Tacoma Community History Projects: Project Descriptions

1991

• A Brief Study of Land Use by Indian and Pioneer Communities on the Key Peninsula (1991#01)
• The Changing Peoples of Hilltop (1991#10)
• An Interview with Eudoro Estrada (1991#02)
• An Interview with Luke Joinette (1991#12)
• Italians in Hilltop (1991#03)
• Oral History Project, Joseph Kosai - A Japanese Internment Experience (1991#04)
• An Oral History Project on Thomas Dixon and the Tacoma Urban League (1991#05)
• Refugees: Cambodians and Other New Asian Immigrants (1991#11)
• The Slavic Fishermen of the Puget Sound (1991#09)
• Tacoma Rescue Mission: Hope for the Homeless (1991#07)
• Tacoma's African-American Baptist Church, Then and Now (1991#06)
• Takemura, Thomas Shoji: Camp Harmony (1942) (1991#08)

1992

• From Tules to Tiara: A History of the Masonic Temple Building and Temple Theatre (1992#09)
• Hillside Community Church - A Path to Liberalism (1992#01)
• The History of Council 28: The Washington Federation of State Employees (1992#02)
• A History of the Tacoma Smelter and It's Workers (1992#04)
• Meet the Tacoma Friends (1992#07)
• St. Leo the Great Parish: Tacoma, Washington (1992#08)
• A Sweet Taste of Success - A History of Tacoma's Own Fred Haley and the Brown & Haley Company (1992#03)
• Tacoma Buddhist Temple (1992#06)
• Tacoma Judaism - One Hundred Years, 1892-1992 (1992#05)

1993

• Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford (1993#03)
• American Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center (1993#04)
• A Blue-Collar Town: The Tacoma Labor Movement (1993#02)
• Civil Rights and Civic Pride: The Story of Harold Moss and the City of Tacoma (1993#09)
• The Community of Day Island (1993#06)
• The History of the Kitsap County Young Women's Christian Association (1993#05)
• Squaxin Island Lives (1993#01)
• Tacoma's Nihon Go Gakko - Japanese Language School (1993#08)

1994

• African-American Life in Tacoma (1994#03)
• A Concrete Look at Our Community (1994#06)
• An Honorable Man: Judge Bertil E. Johnson (1994#09)
• The Puyallup Tribe: History and Contributions to the South Puget Sound (1994#02)
• Safe Streets Campaign: Tacoma and Pierce County Respond to Youth Violence (1994#01)
• Sisters of Providence and Sister Frances Cabrini (1994#07)
• Swiss Immigration (1994#04)
• A Tradition of Excellence: The Sonntags and Public Service (1994#08)
• Winning the Hearts and Minds of Fort Lewis and McChord GIs during the Viet Nam Era (1994#05)

1995

• Longshore Workers in Tacoma (1995#01)
• Senator Rosa D. Franklin: Small-Town Person, Big-City Activist (1995#02)

1998

• The History of Murray and Rosa Morgan (1998#04)
• Peter C. Stanup: A Leader among the Generous People (1998#03)
• Then and Now: Women Legislators in Washington State (1998#02)
• A Woman of Firsts: Nelda Jaeger-Kraemer (1998#01)

2007

• Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans (2007#07)
• The Drug War and Civil Rights (2007#06)
• La-Sy-El: Daughter of Swinomish (2007#03)
• Mexican Americans from Mexico to Washington State: Discrimination and Segregation in the Memory of One Witness (2007#02)
• Michael Dougliss and Whidbey Island (2007#05)
• A National Coalition: From Safety and Shelters to Public Policy and Systems Change (2007#01)
• The U.S. Navy During World War II: One Man's Experience (2007#04)

2008

•  Lorraine Elizabeth Joseph: Puyallup Tribal Elder (2008#01)

2009

• Anna Carr: Tacoma’s First Female African American Bus Driver (2009#01)
• Dawn Lucien: Civic Pride and the Ebb and Flow of Tacoma’s Development (2009#02)
• Urban Native Americas: A Tacoma Story An Interview with Joan Staples (2009#03)
• Women and Tacoma’s Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss (2009#04)

2009

• The "Average" Airman: Stories of U.S.A.F. Aircraft Maintainters - Call # CHP 2014#10
• Father Bill Bichsel and Disarm Now Plowshares - Call # CHP 2014#03
• The Greek Community in Tacoma, Washington - Call # CHP 2014#07
• An Interview with Dr. Maxine Mimms Ph.d.: Building a Learning Community in Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood - Call # CHP 2014#04
• James Walton: From Texas To Tacoma - Call # CHP 2014#05
• Lifting as We Climb: Mrs. Freddie Mae Barnett & the Tacoma City Association of Colored Women’s Club - Call # CHP 2014#09
• Madeline Taylor: 103-Year-Old 20th Century Working Married Woman - Call # CHP 2014#08
• A Mid-Knight Run - Call # CHP 2014#01
• Robert Elofson: The Lower Elwha Klallam and the Return of Their River - Call # CHP 2014#06
• What We Built Came Out of That Basement: Brian Skiffington on Hardcore Punk in Tacoma - Call # CHP 2014#02