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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Beck -- a life of battle. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-1 | Month: 11 Day: 26 Year: 1978 |
| Beck relieved of serving time in State Prison. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 7 | Month: 12 Day: 2 Year: 1964 |
| Dave Beck turns 90. The Teamsters former leader reflects on prison, Hoffa, the labor movement. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Times | p. E-1 | Month: 06 Day: 11 Year: 1984 |
| Shape up, Beck tells Teamsters. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-4 | Month: 08 Day: 30 Year: 1979 |
| Beck must report to parole officer by Monday morning. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. A | Month: 12 Day: 12 Year: 1964 |
| Organized workers, Beck tells listeners. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-`14 | Month: 08 Day: 1 Year: 1984 |
| Dave Beck's inflation beater. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-6 | Month: 03 Day: 13 Year: 1980 |
| Beck's pardon restores his civil rights | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 18 | Month: 01 Day: 11 Year: 1965 |
| Beck found guilty of libel; damages are a 'token' $10, 000. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-26 | Month: 05 Day: 10 Year: 1981 |
| Attorney with a press packet, Melvin Belli storms Seattle. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-9 | Month: 05 Day: 5 Year: 1981 |
| Beck calls pardon 'definite vindication.' | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 7 | Month: 01 Day: 12 Year: 1965 |
| Beck keeps fit so as to finish important affairs. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Times | p. 1 | Month: 09 Day: 26 Year: 1966 |
| Labor's lion Dave Beck still has a strong roar. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. H-1 | Month: 05 Day: 17 Year: 1981 |
| Beck estate's finances called 'hazardous.' | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 13 | Month: 05 Day: 8 Year: 1965 |
| Beck's bad boy: a labor boss returns on a wave of false nostalgia | Beck, Dave | Person | Weekly (Seattle, Wash.) | p. 18 | Month: 05 Day: 30 Year: 1984 |
| Labors feisty patriarch sings praises of capitalism. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-1 | Month: 05 Day: 24 Year: 1984 |
| Beck to begin prison term. | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 06 Day: 19 Year: 1962 | |
| Dave Beck: an old warrior fights on. | Beck, Dave | Person | Argus (Seattle, Wash.) | p. 1 | Month: 11 Day: 11 Year: 1977 |
| The Beck Case; five long years of litigation... | Beck, Dave | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 5 Mag. | Month: 12 Day: 2 Year: 1962 |
| Obituary | Beck, Dora Marie | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 05 Day: 9 Year: 1977 | |
| Heart ailment fatal to Mrs. Dave Beck | Beck, Dorothy Leschander | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 11 Day: 25 Year: 1961 | |
| Obituary | Beck, Edna | Person | Omak Chronicle | Month: 07 Day: 30 Year: 1986 | |
| Beck, Edward J. | Beck, Edward J. | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. III, p. 550-553 | Year: 1917 |
| Mrs. Broussais C. Beck, arts patron | Beck, Eleanor Nordhoff (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Times | p. 23 | Month: 05 Day: 16 Year: 1966 |
| Mrs. Beck wills $250,000 estate to four children. | Beck, Eleanor Nordhoff (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Times | p. A | Month: 06 Day: 4 Year: 1966 |
| Obituary | Beck, Forrest E. "Ole" | Person | Daily Olympian | p. B-3 | Month: 02 Day: 23 Year: 1981 |
| Beck, Forrest E. "Ole" | Beck, Forrest E. "Ole" | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, p. 78-79 | Year: 1921 |
| St. Helens mystery real hair-curler. | Beck, Fred | Person | Seattle Times | p. 18 | Month: 04 Day: 16 Year: 1967 |
| Seattle'as Gary Beck, a top dragster. | Beck, Gary | Person | Seattle Times | p. 6-7 Mag. | Month: 05 Day: 11 Year: 1975 |
| Beck, George | Beck, George | Person | Ellensburg Daily Record | Special Section p. 112 | Month: 11 Day: 9 Year: 1989 |
| Ginkgo finder visit slated at ceremony. | Beck, George | Person | Ellensburg Daily Record | Month: 10 Day: 15 Year: 1966 | |
| Uncovering a petrified forest. | Beck, George | Person | Yakima Herald Report | p. 38C | Month: 07 Day: 3 Year: 1976 |
| Death takes Mrs. Beck at age 70. | Beck, Grace | Person | Walla Walla Union Bulletin | Month: 05 Day: 18 Year: 1962 | |
| Beck, H. G. (Mrs.) | Beck, H. G. (Mrs.) | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 203 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Beck, Harold A. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. F-8 | Month: 10 Day: 24 Year: 1979 |
| Covered black rock desert before fences marred the early landscape. | Beck, Harvey | Person | Odessa Record | Month: 09 Day: 10 Year: 1964 | |
| Obituary | Beck, Helen | Person | Warden Register | Month: 09 Day: 28 Year: 1972 | |
| Masonic rites held on Friday for Pete Beck. | Beck, Herbert Rudolph 'Pete' | Person | Port Townsend Leader | Month: 07 Day: 8 Year: 1965 | |
| Obituary | Beck, Ida Matilda | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 33 | Month: 04 Day: 30 Year: 1962 |
| Beck, James A. | Beck, James A. | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | vol. 23, p. 192-197 | |
| A handy way to make a buck. | Beck, Jan | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-1 | Month: 03 Day: 17 Year: 1973 |
| Mrs. Prior feted on 85th birthday. | Beck, John | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 07 Day: 28 Year: 1969 | |
| Sam's Valley. | Beck, John L. | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 09 Day: 5 Year: 1970 | |
| John W.Beck, One of the earliest Yakima settlers died Monday. | Beck, John Wilson | Person | Yakima Valley Genealogical Society Bulletin | p. 61-63 | Month: 07 Year: 1975 |
| Beck, Karen | Beck, Karen | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 118 | Year: 1982 |
| Beck, Lillian May | Beck, Lillian May | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Deaths, Mrs Oscar Beck. | Beck, Lottie (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 03 Day: 20 Year: 1966 | |
| Beck, Louis Coman | Beck, Louis Coman | Person | Whos Who in Washington State | p. 29 | Year: 1927 |
| The early days in Green Bluff. | Beck, Ludwig | Person | Tri-county Tribune (Deer Park, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 7 Year: 1978 | |
| Obituary | Beck, Mabel C. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 9 Year: 1960 |