The Sundquist Research Library and Archives at the Yakima Valley Museum is the principal regional repository specifically devoted to local history.   The Library & Archives are open to the public by appointment only, Tuesday through Friday. The Sundquist Library contains

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• over 12,000 historic photographs of the region; 

• 200 maps of the Valley; 

• 95 recorded oral histories; 

• bound copies of the Yakima Herald-Republic from 1890 to 1952; 1,100 linear feet of personal and local business papers; 

• pamphlets, scrapbooks and other ephemera; 

• 95 linear feet of newspaper clipping files; 

• 125 linear feet of Yakima Valley Transportation Company records (the last operating interurban line in the country); 

• 3,958 individual apple and other fruit labels used by local growers in marketing; 

• 432 local television 1950s-1980s news report tapes (awaiting evaluation);

• 2,700 linear feet of architectural drawings and records of structures built in the region from c.1900 to the 1960s;

• 1,200 general history reference books and periodicals, and 

• 1,500 books related to local history. 

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Also, 1,200 books, 12,000 photographs and slides, newspaper clippings, taped speeches, and other ephemera related to the careers of Yakima native and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.