Pacific Northwest History: Starting Points
Sheet Music by W.R. Flaskett, 1909
"Fairest of all the tribes the country round, Tacoma our Takom"
Listen to the song here.
Image from UW Digital Collections
Images
These links provide access to numerous resources for images specific to the Pacific Northwest:
Online Encyclopedias
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Full-text encyclopedias on many subjects including information on Pierce County, Tacoma, Seattle, other Pacific Northwest locations as well as noteworthy people.
- Historylink.orgAn authoritative online encyclopedia dedicated to Washington state history. Many of the articles--written by scholars, journalists, teachers, and students--are originals prepared for the website.
- Black PastBlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.
General Sites
- American Indians of the Pacific NorthwestDigital collection of historic photographs of NW coastal tribes.
- Columbia River Basin Ethnic History ArchiveDigital archive focused on groups in the Columbia Basin.
- Journals of Lewis and ClarkFrom the 1803-1806 expedition.
Available online and in print
UW Tacoma Library Stacks
F592. 4 1983 - Northwest Historical Annual Reports CollectionA growing digital collection of annual financial reports of companies currently or historically based in the Pacific Northwest from the 1930s through the 1990s.
- UW Libraries Digital CollectionsDigitized, photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports, etc. primarily from the Pacific Northwest.
- Western Waters Digital LibraryProvides free public access to digital collections of significant primary and secondary resources on water in the western United States.