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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obituary | Baker, Willaim V. | Person | Prosser Record Bulletin | Month: 06 Day: 30 Year: 1977 | |
| William V. Baker | Baker, Willaim V. | Person | Daily Olympian | p.2 | Month: 11 Day: 27 Year: 1967 |
| Baker, William | Baker, William | Person | Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties | p. 620 | Year: 1904 |
| Obituary | Baker, William E. | Person | Daily Chronicle (Centralia, Wash.) | p. 8 | Month: 06 Day: 28 Year: 1954 |
| Baker, William R. | Baker, William R. | Person | Illustrated History of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan an | p. 320-321 | Year: 1904 |
| Obituary | Baker, William T. | Person | Daily World (Aberdeen, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 22 Year: 1972 | |
| Snohomish Coroner Retiring at Age Most Think of Running. | Baker, Xon | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-16 | Month: 06 Day: 21 Year: 1970 |
| Obituary | Bakkala, Kasper H. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 12 Day: 15 Year: 1972 | |
| Obituary | Bakkala, Kasper H. | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 12 Day: 16 Year: 1972 | |
| Obituary | Bakkala, Kasper H. | Person | Kalama Bulletin | Month: 12 Day: 21 Year: 1972 | |
| Obituary | Bakke, Ellen | Person | Wenatchee Daily World | Month: 10 Day: 26 Year: 1965 | |
| Bakke, Ellen L. (Mrs.) | Bakke, Ellen L. (Mrs.) | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 203 | Year: 1920 |
| Mrs. Peter Bakke, 94. | Bakke, Ellen L. (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 21 | Month: 10 Day: 23 Year: 1965 |
| Bakke, Herbert Noel | Bakke, Herbert Noel | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 185 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Bakke, Noel | Person | Wenatchee World | Month: 02 Day: 21 Year: 1975 | |
| Obituary | Bakken, Annie Elizabeth | Person | Newport Miner | Month: 09 Day: 6 Year: 1979 | |
| Baklund, Leonard M. | Baklund, Leonard M. | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 1, p. 23 | Year: 1921 |
| Providing style and sound for banjo players. | Bakovich, Chuck | Person | Seattle Times | Pictoral. P. 2-4 | Month: 03 Day: 30 Year: 1975 |
| Pioneer Woman resident dies. | Bakus, May | Person | Everett Daily Herald | Month: 09 Day: 25 Year: 1959 | |
| The aplets and cotlets story | Balabanian, Mark | Person | Pacific Northwest | p. 30 | Month: 12 Year: 1987 |
| Balabanoff, Christo P. (Dr.) | Balabanoff, Christo P. (Dr.) | Person | Illustrated History of the State of Washington | p. 765-766 | Year: 1893 |
| Balam, Henry John | Balam, Henry John | Person | With the Colors from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan | book 2, p. 252-253 | Year: 1921 |
| Obituary | Balam, Henry John | Person | Everett Herald | Month: 01 Day: 21 Year: 1978 | |
| Her T-shirt business is truly homegrown | Balcazare, Rosanne | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Peoples p. 10 | Month: 03 Day: 13 Year: 1983 |
| Balch, A. | Balch, A. | Person | Illustrated History of the State of Washington | p.514 | Year: 1894 |
| Faces of the City: News-reading title is tied. | Balch, Albert | Person | Seattle Times | p. 33 | Month: 07 Day: 15 Year: 1966 |
| Albert Balch Honored | Balch, Albert | Person | Seattle Times | p. 7C | Month: 07 Day: 23 Year: 1967 |
| 22-Acre View Area Plan Set. | Balch, Albert | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 05 Day: 23 Year: 1966 | |
| Oldest U.S.house in Balch Family. | Balch, Albert | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 23 | Month: 03 Day: 6 Year: 1964 |
| He signs up the world's greats. | Balch, Albert | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 9 | Month: 06 Day: 10 Year: 1965 |
| Death takes well known Dayton man. | Balch, Albert Elliot 'Slim' | Person | Walla Walla Union Bulletin | Month: 04 Day: 13 Year: 1960 | |
| A. E. Balch dies Monday after illness. | Balch, Albert Elliot 'Slim' | Person | Chronicle Dispatch (Dayton, Wash.) | Month: 04 Day: 14 Year: 1960 | |
| Balch, Albert S. | Balch, Albert S. | Person | Pictorial Sketch of the Puget Sound Area and its B | p. 82 | Year: 1960 |
| Obituary | Balch, Dell | Person | Waitsburg Times | Month: 08 Day: 23 Year: 1973 | |
| The trial that hammered Dick Balch. | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-6 | Month: 07 Day: 8 Year: 1978 |
| Introducing the '79 Dick Balch | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-15 | Month: 12 Day: 18 Year: 1978 |
| Dick Balch is latest victim of sagging auto market. | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-1 | Month: 05 Day: 16 Year: 1980 |
| Dick Balch...The wacky car dealer who dropped his sledgehammer and a 20 day marriage..still acts zany as ever. | Balch, Dick | Person | View Northwest | p. 37-40 | Month: 07 Year: 1975 |
| Successful Insanity | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 18 | Month: 07 Day: 12 Year: 1971 |
| Whatever happened to...Dick Balch? | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 2 Northwest | Month: 02 Day: 26 Year: 1978 |
| Dick Balch's dreams: going, going, gone! | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. B-5 | Month: 01 Day: 27 Year: 1981 |
| Would you buy a used dreamhouse from this man? | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-7 | Month: 03 Day: 9 Year: 1981 |
| The man with the fastest sledgehammer in the west. | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. 8-9 Northwest Today Mag. | Month: 06 Day: 25 Year: 1972 |
| Sledgehammer made Dick Balch what he is today - Rich. | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. A-18 | Month: 09 Day: 22 Year: 1974 |
| A real smash with the car-buying set. | Balch, Dick | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-2 | Month: 09 Day: 30 Year: 1971 |
| Balch, Elliot Thompson | Balch, Elliot Thompson | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | vol 23, p. 70-72 | |
| Obituary | Balch, Emily M. | Person | Tacoma News Tribune | Month: 10 Day: 26 Year: 1979 | |
| Mrs. Balch funeral is held Monday morning. | Balch, Emma | Person | Ferndale Record | Month: 05 Day: 11 Year: 1961 | |
| Mrs. Balch funeral is held Monday morning. | Balch, Emma | Person | Bellingham Herald | Month: 05 Day: 5 Year: 1961 | |
| Living Pioneers of Washington. Mr & Mrs. Frank T Balch, Sequim, Wash. | Balch, Frank T. (Mr.) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Month: 03 Day: 24 Year: 1916 |