WAUTimberlineTavernPH2025_008.xml Guide to the Timberline Tavern photograph collection Timberline Tavern photograph collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2025

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-07. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Timberline Tavern photograph collection Timberline Tavern PH2025-008 0.27 cubic feet 1 box and 1 oversize vertical file 1988-2005 Photographs of events and patrons of a country western gay and lesbian bar in Seattle English .

The Timberline Tavern was a country western gay and lesbian bar located in the historic Sons of Norway Hall on the corner of Boren Avenue and Virginia Street in Seattle. It opened in 1988, moved to another location in 2003. and operated as Timberline Spirit until it permanently closed in 2005.

Gift of Jim Detwiler, July 2024

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Photographs of events and patrons of the Timberline Tavern and a couple of items of ephemera. Most of the photographs are Polaroids signed by the patrons photographed. Ephemera contains dance class schedules, The Unofficial Timberlexicon (1998), and Sons of Norway Building Research (1987).

Arranged in 2 series:

Series 1, Photographs Series 2, Ephemera Visual Materials Collections Photographs Sports and Recreation Gays and Lesbians Series 1, Photographs Polaroid photographs PH2025-008 Box 1

Scope and Content: Approximately 230 Polaroid prints of people inside the Tavern, most with signatures or names of the people pictured.

Photographs PH2025-008 Box 1

Scope and Content: Photographs of events, in particular a New Years party, and patrons of the Tavern.

Large Photographs PH2025-008 OSVF 0246

Scope and Content: Larger prints of group photographs, and 1 contact sheet of images of the exterior.

Series 2, Ephemera Dance Class Schedules 2 items PH2025-008 Box 1 The Unofficial Timberlexicon by Feild and Bagemihl 1998 PH2025-008 Box 1

Scope and Content: One booklet produced for the 11th anniversary of Timberline.

Sons of Norway Building 2015 Boren, Research by John Mikesch 1987 PH2025-008 OSVF 0246

Scope and Content: Typed document of research into the Sons of Norway building, including photocopies of related documents.