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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G. W. Campen dies in Puyallup. | Campen, George W. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 05 Day: 28 Year: 1967 | |
| Obituary | Campen, Hazel Harriet | Person | Sumner News Review | Month: 01 Day: 21 Year: 1977 | |
| Obituary | Campen, Rita Marie | Person | Peninsula Gateway | Month: 06 Day: 18 Year: 1970 | |
| Obituary | Camper, Lillian | Person | Daily Olympian | p. A-6 | Month: 06 Day: 25 Year: 1975 |
| A popular "travel agent". | Campion, Con | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-13 | Month: 12 Day: 3 Year: 1975 |
| Campion, J. T. | Campion, J. T. | Person | History of King County | p. 121-123 | Year: 1929 |
| Charles T. Camplan Family. | Camplan, Charles T. | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 148 | Year: 1982 |
| Obituary | Campobasso, Katherine | Person | Republic News-Miner | Month: 04 Day: 15 Year: 1975 | |
| Obituary | Camus, Anna M. | Person | ? | p. B-2 | Month: 09 Day: 3 Year: 1987 |
| Obituary | Camus, Morris | Person | Daily Olympian | p. B-3 | Month: 01 Day: 17 Year: 1980 |
| Obituary: Susie M. Camus. | Camus, Susie M. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 05 Day: 30 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary | Canaday, Eugene F. | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 5 | Month: 05 Day: 27 Year: 1960 |
| Obituary: Deacon Fred Canaday | Canaday, Fred J. (Deacon) | Person | Daily Olympian | Month: 08 Day: 28 Year: 1974 | |
| An old timer meets a young Governor..... | Canaday, Fred J. (Deacon) | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 1 | Month: 07 Day: 1 Year: 1966 |
| Pioneer meets 14 of state's Governors | Canaday, Fred J. (Deacon) | Person | Seattle Times | p. 13 | Month: 07 Day: 2 Year: 1966 |
| Canady, Guy J. | Canady, Guy J. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 105 | Year: 1920 |
| Almira pioneer services held. | Canady, Rebecca | Person | Almira Herald | Month: 02 Day: 9 Year: 1961 | |
| William J. Canady | Canady, William J. | Person | Sprague, Lamont, Edwall Washington: Stories of our People, land and times 1881-1981. | p. 211-212 | Year: 1982 |
| From Auld Lang Syne...Fort Canby is named for a soldier who gave his life for cause of peace. | Canby, E. R. S. (Gen.) | Person | Ilwaco Tribune | Month: 04 Day: 17 Year: 1959 | |
| E. L. Canby. | Canby, Edmund L. | Person | History of Clarke county Washington Territory | p. 343 | Year: 1885 |
| Canby, Edmund L. | Canby, Edmund L. | Person | History of the State of Washington | p. 436 | Year: 1893 |
| Soccer keeps her one leg up on life. | Canda, Joanne | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | NW People, p. 4 | Month: 10 Day: 3 Year: 1982 |
| Obituary: Mabel Candee, past W.S.U. worker, dies. | Candee, Mabel O. | Person | Seattle Times | Month: 06 Day: 26 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary: Mabel Candee, 81. | Candee, Mabel O. | Person | Pullman Herald | Month: 06 Day: 27 Year: 1974 | |
| Love of church work guides Mrs. Canedy. | Canedy, Raymond (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Times | p. 27 | Month: 07 Day: 29 Year: 1968 |
| Michigan educator picked to direct community colleges. | Canfield, Albert A. (Dr.) | Person | Washington Education | p. 23 | Month: 12 Year: 1967 |
| State College boss rejects pay boost. | Canfield, Albert E. | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-20 | Month: 03 Day: 15 Year: 1970 |
| Canfield, Albert E. | Canfield, Albert E. | Person | Illustrated History of Spokane County | p. 499 | Year: 1900 |
| He is still known as Senator Canfield. | Canfield, Damon | Person | Daily Sun News (Sunnyside, Wash.) | p. 3 | Month: 03 Day: 20 Year: 1987 |
| Damon Canfield --- Teacher, rancher and politician. | Canfield, Damon | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | p. 116-117 | Year: 1975 |
| Canfield, Flora W. | Canfield, Flora W. | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 148 | Year: 1982 |
| Another story | Canfield, George E. | Person | Northern Kittitas County Tribune | Month: 11 Day: 26 Year: 1987 | |
| Obituary | Canfield, Ira | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 06 Day: 1 Year: 1971 | |
| We'll all go home in the Spring. | Canfield, Oscar | Person | ? | p. 33 | Year: 1984 |
| Living pioneers of Washington. Oscar F. Canfield. | Canfield, Oscar F. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 01 Day: 13 Year: 1916 | |
| Century 'only start' for Mrs. Canfield. | Canfield, Stella | Person | Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) | Month: 06 Day: 16 Year: 1961 | |
| Coeur d'Alene woman's forbears survived Whitman massacre. | Canfield, William D. | Person | Spokane-Review | Mag., p. 3 | Month: 03 Day: 15 Year: 1953 |
| The Granddaughter's Story. | Canine, Emma Leara | Person | Cowlitz Historical Quarterly | p. 4 | Month: Day: Year: 1988 |
| Canipion, Mamie Ranke | Canipion, Mamie Ranke | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 28 | Month: 01 Day: 18 Year: 1952 |
| The Canlis touch makes a meal a masterpiece. | Canlis, N. Peter | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Tomarrow Mag. Sec., p. 7 | Month: 08 Day: 31 Year: 1966 |
| Canlis, restaurant virtuoso, dies at 64. | Canlis, N. Peter | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-8 | Month: 07 Day: 7 Year: 1977 |
| Wash. Pioneer Assn. Roll. | Cann, Thomas H. | Person | Washington Standard | p. 1 | Month: 11 Day: 1 Year: 1889 |
| Cann, Thomas H. | Cann, Thomas H. | Person | History of Seattle | v II, p. 853-856 | Year: 1916 |
| Captain Thomas H. Cann | Cann, Thomas H. (Capt.) | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. III, p. 325-326 | Year: 1917 |
| Cann, Thomas H. (Capt.) | Cann, Thomas H. (Capt.) | Person | History of Seattle | v. II p. 856-857 | Year: 1916 |
| Thomas H. Cann | Cann, Thomas Hart (Judge) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 06 Day: 28 Year: 1902 | |
| Judge Thomas H. Cann | Cann, Thomas Hart (Judge) | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | 322-325 | Year: 1917 |
| The pioneer dead of 1915. | Cann, Thomas Hart (Judge) | Person | Washington Historical Quarterly | v.7, no. 1, p. 57 | Month: 01 Year: 1916 |
| G. C. Canney, 86, pioneer. | Canney, George C. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 09 Day: 2 Year: 1965 | |
| Canney, Ruth (Mrs.) | Canney, Ruth (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 06 Day: 17 Year: 1959 |