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Puyallup Tribe Land Claims Settlement Records

  • 7.1.1

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.

Puyallup Tribal School System Publications

  • 4.1.25

Includes a yearbook produced by the Puyallup Tribal school system showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Puyallup Police and Fire Department Annual Reports

  • 7.2.1
  • 1977-1982

Annual reports from the Puyallup Fire Department and Puyallup Police Department including notes on accomplishments, department statistics, personal/organization charts, union activities, and training reports, among other information.

Puyallup High School Publications

  • 4.1.50

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

Puget Sound Environmental Atlas

  • 7.1.5
  • Collection
  • 1987

Contains volumes 1 and 2 of the 1987 Puget Sound Environmental Atlas and the 1992 Update. Volumes 1 and 2 have corporate authors: Untied States Army Corps of Engineers, Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, United States Environmental Protection Agency, D. R. Systems Inc. and Evans-Hamilton Inc. The 1992 Update has corporate authors: Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, Washington State and Puget Sound Estuary Program.

Puget Sound Water Quality Authority

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.

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.

Public Broadcast Foundation Records

  • 3.7.6

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.

Public Broadcast Foundation

Prue Stuckey Photographs

  • 1.5.3

Includes photos taken by Prue Stuckey during his time as a photographer for the City of Tacoma and Tacoma Police Department.

Prue Stuckey

Postcard Collection

  • 9.2

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.

Port of Tacoma Records

  • 7.1.2

Includes reports, studies, plans, and promotional materials related to the operations of the Port of Tacoma. Also included are "Master and Seamen Release Logs" from approximately 1910-1942.

Port of Tacoma

Poetry Appreciation Club Records

  • 3.5.9

Includes lesson plans, writings, club yearbooks, meeting minutes, and other records relating to the operations of the Poetry Appreciation Club from 1934 to 1979.

Poetry Appreciation Club

Planning and Development Services Records

  • 1.3.4

Includes seven boxes of primarily historic and aerial photographs, CDs containing documents, reports, slide photos, and letters relating to the projects and work conducted by the City of Tacoma's Planning and Development Services.

Also includes documents, surveys and reports from the three agencies that merged into the Planning and Development Services in 1991: the City Planning Department, Community Development Department and the Human Development and Planning Department.

Planning and Development Services 

Pixler Family Papers

  • 6.2.7

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.

Pixler Family

Pierce County Veterans' Burial Cards

  • 7.3.1

These burial cards were produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Agency under the Veterans' Grave Registration program in Pierce County, Washington. The range of dates spans from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. A majority of the individuals listed on these cards are identified as veterans of the Civil War, but also included is the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, and World War I. The information on the cards contain the person's name, rank and organization in the military, what war they are a veteran of, along with the date/place enlisted and date/place discharged by the military. Additionally, the burial information includes the name and location of the cemetery; the grave number, location, and condition of the plot; and the date of the burial along with any marker information. Also included is the date, location, and cause of death, along with a line for name and address of next of kin. Not all fields are complete on all cards. The burial locations in Washington include Tacoma, Puyallup, Orting, Sumner, Spanaway, Roy, Alder, Fort Lewis, Fox Island, and Buckley.

Pierce County Recorder

  • 5.2.24
  • 1930/10/10-1932/5/12

The "Pierce County Recorder" was a weekly newspaper that changed its name from the "Roy Recorder" on October 17, 1930. It covered the areas of Brookdale, Longbranch, McKenna, Parkland, Roy and Spanaway among others in south Pierce County. It focused primarily on local and state news, church and social events, sports including Valley League Baseball and schools including Pacific Lutheran College.

Perry Keithley Papers

  • 4.3.1

Includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to Keithley's career as an educator in and around Pierce County.

Perry Keithley

Peninsula High School Publications

  • 4.1.24

Includes yearbooks produced by Peninsula High School (Gig Harbor) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding academic year.

Peninsula Gateway

  • 5.3.3

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.

Penelope Loucas Papers

  • 3.5.4

Includes exhibition information, teaching materials, research files, and other documentation related to Penelope Loucas' career as a gallery owner, art curator, and teacher. Also includes extensive research files on artists and art in the Northwest.

Penelope Loucas

Paul Jackson Digital Videos

  • CAC1001

Born digital videos created by Tacoma-based filmmaker Paul Jackson, PhD including documentaries, interviews, and recordings of regional meetings and events.

Paul Jackson

Pandora

  • 5.3.44
  • 1970 - 1976

Pandora was a feminist newspaper based in Seattle, Washington that ran from 1970 to 1979. It was published biweekly until May 1974 when it started being published once a month. Pandora focused on women's issues and topics like, motherhood, reproductive rights, personal safety, misogyny, sexual assault, and lesbianism. These topics were discussed in the form of news articles, opinion pieces, and creative writings like poetry. Pandora also gave its readers resources and information about women's groups or activist organizations in the region.

Pacific Yachting

  • 5.3.41
  • 1997-2014

Pacific Yachting was a monthly magazine published by OP Media Group. It centered around yachting news mainly in Canada in British Columbia. There are self-submitted essays by readers, events occurring around the Pacific Northwest, and tips for where is best to sail in the area. Also included are reviews and recommendations for what boats and materials to purchase.

Holdings: 1997/06-2014/01

Pacific Lutheran University Publications

  • 4.2.1

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.

Orting High School Publications

  • 4.1.8

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.

Orpheus Club Records

  • 3.5.1

Includes performance programs, meeting minutes, concert records, and scrapbooks related to the Orpheus Club. Also included is information related to the Ladies Musical Club and the St. Cecilia Club.

Orpheus Club

Northwest Metalworker

  • 5.3.55
  • 1991-2000

The Northwest Metalworker describes itself as "The Magazine For Machinists and Related Tradesmen." It is published monthly. The Northwest Metalworker publishes on new technologies, new products, safety, and trade education. They also publish reader write-ins.

Northwest Indian News

  • 5.3.5
  • 1975-1975

Northwest Indian News was a newspaper published out of Seattle, Washington that reported on local, regional, and national tribal news. Updates about the Fishing Wars of the Puget Sound region and the legal battle of the Boldt Decision were frequent topics. Other topics of interest include editorials on the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) and articles about Native children within the foster care system.

Northwest Guardian

  • 5.3.2
  • 1990 - 2018

Weekly newspaper based out of Fort Lewis, Washington, focusing on mostly local and some regional and national military news, life and sports, and also contains a local arts and entertainment guide. Holdings begin May 3, 1990 through end of production on June 15, 2018.

Northwest Environmental Journal

  • 5.3.50
  • 1984-1997

The Northwest Environmental Journal was published by the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Washington. It aimed to publish research involving the environment in the states of Alaska, Idaho, western Montana, Oregon, Washington, and northwest Canada. The journal included research that was also multidisciplinary, including works involving the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It was usually published bi-annually.

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