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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rites for Mrs. Leon Ceppero set Thursday. | Ceppero, Catherine S. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 11 Day: 6 Year: 1962 | |
| Obituary | Cermack, Nora M. | Person | Whitman-Latah Record (Palouse, Wash.) | Month: 05 Day: 8 Year: 1980 | |
| Cerny, Josef J. and Violet H. 1942 - ? | Cerny, Josef J. | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Cerny, Josef J. and Violet H. 1942 -? | Cerny, Violet H. (Mrs.) | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Whidbey Island woman is rancher -- and loves it. | Cerullo, Evelyn | Person | Seattle Times | p. 6 S | Month: 11 Day: 12 Year: 1967 |
| Up in the sky: Look! A bird? A plane? No it's Leonard Cevene. | Cevene, Leonard | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Northwest Today, p. 4-5 | Month: 05 Day: 30 Year: 1971 |
| Vaudevillian winds up at Longacres. | Cevene, Leonard | Person | Daily Olympian | p. B-4 | Month: 04 Day: 29 Year: 1981 |
| There's more than Ron to the Ceys. | Cey, Ron | Person | Seattle Times | Mag., p. 4 | Month: 09 Day: 15 Year: 1974 |
| Frank Chamberlin ... | Chaberlin, Frank | Person | Tales of the Pioneers | p. 37-41 | Year: 1964 |
| Obituary | Chabneau, Jules Louis | Person | Seattle Times | p. 55 | Month: 03 Day: 1 Year: 1968 |
| Jules L. Charbneau | Chabneau, Jules Louis | Person | Seattle Kind Words Club Yearbook | p. 114 | Year: 1929 |
| Chace, William B. "Bill" 1922-1935 | Chace, William B. "Bill" | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Obituary | Chadbourne, Lee Keith | Person | Ritzville Journal-Times | Month: 07 Day: 19 Year: 1973 | |
| Chadsey, Jas | Chadsey, Jas | Person | Reminiscences of an Old Timer (Red cover) | p. 464 | Year: 1888 |
| The pioneer Chadwicks of Lopez; descendants of the original homesteader... | Chadwick family | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Mag., p. 5 | Month: 01 Day: 17 Year: 1960 |
| Obituary | Chadwick, Cecilia Marie (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 33, sec. 3 | Month: 02 Day: 11 Year: 1963 |
| Mrs Emma P. Chadwick. | Chadwick, Emma Plummer (Mrs.) | Person | Women of the West | p. 190 | Year: 1928 |
| Committee leader on state flag dies. | Chadwick, Emma Plummer (Mrs.) | Person | Daily Olympian | Month: 11 Day: 12 Year: 1962 | |
| Harry Alexander Chadwick | Chadwick, Harry Alexander | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. III, p. 417 | Year: 1917 |
| Harry Alexander Chadwick. | Chadwick, Harry Alexander | Person | History of Seattle | v. II, p. 819-820 | Year: 1916 |
| Obituary | Chadwick, Margaret Gardiner Tyler | Person | Seattle Times | G-20 | Month: 09 Day: 9 Year: 1981 |
| Chadwicks to mark golden year. | Chadwick, Stephen F. | Person | Seattle Times | p. 38 | Month: 06 Day: 29 Year: 1969 |
| Obituary | Chadwick, Stephen F. | Person | Seattle Times | p. B-16 | Month: 08 Day: 30 Year: 1975 |
| Historical Society elects Stephen Chadwick to post. | Chadwick, Stephen F. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 19 | Month: 04 Day: 23 Year: 1965 |
| Chadwick, Stephen, James. | Chadwick, Stephen James | Person | Whos Who in Washington State | p. 53 | Year: 1927 |
| Chadwick, Stephen J. | Chadwick, Stephen James | Person | Background and Selection Patterns Justices of the | Appendix p. 22 | Year: 1974 |
| Stephen J. Chadwick... | Chadwick, Stephen James | Person | History of the Supreme Court of the Territory and | p. 77-78 | Year: 1932 |
| Stephen James Chadwick | Chadwick, Stephen James | Person | Eminent Judges and Lawyers of the Northwest 1843-1955 | p. 113 | Year: 1954 |
| Obituary | Chadwick, Thomas W. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 03 Day: 30 Year: 1979 | |
| Chafe resigns school board post. | Chafe, Del | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-7 | Month: 09 Day: 6 Year: 1974 |
| Elmer S. Chaffee | Chaffee, Elmer S. | Person | Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties | p. 452 | Year: 1904 |
| Second Story Life. | Chaffee, Steven | Person | Daily Sun News (Sunnyside, Wash.) | Month: 10 Day: 2 Year: 1987 | |
| Obituary | Chaffin, Clarence A. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 49 | Month: 06 Day: 8 Year: 1965 |
| D. A. Chalcraft | Chalcraft, D. A. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 193 | Year: 1920 |
| Chalcraft, Edwin | Chalcraft, Edwin | Person | Chehalis Indian Reservation. Autobiography (excerpt) 1883-1889. | Mss 039 | |
| Funeral set for Edwin P. Chalcraft. | Chalcraft, Edwin P. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 33, sec. 3 | Month: 03 Day: 4 Year: 1963 |
| Obituary | Chalfa, John Joseph 'Jack' | Person | Daily Journal-American (Bellevue, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 26 Year: 1980 | |
| Obituary | Chalfa, Mary V. | Person | Journal-American (Bellevue, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 20 Year: 1990 | |
| Chalk, Hulda | Chalk, Hulda | Person | Everett Daily Herald | p. 39 | Month: 09 Day: 20 Year: 1956 |
| Obituary: Jeanette C. Chalk | Chalk, Jeanette C. | Person | Daily Chronicle (Centralia, Wash.) | Month: 03 Day: 28 Year: 1974 | |
| Nicholas B. Challacombe | Challacomb, Nicholas B. | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. III, p. 10-13 | Year: 1917 |
| Challacomb, Tillie (Mrs.) | Challacomb, Tillie (Mrs.) | Person | Aberdeen Daily News | Month: 07 Day: 16 Year: 1958 | |
| Obituary: Pioneering Everett resident Emily Challacombe dies at 90. | Challacombe, Emily | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 04 Day: 1 Year: 1982 | |
| Mrs.Clement J. Challar dies at 100. | Challar, Clara Dean (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 39 | Month: 04 Day: 7 Year: 1964 |
| Mrs. Ray Challender. | Challender, Nannie | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p.73 | Month: 10 Day: 28 Year: 1964 |
| A. H. Challiss | Challiss, A. H. | Person | Seattle Kind Words Club Yearbook | p. 48 | Year: 1929 |
| Obituary | Chalmers, Grace Ann | Person | Wenatchee Daily World | Month: 10 Day: 29 Year: 1968 | |
| James Chalmers dies Saturday. | Chalmers, James O. | Person | Shelton-Mason County Journal | Month: 07 Day: 8 Year: 1971 | |
| Tells of early days in Wash. | Chalmers, John | Person | Wenatchee Daily World | p. 6 | Month: 03 Day: 30 Year: 1954 |
| John Chalmers | Chalmers, John | Person | Tacoma, its history and its builders. | v. 3, p. 518 | Year: 1916 |