HistoryLink
HistoryLink.org is a free online encyclopedia of Washington State history. It's been operating since early 1999, and by 2011 had well over 6,000 essays. It's an outstanding resource.
Washington State Historical Society
The Washington State Historical Society's Featured Collections gives you access to lots of photos, drawings, and maps.
You can see all the tables of contents for Columbia Magazine (the Society's magazine), and selected articles. Topics are varied, for example:
- A Hard Day's Night, Summer 1996, about the Beatles concert in Seattle in 1964
- Sweethearts of Jazz, Winter 2009-10, about black women jazz musicians
- Beisboleros, Fall 2002, about Latin American professional baseball players, 1914-37
- Let the Law Take Its Course, Spring 2012, about vigilantes in Walla Walla in 1891
The Columbia Anthology "offers a snapshot of Washington history as presented in the pages of COLUMBIA Magazine by our state's leading scholars." It has about 60 articles, arranged by topic (early settlers, explorers, fur trade and missionaries, etc.).
Columbia Kids was an online magazine for kids. It only ran for four issues in 2008-10, but they're all online still and have lots to look at.
UW Digital Collections
The University of Washington Libraries has a lot of digital resources about the Pacific Northwest, including photos, essays, online exhibits, and maps.
Check out the Seattle Collection to see what our city was like in the past.
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Based at the UW, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest supports research, teaching, and public programs. Look under Resources for links and research.
The site has material for an undergraduate course on Washington State history. See the course index page for a list of web pages on different topics with lots of wonderful illustrations.
More Photos
WSU Libraries Digital Collections
Washington State Archives - Digital Archives
You can find all kinds of things in the archives. For instance, here is a picture of prisoners wrestling from sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.
SeattlePI.com's Photos page includes 79 Historical Photo slideshows, such as Seattle During World War I, Historic Seattle in the Snow, and Seattle History: Northgate Mall.
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| Northgate Mall, 1965 |
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