Possible Topics for Research

(only to be used if you absolutely can not think of one of your own).
 
 

• Fur trade in the Northwest
• Who owns Tacoma? (downtown real estate ownership patterns)
• History of a Tacoma business
• History of Crime in Tacoma (from federal records).
• Prohibition in Tacoma
• History of one of the UWT  campus buildings, or a building or business in the UWT district
• vegetation history of tacoma area using pollen history
• Tacoma as seen by early explorers
• Puget sound country as seen in railroad surveys
• The IWW
• Electrification of Tacoma
• Timber exports in Tacoma
• Parking garages
• urban renewal and its impact in Tacoma
• Tacoma as seen in New York Newpapers
• Chinese in Tacoma
• Japanese in Tacoma
• Building  I-705
• The impact of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge on Development
• The impact of the mall on downtown Tacoma
• Salmon fishing in Tacoma
• Shellfishing in Tacoma