Overview

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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Recently Added

  • Priest Rapids on the Columbia 
    Relander, Click (Yakima Valley Libraries, 7/23/1940)
    Priest Rapids on the Columbia being flooded by the backwaters of Priest Rapids Dam.
  • Camp Kettle 
    Relander, Click (Yakima Valley Libraries, 7/23/1940)
    Camp Kettle where 525 W. P. A. workers on the Coulee reservoir clearing project were quartered.
  • Columbia River at Pasco 
    Relander, Click (Yakima Valley Libraries, 7/23/1940)
    Part of Pasco on the Columbia River.
  • Lyons Ferry crossing 
    Relander, Click (Yakima Valley Libraries, 12/2/1951)
    Lyons Ferry crossing the Columbia River.
  • Naches Avenue 
    Relander, Click (Yakima Valley Libraries, 1968)
    Naches Avenue looking North.

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