Yakima Memory

Yakima Memory is an online collaboration between Yakima Valley Libraries and Yakima Valley Museum for the digitization, preservation, and distribution of historical materials held by both institutions. Here you will find digitized photographs, historical texts, memorabilia & ephemera, maps and many more items of historical and cultural significance. Use the Search or Browse features to view items in the collection. Each item record tells where to find the physical object.

 

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Recent Submissions

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Sunnyside Dam on the Yakima River
(Yakima Valley Libraries, 2023-07-20) Relander, Clifford "Click"
Sunnyside Dam on Yakima River at low water with fishing platforms. June 7th, 1962.
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Kids Clowning Around
(Yakima Valley Libraries, 2023-07-26)
Children clowning for the camera.
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Orcas Island Historical Museum
(Yakima Valley Libraries, 2024-02-28) Relander, Clifford "Click"
Orcas Island Historical Museum, Eastsound, WA. 1962. From the museum's website: https://www.orcasmuseums.org/about-us.html The Orcas Island Historical Society’s first museum consisted of artifacts displayed on the front porch of a pioneer family’s home. Property for a permanent museum site was eventually obtained in the village of Eastsound, a location the facility continues to occupy today. In the 1950s and 1960s, various island families donated six original homestead cabins built during the 1870s and the 1890s to the Society. Volunteers disassembled the structures at their original sites, then moved, reconstructed and linked the structures together to create the main museum facility. These cabins are now over a hundred years old, and not only house the collections, but are considered important historical artifacts in themselves. Each cabin serves as a space for interpreting specific aspects of island history as told through the life stories and material culture of the Native American and early European-American settlers of this area. The Orcas Island Historical Museum is unique in being the only object-based, interpretive heritage facility for the island, with a permanent collection comprised of approximately 6000 objects, paper documents and photographs.
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Shoreline, possibly Bainbridge Island
(Yakima Valley Libraries, 2024-02-28) Relander, Clifford "Click"
Shoreline, possibly Bainbridge Island. The series of photos suggests this could possibly be Orcas Island if it isn't Bainbridge. 1962.
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Yakima's Gilded Age 1887-1914
(Yakima Valley Libraries/Yakima Valley Museum, 2022-05-13) Miles, Jo N.
Yakima Valley Libraries and the Yakima Valley Museum collaborated on this publication using photographs from their respective collections. The Gilded Age was a period of vibrant economic activity in a young community made up of magnificent brick and stone buildings in a horse-and-buggy environment. Each spread is a current photo taken in the exact or near exact location of an old photograph on the facing page.