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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emmet E. & Mildred Clouse. | Clouse, Emmet E. | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 160 | Year: 1982 |
| Gary & Martha Clouse | Clouse, Gary | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 160-161 | Year: 1982 |
| Gary & Martha Clouse | Clouse, Martha (Mrs.) | Person | History of Klickitat County | p, 160-161 | Year: 1982 |
| Emmet E. & Mildred Clouse. | Clouse, Mildred (Mrs.) | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 160 | Year: 1982 |
| Obituary: Margaret Cloutier, pioneer. | Cloutier, Margaret (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. C-4 | Month: 05 Day: 15 Year: 1973 |
| Chester Ray Clow | Clow, Chester Ray | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 137 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Clow, Frank | Person | Colfax Gazette | Month: 12 Day: 11 Year: 1969 | |
| Obituary | Clow, Harry B. | Person | Bellingham Herald | Month: 10 Day: 22 Year: 1971 | |
| Obituary | Clow, Harry B. | Person | Lynden Tribune | Month: 10 Day: 28 Year: 1971 | |
| Heart attack proves fatal. Business man and composer stricken. | Clow, Oscar Blaine | Person | Tacoma Times | Month: 07 Day: 2 Year: 1942 | |
| Obituary | Clow, Vernon I. | Person | Colfax Gazette | Month: 06 Day: 2 Year: 1977 | |
| Vernon I. Clow. | Clow, Vernon I. | Person | With the Colors from Whitman County 1917, 1918, 19 | p. 187 | Year: 1920 |
| Obituary | Clowers, Michael R. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. C-10 | Month: 10 Day: 26 Year: 1979 |
| AID advisor from Tacoma shot by Cong. | Clowers, Norman L. | Person | Daily Olympian | p. 27 | Month: 07 Day: 27 Year: 1966 |
| N. T. Clowers, resident for 64 years, dies. | Clowers, Norman T. | Person | Thurston County Independent (Tenino, Wash.) | Month: 10 Day: 31 Year: 1957 | |
| Rose Clowting funeral planned. | Clowting, Rose H. (Mrs.) | Person | Cowlitz County Advocate | Month: 01 Day: 13 Year: 1966 | |
| Erma Clubb --- Her roots search reviels a lifetime of work. | Clubb, Erma Margaret Chandler | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | v. 3, p. 33 | Year: 1975 |
| Pioneer lines of Erma Clubb | Clubb, Erma Margaret Chandler | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | v. 17, p. 159-164 | |
| Ancestry of Erma Margaret Chandler Clubb... | Clubb, Erma Margaret Chandler | Person | Family Records of Washington Pioneers | p. 143-144 | |
| Clubb, John Willis | Clubb, John Willis | Person | Ellensburg Record | Month: 10 Day: 30 Year: 1958 | |
| Clubb, Matie G. (Mrs.) | Clubb, Matie G. (Mrs.) | Person | Ellensburg Daily Record | Month: 10 Day: 13 Year: 1958 | |
| April makes her debut as jockey. | Clubine, April | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-22 | Month: 04 Day: 18 Year: 1971 |
| Prominent Seattle lawyer found murdered in home. | Cluck, Ernest R. | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-1 | Month: 10 Day: 23 Year: 1971 |
| Obituary: Jack R. Cluck, pioneer of public utiluties. | Cluck, Jack R. | Person | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | p. C-11 | Month: 01 Day: 29 Year: 1983 |
| Cluck, Roy R. (Mrs.) | Cluck, Roy R. (Mrs.) | Person | Seattle Daily Times | p. 46 | Month: 02 Day: 6 Year: 1958 |
| Spokane man, at 103, advises 'Eat slowly'. | Clumper, Alfred E. | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 12 Day: 29 Year: 1960 | |
| Alfred Clumper succumbs at 103. | Clumper, Alfred E. | Person | Spokane Chronicle | Month: 08 Day: 1 Year: 1961 | |
| Obituary | Clure, Lilian | Person | World | Month: 09 Day: 13 Year: 1968 | |
| Clute, Milton P., deceased, heirs-at-law of. | Clute, Milton P. | Person | Washington Territory Donation Land Claims | p. 127 | Year: 1980 |
| Clyde, C. F. "Fred" | Clyde, C. F. "Fred" | Person | South Bend Journal | Month: 05 Day: 14 Year: 1959 | |
| Obituary | Clyde, Daniel | Person | Daily News (Longview, Wash.) | Month: 01 Day: 3 Year: 1972 | |
| Obituary | Clyde, Joseph | Person | Daily Olympian | Month: 03 Day: 27 Year: 1961 | |
| Clymer, C. | Clymer, C. | Person | Olympia Transcript | v.3, p. 1 | Month: 07 Day: 11 Year: 1868 |
| Obituary: Mrs. Earl Clymer. | Clymer, Florence M. | Person | Seattle Times | p. 46 | Month: 08 Day: 15 Year: 1967 |
| Biographical sketch. | Clymer, John | Person | Ellensburg Daily Record | Special Section, p. 33 | Month: 11 Day: 9 Year: 1989 |
| The Washington 100: A centennial gallery of favorite sons & daughters..... | Clymer, John | Person | Washington Magazine | p. 107 | Month: 11 Year: 1988 |
| Don Clyne Family. | Clyne, Don | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 161 | Year: 1982 |
| Death takes Norman Clyne, C. of C. Aide. | Clyne, Norman I. | Person | Seattle Daily Times | Month: 07 Day: 7 Year: 1960 | |
| The Man in the Coats, He won't take money, only your trash. | Coat Man | Person | Seattle Times | p. A-1 | Month: 12 Day: 20 Year: 1975 |
| Coate Family | Coate Family | Person | History of Klickitat County | p. 291-292 | Year: 1982 |
| Obituary | Coate, Charles Francis | Person | Enterprise (White Salmon, Wash.) | Month: 09 Day: 27 Year: 1973 | |
| Final rites for Mrs Chas. Coate. | Coate, Margaretha Anna (Mrs.) | Person | Enterprise (White Salmon, Wash.) | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1967 | |
| Final rites for Mrs Chas. Coate. | Coate, Margaretha Anna (Mrs.) | Person | Mount Adams Sun | Month: 07 Day: 20 Year: 1967 | |
| Woman of 80 honored. | Coates, Carrie | Person | Renton Town Talk | Month: 10 Day: 17 Year: 1962 | |
| Obituary: Frank C. Coates. | Coates, Frank C. | Person | Seattle Times | p. 43 | Month: 06 Day: 15 Year: 1967 |
| Full-time National Guard head appointed. | Coates, George | Person | Seattle Times | p. D-2 | Month: 02 Day: 4 Year: 1981 |
| Obituary | Coates, Georgina Wilson | Person | Yakima Herald-Republic | Month: 02 Day: 22 Year: 1980 | |
| Georgina Wilson Coates looks back on school days at the turn of the century. | Coates, Georgina Wilson | Person | Remembering Yakima, by Those Who Were There | v. 3, p. 58-59 | Year: 1975 |
| Obituary | Coates, Gertrude (Mrs.) | Person | Port Orchard Independent | Month: 12 Day: 21 Year: 1961 | |
| A legacy remembered: Lora B. the Lady of Yelm. | Coates, Lora B. | Person | Nisqually Valley News | Month: 03 Day: 26 Year: 1987 |