Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

Search Hints for the Pacific Alaska Region
(Seattle)


[Detail of] Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, ca. 1943 - ca. 1953 (ARC ID 298211)

The National Archives (NARA) Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) in Seattle, Washington, is part of one of the National Archives' 11 Regional Archives. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) includes descriptions of records held by the Regional Archives. The online catalog allows you to filter your search results by location. The search hints below highlight the Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) records available in ARC. The Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) holds federal records from Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

ARC is a work in progress, and NARA staff add new descriptions to ARC all the time. More than 68% of the Regional Archives records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) staff.

Featured Topics

The featured topics are a sample of subjects covered by records held by the Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) and described in ARC. Follow the search instructions, or customize your search with your own keywords.

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the yellow Search button to go to the Basic search screen.
  3. Enter keywords (use some of the sample keywords below or your own) in the Keywords box.
  4. Select the limit results radio button for 2000.
  5. (Optional step:) Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies to retrieve digitized documents and photographs.
  6. Select the Location filter for NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) .
  7. Press the Go button.
  8. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

Topics Sample ARC Keyword Searches Sample Digitized Documents
American Indians
  • Indian Affairs
  • Klamath
  • Shoshone
  • Chemawa Indian School
  • Portland Area Office
  • Warm Springs Reservation or Warm Springs Indian Agency
  • Umatilla
  • Allotments
  • Farming and Grazing
  • Navajo or Navajos

Native Amercian family, Taholah Agency (ARC ID 298664)

Army
  • Army
  • Army and Engineers
  • Coast Defenses and Columbia River
  • Fort Stevens
  • Fort Canby
  • Fort Columbia
  • Fort Worden
  • Fort Flagler
  • Fort Casey
  • Fort Ward

First Installations, Fort Canby, Washington, 1864 (ARC ID 299656)

Court Cases
  • Civil Case
  • Criminal Case or Criminal Dockets
  • Equity Case or Equity Dockets
  • Admiralty Case
  • Law Case
  • Naturalization
  • Bankruptcy
  • Court and Montana
  • Hugh Magone v. Colorado Smelting and Refining Co
  • U.S. vs. Na Lay
  • Hum Fay
  • Coeur d'Alene Mining District
  • U.S. vs. Polly Bemis

Flyers distributed by Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly and Butte Miners' Union in support of Chinese and Japanese boycott, ca. 08/1898 (ARC ID 298113)

Farms and Ranches
  • Cattle
  • Sheep
  • Farming or Farm or Farms or Farmer or Farmers
  • Grazing

Indian Cattle Sale Held at the Fort Hall Stockyards, 10/1931 (ARC ID 298561)

Forests and Parks
  • Forest or Forests or Forester or Forestry
  • National Forest
  • Forest and (Fire or Fires)
  • National Park
  • Mount Rainier National Park
  • Oregon Caves National Monument
  • Recreational Maps
  • Tillamook
  • Logging or Lumber
  • Timber

Boys from Illinois Fight Tillamook (Oregon) Fire, 08/1933 (ARC ID 299309)

Great Depression (1930s)
  • Labor [with dates filter: 1933-1942]
  • CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps
  • CCC and Indian Division
  • Petroleum Products and Distribution

CCC Boys Getting Fuel Wood from a Campground Cache for Warming Skiers, Mount Baker National Forest, 1936 (ARC ID 299068)

Immigration and Naturalization
  • Immigration
  • Naturalization
  • Citizenship
  • Chinese
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

Testimony of Lock See, Bookkeeper for Lock Doon's Business, 03/04/1904 (ARC ID 298997)

Industry
  • Lumber or Logging
  • Fishing
  • Mining
  • Sunshine Mine
  • Farming or Farm or Farms or Farmer or Farmers
  • Shipbuilding

Machinery at Quartz Mine in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District with Mine Personnel, 1916 (ARC ID 298166)

Land
  • Homestead
  • Land Management
  • Wildlife Refuge
  • Mineral
  • Land and Idaho
  • Land and Washington
  • Land and Oregon

Avery, Idaho. Semi-permanent tent structure, 1915 (ARC ID 298393)

Maritime
  • Marine Inspection
  • Merchant Vessels
  • Marine and Casualty and (File or Investigation or Files)
  • Logbook or Logbooks
  • Merchant Marine
  • Import or Imports or Export or Exports

Wreck of the Steamer Valencia ..., 04/14/1906 (ARC ID 298322)

Money
  • Money
  • Credit or Loans or Loan
  • Mint and Seattle
  • Mint and Boise
  • Lease or Leases
  • Property or Real Estate
  • Bankruptcy
  • Accounts or Account
  
Navy
  • Navy or Naval
  • Shipyard or Shipbuilding
  • Dock or Docks
  • (Navy or Naval) and (Aviation or Aeronautics or Aircraft)

Telegram from the Secretary of the Navy to All Naval Stations Regarding Mars, 08/22/1924 (ARC ID 596070)

Prisons McNeil Island and Penitentiary

Warden Palmer and Staff ..., ca. 1890 (ARC ID 299545)

Prohibition of Alcohol (1920s and 1930s) Prohibition

Letter from Mrs. Hillyer concerning her husband's drinking activities, 09/22/1931 (ARC ID 298490)

Roads and Bridges
  • Public Roads
  • Highways or Highway
  • Bridges or Bridge
  • Angess Bridge

Placing Connection of Suspension Cables to Northwest Main Anchor [of Angess Bridge], ca. 1927 (ARC ID 298244)

Science
  • Science
  • U.S. Science Exhibit
  • Century 21 Exhibition
  • Silvaculture Reports
  • Salmon Survey
  • Wildlife

[Page 1 of] Flora of the Deschutes National Forest, 1917 (ARC ID 299004)

Water and Navigation
  • Navigation
  • Coast Guard
  • Lighthouse or Lightstation or Light station or Light tower
  • Wreck Reports
  • Flood Control
  • Lake Washington Ship Canal
  • U.S. Government Locks
  • River or Rivers or Harbor or Harbors
  • Salmon

Gifford Rapids Map and Photo Accompanying Letter, ca. 1913 (ARC ID 298813)

Waterways and Rivers
  • Kootenai River or Kootenai Valley
  • Irrigation
  • Dam or Dams
  • Columbia River
  • Wrangell Harbor or Wrangell
  • Water Use
  • Canal or Canals

Wrangell, Alaska ... Breakwater ..., 12 Dec. 1923 (ARC ID 298746)

World War I
  • World War I or {World War 1914-1918}
  • [dates filter: 1917 - 1919]
  • Spruce Division

Planking Forms, 10/28/1918 (ARC ID 298545)

World War II
  • World War II or {World War 1939-1945}
  • [dates filter: 1941-1945]
  • Fourth Registration Draft
  • Alien and Japanese American Registration
  • Civilian Defense

Sign Post at Battery Russell in Definance of Japanese Shelling on 21 June 1942, ca. 1942 (ARC ID 299671)

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