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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clemons Tree Farm, 1951-1981. | Clemons, Charles H. (Sr.) | Person | Sou'wester | p. 23 | Month: Day: Year: 1981 |
| Pioneer logger relates early logging. | Clemons, Charles H. (Sr.) | Person | Sou'wester | p. 78-80 | Year: 1985 |
| Charles Clemons' widow, 91, passes after long illness. | Clemons, Margaret Ann (Mrs.) | Person | Elma Chronicle | Month: 01 Day: 18 Year: 1962 | |
| Charles Clemons' widow, 91, passes after long illness. | Clemons, Margaret Ann (Mrs.) | Person | Montesano Vidette | Month: 01 Day: 18 Year: 1962 | |
| Mrs. Clemons, pioneer, dies | Clemons, Margaret Ann (Mrs.) | Person | Aberdeen Daily World | Month: 01 Day: 15 Year: 1962 | |
| Mrs. H. G. Clendenin | Clendenin, H. G. (Mrs.) | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | [/ 203 | Year: 1920 |
| Harold J. Clendenin. | Clendenin, Harold J. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 61 | Year: 1920 |
| People who made Washington history - an unknown man. | Clendenin, John S. | Person | Friday Harbor Journal | Month: 12 Day: 14 Year: 1961 | |
| People who made Washington history - an unknown man. | Clendenin, John S. | Person | Benton County Times | Month: 12 Day: 14 Year: 1961 | |
| Obituary | Clendenin, Kathleen Kittie Crawford | Person | Daily Bulletin (Colfax, Wash) | Month: 10 Day: 17 Year: 1983 | |
| Robert Hale Clendenin | Clendenin, Robert Hale | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 167 | Year: 1920 |
| Edward Clendening | Clendening, Edward | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | v. 16, p. 157-159 | |
| Old documents tell stories of first Washington courts, | Clendennin, J. S. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Mag., p.2 | Month: 02 Day: 22 Year: 1959 |
| Mrs. Cora J. Cleparty dies Thursday in Yakima hospital. | Cleparty, Cora J. (Mrs.) | Person | Wapato Independent | Month: 11 Day: 15 Year: 1962 | |
| Train, boat, and wagon to Tunk Valley | Clepper, J. H. | Person | Okanogan County Heritage | p. 23-26 | Month: Day: Year: 1972 |
| Obituary | Clerf, Edward P. | Person | Spokesman-Review | Month: 09 Day: 11 Year: 1991 | |
| Frank H. Clerf | Clerf, Frank H. | Person | Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan an | p. 595-596 | Year: 1904 |
| Your town & mine. Kittitas: Old west air stays. | Clerf, John | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | mag. Sec., p. 13 | Month: 12 Day: 15 Year: 1963 |
| Obituary | Clerf, Louis N. | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 12 Day: 7 Year: 1972 | |
| Nicholas Clerf, Kittitas resident since '84 dies. | Clerf, Nicholas | Person | Yakima Daily Republic | Month: 05 Day: 6 Year: 1963 | |
| Nicholas Clerf called by death. | Clerf, Nicholas | Person | Ellensburg Record | Month: 05 Day: 6 Year: 1963 | |
| Ph.D. is former convict's final step to responsibility | Cleve, Ken von | Person | Seattle Times | p. C-2 | Month: 05 Day: 4 Year: 1982 |
| Archie Day Cleveland | Cleveland, Archie Day | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 137 | Year: 1920 |
| Carolyn Whitmore Cleveland. | Cleveland, Carolyn Whitmore | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 159-160 | Year: 1982 |
| Obituary: Dewey L. Cleveland | Cleveland, Dewey L. | Person | Port Angeles Daily News | Month: 10 Day: 18 Year: 1974 | |
| Mrs. Fannie Damman Cleveland | Cleveland, Fannie Damman (Mrs.) | Person | Ellensburg Record | Month: 12 Day: 24 Year: 1963 | |
| Mason Clinic chief to be honored. | Cleveland, Fred E. (Dr.) | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-16 | Month: 05 Day: 7 Year: 1974 |
| George E. Cleveland | Cleveland, George S. | Person | Illustrated History of the State of Washington | p. 383-384 | Year: 1893 |
| Glenn Sherman Cleeveland. | Cleveland, Glenn Sherman | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 187 | Year: 1920 |
| Hiram Edward Cleveland, M.D. | Cleveland, Hiram Edward (M.D.) | Person | Washington West of the Cascades | v.II, p.602-603 | Year: 1917 |
| Obituary | Cleveland, John B. | Person | Omak Chronicle | Month: 11 Day: 18 Year: 1976 | |
| Railroad wrecks and other recollections. | Cleveland, Roy | Person | Seattle Times Magazine | p. 4-5 | Month: 05 Day: 12 Year: 1974 |
| Obituary | Cleveland, Sherman H. | Person | Spokane Daily Chronicle | Month: 12 Day: 10 Year: 1974 | |
| Clans schedule family picnic. | Clevenger Family | Person | Seattle Times | p. 22 | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1969 |
| Mrs. Charles F. Clevenger. | Clevenger, Clara (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 09 Day: 8 Year: 1963 | |
| Mrs. Charles F. Clevenger. | Clevenger, Clara (Mrs.) | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 09 Day: 9 Year: 1963 | |
| Whatever happened to Gail M. Clevenger? | Clevenger, Gail M. | Person | Yakima Sun | Month: 01 Day: 29 Year: 1976 | |
| Gail Clevenger -- The story of a boy's Tom Sawyer like settlement into Selah. | Clevenger, Gail M. | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | v.2, p. 64-66 | Year: 1975 |
| Jim Clevenger drove shingle bolts. | Clevenger, Jim | Person | Morton Journal | Month: 03 Day: 18 Year: 1982 | |
| Pioneer family to meet Aug 1. | Clevinger Family | Person | Lewis County News | Month: 07 Day: 29 Year: 1971 | |
| Clevinger, Nelson | Clevinger, Nelson | Person | Seattle Daily Times | mag., p. 4 | Month: 11 Day: 2 Year: 1952 |
| Obituary | Click, Melina | Person | East Washingtonian | Month: 03 Day: 6 Year: 1985 | |
| Eddie Clifford, 62, Organist. | Clifford, Eddie | Person | Seattle Times | Month: 03 Day: 4 Year: 1967 | |
| Organist Eddie Clifford dies at 62. | Clifford, Eddie | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 03 Day: 3 Year: 1967 | |
| Edward Clifford. | Clifford, Edward | Person | Memorials for Thurston County Pioneer and Historic | p. 3 | Year: 1954 |
| Obituary | Clifford, Edward L. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 56 | Month: 05 Day: 2 Year: 1954 |
| Wash. Pioneer Assn. Roll. | Clifford, Eliza (Mrs.) | Person | Washington Standard | p. 1 | Month: 11 Day: 1 Year: 1889 |
| Elsie Clifford Teens-Forties. | Clifford, Elsie | Person | Growing Up with Lake Forest Park : the Early Decad | Year: 1983 | |
| Black Diamond George. | Clifford, George | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Magazine, p. 8-9 | Month: 05 Day: 5 Year: 1974 |
| Potpourri. | Clifford, Guy | Person | Pierce County Herald | Month: 09 Day: 10 Year: 1977 |