Historic Preservation Program

Preservation Links

General

• epreserve.net
• Preservation Directory
• Preserve Net

Educational Program Listings

• The National Council for Preservation Education's List of Programs

Internships, etc.

• Preserve Net's Internship Listings
• The Student Conservation Association

Agencies

International

• The Association for Preservation Technology International
• International Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of theÊModern Movement
• International Council on Monuments and Sites
• UNESCO's World Heritage Center

National

• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• American Association for State and Local History
• U.S. Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement
• The Heritage Education Network
• National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
• National Park Service Cultural Resources
• National Register of Historic Places
• Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings
• Preservation Information for Certified Local Governments
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation
• National Preservation Institute
• Society of Architectural Historians
• Organization of American Historians
• Society for American Archaeology

State

• Classics in Washington History
• Heritage Resource Center
• National Trust for Historic Preservation Western Regional Office
• Regional Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
• Washington State History Museum
• Washington State Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation

Local

• Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)
• Center for Puget Sound History and Archeology
• City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Neighborhood Historic Preservation Program
• Historic Seattle
• King County's 4 Culture Organization
• Museum of History and Industry
• Western Washington Chapter of the Working Party for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement

Activism

• Preserve and Protect
• Preservation Action
• The Vernacular Architecture Forum

Research

General

• Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
• Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts Online
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, a project of the National Digital Newspaper Program
• Cultural Resource Management (National Park Service magazine)
• Cultural Resources Partnership Notes
• HistoryLink.org
• Municipal Research & Services Center (MRSC) Selected Library Holdings on Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation
• National Archives and Records Administration
• The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
• The National Parks Service Historic Documentation Programs (HABS, HAER, HALS, CRGIS)
• Society for Commercial Archeology
• State and Terrritorial Historic Preservation Plan Profiles
• Strategies for Protecting Archeological Sites on Private Lands
• Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Washington State Digital Library Collections

Washington History

Thanks to Advocy Update for the seeds of this list

• 100 Years in the Pacific Northwest—Collection of stories published in the Seattle Times marking the centennial of the newspaper.
• Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Centennial site
• Camp Harmony Exhibit—Exhibit detailing life in the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington state. Includes text and photographs and drawings. Part of the Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project at the University of Washington Libraries.
• The Cold War and Red Scare in Washington State—A curriculum project developed by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington. Includes an images, government reports and other documents. Also see Communism in Washington State.
• The Everett Massacre—Photographs and documents depicting the 1916 bloodiest battle in Washington State labor history between the IWW and police forces in Everett. For other images from this event see the Everett Massacre Collection from the University of Washington.
• From Shingle Mills to Suburbia: Index to the East Side Journal, 1918-1975—Searchable index to the East Side Journal. Also includes a short history of Kirkland. The newspaper is available at the UW Libraries in the Microforms Newspapers Collection, A3917.
• Google's collection of LIFE images—Searchable site dating back to the 1860s. Can search for Seattle images, which include the World's Fair, etc.
• Hanford Site—Collection of declassified Department of Energy documents dealing with plutonium and tritium production and other matters dating from the 1940s through the 1980s. Site also includes photographs.
• A History Bursting with Telling: Asian Americans in Washington State—A curriculum project developed by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington. Includes an images, government reports and other documents.
• History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest—Indepth lecture notes from Professor Findlay's HSTAA 432 class at the University of Washington.
• HistoryLink—HistoryLink is a historical data base and Website devoted to chronicling the development of Seattle, King County, and Washington state.
• Interrupted Lives: Japanese American Students at the University of Washington, 1941Ð1942—Extensive narrative with digitized documents and photographs detailing the experience of Nikkei students at the University of Washington in 1941-1942.
• King County Snapshots—King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities.
• No Finer Site: The University of Washington's Early Years on Union Bay—Exhibit of photographs with a brief narrative depicting the UW's move to Union Bay in 1895 from the collections of Special Collections at the UW.
• Museum of History and Industry—The museum has a searchable database of thousands of photographs dealing with Washington and PNW history. Also see the photograph collection at Tacoma Public Library and the University of Washington's Digital Collections.
• Pacific Northwest Labor History Project—This project directed by Professor James Gregory brings "together materials and research projects that will help students, scholars, and labor activists explore this rich and vital history. The site includes hundreds of photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, even video interviews." Topics include the Seattle General Strike, Labor Press Project and Communism in Washington State. Also see the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.
• Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum—A web-based museum showcasing aspects of the rich history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities with more than 12,000 images and artifacts.
• Pacific Northwest Quarterly
• Pamphlet and Textual Ephemera Collection of the University of Washington's Digital Collections
• Seattle Municipal Archives—Finding aids to various collections in the city archives plus a searchable database of images accompanied by digital photos. Also includes an exhibit on the Pike Place Market.
• Tacoma Public Library—NW History Databases—Tacoma Public Library provides many unique databases dealing with NW history including a searchable collection of more than 40,000 photographs, an obituary index and Unsettling Events, excerpts from the library's clippings file depicting local historical events. Also at the library is a collection of Murray Morgan's essays.
• Through Open Eyes: Roslyn Black History—Collection of photographs presented by Ellensburg Public Library detailing the history of African Americans in the small Cascade mining town of Roslyn.
• Washington History—Washington State Library's digital collection includes an early territorial newspaper, The Columbian, historical records, maps, photographs, and other primary source material for state history.
• WSU Digital Collections—Collections of historic materials from Washington State University included are the Early Washington Maps, Black Oral History and Kimble Northwest History Database which includes newspaper clippings and government reports and laws dealing with the settlement and development of the northwest.
• Yakima Memory—Collection of 9000 images from the Yakima Valley Regional Library and Yakima Valley Museum detailing the history of the region.
• Northwest Digital Archives—A program that provides enhanced access to archival collections and facilitates collaboration among archives, libraries, and museums in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Researchers can find information about more than 4500 archival collections located in the Northwestern United States through keyword, subject, repository, and genre searches. The database offers researchers the ability to find detailed information about collections across institutions, at a greater level of detail than is available through any other tool. Collection information is also exposed to search engines. Free to researchers.

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