CollectionsOur collections include 3,500 artifacts and documents and more
than 4,000 photographs that depict life on Bainbridge Island
from 1854 to the present. They include: Nautical charts, historic maps and plans. Logs and diaries of early explorers and settlers. Census rolls and records of school attendance,
post offices, hotels and cemeteries. Memorabilia: postcards, ferry and steamer schedules,
music and correspondence. Records of industries, government agencies,
organizations and individuals. Archaeological materials: fossils, shells, tools and
ceramic, iron and glass objects. Hudson's Bay Co. trade beads, native cedar mats, Japanese village artifacts. Tools for shipbuilding, logging, millworking, carpentry, fishing and farming. Original artwork and bottles, domestic items,
furniture and boat models. Industrial drawings and blueprints and 11 steamboat
name boards. Audio recordings that include oral histories, historical
sounds and music. Videos and films on maritime life, Japanese internment,
canoe making, sailing ships, logging, fishing and island
festivals. Reference library that includes out-of-print island
and regional histories, schoolbooks, atlases and
encyclopedias. Newspapers, including original copies of the two
dozen published on the island and microfilm reels of
newspapers dating from 1902 to the present. Bainbridge High School yearbooks. Historic resources inventory that documents
archaeological sites, geological features, natural
phenomena, and historic properties from the
1850s to 1945. To help you find what you are looking for, we have listed the
contents of our subject, biographical and oral history files below: |