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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
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
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
Includes photographic works by Haffer organized into a series of titled bound volumes. Each volume includes typewritten descriptive notes. Also included are additional photographs not included in the volumes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.
Virna Haffer
Includes the original typed manuscript of The Field by Elizabeth Sale. According to correspondence from Sale to the Tacoma Public Library dated September 20, 1973, this is the copy sent to Olivant Press for publication in 1968.
Elizabeth Sale
9 pencil drawings by Ernest Norling depicting work on Civilian Conservation Corps projects in 1933 and 1934. The drawings were created as part of the Public Work of Art (PWAP) Project during the Great Depression.
Ernest Norling
Includes flyers, posters, and brochures that cover many of the Tacoma Art Museum’s shows and events dating back to the2003 grand opening in their current building.
Tacoma Art Museum
Poetry Appreciation Club Records
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
The Tacoma Mountaineers Records
Includes scrapbooks, albums, membership records, publications, and photographic slides and prints. Also included are materials contributed by individual members of the Tacoma Chapter of the Mountaineers.
The Tacoma Mountaineers
Theo Kissick Square Dance Collection
The Kissick Square Dance Collection includes directories and programs for square dance festivals from 1975-2000, along with extensive documentation on organization of the 30th Annual National Convention, as well as periodicals and newsletters on how to host and participate in fun and successful square dance events. Mementos of square dance events and a guest book for the Twilite Twirlers square dance club are also included.
Theo Kissick
Includes newspaper clippings, reports, studies, correspondence, and scrapbooks related to Ramsey's research on environmental issues and service in groups like the Nisqually River Task Force, Citizens for a Solar Washington, and the McNeil Island Committee.
Robert Ramsey
Includes meeting minutes, programs, and other records related to the operations of the Topaz Circle, the Tacoma branch of the Women of Woodcraft national organization.
Topaz Circle
Alling Park Garden Club Records
Includes two scrapbooks, one dating from 1947-1953 and the other from 1952-1960. Both scrapbooks hold newspaper articles, photographs, and yearbooks documenting the club’s activities. Additionally, there is a file containing yearbooks, photographs, newspaper articles, ribbons, and certificates from 1971-1976. Also included is a folder on the garden club’s Mini-Standard Flower Show in 1977 and a file about the Magic with Decorative Wood event hosted by the Alling Park Garden Club on May 18-19, 1968.
Alling Park Garden Club
Includes event programs and schedules from local women's study clubs. The study clubs organized guest lectures and reading groups on a wide variety of topics including art, culture, language, and politics.
Alpha Study Club
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church Records
Includes publications (bulletins, newsletters, cookbooks, etc.), operational records, photographs, and scrapbooks related to the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church.
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance Records
Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, programs, governing documents, and other materials related to the operations of the Tacoma Ministerial Alliance.
Tacoma Ministerial Alliance
Rowena and Gordon Alcorn Seaman’s Rest Records and Research Files
Includes original and photocopied research material gathered by Rowena and Gordon Alcorn about the Seaman's Rest Mission. Also included are research materials related to the sinking of the Andelana.
Rowena and Gordon Alcorn
Reverend David Alger Interviews
Includes video interviews conducted by Reverend David Alger with religious leaders in and around the Tacoma area.
Reverend David Alger
Public Broadcast Foundation Records
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
Includes correspondence, reports, and other documentation primarily related to the Washington State Library War Council during World War I.
Bishop Frederic Keator
Lutheran Service Center Records
Includes correspondence, reports, directories, and program information related to the Lutheran Service Center.
Lutheran Service Center
Includes directories, reports, publications, and other documentation related to the operations of Tacoma Public Schools.
Tacoma Public Schools
Charles Wright Academy Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Charles Wright Academy showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
Bellarmine Preparatory School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Bellarmine Preparatory School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
Includes yearbooks produced by Fife High School showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding 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.
Curtis Senior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Curtis Senior High School (University Place) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
Curtis Junior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Curtis Junior High School (University Place) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
Lochburn Junior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Lochburn Junior High School (Lakewood) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.
DeLong Elementary School Records
Includes PTA meeting minutes, reports, and newsletters and newspaper clippings and a program related to the school's groundbreaking ceremony.
Mann Junior High School Publications
Includes yearbooks produced by Mann Junior High School (Lakewood) showing portraits of students and staff as well as news, events, and athletics information from the preceding year.