A young woman poses in the almost completed diorama of an attacking cougar for the Washington State Historical Museum. The elaborate diorama took the Washington State Historical Society's taxidermist J. H. Gipple months to prepare and depicter a cougar attack on a deer. See more featured images and posts…
Thomas Handforth Collection now available in ORCA
The Northwest Room has recently added the Thomas Handforth Collection to ORCA. This new collection combines the Tacoman artist's paintings, etchings, sketches, and other works with his personal papers.
Help Is On the Way!
December 25, 1988, Steve Green of Marysville creeps up on an oil-soaked White Wing Scoter that washed up near Ocean City. See more featured images and posts …
2022 Northwest Room and Community Archives Center Annual Report
At the end of each year, the Northwest Room Team creates an annual report as a way to summarize the progress made toward achieving our goals and to set priorities for the coming year. Our 2022 annual report describes the work we have done to make our collections more accessible and more representative of our…
For Love and Gratitude
December 26, 1975, Sai Dinh Nguyen works on a statue of love and gratitude that he and Khuyen Van Hoang molded from 1,200 pounds of concrete. It isn't known yet where the statue will be placed, though some consideration has been given to moving it to a community center at Bayview, WA. See more featured…
Director’s Blog: December 2022
Among the hubbub of the holidays, I hope you find time to reflect on the challenges and successes of the past year. As I look back on 2022 at Tacoma Public Libr
Hospital Food Upgrade
Ronald McDonald posed with a group of smiling nurses at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, 311 South L Street, on December 17, 1970. He had come to Tacoma specifically to visit Rhonda Street, age 4, who was severely burned when her nightgown caught fire from a dropped match. Bored with hospital food, Rhonda had discovered the…
Above the Clouds, The Tacoma Mountaineers Records
Learn about the Tacoma chapter of the Mountaineers Records that include 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.
LibraryReads December 2022
Nothing says “must read” quite like a Librarian’s stamp of approval!
Every month LibraryReads.org releases the top picks for the month, as voted on by Librarians across the country.
Visiting Frosty
Bill Brown family possibly posing at a storefront window with a snowman and artificial snow. See more featured images and posts…
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