Spanning over ten miles of shelving, these records comprise one of the largest academic archives on the West Coast. Letters, speeches, minutes, reports, writings, and miscellaneous other records document the history and culture of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
All materials are in English unless otherwise specified.
This body of materials resulted from the foresight of Richard C. Berner, longtime head of the Division, and from the generosity of individual and organizational donors and oral history informants. Facilitating many gifts were community field workers Sally Kazama, Delores Goto, and, later, Harry Fujita and Professor Tetsuden Kashima. Development of this site was funded by the Kenneth S. Allen Library Endowment. The full guides and inventories have been mounted for these accessions. Accessions in which only portions of the collected material is relevant.