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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlsen named UW regent: Culp kept on board. | Carlsen, Edward | Person | Seattle Times | p. C-27 | Month: 10 Day: 1 Year: 1982 |
| Obituary | Carlsen, John A. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 21 | Month: 04 Day: 16 Year: 1964 |
| Unofficial Long-Bell historian, P. V. Carlsen, ends long service. | Carlsen, P. V. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 04 Day: 9 Year: 1963 | |
| The Karlson/Carlson Family | Carlson family | Person | Okanogan County Heritage | p. 10 | Month: Day: Year: 1991 |
| Obituary: Adeline Carlson, piano teacher. | Carlson, Adeline | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. C-11 | Month: 06 Day: 2 Year: 1982 |
| Obituary | Carlson, Alfred | Person | Bremerton Sun | Month: 06 Day: 23 Year: 1984 | |
| Peter August and Alma Amelia Carlson. | Carlson, Alma Amelia (Mrs.) | Person | Kitsap County History : a Story of Kitsap County a | book 5, p. 133 | Year: 1977 |
| Obituary: Anna Carlson. | Carlson, Anna | Person | Wenatchee World | Month: 06 Day: 28 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary: Anna Carlson. | Carlson, Anna | Person | Omak Chronicle | Month: 07 Day: 4 Year: 1974 | |
| Nearly 94 | Carlson, Anna C. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 03 Day: 7 Year: 1958 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Anna L. (Mrs.) | Person | Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) | Month: 04 Day: 30 Year: 1962 | |
| Anna Carlson to be buried in family cemetery Friday. | Carlson, Anna Regina (Mrs.) | Person | Okanogan County Chronicle | Month: 04 Day: 22 Year: 1965 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Anna S. | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 5 | Month: 04 Day: 1 Year: 1969 |
| Anna Carlson, Cosmopolis pioneer, dies. | Carlson, Anna S. (Mrs.) | Person | Aberdeen Daily World | Month: 05 Day: 29 Year: 1965 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Annie (Mrs.) | Person | Bremerton Sun | Month: 02 Day: 16 Year: 1980 | |
| Arthur E. Carlson. | Carlson, Arthur E. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | p. 14-15 | Year: 1921 |
| Obituary | Carlson, Arthur W. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 08 Day: 3 Year: 1970 | |
| Mrs. Auroa Carlson, 95, Skagit area pioneer, dies. | Carlson, Auroa (Mrs.) | Person | Skagit Valley Herald | Month: 07 Day: 18 Year: 1970 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Ben A. | Person | Ballard News Tribune (Seattle, Wash.) | Month: 11 Day: 12 Year: 1986 | |
| Bob Carlson: the man behind the fair. | Carlson, Bob | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Sunday Northwest, p. 4 | Month: 08 Day: 9 Year: 1981 |
| Carl Carlson. | Carlson, Carl | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v. II, p. 471 - 472 | Year: 1917 |
| Carl O. Carlson. | Carlson, Carl O. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, p. 144-145 | Year: 1921 |
| Carl W. Carlson. | Carlson, Carl W. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 03 Day: 11 Year: 1964 | |
| Music, family top her program. | Carlson, Carol Tamblyn | Person | Daily Olympian | p. C-3 | Month: 01 Day: 14 Year: 1979 |
| Residence near Skagit City. | Carlson, Charles | Person | Sebrings Skagit County Illustrated Historical and Pictorial Pub... | p. 34 | Year: 1983 |
| Charles A. Carlson. | Carlson, Charles A. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 77 | Month: 12 Day: 4 Year: 1963 |
| Pioneer sternwheeler pilot dies in Seattle. | Carlson, Charles Albert | Person | ? | ||
| Oldest Leatherneck aids Marine Corps Celebration. | Carlson, Charles Enile | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 11 Day: 10 Year: 1971 | |
| Oldest ex-marine turns 96. | Carlson, Charles Enile | Person | Seattle Times | Sec. A., p. 8 | Month: 11 Day: 2 Year: 1971 |
| C. E. Carlson reminisces about his 90 years | Carlson, Charles Enile | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 10 Day: 27 Year: 1965 | |
| Life long residents of Clark note Fiftieth Date. Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary. | Carlson, Charles H. (Mrs.) | Person | Columbian & Sun | Month: 04 Day: 14 Year: 1958 | |
| Xerograpy Inventor, Chester Carlson, dies. | Carlson, Chester F. | Person | Seattle Times | Month: 09 Day: 21 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary: Clara Carlson. | Carlson, Clara | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 07 Day: 8 Year: 1974 | |
| Claude Carlson | Carlson, Claude | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, p. 126-127 | Year: 1921 |
| Fifth annual Totem poetry contest -- Second place: Craig Carlson, "Rite of Passage". | Carlson, Craig | Person | Daily Olympian | Totem, p. 3-4 | Month: 12 Day: 6 Year: 1981 |
| U.W. engineering dean quits in anger. | Carlson, Dale | Person | Seattle Times | p. B-1 | Month: 03 Day: 6 Year: 1980 |
| D. A. Carlson, pioneer of Olalla, dies | Carlson, David A. | Person | Bremerton Sun | Month: 01 Day: 9 Year: 1960 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, David A. | Person | Peninsula Gateway (Gig Harbor, Wash.) | Month: 01 Day: 14 Year: 1960 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Dolly Ruth | Person | Harbor Pilot & South Bend Journal | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1977 | |
| Obituary | Carlson, Dorothy M. | Person | Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) | Month: 01 Day: 14 Year: 1983 | |
| Hers is a business with some beat on its bones "Stewarts Meats" . | Carlson, Dorothy Stewart | Person | South Sound Business Examiner | Month: 05 Day: 14 Year: 1990 | |
| Carlson tells of Birch exit. | Carlson, Duane | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 6 | Month: 09 Day: 27 Year: 1966 |
| Exporting honesty: Yakima firm bucks European apathy | Carlson, E. W. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 28 | Month: 10 Day: 17 Year: 1965 |
| Obituary | Carlson, Edna Buehlmann | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 07 Day: 1 Year: 1983 | |
| Travel writers honor hotelman. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 14 | Month: 02 Day: 18 Year: 1965 |
| 930 honor Edward Carlson. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Seattle Times | p. B-3 | Month: 01 Day: 16 Year: 1971 |
| Puget Sound Business Hall of Fame. Eight Laureates selected for Honor Hall. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Puget Sound Business Journal | p. 11A, 13A | Month: 04 Day: 13 Year: 1987 |
| Faces of the City: Carlson honor didn't surprise his English teacher. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 11 | Month: 01 Day: 19 Year: 1966 |
| Two pals made it to the top on the ladder of success. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Seattle Times | p. G-10 | Month: 01 Day: 24 Year: 1971 |
| Carlson, Edward E. | Carlson, Edward E. | Person | Digressions of a Native Son. | p. 184+ | Year: 1982 |