Margaret Flora spent her summer of 1964 working as a lookout for the Department of Natural Resources' Clearwater station located on the western slope of the Olympic Mountains. The lookout station did not have running water so all water had to be hauled up from a creek using a sturdy milk can. This made washing…
Still Life
TNT Snapshot Contest - 1971Fourth Place Winner - Carolyn K Caine, Puyallup, WA. See more featured images and posts…
Hop To It!
Sang Hyon Nairn leaps over six men in a martial arts demonstration during a celebration between Tacoma and South Korean sister-city Gunsan City in August of 1981. See more featured images and posts…
Northwest Room Intern Spotlight: An Interview with Lauren Moseman
Lauren Moseman (she/her) is a rising senior at the University of Puget Sound. She is a double major in History and Environmental Policy & Decision Making with a minor in English. At school, she works for the History and Religion Departments and is a trip leader for the Puget Sound Outdoors Program. In her free…
Director’s Blog: August 2022
August brings both endings and beginnings at TPL:
Our Summer Reading Challenge ends Saturday, Aug. 13!
Make sure to complete your reading logs either on Beans
Sun, Fun and Strike!
Sally Zimmerman and Mary Ann Calkins sunning themselves as they sit in for their striking ironworker husbands in the picket line in August 1974. See more featured images and posts…
TPL Public Information Office awarded American Library Association’s John Cotton Dana Award
Tacoma Public Library (TPL) was among eight library systems recognized with the American Library Association (ALA)'s most prestigious public relations honor.
Behind The Brew! The Gerald Davis Papers
Take a dive into the papers of Gerald Davis, an employee of the marketing department of Tacoma's Heidelberg Brewery in the 1950s!
Peek-a-Boo!
Snapshot Contest 1976: Man & Child. Winner Week 7, Grand Prize Winner - Bryn Douglass, Steilacoom, WA See more featured images and posts…
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