The Archives of the Queen Anne Historical Society hold documents, photographs, oral histories and other ephemera related to the history of our neighborhood. Nearly all our files have been digitized and are being made available electronically on Flickr and the Internet Archive thanks to the generous support of our community.

In 2017 following the move of the Society’s offices, the Society donated hard copies of its Archives to the Ames Library at Seattle Pacific University and disposed of all the materials unrelated to Queen Anne or duplicated in regional collections (e.g. the Museum of History and Industry, Special Collections of the University of Washington libraries, and those of local newspapers such as the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or the Queen Anne-Magnolia News). Exceptionally, the Society has retained hard copies of files related to neighborhood schools and tours of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

You can learn more about our collections in the Collections Guide below. You can also find more information about our published book, Queen Anne: Community on the Hill, and where to find additional information about the neighborhood in other regional history collections.

Archives

[Queen Anne High School], 1952. Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives, #24387, Series 1204-01.

  • A project of the Queen Anne Historical Society between 1989 and 1993, Queen Anne: Community on the Hill has been digitized and is now available in full on our website and the Internet Archive.

    Edited by historian Dr. Kay Reinartz (1939-2011), this book is an important community project that traces the history of our neighborhood.

  • The Archives of the Queen Anne Historical Society have many collected documents, photographs, and oral histories that thoroughly document the history of our community. You can view our digital collections here.

    Special collections include, but are not limited to:

    • Calendar Line Drawings Collection

    • Cobblestone Collection

    • Les Hamilton Collection

    • Nolan Olson Collection

    • Oral History Collection (forthcoming)

    • Paul Dorpat Collection

  • To celebrate the launch of our digital collections, we have also developed our first digital exhibition, Inside the Community on the Hill, which includes photographs, oral history excerpts, and interactive maps around five themes. Materials were selected from the Queen Anne Historical Society Archives and the Seattle Municipal Archives. Additional digital exhibitions are forthcoming.

  • The local organizations listed below also have collections related to the history of Queen Anne.

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