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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Cherberg: Political Coach. | Cherberg, John | Person | View Northwest | p. 28 | Month: 02 Year: 1977 |
| Lieut. Comdr. Cherberg. | Cherberg, Thomas P. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 27 | Month: 09 Day: 7 Year: 1965 |
| Mrs. A. L. Cherry dies in Seattle. | Cherry, Anna L. (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 11 Day: 7 Year: 1965 | |
| Obituary | Cherry, Ariel C. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 09 Day: 23 Year: 1961 | |
| C. A. Cherry: Long time resident of Lake Crescent. | Cherry, C. A. | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | v. 38, p. 146 | |
| Oldest pioneers head up parade. | Cherry, Elizebeth | Person | Westside Record Journal (Ferndale, Wash.) | Month: 08 Day: 23 Year: 1986 | |
| Thomas Guy Cherry | Cherry, Thomas Guy | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | v. 23, p. 201-203 | |
| Thomas Jefferson Cherry. | Cherry, Thomas Jefferson | Person | Illustrated History of the State of Washington | p. 891-892 | Year: 1893 |
| Charlie carves out a unique hitching post. | Chesaw, Charlie | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p,. C-6 | Month: 04 Day: 21 Year: 1983 |
| George Chesbrough, here 93 years, dies. | Chesbrough, George W. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 02 Day: 20 Year: 1970 | |
| Nonagenarian recalls Tacoma's early days. | Chesbrough, George W. | Person | Suburban Times (Tacoma, Wash.) | Month: 02 Day: 25 Year: 1965 | |
| 93-year-old recalls conquest of Mt Rainier in 1900. | Chesbrough, George W. | Person | Suburban Times (Tacoma, Wash.) | Month: 03 Day: 6 Year: 1968 | |
| Obituary: Dr. Wayne Chesledon, 68, Seattle radiologist. | Chesledon, Wayne (Dr.) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 82 | Month: 12 Day: 5 Year: 1986 |
| Obituary | Chesley, Zelma Irene | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 06 Day: 19 Year: 1991 | |
| Pioneer cobbler is also deft artist in leatherwork. | Chesner, Hans O. | Person | Port Angeles Evening News | p. 2 | Month: 07 Day: 1 Year: 1966 |
| Obituary | Chesnut, Hattie H. | Person | Skagit Valley Herald | Month: 06 Day: 27 Year: 1979 | |
| Obituary | Chesnut, Jesse Pearl | Person | Colfax Gazette | Month: 07 Day: 3 Year: 1975 | |
| I was there, Leslie. | Chesnut, Louis C. | Person | Pacific Northwesterner (Spokane, Wash.) | # 2, p. 1 | Year: 1986 |
| Long-time county resident Dolly Chess dies. | Chess, Dolly Chisholm | Person | Okanogan Independent | Month: 06 Day: 18 Year: 1970 | |
| Obituary | Chess, Dolly Chisholm | Person | Wenatchee Daily World | Month: 06 Day: 9 Year: 1970 | |
| Obituary | Chesser, Annabelle | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 8 | Month: 10 Day: 16 Year: 1966 |
| The "curtain" rises on Davis Lake Valley | Chesser, Margaret | Person | Morton Journal | Month: 03 Day: 14 Year: 1974 | |
| Obituary | Chessex, Jean-Charles | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 67 | Month: 11 Day: 17 Year: 1965 |
| Alice Chessman. | Chessman, Alice (Mrs.) | Person | Bremerton Sun | Month: 03 Day: 13 Year: 1967 | |
| Mrs. Walter E. Chessman | Chessman, Alice (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 03 Day: 13 Year: 1967 | |
| John Leander Chessman. | Chessman, John Leander | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | v. 27, p. 227-229 | |
| Wolves saved him, Capone hired him | Chester, Glenn | Person | Seattle Times | Pacific, p. 18 | Month: 05 Day: 17 Year: 1981 |
| Death takes Rev. Mary McKee Chester. | Chester, Mary McKee (Rev. Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 19 | Month: 11 Day: 9 Year: 1963 |
| John Chesterly formed the Metropolitan Park Board. | Chesterly, John | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | v. 2, p. 34-35 | Year: 1975 |
| Obituary | Chestnue, Luis M. | Person | Daily Bulletin (Colfax, Wash) | Month: 03 Day: 17 Year: 1983 | |
| Hohn William Chestnut Family | Chestnut, Hohn William | Person | Sprague, Lamont, Edwall Washington: Stories of our People, land and times 1881-1981. | p. 213-215 | Year: 1982 |
| Orlen J. Chestnut | Chestnut, Orlen J. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 133 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Chestnut, Victor L. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 58 | Month: 12 Day: 17 Year: 1965 |
| People in Transportation. | Chestnutt, Mark M. | Person | Spokesman-Review | p. 98 | Month: 12 Day: 26 Year: 1976 |
| 63 Wedding Anniversary to be held. | Chevalier, Edward A. | Person | Friday Harbor Journal | Month: 01 Day: 12 Year: 1958 | |
| Chevalier, Edward A. | Chevalier, Edward A. | Person | Friday Harbor Journal | Month: 11 Day: 27 Year: 1958 | |
| Chevalier known as "King of Spieden" | Chevalier, Edward A. | Person | Journal of the San Juan Islands | Month: 05 Day: 4 Year: 1988 | |
| 63 Wedding Anniversary to be held. | Chevalier, Edward A. (Mrs.) | Person | Friday Harbor Journal | Month: 01 Day: 12 Year: 1958 | |
| Chevalier, Edward Alfred | Chevalier, Edward Alfred | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 11 Day: 23 Year: 1958 | |
| Obituary | Chevalier, Harvey J. | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 08 Day: 18 Year: 1973 | |
| Jack Chevalier | Chevalier, Jack | Person | 50 Northwest Artists | p. 34 | Year: 1983 |
| Services held in Friday Harbor for Mrs. Mary Chevalier. | Chevalier, Mary Smith (Mrs.) | Person | Friday Harbor Journal | Month: 02 Day: 3 Year: 1966 | |
| Obituary | Chevalier, William | Person | Journal of the San Juan Islands | Month: 12 Day: 22 Year: 1982 | |
| Mrs Hector L Schevigny is honored in Alaska. | Chevigny, Claire Graves (Mrs.) | Person | Spokesman-Review | Month: 08 Day: 25 Year: 1967 | |
| William P. Chevilier | Chevilier, William P. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 2, p. 252-253 | Year: 1921 |
| C. T. Chew | Chew, C. T. | Person | 50 Northwest Artists | p. 36-40 | Year: 1983 |
| Oh, what Seattle might have been. | Chew, C. T. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. H-8 | Month: 02 Day: 15 Year: 1981 |
| The inscrutable Mr. Chew. | Chew, Carl | Person | Weekly (Seattle, Wash.) | p. 48 | Month: Day: Year: 1981 |
| Irea Chew rites are Thursday. | Chew, Ira L. | Person | Waitsburg Times | Month: 03 Day: 3 Year: 1961 | |
| New director sets course for Wing Luke Museum. | Chew, Ron | Person | Northwest Ethnic News | p. 3 | Month: 05 Year: 1991 |