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Includes photographs taken by City of Tacoma photographer William Trueblood of city events.
William Trueblood
Includes photographs taken by City of Tacoma photographer William Trueblood of city events.
William Trueblood
Albert Henry Barnes Photographs
Includes photographs of landscape and outdoor activities taken by Albert Henry Barnes.
Albert Henry Barnes
Includes correspondence, performance programs, and documentation related to Stave's employment with Sears, Roebuck and Company and the Northern Pacific Railway Company in Tacoma. Also included are scrapbooks containing clippings, ticket stubs, business cards, brochures, menus, and other ephemera.
Clarence Stave
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 correspondence, reports, and other documentation primarily related to the Washington State Library War Council during World War I.
Bishop Frederic Keator
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
Includes maps of the northwestern United States from various sources. Coverage is primarily focused on Washington, Pierce County, and Tacoma.
Includes records related to various local social justice efforts and organizations including the Shalom Center of Associated Ministries, United for Peace and Justice of Pierce County, TAJO (Tacoma Arabs, Jews, and Others for Peace), Occupy Tacoma, and Stay in Your Homes. Topics covered in the papers include the South African Apartheid, the War in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the death penalty, foreclosures following the 2008 financial crisis, and others. Also included are correspondence, audiovisual material, and handbook and instructions related to activism.
Sallie Shawl
Includes yearbooks produced by Foss High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Includes documentation from Morgan's career as a historian, writer, journalist, broadcaster, and teacher. Materials include: drafts and manuscripts of Morgan's books, articles, and unpublished writing projects; research files assembled by Morgan and containing clippings, reports, notes, and writing drafts; teaching materials such as lesson plans and lecture notes; photographs used in Morgan's publications or related to research topics; transcripts and notes from Morgan's radio broadcasts; audio and video recordings; personal materials, awards, and ephemera.
Murray Morgan
Pacific Lutheran University Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Pacific Lutheran University showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Alliance Addition Abstract of Title
Abstract of title for the "southwest quarter of northwest quarter and west half of southeast quarter of northwest quarter of section five in township twenty north of range three east of Willamette Meridian." The abstract documents the recorded legal history of this area beginning with the US to Thomas Hood (1869). Also included is documentation related to the Workingmen's Joint Stock Association (George Putnam Riley et al).
Includes correspondence, speeches, writings, photos, and scrapbooks. Documentation related to Linck's resignation from the Treasury Department is also included along with issues of The Spirit of the Age, a newspaper edited by Linck.
John Linck
Includes photographs, correspondence, speeches, writings, and newspaper clippings related to Tollefson's work as the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney, a member of the United States Congress, and the Director of the Washington State Department of Fisheries. Also included are personal materials related to Tollefson's family and portraits signed by several US Presidents and other political figures.
Thor Tollefson
Puyallup Tribe Land Claims Settlement Records
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.
Lost Tacoma Project Collection
The "Lost Tacoma" project was originally designed and conceived by archivist Jeanie Fisher. It includes blueprints and technical drawings of both proposed buildings in Tacoma which were never constructed and constructed buildings which are now demolished. This is a partial representation of the Lost Tacoma collection, constituting 116 of the total 560 blueprints across 26 locations. Digitization for this project was supported by a 2016 Pierce County Historic Preservation Grant.
A quarterly magazine focused on histories, profiles, essays, art, and photojournalistic documentation of aspects of Tacoma's society and culture. Each issue includes a supplemental art poster. This collection contains all issues of the magazine to the most current issue.
Grit City Magazine
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
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.
Matthew Dick Boat Building Photographs
Includes images taken from 1977-1979 by Matthew Dick, a student of the Bates Vocational Technical Institute's two-year Boat Building Program.
Matthew Dick
Tom Terrien Tacoma Transit Collection
Includes a collection of photographs, staff lists, and other materials related to Tacoma Transit compiled by Tom Terrien, who worked for the transit system from 1939-1981.
Tom Terrien
Includes journals, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and materials related to Davy's career as a teacher.
Marguerite Neely Davy
Includes newspaper clippings, photographs, and documentation related to Kupka's work in the state legislature. Also included is information about investigations of the Northern State Hospital.
George Kupka
This Collection is comprised of the artistic and written output of Thomas S. Handforth. It includes letters, artwork, news clippings, scrap books, photographs, books, and a recording of his Caldecott acceptance speech.
Thomas Handforth
Orting High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Orting High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
Franklin Pierce High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Franklin Pierce High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
McIlvaigh Junior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by McIlvaigh Junior High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
Spanaway Lake High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Spanaway High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.
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.
Washington High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Washington High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.