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King County Archives 2025 Wrapped: Zine-Making at Washington Hall 

Zine-Making at Washington Hall for American Archives Month.

SAAS Interns at King County Archives 

Over the last four weeks, King County Archives has hosted two high school seniors from the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) for their…

YOU MIGHT HAVE GONE PAST THIS ALL YOUR LIFE: Photographs of Public Art In The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel

Among the hundreds of digitized records we have available that represent documents, maps, and photographs from our collection, I’ve recently discovered a bounty of photographs…

Celebrate Archives Month with the Archivists

If you’ve ever browsed an archives catalog, occupied a research room, or noticed a very tidy box in your research, maybe you’ve wondered: “Where’d that…

Scenes from the late 1980s: Looking back at the construction of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel

On March 23, the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT) will convert to Link light rail trains only, and bus service will be moved to surface…

Secondary Value: Using Road Construction Records for Genealogy

Detail from survey, map no. 101-5.B, showing Fall City in 1913 In an earlier blog post, we talked about the secondary research value of aerial…

From Coal to the Cold War: Cougar Mountain Regional Wildlife Park’s Former Nike Missile Sites

This is the second in a series of blog posts celebrating American Archives Month 2016, using King County records to tell stories on Washington state’s…