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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obituary: Mrs. Pat Bliss | Bliss, Mary Ellen | Person | Seattle Times | p. 24 | Month: 07 Day: 23 Year: 1966 |
| Hospital Director resigns post | Bliss, Paul S. | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-16 | Month: 01 Day: 17 Year: 1974 |
| Percy P. Bliss, former deputy. | Bliss, Percy P. | Person | Seattle Times | p. 25 | Month: 01 Day: 27 Year: 1968 |
| Obituary | Bliss, Percy P. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 01 Day: 26 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary | Blize, Clarence A. | Person | Waitsburg Times | Month: 10 Day: 16 Year: 1975 | |
| Obituary | Blize, Clarence A. | Person | Walla Walla Union Bulletin | Month: 10 Day: 9 Year: 1975 | |
| Mrs. Blize notes 82nd birthday with children. | Blize, Hattie B. (Mrs.) | Person | Chronicle Dispatch (Dayton, Wash.) | Month: 03 Day: 27 Year: 1958 | |
| Mrs Hattie Blize honored Sunday at 85th birth anniversary dinner.` | Blize, Hattie B. (Mrs.) | Person | Dayton Chronicle | Month: 03 Day: 16 Year: 1961 | |
| Hattie Blize dies Sunday. | Blize, Hattie B. (Mrs.) | Person | Dayton Chronicle | Month: 10 Day: 6 Year: 1966 | |
| Obituary | Blize, J. Oakley | Person | Dayton Chronicle | Month: 06 Day: 17 Year: 1981 | |
| Free Lunch, A memorable feast | Bloch family | Person | Seattle Times | p. 24 | Month: 04 Day: 9 Year: 1967 |
| Funeral rites arranged for Morris Bloch. | Bloch, Moris | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 69 | Month: 12 Day: 18 Year: 1963 |
| Bloch, Orville | Bloch, Orville | Person | Washington State Men of Valor | p. 103-108 | Year: 1980 |
| Obituary | Blocher, Amos H. | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 3 | Month: 03 Day: 16 Year: 1965 |
| Gift from the Heart: Merchant dips into pocket to aid women. | Block, Alvin | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-1 | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1983 |
| Mrs. Robert J. Block | Block, Dorothy Wolens | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 01 Day: 23 Year: 1961 | |
| Block, Dorothy Wolens | Block, Dorothy Wolens | Person | Dorothy Wolens Block 1925/1961 | Year: 1961 | |
| Block, Frank A. | Block, Frank A. | Person | Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan an | p. 577-578 | Year: 1904 |
| Candidate Jack Block lists port priorities. | Block, Jack S. | Person | Marine Digest | vol. 52, no. 11, p. 15 | Month: 11 Day: 3 Year: 1973 |
| Meet Commissioners Block and Simonson. | Block, Jack S. | Person | Port of Seattle Reporter | p. 14 | Month: 01 Year: 1974 |
| Biography. | Block, Robert J. | Person | Seattle Times | Month: 11 Day: 2 Year: 1969 | |
| Faces of thte City: Seattle's oldest floating poker game in 60th year. | Block, William (Jr.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 57 | Month: 11 Day: 3 Year: 1965 |
| Blodgett, Clifford L. | Blodgett, Clifford L. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, p. 86-87 | Year: 1921 |
| Blodgett, Frank I. | Blodgett, Frank I. | Person | Southwestern Washington | p. 76 | |
| Bloedel, Joan Ross | Bloedel, Joan Ross | Person | 50 Northwest Artists | p. 22 | Year: 1983 |
| Light, paint, paper -- and radiant poetry. | Bloedel, Joan Ross | Person | Argus (Seattle, Wash.) | p. 6 Openings Ed. - Spring 1981 | Month: 03 Day: 27 Year: 1981 |
| Bicentennial Biographies...Julius Bloedel. | Bloedel, Julius | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | [. D-1 | Month: 11 Day: 21 Year: 1975 |
| L.H. Bloedel, Ex-Seattleite, dead at 71. | Bloedel, Lawrence Hotchkiss | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-19 | Month: 11 Day: 20 Year: 1976 |
| To the memory of Virginia Merrill Bloedel. | Bloedel, Virginia Merrill | Person | Bloedel Reserve | p. 1 | Month: Day: Year: 1990 |
| bon Voyage, Anna. | Blom, Anna | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 5 | Month: 06 Day: 30 Year: 1963 |
| Meet Anna Blom: Books have filled her history spanning life. | Blom, Anna | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1, 10 | Month: 02 Day: 14 Year: 1964 |
| The end of an Olympia tradition...Anna Blom makes a final book sale. | Blom, Anna | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1 | Month: 02 Day: 27 Year: 1970 |
| Obituary | Blom, Anna | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 2 | Month: 07 Day: 12 Year: 1972 |
| Book lady of Olympia, at 82, spry and alert. | Blom, Anna | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | p. 10-11 | Month: 06 Day: 19 Year: 1966 |
| Woman, 80, still runs her store. | Blom, Anna | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Mag. Sec. p. 2 | Month: 08 Day: 9 Year: 1964 |
| Woman of many hobbies. | Blom, Ellen | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. C-1 | Month: 07 Day: 9 Year: 1978 |
| Blom, Ole T. | Blom, Ole T. | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. III, p. 467-468 | Year: 1917 |
| Obituary | Blommaert, Louis C. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 03 Day: 14 Year: 1973 | |
| Obituary | Blomquist, David | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 07 Day: 17 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary | Blomquist, David | Person | Puyallup Valley Tribune | Month: 07 Day: 17 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary | Blomquist, David | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 07 Day: 15 Year: 1968 | |
| Blomquist, G. | Blomquist, G. | Person | Southwestern Washington | p. 196 | |
| Blomquist, John A. | Blomquist, John A. | Person | History of the Puget Sound Country | p. 603-604 | Year: 1903 |
| Pioneer resident succumbs. | Blomskog, Kenneth | Person | Bellevue American | Month: 04 Day: 18 Year: 1968 | |
| Centennial History: Blonden gold mine produced only curiosity seekers. | Blonden, R. O. | Person | Lynden Tribune | Month: 04 Day: 12 Year: 1989 | |
| 'Sister Act' aids sick in Vietnam, Poor in Milwaukee. | Blonien, Joan | Person | Seattle Times | p. 42 | Month: 08 Day: 13 Year: 1967 |
| 'Sister Act' aids sick in Vietnam, Poor in Milwaukee. | Blonien, Mary Agnes | Person | Seattle Times | p. 42 | Month: 08 Day: 13 Year: 1967 |
| Former editor to receive state award | Blonk, Hubert C. | Person | Seattle Times | p. C-4 | Month: 12 Day: 29 Year: 1978 |
| Obituary | Blood, Anna J. | Person | Colfax Gazette | Month: 04 Day: 22 Year: 1971 | |
| Carl Bloom, farmer of Birdsview, passes. | Bloom, Carl A. | Person | Concrete Herald | Month: 07 Day: 29 Year: 1965 |