Pacific Northwest Card File Search
The Pacific Northwest Card File appears to have been started in the early 1950s as a finding aid for biographical and historical information in the Washington State Library. Information was indexed from newspapers across the state as well as many published local histories, creating a very unique point of access.
Comprised of hundreds of thousands of cards, the drawers are divided into a Name File and a Subject File. Work began in late 2012, chiefly with WSL volunteer David Lane, on the Name File. We are now up to the surname "C" and will continue to update the online index as progress is made.
The Card File was closed in the early 1990s.
| Title | Subject | Subject Type | Publication | Citation Details | Citation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argue, John | Argue, John | Person | Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan an | p. 297 | Year: 1904 |
| One year on the job for M's Argyros | Argyros, George | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. B-1 | Month: 01 Day: 29 Year: 1982 |
| Losing isn't Argyros' game | Argyros, George | Person | Seattle Times | Pacific ed. P. 16-19 | Month: 04 Day: 11 Year: 1982 |
| Arguros may move --- to Seattle | Argyros, George | Person | Seattle Times | p. E-1 | Month: 03 Day: 12 Year: 1985 |
| Winning is his Buisiness. | Argyros, George | Person | Seattle Times | p. C-1 | Month: 06 Day: 30 Year: 1985 |
| True Redmond pioneer, Albert Aries, passes. | Aries, Albert Joseph | Person | Sammamish Valley News | Month: 03 Day: 25 Year: 1965 | |
| Knuckling in to pressure? There's the rub. Masseur to the Stars is unawed by celebrities. | Aries, Richard | Person | Seattle Times | p. E-1 | Month: 11 Day: 17 Year: 1981 |
| Obituary | Arima, Sumio | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. D-2 | Month: 04 Day: 1 Year: 1987 |
| Death Takes Leland Aris at age 85 | Aris, Leland C. | Person | Spokesman-Review | Month: 09 Day: 21 Year: 1971 | |
| Obituary | Arkley, Mary Margaret (Madge) (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | p. 29 | Month: 10 Day: 9 Year: 1953 |
| Arland, Etta | Arland, Etta | Person | Women of Grays Harbor County | p. 21 | |
| Obituary | Arland, Flora Estella Wartman | Person | Aberdeen Daily World | p. 1 | Month: 07 Day: 19 Year: 1955 |
| Early Harbor Dairy figure, R. Arland, dies | Arland, Rufus H. | Person | Aberdeen Daily World | Month: 03 Day: 26 Year: 1968 | |
| Dixie man dies at 81. | Arledge, Charles L. | Person | Walla Walla Union Bulletin | Month: 06 Day: 14 Year: 1967 | |
| Enter: Three playwrights. | Arlin, Trisha | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. D-1 | Month: 04 Day: 27 Year: 1981 |
| Arlt, Anna (Mrs.) | Arlt, Anna (Mrs.) | Person | Columbia Basin Daily Herald | Month: 05 Day: 11 Year: 1959 | |
| Obituary - Carl Arlt rites held. | Arlt, Carl C. | Person | Adams County Journal (Ritzville, Wash.) | Month: 02 Day: 18 Year: 1982 | |
| Blindness doesn't limit Dr Arlton | Arlton, A. V. (Dr.) | Person | Mooring Mast | Month: 03 Day: 19 Year: 1965 | |
| Mrs. Armbruster is buried at Wilbur. | Armbruster, Clara B. | Person | Wilbur Register | ||
| Arment, I. N. | Arment, I. N. | Person | Reminiscences of an Old Timer (Red cover) | p. 458 | |
| Rosamond F. Arment. | Arment, Rosamond F. (Mrs.) | Person | Spokane Daily Chronicle | Month: 09 Day: 13 Year: 1963 | |
| Armfield, Allen M. | Armfield, Allen M. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 185 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Armfield, Bess K. | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 08 Day: 17 Year: 1982 | |
| Obituary | Armfield, Rebekah Mary | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 06 Day: 27 Year: 1984 | |
| Obituary | Armfield, Rebekah Mary | Person | Spokesman-Review | Month: 06 Day: 28 Year: 1984 | |
| Weldon and Walter Armfield: Two Spokane Veterans and a Diary. | Armfield, Walter | Person | Pacific Northwest Forum | p. 4 | Month: Day: Year: 1988 |
| Obituary | Armfield, Walter W. | Person | Spokesman-Review | Month: 04 Day: 8 Year: 1986 | |
| Obituary | Armfield, Walter W. | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 04 Day: 8 Year: 1986 | |
| Weldon and Walter Armfield: Two Spokane Veterans and a Diary. | Armfield, Weldon | Person | Pacific Northwest Forum | p.4 | Year: 1988 |
| Obituary | Armfield, Weldon T. | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 01 Day: 3 Year: 1991 | |
| Obituary | Armistead, Myrtle D. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 10 Day: 30 Year: 1975 | |
| Days of bathtub gin and making ends meet---memories of Shirley McWain. | Armitage, Shirley McWain | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | Year: 1975 | |
| Armitage new FTC director | Armitage, Thomas | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. D-9 | Month: 03 Day: 23 Year: 1979 |
| Conversation with Tom Armitage -- What happens after the good guys ride off into the sunset. | Armitage, Thomas | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Northwest p. 4 | Month: 08 Day: 19 Year: 1979 |
| F.T.C. chief here to take post at U.W. | Armitage, Thomas | Person | Seattle Times | p. F-2 | Month: 09 Day: 3 Year: 1980 |
| She traded dance shoes for a needle and thread... | Armitstead, Marybeth | Person | Seattle Times | p. E-6 | Month: 12 Day: 4 Year: 1980 |
| Armour, Stuart | Armour, Stuart | Person | Illustrated History of Spokane County | p.637 | Year: 1900 |
| Obituary - Pearl Armstrong | Armsrong, Pearl R. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 04 Day: 2 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary | Armstrong, Agnes G. | Person | Bellingham Herald | Month: 05 Day: 29 Year: 1984 | |
| Obituary | Armstrong, Albert | Person | Walla Walla Union Bulletin | Month: 07 Day: 25 Year: 1982 | |
| Armstrong, Alice Laura | Armstrong, Alice Laura | Person | Memorials for Thurston County Pioneer and Historic | p. 1 | Year: 1955 |
| Armstrong, Alice M. (Mrs.) | Armstrong, Alice M. (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma, its history and its builders. | p.332 | Year: 1916 |
| Obituary | Armstrong, Arthur E. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 02 Day: 28 Year: 1968 | |
| Armstrong, B. C. | Armstrong, B. C. | Person | Seattle Times | ||
| Armstrong, B. C. | Armstrong, B. C. | Person | Snowden | v. III, p. 516 | |
| Armstrong, B. C. | Armstrong, B. C. | Person | Told by the Pioneers | unpub. Papers, Grays Harbor County. | |
| Armstrong, Ben S. | Armstrong, Ben S. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, pp. 40-41 | Year: 1921 |
| Armstrong & Owens | Armstrong, Benjamin | Person | South Bend Journal | Pacific Co. Ed. P. 16 | Year: 1900 |
| Armstrong, Benjamin C. | Armstrong, Benjamin C. | Person | Washington Territory Donation Land Claims | p. 66 | Year: 1980 |
| Obituary | Armstrong, Bernice | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 07 Day: 8 Year: 1973 |