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TNT Snapshot Contest - 1971Fourth Place Winner - Carolyn K Caine, Puyallup, WA. See more featured images and posts…

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…

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…

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…

Take a dive into the papers of Gerald Davis, an employee of the marketing department of Tacoma's Heidelberg Brewery in the 1950s!

Snapshot Contest 1976: Man & Child. Winner Week 7, Grand Prize Winner - Bryn Douglass, Steilacoom, WA See more featured images and posts…

In 1908, brothers Earl and Floyd Willits began constructing canoes with a unique “double planked” design. These canoes, which were constructed until the mid-1960s in Pierce County, have became highly prized by canoe collectors and enthusiasts. In April of this year, Northwest Room staff joined the Willits family at the Willits Brothers Canoe factory on…

Snapshot Contest 1974 Robert Krause, Tacoma, WA. July 29, 1974. See more featured images and posts…

This is a guest post by Andrew Weymouth. Andrew Weymouth is an archivist, exhibit designer and writer working in Tacoma, WA. He is the recipient of the 2021 Visual Resources Association Foundation grant, the University of Oregon's Vollstedt program and the University of Washington's Storytelling Fellows. He has created digital exhibits for academic faculty concerning Indigenous…

"Mennaker and wife, Big Fish." Man and woman smile holding a rod carrying three large fish. See more featured images and posts…