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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blumberg, Fred L. | Blumberg, Fred L. | Person | History of the Puget Sound Country | v. 1, p. 574-575 | Year: 1903 |
| Wild Odyssey. | Blume, Keith | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. B-1 | Month: 07 Day: 21 Year: 1977 |
| President and director of South Sound Shopping Center. | Blume, Robert L. `Bob' | Person | Daily Olympian | p. SS-12 | Month: 10 Day: 11 Year: 1966 |
| Blume begins another center (in Aberdeen). | Blume, Robert L. `Bob' | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1, 3 | Month: 12 Day: 22 Year: 1965 |
| Move mass & save gas. | Blume, Robert L. `Bob' | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1 | Month: 03 Day: 20 Year: 1974 |
| Port taps Bob Blume to fill board void. | Blume, Robert L. `Bob' | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1, 7 | Month: 09 Day: 22 Year: 1966 |
| Irv Blumenfeld -- Former manager of News Services. | Blumenfeld, Irv | Person | University of Washington Report | p. iv | Month: Day: Year: 1980 |
| Former publisher -- Blumenfeld retires. | Blumenfeld, Irv | Person | Washington Newspaper | p. 5 | Month: 01 Year: 1974 |
| Talk about a busy feminist. | Blumenthal, Maxine | Person | Seattle Times | p. 19 | Month: 08 Day: 21 Year: 1968 |
| Mrs. John Y. Blumstrom | Blumstrom, Gertrude K. (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 41 | Month: 04 Day: 16 Year: 1963 |
| Obituary | Blunck, Hildegarde (Miss) | Person | Seattle Times | p. 52 | Month: 10 Day: 11 Year: 1966 |
| Harrison Blunks given a party on anniversary. | Blunks, Harrison | Person | Aberdeen Daily World | Month: 10 Day: 20 Year: 1961 | |
| So. Cle Elum founded 1905. | Blunt, D. W. | Person | Miner-Echo | Month: 07 Day: 2 Year: 1964 | |
| Blurock, Edward Martin | Blurock, Edward Martin | Person | Whos Who in Washington State | p. 35 | Year: 1927 |
| Blurock, William H. | Blurock, William H. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 18 | Month: 10 Day: 5 Year: 1957 |
| Obituary: Mary Ethel Bly. | Bly, Mary Ethel | Person | Davenport Times | Month: 04 Day: 25 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary | Blystad, Dorothy | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. D-9 | Month: 08 Day: 28 Year: 1986 |
| Blyth home is early area landmark. | Blyth, Joe | Person | Northshore Citizen | Month: 06 Day: 1 Year: 1966 | |
| John R. Blyth was early Bothel pioneer. From "East Side Yesterday". | Blyth, John Rutter | Person | Daily Journal-American (Bellevue, Wash.) | Month: 08 Day: 26 Year: 1984 | |
| Blyth, John Rutter | Blyth, John Rutter | Person | Illustrated History of the State of Washington | p. 613-614 | Year: 1893 |
| Bothel pioneer passes. | Blyth, Joseph | Person | North Shore Citizen (Bothell, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 13 Year: 1967 | |
| Lord Thomas Blythe, cattleman. | Blythe, Thomas S. (Lord) | Person | Ephrata Grant County Journal | Month: 07 Day: 10 Year: 1959 | |
| Lord Blythe: Livestock man | Blythe, Thomas S. (Lord) | Person | Odessa Record | Month: 02 Day: 25 Year: 1965 | |
| Blyth makes his mark with homesteaders. | Blythe, Thomas S. (Lord) | Person | Columbia Basin Herald | Month: 08 Day: 12 Year: 1991 | |
| Blythe -- gentleman cowboy. | Blythe, Thomas S. (Lord) | Person | Okanogan County Heritage | p. 11 | Month: Day: Year: 1977 |
| Obituary | Boad, Robert | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 10 | Month: 09 Day: 9 Year: 1964 |
| Obituary | Boag, Ruth Olive | Person | Daily Olympian | p. B-4 | Month: 09 Day: 5 Year: 1979 |
| To his direct decendants -- Buffalo Bill...`ho hum'. | Boal family | Person | Daily Olympian | p. A-6 | Month: 04 Day: 29 Year: 1979 |
| Obituary | Boalch, Theodore | Person | Snoqualmie Valley Record | Month: 12 Day: 16 Year: 1976 | |
| Edward Boardman Family | Boardman, Edward | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 128 | Year: 1982 |
| Bucodan Succumbs | Boardman, Fern Susan (Mrs.) | Person | Daily Chronicle (Centralia, Wash.) | Month: 11 Day: 25 Year: 1967 | |
| Freeman Osgood Boardman | Boardman, Freeman Osgood | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 7 | Month: 08 Day: 9 Year: 1963 |
| Civil War diary author was Tacoma pioneer. | Boardman, George H. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 07 Day: 5 Year: 1965 | |
| Washington Pioneer Assn. Roll. | Boardman, George W. | Person | Washington Standard | p. 1 | Month: 11 Day: 1 Year: 1889 |
| Mrs. George Boardman | Boardman, Lenora Richardson (Mrs.) | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 7 | Month: 12 Day: 4 Year: 1962 |
| Obituary | Boardway, Sadie A. | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 11 Day: 5 Year: 1972 | |
| The Northwest Passage of Franz Boas: One of the great scientists of this century discovered a rich civilization.... | Boas, Franz | Person | Weekly (Seattle, Wash.) | p. 31 | Month: Day: Year: 1986 |
| Charles Cultee and the Father of American Anthropology. | Boas, Franz | Person | Sou'wester | p. 3 | Year: 1986 |
| Boat, Moses H. | Boat, Moses H. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 89 | Year: 1920 |
| Potpourri | Boatman family | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 03 Day: 17 Year: 1979 | |
| Obituary | Boatman, Allan Richardson | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 06 Day: 28 Year: 1983 | |
| First white child kidnapped by Indians. | Boatman, John | Person | Pierce County Herald | Bicent. Ed. P. A-4 | Month: 07 Day: 2 Year: 1976 |
| Boatmans were prominent in Puyallup. | Boatman, Mary Ann | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 10 Day: 23 Year: 1986 | |
| The way it was: First man to settle in the valley. | Boatman, Mary Ann | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 05 Day: 21 Year: 1988 | |
| The Boatman-Ainsworth House. | Boatman, Mary Ann | Person | Steilacoom Historical Quarterly | p. 1 | Month: Day: Year: 1991 |
| Boatman, Mary Ann | Boatman, Mary Ann | Person | Washington Territory Donation Land Claims | p. 121 | Year: 1980 |
| Boatman-Ainsworth House. | Boatman, Willis | Person | Steilacoom Historical Quarterly | p. 1 | Month: Day: Year: 1991 |
| Story of my life. | Boatman, Willis | Person | Told by the Pioneers | v. I p. 184-190 | Year: 1937 |
| We went down the river... | Boatman, Willis | Person | Skamania County Heritage | p. 5 | Month: 03 Year: 1975 |
| Puyallup valley pacemakers. | Boatman, Willis | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 11 Day: 2 Year: 1975 |