ResearchBuzz: US-Washington Archives

Two graduate students from the University of Washington-Seattle have started Urban Archives, an online database of graffiti and other artwork and expression in public spaces (stencils, stickers, etc.) It's available through the University of Washington Digital Archives at http://content.lib.washington.edu/uaweb/index.html. From...

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Just to prove that there are databases for everything, the state of Washington has a cougar sightings database at http://wdfw.wa.gov/enf/danger/reporting/ . You can search by county, by keyword, or by year. (Currently only 2005 is available.) Reports are extensive and...

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Seattle's got a collection of over 45,000 municipal photographs and most of them are digitized and online! Who knew! Check out this old-school URL: http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/phot1.htm Searching allows you to specify keyword, time (1920 and before, 1920-1930, 1930-1940, etc.), and neighborhood,...

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Twelve Seattle and King County heritage organizations in conjunction with the Museum of History & Industry have launched a new Web site with 12,000 historical images of King County, Washington, it's called KC Snapshots and it's available at http://www.kcsnapshots.org ....

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HistoryLink ( http://www.historylink.org ) is an encyclopedia of information on Seattle and King County, Washington. Currently the site has over 2000 essays (searchable by keyword) pertaining to the region. There are several "galleries" that give slide-show like presentations on historical...

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