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Tacoma Genealogy Research

Resources Available in the Library: Tacoma

[Constitution, By-Laws, Minutes of Meetings, Memberships Lists, Pioneer Registers, 1905-1949] [microform]

NW MICRO 979.778 PIERCE 1958

 

Ministerial Alliance of Tacoma, Washington Records, 1883-1907 [microform]

NW MICRO 280 MINISTE 1883

 

News Tribune Library Index File [microform

NW MICRO 071.9778 TACOMA

1982-1984.

 

Register of Births [1906-1907] [microform]

NW MICRO 979.7788 REGISTE

 

Register of Deaths [1887-1907] [microform]

NW MICRO 979.7788 REGISTE

 

T.N.T. Index

NW MICRO 071.9778 TACOMA

1975-1980.

 

Tacoma News Tribune Library Index

NW MICRO 071.9778 TACOMA

1985; 1987-1988.

4 Hours From Tacoma to the Glaciers in Rainier National Park

RARE 917.9778 FOUR HO 1915?

 

Album of Beautifully Selected Colored Views of Tacoma, Washington

RARE 979.7788 ALBUM O 1905?

 

An Anniversary Celebration: Commemorating the 100 Year of the Founding of Tacoma, Washington, 1869-1969

NW OVERSIZ 979.7788 MANN 1969?

 

Annual Report

RARE V 979.7788 TACOMA 1886

 

Art Work of Tacoma and Vicinity, Washington

NW OVERSIZ 917.9778 ART WOR 1978

 

Art Work of Tacoma and Vicinity, Washington

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9778 ART WOR 1907

9 parts.

 

Artondale, 1907-1915

R 979.7788 MALONEY 1982

 

Banking and Betrayal: The Rise and Fall of the Scandinavian-American Bank of Tacoma and of Ole S. Larson, Whose Life it Changed Forever

R 332.12 JOHNSON 2009

 

Barefoot and Happy

R 979.7788 THORESO 1982

 

Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma

NW 979.7788 HOFFMAN 2021

 

Beginnings: The First 100 Years of Tacoma's Neighborhoods [DVD]

NW DVD 979.778 BEGINNI 2004

 

Bridging the Narrows

NW 624.85 GOTCHY 1990

 

A Brief History of Fern Hill

NW 979.7788 STOVER 1999

 

The Castle on the Hill [DVD]

NW DVD 373.7977 CASTLE 2006

 

A Castle Overlooking the Sound: 115 Years of Building History: The Centennial Restoration of Stadium High

NW 979.778 RYAN 2006

 

Cemeteries of Tacoma

NW 979.7788 REISING 2011

 

A Century of Unitarianism in Tacoma: The Growth of a Liberal Religion 1883-1884 to 1983-1984

NW 289.132 HARRIS 1984

 

Charles Barstow Wright 1822-1898: A Builder of the Northern Pacific Railroad and of the City of Tacoma, Washington

RARE 979.7788 HARNEY 1956

 

Christian Endeavor Souvenir, City of Tacoma

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9778 TACOMA 1907

 

The City of Destiny and the South Sound: An Illustrated History of Tacoma and Pierce County

NW OVERSIZ 979.778 GALLACC 2001

 

A Cog in the Wheel

R 979.7788 PHILLIP 1982

 

Compendium of Information Concerning the City of Tacoma and Washington Territory

R 330.9797 MASON 1888

 

Day Island: A Glimpse of the Past

NW 979.778 TUCKER 1997

 

Did It Really Happen In Tacoma?: A Collection of Vignettes of Local History

R OVERSIZ 979.7788 REESE 1975

 

Downtown Tacoma

NW 979.7788 GALLACC 2009

 

During These Years

R 979.7788 FLEMING 1982

 

The Eagle at Six

R 979.7788 STARRE 1982

 

Enjoy Yesterday Everyday

R 979.7788 MERYHEW 1982

 

Facts About Your Tacoma City Light

R 363.6097 TACOMA 194-?

 

Finding Thea [DVD]

NW DVD 920 FINDING 2006

 

First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tacoma Washington: 100th Anniversary, 1882-1982

NW 284.1797 FIRST E 1982?

 

First Taste: My Celebration of the Good Life

R 979.7788 HEBERT 1982

 

Flashbacks

R 979.7788 WHITIS 1982

 

Fort Lewis: The Evergreen Post

NW 355.7097 FORT LE 1987

 

Foss Maritime Company

NW 387.232 STORK 2007

 

From Homestead to Lakebed

NW 979.782 SPARKMA 1994

 

From the Press of Tacoma: Souvenir Memento to Edward N. Fuller

RARE 070.9273 FROM TH 1896

 

From Valdres to Moose Jaw: A Family's Journey

R 979.7788 THEBERG 1982

 

Furusato: Tacoma-Pierce County Japanese, 1888-1977

NW 979.7788 MAGDEN 1998

 

A Girl in Washington Territory

NW 979.7788 BLACKWE 1972

 

Green Timber: Also, Shakespeare in the Logging Camp and a Little Learning

R 634.9809 RIPLEY 1963

 

Green Timber: On the Flood Tide to Fortune in the Great Northwest

NW 979.778 RIPLEY 1968

 

Grit City Magazine

v.1(2018:Sep)-current.

 

Guide to McChord

NW 917.9778 GUIDE T 1962

 

Hidden History of Tacoma: Little-Known Tales From the City of Destiny

NW 979.7788 STOVER 2012

 

Historic Photos of Tacoma

NW 979.778 PETERS 2007

 

Historical Review of the Tacoma Guardsmen

RARE 355.35 HISTORI 1910

 

History of Scandinavians in Tacoma and Pierce County, with Brief History of Tacoma and Early Settlement

RARE 979.778 BERGMAN 1926

 

History of Southeastern Pierce County: Formerly History of the Tacoma Eastern Area

NW 979.778 HISTORY 2001

 

Holy Rosary, Tacoma Washington, Centennial: 1891-1991

NW 282.9797 HOLY RO 1991

 

Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla

NW 599.884 APPLEGA 2014

 

Let's Go Walk About in Tacoma

NW 979.778 STOVER 2010

 

Lorraine Wojahn: An Oral History

WA 328.3 L52lor w 2010

Also available online from the Washington State Library.

 

Man and Water

R 621.312 TACOMA 1968?

 

McCarver and Tacoma

R 979.778 PROSCH 1906

Also available online through the Internet Archive.

 

Me, Thee and They

R 979.7788 PULLEY 1982

 

Memoirs of Nisqually

YGP 979.778 HEATH 1979

 

More Than a Century of Service: The History of the Tacoma Police Department

RARE 363.2097 MORE TH 2008

 

Murder of a City, Tacoma

NW 352.079 GOLD 1970

 

National Park, City Playground

NW 979.7782 CATTON 2006

 

Now Playing: Showtime in Tacoma

NW 792.0979 JOHNSON 2017

 

Odyssey in the Forest

R 979.7788 LING 1982

 

Old Tacoma

NW 979.7788 GALLACC 2006

 

Origin of Geographic Names of Tacoma/Pierce County, Washington

R 917.9778 REESE 1974

 

The Origin of the Name Tacoma: A Collection of Information Regarding the Origin of the Name of the City of Tacoma, Washington

R 979.778 REESE 1976

 

Parts Unknown

RARE FOLIO 700 SPRING 2007

 

Planning the City of Destiny: An Urban History of Tacoma to 1930

NW 307.12 GALLACC 1999

 

Plowing Time

R 979.7788 HALLER 1982

 

Points Northeast Photo Album & Scrap Book: A Century and a Half of Northeast Tacoma History

NW 979.7788 STEARS 2003

 

The Port and City of Tacoma

RARE OVERSIZ 338.0979 PORT AN 1924

 

Port of Tacoma

NW 387.1097 KOON 2023

 

Portrait of a Century: Port of Tacoma Centennial

NW OVERSIZ 979.7788 PORT OF 2018

 

Puget Sound Ponderings

R 979.7788 PAUL 1982

 

Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

NW 979.778 MORGAN 1979

 

Puget's Sound: A Narrative of Early Tacoma and the Southern Sound

NW 979.778 MORGAN 2003

 

Report and Information Book of the Light Department of the City of Tacoma for the Years 1922-1923

R 333.7932 TACOMA 1923

 

Reprieve From Limbo: The Shadow Land of "Mental Illness"

R 979.7788 MAHOOD 1982

 

Richard, of Richard and Ruth

R 979.7788 DAVIS 1982

 

Rising Up From Tacoma's Twenty-One Disasters and Defeats

NW 979.7788 FREEDMA 2015

 

Rosa Franklin: A Life in Health Care, Public Service, and Social Justice

NW 328.7309 NIMURA 2019

 

Seattle, Tacoma and the Puget Sound Region

NW 917.977 MCINTYR 1987

 

A Sketch of the Life of William Bush Blackwell

RARE 979.778 BLACKWE 1951?

 

Society Blue Book: Tacoma and Olympia, 1908-09

RARE V 979.778 SOCIETY 1908

 

South on the Sound: An Illustrated History of Tacoma and Pierce County

NW 979.778 MORGAN 1984

 

South Tacoma

NW 979.778 REITER 2007

 

Souvenir of Tacoma, Washington

RARE 979.7788 SOUVENI 189-?

 

Tacoma

NW 979.7788 TJOSSEM 2019

 

Tacoma

NW OVERSIZ 917.9778 MCINTYR 1988

 

Tacoma, 1906: Electric City of the Pacific Coast

RARE 979.7788 PRATT 1906

 

Tacoma, a Pictorial History

R 979.7788 MARTIN 1981

 

Tacoma Adventures

NW 979.7788 GLEN 2019

 

Tacoma and Pierce County Community Development

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9788 TACOMA 1920

 

Tacoma and Pierce County Washington

RARE 979.7788 CUTTER 1905?

 

Tacoma and the Tourist...

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1912

 

Tacoma and Vicinity

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1888

 

Tacoma Beautiful

NW 917.9778 TACOMA 197-?

 

Tacoma Beginnings: The First One Hundred Years

NW 979.7788 OLSEN 1969

 

Tacoma Business

RARE OVERSIZ 979.7788 TACOMA 1921

 

Tacoma Curiosities: Geoduck Derbies, the Whistling Well of the North End, Alligators in Snake Lake & More

NW 979.778 STOVER 2016

 

Tacoma: Electric City of the Pacific Coast

RARE 917.9778 PRATT 1904

 

Tacoma: Gateway to Rainier National Park

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1927?

 

Tacoma Headlines: An Account of Tacoma News and Newspapers from 1873 to 1962

NW 979.7788 HARVEY 1962

 

Tacoma Illustrated: A Careful Compilation of the Resources, Terminal Advantages, Institutions, Climate, Business & Manufacturing Industries of the "City of Destiny"

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9778 TACOMA 1889

 

Tacoma, Its History and Its Builders

NW 979.7788 HUNT 1916

3 volumes. Also available online through the Washington State Library. Washington State Library volume 1. Washington State Library volume 2. Washington State Library Volume 3. 2 volumes are also available online through the Internet Archive. Internet Archive volume 1. Internet Archive volume 2.

 

Tacoma New Herald Annual, 1907

NW 917.9778 TACOMA 2017

 

Tacoma New Herald Annual, 1909

RARE OVERSIZ 979.7788 TACOMA 1909

 

The Tacoma Public Utilities Story: The First 100 Years, 1893-1993

NW 338.7613 TACOMA 1993

 

Tacoma, the City of Destiny, 1884-1984: 24 Historic Postcards

R 979.778 TACOMA 1984

 

Tacoma, the City of Destiny: Being Views of the Port of Puget Sound

RARE 917.9778 FRENCH 1902?

 

Tacoma, the City with a Snow-Capped Mountain in its Dooryard

RARE 917.9745 TACOMA 1912

 

Tacoma, the Manufacturing and Shipping Center of the Pacific Northwest

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1902?

 

Tacoma: The Promised City in the Land of Plenty

RARE 330.9797 TACOMA 1910?

 

Tacoma, the Union Depot District: Tacoma, Washington, 1979 Rehabilitation Study

NW 979.778 TACOMA 1981

 

Tacoma, the Western Terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad

RARE V 979.7788 RADEBAU 1889

 

Tacoma: Tomorrow's City-Today

NW OVERSIZ 979.7788 MACGOUG 1996

 

Tacoma, Voices From the Past

NW 979.778 TACOMA 1988

2 volumes.

 

The Tacoma, W.D. Tyler, Manager, Tacoma, W.T.

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1888?

 

Tacoma, Wash.: In Photo-Gravure from Recent Negatives

RARE 979.7788 TACOMA 1893

 

Tacoma, Washington

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 1911

 

Tacoma, Washington: Gateway to Rainier National Park

RARE 917.9778 TACOMA 193-

 

Tacoma, Washington Territory, the Western Terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad

RARE V 979.7788 TACOMA 1888

 

Tacoma's Dry Goods & Wet Goods: Nineteenth Century Jewish Pioneers

NW 979.7788 FREEDMA 2016

 

Tacoma's Haunted History

NW 979.7788 ALLISON 2014

 

Tacoma's Lincoln District

NW 979.7788 DAVENPO 2018

 

Tacoma's North Slope

NW 979.778 MAY 2011

 

Tacoma's Parks

NW 979.778 MCGINNI 2007

 

Tacoma's Point Defiance Park

NW 979.702 MCGINNI 2012

 

Tacoma's Proctor District

NW 979.7788 GALLACC 2007

 

Tacoma's Stadium District

NW 979.7788 KENISTO 2010

 

Tacoma's Theater District

NW 979.7788 DAVENPO 2015

 

Tacoma's Twenty-One Tales

NW 979.7788 FREEDMA 2010

 

Tacoma's Union Station Historic District

R 917.9778 MIRANDE 1999

 

Tacoma's Waterfront

NW 979.778 GALLACC 2006

 

Tacoma's Wright Park

NW 979.778 MCGINNI 2008

 

Tahoma, or, Random Readings from Puget Sound

RARE 814.52 SPROULE 1909?

 

This is Fort Lewis

RARE 979.778 THIS IS 1949

 

Three Cities of Washington; Origin of Their Names

R OVERSIZ 979.7 MEANY 1917?

Also available online from the Washington State Library.

 

Timber, Trains, and Tides: A Brief History of Tacoma, Washington

NW 979.778 BALSTON 1988

 

Tourists to Panama-Pacific Exposition are Invited to Visit Tacoma: "The Naples of America," the City by the Sea, with Mt. Tacoma in its Door-Yard

RARE 917.9778 TOURIST 1915

 

Union Station: The First One Hundred Years

NW 979.7788 CREATUR 2011

 

Vanishing Tacoma

NW 979.7788 GALLACC 2013

 

Views of Tacoma

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9778 VIEWS O 1910

 

Views of Tacoma, Washington: Photo-Gravures

RARE 917.9778 VIEWS O 1901

 

Walking Where the Sails Met the Rails: A Venture in Tacoma's Past

NW 979.778 WALKING 1989

 

Washington: The Evergreen State

RARE OVERSIZ 917.9704 WASHING 1907

 

What Tacoma Has to Offer: The Economy of the City and its Region

R 711 WHAT TA 1948

 

What to See in Tacoma and How to See It

RARE 979.7788 WHAT TO 1910?

 

When I Came to Washington Territory

RARE V 979.7788 COFFMAN 1935?

 

Whistle Punk and Other Stories

NW 979.7788 NASLUND 1982

 

Who Am I?

R 979.7788 SMOOTS 1982

 

Who Named Tacoma?

RARE V 979.778 MEEKER 1905

 

Wicked Tacoma

NW 979.7788 STOVER 2021

 

A Word About Tacoma: The City of Destiny

RARE 979.7788 MASON 1898

 

"You're Making History Now"

RARE 979.779 OLSEN 2006