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Cog-nitive Courier

  • 5.2.21
  • 1992/01-2012/07

The Cog-nitive Courier was a monthly newsletter published by the Tacoma Wheelmen’s Bicycle Club. It was originally established in 1888 and was later restarted in 1974. The newsletter changed names from the Tacoma Wheelman’s Bicycle Club Newsletter to the Cog-nitive Courier in April 2002. In its issues, it contains meetup information for club members, ride calendars for biking trips, information regarding bicycling laws around Tacoma, pictures from past rides, and general news. The final printed version of the Cog-nitive Courier was published in July 2012 due to a lack of an editor.

Northwest Asian Weekly

  • 5.3.6
  • 1992-

The Northwest Asian Weekly is a weekly newspaper based out of Seattle, WA and serves the Pacific Northwest region. It began publication in 1992 and is still producing weekly newspapers. The Northwest Asian Weekly covers local, national, and international news, local events, sports, editorials and commercial advertisements. Print edition ceased with 01/21/2023 issue, and publication is online only.

The Voter

  • 5.2.11
  • 1922-

The Woman Voter is a monthly magazine published by the League of Women Voters of Tacoma/Pierce County. It changed its name to The Voter in 1931, and covered politics on the local and national level. Its goal was to inform women voters of their civic responsibility and it published articles on political events, local political issues, and supported candidates for office. After it became a newsletter its topics were more focused on its own members in the League of Women Voters and published meetings, activities, calendars of events and financial/budgetary matters concerning the organization.

League of Women Voters of Tacoma-Pierce County

The Arts

  • 5.3.25
  • 1982/01-1988/07-08

The Arts was a monthly newsletter published by the King County Arts Commission. It published information about the arts as a public service for local artists and organizations, and supported local events and groups funded by the commission.

Tacoma News Tribune Photograph Files

  • 5.1.2

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

Cascades

  • 5.3.32
  • 1960-1972

Cascades was a regional bi-monthly promotional and lifestyles magazine published by Pacific Telephone Northwest beginning in October 1960 until May 1961 and later Pacific Northwest Bell beginning in July 1961. Subjects featured in the magazine included history, book reviews, travel, editorials and self-promotional articles all pertaining to the Northwest region. Cascades would turn into a quarterly magazine with its Summer 1964 through Winter 1966 issues before returning to a bi-monthly publication from April 1967 through 1970. Cascades then changed again to a quarterly publication beginning in 1971.

Capitol Observer

  • 5.3.33
  • 1939 - 1983

This quarterly magazine “dedicated to safety in the Northwest” began March 30, 1939, under the name of Capitol Capers, which was a monthly newspaper published for Washington State workers that focused on governmental news and lifestyle stories in and around Olympia, Washington. Capitol Capers then briefly became the Washington Observer newspaper between Oct. 31, 1940 through May 20, 1941 before transitioning to the Capitol Observer that year. The Capitol Observer changed its primary focus from state government news to issues about general safety in the Spring 1958 issue and converted to a magazine format in the summer of that same year.

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.

Franklin Pierce High School Ethnic Studies Interviews

  • CAC4001

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.

Mayor William Baarsma Papers

  • 1.2.3
  • 1953-1964, 1991-2009

Includes speeches, thank you notes, schedules, and event information related to Baarsma's two terms as Mayor of Tacoma. Also included are two boxes predating Baarsma's mayoral career containing research materials as well as correspondence, campaign materials, and newsletters related to Pierce County and national democratic politicians.

Bill Baarsma

American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) Records

  • 2.4.1

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.

ASARCO

The Tacoma Facts

  • 5.2.4
  • 1970-1977, 1980-1986, 2005-2008, 2022

Weekly newspaper primarily focused on issues of relevance to Tacoma's Black community. At various points, the title appeared as "The Tacoma Facts" and "The Northwest Facts." In the 1970s, the paper advertised itself as "the newspaper most people prefer for information about Tacoma's Minority Communities."

Michael K. Honey Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Community History Papers

  • 6.1.13

Includes research files, teaching materials, and other documentation related to Professor Michael Honey's work in civil rights and labor history. Also included are projects created by students enrolled in Honey's community history classes focused on figures and topics in Tacoma's history.

Michael K. Honey

Mayor Harold M. Tollefson Papers

  • 1.2.5

Includes correspondence, campaign records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, government reports, photographs, speeches, conference notes, publications of municipal government organizations, and corporate records.

Harold M. Tollefson

Annie Wright School Publications

  • 4.1.6

Includes yearbooks produced by Annie Wright School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year. Also included is a catalog and prospectus from 1890-1891.

Gault Junior High School Publications

  • 4.1.51

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

Eatonville High School Publications

  • 4.1.48

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.

Black Women's Caucus of Washington State, Tacoma Chapter Records

  • CAC2008

Includes event programs, meeting notes, work plans, and publications related to the Tacoma Chapter of the Black Women's Caucus of Washington State. Also included is an oral history interview conducted with four members of the Tacoma Chapter.

Mayor John Linck Papers

  • 1.2.6

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

City of Tacoma Scrapbooks

  • 1.1.2
  • 1909-1984

Contains scrapbooks, assembled by the Tacoma City Manager's office or the Tacoma City Clerk, that primarily show newspaper clippings in which the City of Tacoma is mentioned over the course of the year(s).

Marguerite Neely Davy Papers

  • 4.3.4

Includes journals, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and materials related to Davy's career as a teacher.

Marguerite Neely Davy

Thomas Handforth Collection

  • 3.5.3

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

Tacoma Public Library Scrapbooks

  • 1.4.3

Includes scrapbooks compiled by Tacoma Public Library staff containing newspaper clippings, event programs and flyers, photographs, and other material related to the Library. Items identified as "Clippings Scrapbooks" contain only newspaper clippings.

Tacoma Public Library

Tacoma-Pierce County Black Collective Records

  • CAC2004

Includes video interviews created for the documentary "The Evolution of Collective Wisdom" along with bios of the interviewees. Also included are materials related to the Black Collective's Black History Month programming.

Tacoma-Pierce County Black Collective

Willits Brothers Canoe Company Records

  • 2.6.2

Business records of the Willits Brothers Canoe Company, including designs for and information on manufacturing and maintaining canoes, photos of the Willits' family and friends, photos of the Puget Sound area from 1920 to the late-1960s, and files, maps, and architectural drawings relating to Day Island, and to the Day Island Improvement Club.

Willits Brothers Canoe Company

Christopher Petrich Photographs

  • 2.1.5

Includes photographs taken by Christopher Petrich of a range of locations and events in Tacoma including the Hawthorne Neighborhood, the Tacoma Dome, and a visit to Tacoma by Jacques Cousteau. Also included are photographs of various buildings and aerials.

Christopher Petrich

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.

Tacoma City Council Resolutions

  • 1.1.1
  • 1884-1985

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

Clipping and Reference Files

  • 8.3

Newspaper articles, pamphlets, flyers, reports, and other mass-produced publications compiled by Northwest Room staff and organized by subject matter.

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