(click the banner above to link to the guide) This new guide was designed to make finding resources and material on our region's Black history both easier and more accessible. The guide brings together maps, books, documents, images, audio, and video recordings into separate categories that include links to the items record or, if it…
Mostly filmed in Tacoma
we zoom in on the history of filmmaking in Tacoma! From silents to Stallone we take a look at how Tacoma has been portrayed in Hollywood films through the ages.
Join the Community Archives Center for “A Proud Heritage: Finding Your African American Roots”
Join the Community Archives Center on Saturday, February 25th for "A Proud Heritage: Finding Your African American Roots." This free genealogy workshop will take place from 9:00-2:00 at the Tacoma Family History Center located at 1102 S. Pearl Street. The event will include presentations and tutorials focused on African American genealogical research. Lunch will be provided to participants. Learn more…
Mock Attack
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…
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.
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