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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bush family, | Bush family, | Person | Genealogy Bush Family | Typescript, p. 1 | |
| Old Bush home tumbles, now another kind of memorial sought. | Bush family, | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 5 | Month: 03 Day: 5 Year: 1970 |
| Biographical Sketch. | Bush, A. S. | Person | South Bend Journal | Pacific County Ed., p. 20 | Year: 1900 |
| Bush, A. S. | Bush, A. S. | Person | Souvenir of the 5th Legislature of the State of Wash | p. 18 | Year: 1897 |
| Biographical Sketch | Bush, A. W. | Person | South Bend Journal | Pacific County Ed., p. 7 | Year: 1900 |
| Pioneer Cowlitz homemaker could well have qualified as Mother of the Year a century ago. | Bush, Alice LaDu (Mrs.) | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 05 Day: 10 Year: 1964 | |
| Pioneer mother promise broken years alter role | Bush, Alice LaDu (Mrs.) | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 05 Day: 10 Year: 1964 | |
| Obituary | Bush, Anne Darby | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 18 | Month: 02 Day: 7 Year: 1963 |
| There's nothing Bush leaque about Beverly Bush. | Bush, Beverly | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 9 | Month: 09 Day: 28 Year: 1969 |
| Bush, C. P. | Bush, C. P. | Person | Souvenir of the 5th Legislature of the State of Wash | p. 24 | Year: 1897 |
| Obituary | Bush, Carl Duncan | Person | Omak Chronicle | Month: 11 Day: 11 Year: 1971 | |
| Bush, Carl H. and Mrs.: 1938 - Present | Bush, Carl H. | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Local pioneer taken by death. | Bush, Chauncey C. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 04 Day: 7 Year: 1960 | |
| Bush, Dan W. | Bush, Dan W. | Person | Whos Who in Washington State | p. 47 | Year: 1927 |
| Bush, Dan W. (Mrs.) | Bush, Dan W. (Mrs.) | Person | Daily Chronicle (Centralia, Wash.) | Month: 12 Day: 29 Year: 1959 | |
| Bush, Dan W. (Mrs.) | Bush, Dan W. (Mrs.) | Person | Chehalis Advocate | Month: 01 Day: 1 Year: 1959 | |
| Biography: Daniel Webster Bush. | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | Sou'wester | p. 27 | Month: Day: Year: 1967 |
| Daniel Webster Bush | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | Cowlitz County Historical Quarterly | v. 10, no. 3, p. 6-28 | Month: 11 Year: 1968 |
| Genealogical notebook of the Daniel Webster Bush famliy. | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | Cowlitz County Historical Quarterly | p. 16 | Month: 02 Year: 1969 |
| Genealogical notebook of the Daniel Webster Bush family | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | Cowlitz County Historical Quarterly | p.10-29 | Month: 05 Year: 1969 |
| Daniel Webster Bush | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | History of Clarke county Washington Territory | p. 390 | Year: 1885 |
| Daniel W. Bush, Cowlitz County | Bush, Daniel Webster | Person | Told by the Pioneers | v. 3, p. 99, 162 | Year: 1938 |
| State seeks new Tolya image by firing its trade agent there. | Bush, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-1 | Month: 11 Day: 26 Year: 1987 |
| Obituary | Bush, Elizabeth (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary: Floyd Fisk Bush, descendant of pioneer family dies at 86. | Bush, Floyd Fisk | Person | Issaquah Press | Month: 10 Day: 6 Year: 1982 | |
| Obituary | Bush, Floyd Fisk | Person | Daily Journal-American (Bellevue, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 23 Year: 1982 | |
| Bush, George | Bush, George | Person | George Bush | Photcopy, Mss 068 | Year: 1965 |
| Bush, George S. | Bush, George S. | Person | History of Seattle | v. III, p. 720-721. | Year: 1916 |
| Soroptimists prepare biographical exhibit | Bush, George Washington | Person | Daily Olympian | p. C-3 | Month: 08 Day: 20 Year: 1972 |
| Recommended for Hall of Fame: Early pioneer George Bush influenced State's development. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Suburban Times (Tacoma, Wash.) | Month: 08 Day: 13 Year: 1964 | |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | Bush farm | 3 page typescript letter from Kathryn B. Hackett. | Month: 02 Day: 21 Year: 1964 |
| Mulatto pioneer founder of bush Prairie | Bush, George Washington | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Mag. Sec., p. 3 | Month: 01 Day: 31 Year: 1954 |
| George Bush - Negro pioneer. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Sunday Oregonian | p. 2 | Month: 03 Day: 15 Year: 1953 |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | George Washington Bush, Territorial pioneer. | Research paper, Whatcom CC | |
| Bush, George family | Bush, George Washington | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | vol. 23, p. 262-272 | |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | Northwest Coast | v. 2, p. 701 | Year: 1884 |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | Busy life of 85 years of Ezra Meeker | p. 107-115 | Year: 1916 |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | History of Oregon | v.1, p. 464 | Year: 1886 |
| George Bush: Biographical Sketch | Bush, George Washington | Person | Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions. | p. 68-69 | Year: 1887 |
| George Washington Bush, Negro Pioneer. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Northwest today, p. 10 | Month: 08 Day: 4 Year: 1968 |
| Memorial. Praying congress to confirm to George Bush, a free Mulatto, and his heirs, a section of land. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Journal of the House of Rep. of the Terr. Of Wash. Begun at Olympia, Feb 27, 1854. | p. 157-158 | Year: 1855 |
| Bush, George Washington | Bush, George Washington | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | ||
| The Negro Pioneer of the Satte of Washington. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Negro History Bulletin | p. 93-95 | Month: 01 Year: 1958 |
| Bush gets land from U.S. Congress | Bush, George Washington | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Northwest, p. 6-10 | Month: 02 Day: 8 Year: 1976 |
| The saga of George W. Bush. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Negro Digest | p. 88-95 | Month: 09 Year: 1962 |
| Reasons, George and Patrick, Sam '...they had a dream...'. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-5 | Month: 02 Day: 11 Year: 1973 |
| George and Isabella Bush; Washingtons First Family. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Pacific Northwest Forum | p. 39-56 | Month: Day: Year: 1982 |
| Wagon train west to freedom. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Cascade Magazine | p. 16, 17, 19 | Month: 02 Year: 1964 |
| Open housing ok'd 'in 1853'. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Seattle Times | p. 44 | Month: 02 Day: 1 Year: 1967 |
| A Great Pioneer -- George Bush, the voyageur. | Bush, George Washington | Person | Washington Historical Quarterly | v. VII, no 1, p. 40-45 | Month: 01 Year: 1916 |