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.

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

"The Masonic Journal" was a monthly publication that was first published with its March 25, 1922 issue. The publication centered on "Masonic ideas and ideals," and was published at the Provident Building in Tacoma, Washington. "The Masonic Journal" would change its title to "Washington Masonic Journal" for the April 1924 issue through the August or September issue of 1925, which it then reverted back to its original name.

Holdings: 1922/03-1925/08, 1925/10-1926/02, 1926/04-1928/11.

"Alpine News" was a newsletter published by Tacoma Chapter of The Mountaineers. Articles included mountain rescues, events, tips, future climbs, history, stories of recent climbs and other mountain climbing news.

Includes project studies, project images, and drawings for architectural projects created by James R. Merritt and the various architectural firms he was associated with between 1970-2015.

Records for the various departments of Tacoma Public Utilities including the Belt Line, Data Processing, Light and Water Divisions along with budgets, reports, public relations material, and newsletters. Within the various Divisions can be found monthly and annual financial reports and budgets, various papers and studies, plans, examinations, and public relations material.

Includes video interviews conducted by Reverend David Alger with religious leaders in and around the Tacoma area.

Includes organizational newsletters and periodicals published independently.

Includes scrapbooks created by various individuals, families, organizations, and businesses. Some creators are unidentified. Scrapbooks may include photographs, newspaper clippings, writing, and ephemera.

Includes photographs, correspondence, writings, and documentation related to Westling's career as an educator.

Includes publications by the California Joint Immigration Committee of San Francisco, newspaper clippings, government orders, proclamations, and other papers relating to a campaign in the 1920s and 1930s to bar Japanese people from West Coast states, a locally organized campaign to stop Japanese individuals from owning farmland, and the relocation and incarceration of Japanese citizens during World War II.

Includes correspondence, writings on local history, and material related to the movement to build a library branch in the Fern Hill area.

Includes meeting minutes, a scrapbook, clippings files, and writings about the history of the Fern Hill School created by the Fern Hill School Parent Teacher Association.

Includes legal documents and correspondence related to Thompson's work as an attorney mainly operating in the lumber industry.

Contains yearly desk journals created by Byron I. Larsen documenting his daily work activities. His work was in geology, city planning, and civil engineering and his notes include dates and brief descriptions of what he was working on and where within the Puget Sound area. There is no journal for the year 1983. Also includes documents regarding a federal mining lawsuit.

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

Includes photographs and promotional materials for productions, fundraising information and promotional materials, scrapbooks, sheet music, and set design and costume sketches.