Includes photographs taken by photographer Joe Becker of the marriage ceremony of Rudy Henry and John McCluskey, the first same-gender couple to be issued a marriage license in Pierce County. Also includes a slideshow created by Geoff Corso which was shared at the celebration of life ceremony held in memory of John McCluskey and Rudy Henry following their deaths.

Includes genealogical information about the Pixler and Moriarty families, along with information and accounts of life in Kosmos, Washington including photographs taken before the creation of the Mossyrock Dam, and activities at the site since 1968 up to 2014. The residents of Kosmos were displaced in 1967 to make way for the dam project.

Includes subject files organized by Gamble by name or topic containing mostly correspondence with some additional newspaper clippings, photographs, autographs, sheet music, and ephemera. Files are mostly related to other musicians. Also included are Gamble's scrapbooks.

Includes documents related to the establishment and operations of the Hilltop Library Planning Committee. Also included is an oral history recorded with members and a short video created by the committee.

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

For your information was a publication produced by the Washington State Defense Council during the second world war. It contained primarily domestic news related to the war effort such as Victory gardens and articles encouraging civilians to recycle extra scraps of rubber and metal. It contained occasional photographs and illustrations, particularly in the later issues, of political comics related to the war in the pacific.

Missing Volume 1, Number 2 and any issues produced after Volume 5, Number 10.

"City Arts" was a monthly magazine which began in Tacoma, Washington, and would soon after have Eastside and Seattle editions, which then consolidated into one edition after September 2011. (1) The magazine was published by Encore Media Group and covered local artists and events in the Tacoma/Seattle area. It contained sections about local art news, lifestyle, and has a featured artist section as well. At the end of each magazine there is a calendar that listed local events happening throughout the month. Some types of events include movies showings, live music, dance, theater, comedy shows, visual art displays, and book talks.

Includes extensive correspondence, organized alphabetically and chronologically, in addition to subject files. Also included are financial records from Henry Foss and information about his service in the U.S Naval Reserve.

Contains the registration forms for Pierce County women residents signing up to volunteer for national service. The forms range from April-May 1917 and are arranged numerically by form number from numbers 0-1247. The forms contain some biographical information about the registered women including their age, address, amount of schooling received, current occupation, and the nationality of their parents. Additionally, there is a list of services needed that women can denote interest or experience in, some examples are Social Club Work, Cooking, Gardening, Industrial Shops or Factories, Medical and Nursing, Motor Driving, and Clerical work.

Includes blueprints, correspondence, contracts, and financial records related to Hocking's work as an architect and members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Includes information related to the Public Broadcast Foundation and SOS-13 (Save Our Station 13) and their effort to prevent the private sale of the public channel 13.By-laws, correspondence, citizen petitions, meeting minutes, and correspondence are included.

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.

Includes correspondence, reports, and other documentation primarily related to the Washington State Library War Council during World War I.

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.

Includes local and regional cookbooks and recipes produced by community organizations, churches, and businesses.

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.

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 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.

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.

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."

Includes programs, photographs, correspondence, and copies of "The Crooner" newsletter.

Includes scrapbooks, meeting minutes, membership rosters, and writings created by members of the Tacoma Writers Club.

Includes programs from storytelling events in Washington, and the meeting minutes and scrapbooks created by the League.

Includes research files compiled by Lorraine Barker Hildebrand on the experiences and history of Chinese migrants living in the Pacific Northwest.

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.

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.

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.

Includes plays and short stories written by Nessenson. Correspondence and ephemera are also included.

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