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Study break: From the old school

Study break: From the old school

Happy Friday to all the students across Washington who have their noses back in the books! Need a real quick study break? Here, St. Martin’s students enjoy a break from all those books – back in 1965.  Visible in the background are “Old Main” and the “Grand Staircase.” The stairs being the traditional location for the college’s commencement ceremonies. The Digital Archives is a great student resource, and has thousands of old photos downloadable for free. See what you can find!

Friday night lights

Friday night lights

 It’s that time of  year when students are cracking open their text books … and that means high school football is starting all over the state.  Check out a flash back from 80 years ago, when the Olympia Bears hosted the Vancouver Trappers on Thanksgiving Day in 1929. The teams are seen playing on Stevens Field, since Olympia High School, then located across the street from the state capitol building, had no field of its own. The game’s final score: 14-0 Bears. (Bears…

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Didyaknow..

Didyaknow..

… The Washington State Archives was used to crack an unsolved mystery here at the State Capitol.  For years, rumor had it that there was only one fatality in the construction of the Legislative Building, but it was never confirmed until recent years.  In March of 2007, Tony Aitken, a history instructor at South Puget Sound Community College and a State Capitol Tour Guide,  decided to get to the bottom of this rumor.  He used the Washington State Archives to…

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Digital Archives needs you!

Digital Archives needs you!

Are you a genealogist? Are you interested in history, photographs, or public documents? Do you search the Internet? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you would be a great candidate to help make our Washington State Digital Archives even better. Digital Archives (see the Web site here) is the nation’s first archives dedicated specifically to the preservation of electronic records from both state and local agencies that have permanent legal, visual or historical value. Online collections…

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