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Bytes and Boxes

Exhibits and News from the King County Archives


We preserve and provide access to County records of enduring historical value.

Browse online exhibits and the Bytes and Boxes blog. Please visit the main website to learn more about the Archives.


KING COUNTY ARCHIVES ONLINE EXHIBITS

RESPONDING TO AIDS

Primary sources that document Seattle-King County Public Health Department’s response to the 1980s and 1990s AIDS epidemic.

THROUGH THE LENS OF T.P. BLUM

A sampling of photographs taken by King County bridge inspector Thomas Patrick Blum from 1931 to 1934.

LAND RECLAMATION AS SCULPTURE

Photographs, recordings, videos, and textual records that document the 1979 Design Symposium and the Earthworks project it spawned.

LAKE WASHINGTON SHIP CANAL

Drawings, photographs, maps, and documents commemorating the July 4, 1917, opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and its impact on the mills of Salmon Bay.

SECOND LOOK

Photographs from 1909 to 1970 documenting the daily work of Seattle-King County Department of Public Health employees.

AT HOME IN KING COUNTY

Images documenting the activities of King County residents during the 20th century.


Blog

HIV outreach to men who don’t identify as gay
The AIDS virus first appeared in King County in 1982, a year …
YOU MIGHT HAVE GONE PAST THIS ALL YOUR LIFE: Photographs of Public Art In The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
Opening day for the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, September 15, 1990. [From …