Primary Sources: History: Pacific Northwest

Presents King County, WA, through19th and 20th century images portraying people, places, and events in the county.

The Municipal Archives documents the history, development, and activities of the agencies and officials of the City of Seattle.

This site provides a starting point for accessing historical information about Seattle neighborhoods.

This collection consists of digitized documents, photos, maps, directories, postcards and more

This web site explores Seattle's civil rights movements with video oral histories, photographs, documents, movement histories, personal biographies, and more.

These newspapers include materials that reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times.

This collection (diaries, letters, political documents, reminiscences) recounts the early settlement of Washington, the establishment of homesteads and towns, and describes the hardships faced by the early pioneers.

This online encyclopedia of Washington state and local history makes available primary and secondary sources.

Vintage recordings bring to life historic events from the region's past.

Includes over 1,000 photographs, documents and oral history interviews relating to the history of ethnic groups in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, from 1860 to the 1980s.

Presents maps, films, slide shows, nearly one hundred video oral history interviews, and several thousand photographs, essays, documents, and digitized newspaper articles.

From 1803-1806, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped their journey to the Pacific Ocean and back, describing the lands, natural wonders, and encounters with the people of western North America.

Provides access to digital records of state and local government, including land records, photographs, census records, marriage/ birth/death records and more.

Spanning 300 years, this collection includes maps of sea and land faring explorers.