Research Guides
Pacific Northwest Reference Collection: Biographical Directories
Biographical Directories
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Who's Who in Northwest Art; A Biographical Directory of Persons in the Pacific Northwest Working in the Media of Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Design, and the Handicrafts by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW 979.5 Ap55wPublication Date: 1941Subjects: Artists -- Directories; Artists -- Northwest, Pacific; Artists -- Canada; Northwest, Pacific -- Biography -
Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts
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Call Number: Special Collections PNW NA737.G65 B66 1995Publication Date: 1995Subjects: Gould, Carl Freylinghuysen, 1873-1939; Architects -- Washington (State) -- Biography; Civic leaders -- Washington (State) -- Biography; Eclecticism in architecture -- Washington (State) -
Oregon Biography Index by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW F876.6 .B73Publication Date: 1976Subjects: Oregon -- Biography -- Indexes -
Who's Who in Pacific Navigation by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW DU19 .D78 1991Publication Date: 1991Subjects: Explorers -- Pacific Area -- Biography; Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration -
Political Pioneers: The Women Lawmakers byCall Number: Special Collections PNW JK9268 .P65 1983Publication Date: 1983Subjects: Washington (State). Legislature -- Biography; Legislators -- Washington (State) -- Biography; Women in politics -- Washington (State); Women in public life -- Washington (State)
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Who's Who on the Pacific Coast by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW 979 WWPublication Date: 1913Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Southern States -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Pacific Coast (U.S.) -- Biography -- Periodicals -
Territorial Governors, 1853-1889 byCall Number: Special Collections PNW CD3574 .T47 1984Publication Date: 1984Subjects: Governors -- Washington (State) -- Biography; Washington (State) -- Politics and government -- History --
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Biographies of Western Photographers: A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West
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Call Number: Special Collections PNW TR139 .M38 1997Publication Date: 1997Subjects: Photographers -- West (U.S.); Photographers -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century -
Who's Who among Pacific Northwest Authors byCall Number: Special Collections PNW 979.519 W62Publication Date: 1957
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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier
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Call Number: Special Collections PNW F596 .P4 1998Publication Date: 1998Subjects: Women pioneers -- West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History; -
An Index to Early King County Pioneers: (Includes Seattle) byCall Number: Special Collections PNW F897.K4 R46 1984Publication Date: 1984Subjects: Pioneers -- Washington (State) -- King County -- Indexes; Pioneers -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Indexes; King County (Wash.) -- History -- Indexes; Seattle (Wash.) -- History -- Indexes
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Eminent Judges and Lawyers of the Northwest, 1843-1955 by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW 979.519 T212ePublication Date: 1954Subjects: Judges -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography; Lawyers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography -
Washington State Art and Artists, 1850-1950 by
Call Number: Special Collections PNW ND230.W2 T74 1992Publication Date: 1992Subjects: Artists -- Washington (State) -- Biography -
Who's Who in Washington 1963 byCall Number: Special Collections PNW 979.719 W622Publication Date: 1963Subjects: Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.); Washington (State) -- Biography; Washington (State) -- History
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Notable Women byCall Number: Special Collections PNW F890 .W49Publication Date: 1977Subjects: Women -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Biography; Washington (State) -- Biography
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Who's Who in the West
Call Number: Special Collections PNW F595 .W64Publication Date: 1970-2014Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Biography
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Charles W. Smith's Pacific Northwest Americana : a check list of books and pamphlets relating to the history of the Pacific Northwest. by
Call Number: PNW 979.5 Sm5p3Publication Date: 1950The Pacific Northwest region was defined by past University Librarian Charles W. Smith as “that geographical area lying north of California and west of the Rocky mountains, including the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, together with British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon." -
John Yeon, Architecture : Building in the Pacific Northwest
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Call Number: Special Collections Pacific NW NA680 .J646 2017Publication Date: 2017Subjects: Yeon, John -- Exhibitions; Modern movement (Architecture) -- Northwest, Pacific -- Exhibitions; Minimal architecture -- Northwest, Pacific -- Exhibitions
Guide Information
This guide includes commonly-used reference material held in Special Collections. This guide is divided into subject areas. Please search the Library Catalog below for other key reference sources that may not be contained in this list.