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All Library locations remain closed to limit the spread of COVID-19. Many locations are offering curbside services up to 5 days per week, and some are accepting returns daily. Find locations and hours for curbside services and returns at www.spl.org/Curbside.
Browse items from the Seattle Room through our Special Collections Online. Explore the history of the city through postcards, photographs, periodicals, maps, menus and more.
Help the Library's Special Collections Department document the Covid-19 pandemic in Seattle. Share your story and contribute photographs, short videos, and other digital material.
Highlights from our new Special Collections Online: The Arthur C. Pillsbury Photograph Collection and the Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection.
Search or browse our Special Collections Online by decade, material type or subject.
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