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Now at Digital Archives: historical trademark records

January 22, 2013 Secretary of State's Office

The Digital Archives’ latest cool collection is nearly 100,000 historical trademark images and records going back to 1891. The fascinating series is titled “trademark” under the detailed search feature on the Digital Archives homepage. People can search for trademark records by keyword and record series. This lengthy project involved imaging samples and taking photographs of state registered trademarks. The trademark records project represents another step forward in digitizing the records of the Corporations and Charities Division. The first step was…

Trademarks top May’s “Archives treasures” poll

May 18, 2012 Secretary of State's Office

After several days of voting, the results are in. The winner of the May “Archives treasures” online poll is the collection of old trademarks of goods and products made and sold in Washington. The classic trademarks received 44 percent of the vote, defeating two other items found in the State Archives, the 1878 version of the Washington Constitution (33 percent) and the collection of documents related to the Japanese internment during World War II (23 percent). Later this month we’ll…

May Archives treasure #3: classic trademarks

May 14, 2012 Secretary of State's Office

(Image courtesy of Washington State Archives) As many business owners know, our office’s Corporation Division is where companies register trademarks that are used exclusively within Washington State or the region. In fact, the Secretary of State has been registering trademarks since statehood. Of course, many of the early products and goods are no longer sold, but their trademarks live on. Our State Archives has preserved roughly 3,000 expired trademarks, many of them beautifully artistic and scenic — frame-worthy even (see…

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