Camping program participant, c. 1958-1960. Series 467, Box 14, Folder 6. In the postwar 1950s, King County Parks oversaw a robust program of organized recreational…
Exhibits and News from the King County Archives
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The Archives just digitized “Boeing Field: the Making of Milestones,” a documentary about King County International Airport, produced by King County around 1990. Using still photographs with…
The King County Archives is delighted to be participating in a screening of clips from local archives and cultural organizations at the Northwest Film Forum,…
The Archives recently accessioned a small collection of records from the King County Department of Transportation’s Transit Division. These records include photographic prints, negatives and slides that were produced in…
In the March 27, 1966 edition of The Seattle Times, the better part of page 15E covered the announcement by United Homes and Sherwood Development…
Our colleague Luci Baker Johnson of Historic Seattle shared her discovery of a 1918 Seattle Times article describing an organizational ancestor of the King County Archives. The story…
Yesterday, the walls of the Archives and Records Center served as blank canvas for a graffiti contest hosted by local artist Andrew Morrison in collaboration…