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Our mission is to record, preserve, interpret, and display the history of Kingston, Washington
Artifact Repository
Figure 1
Here is the ScanPro Microfilm Machine at the Sylvan Way branch of the Kitsap Regional Library
Boxes of microfilm. Interestingly, some of them have handwritten notes about missing artifacts. The recording on to microfilm was done by the University of Washington (beginnings of the reels state this)
Figure 2
Click the icon above to view the artifact tracking document
Figure 4
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One of the better resolution jpgs-- cover from 1983
Kitsap County Herald
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Cabinet drawer full of reels from Kitsap County Herald
Figure 6
Here is a copy of the boxes that I asked NARA to pull this week, derived from a list that had been created by NARA employees in 2021 as per request by KHS.
Figure 7
The certificate of completion for the training course had a typo, but that wasn't a problem.
My researcher card. Good for one year.
Here is the cart of the boxes that I requested earlier and they had waiting for me.
Figure 8
Documents from the National Archive mention Vashon Island and Dockton (a section of Vashon), where I live, in conjunction with rum runners and opium runners.
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Head shots of convicted opium runners
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Mentions of Port Angeles and Port Townsend in documents from the National Archives
Figure 10
Physical copies of the Kitsap County Herald and Bainbridge Review bound in large tomes at the Sylvan Way branch of KRL
Figure 11
This is the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine website.
I typed in kingston4thofjuly.com and the years where there are snapshots of the website showed on the bar graph.
Then I clicked on a year (2018), then on one of the blue dots below (I chose June 30). Each of the blue dots (only one shown here is on March 7) represents a screenshot that was taken of the website.
This is a screenshot of the 2018 website.
Unfortunately, there are no mentions of the
Grand Marshal or Person of the Year
Figure 13
Below are photos of the display that the Kingston Historical Society had previously put together regarding prohibition.
Figure 14
Through the Kitsap Regional Library, I was able to access archives of local papers by using limiters and using the keywords "Kingston Parade". I also tried variations with names and dates I was trying to focus on. The results were mixed.
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These are my notes regarding names to look out for in the National Archives, taken from the KHS's display "Shadow Boats".
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Documents from court proceedings that name defendants from Bremerton and Silverdale in Kitsap County, just south of Kingston
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Documents from RG 56 that have references to Kitsap
Documents from RG 0021 that have references to Kitsap
Documents from RG 56 and RG 0021 that have NO references to Kitsap
See Fig 12 for the link to this tracking document
Figure 18
All artifacts now have listed filepaths for both the original filepath and also the filepath to the "Flagged as Puget Sound" copies
Each box has a separate file in Google Drive. Copies of artifacts were moved to the "Flagged as Puget Sound" File on the bottom in pink
Highlighted Files have direct mention of Kingston. All of these documents are from RG 56 Box 25, Einar Oas Files
Figure 19
List of Conspirators in Kitsap County Case
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Added Column of File Number for clarity
Figure 22
Click the envelope above to read the narrative about Kitsap Rum Runners
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