and additions designed by the Sutton, Whitney, and Dugan Architectural Firm including buildings on the campus of the University of Puget Sound and Annie Wright Seminary, First Presbyterian Church, National Bank of Tacoma, and additions to the Tacoma General Hospital. Some local residences are also included.
Sutton, Whitney, and Dugan Architectural Firm
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.
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.
Stewart Junior High School Publications
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.
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
Steilacoom High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Steilacoom High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
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.
Stanley-Mason Family
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
Stadium High School Publications
Includes publications produced by Stadium High School. The early years of The Tahoma contain essays, editorials, and creative writing. Later years serve as yearbooks showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.