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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest

This Website from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project features a digital collection of "over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest -- the Northwest Coast and Plateau." Images load in thumbnail size and can be expanded to full screen. Each image includes information about the photographer, links to...

https://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection

Created by the University Libraries of the University of Washington, this remarkable digital archive presents a vast collection of materials related to the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures. Along with these primary source items, the site also contains essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. Additionally, the site...

https://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest

The University of Washington is responsible for this excellent Website devoted to the history of the Pacific Northwest. The site makes available a generous selection of the Center's voluminous materials in regional history. The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest also provides Curriculum Packets on topics such as "The Gold Rush", "The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State" and the...

http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/
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Mountains and Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest

Completed in 2013, this portal for digital collections pertaining to mountains and mountaineering brings together thousands of images from the University of Washington Libraries. Visitors should read the narrative introduction on the homepage and then move around through the various Topics, which include The Mountaineers Activities and Early Climbing and Tourism at Mt. Rainier. This last area...

https://content.lib.washington.edu/portals/mountaineering/in...
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Northwest Historical Postcards

It's nice to go traveling, but if you're light on cash, you can do so virtually via this nice trove of images from the University of Idaho's Digital Initiatives program. The homepage features a dozen or so rotating images from the collection, which includes idyllic images of harvests in Washington, a narrow gauge railway in British Columbia, and the Pierce County Court House in Tacoma. Visitors...

https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/
The Klondike Gold Rush

The University of Washington is responsible for this excellent Website devoted to the history of the Pacific Northwest. The site makes available a generous selection of the Center's voluminous materials in regional history. Of recent note is the section offering Curriculum Materials for the study of the Klondike Gold Rush. The Webpage provides substantial historical background on the Gold Rush,...

https://content.lib.washington.edu/extras/goldrush.html