Research

Our Research Library is open to the public by appointment only. To schedule an appointment click here.

Photograph Collection

The San Juan Historical Museum's photograph collection includes over
2000 photographs. The photographs may be accessed through a research appointment. Copies of photos may be obtained for a fee. Contact the museum for a fee schedule.

Oral Histories

The Following are are the list of the museums oral histories. Click here to hear a digital oral history of

  • May Agnes Bergman Boyce
  • Robert Follett Buck
  • Ethel L. Dale
  • Georgia Wanda Murray Davis
  • Etta Elizabeth Lightheart Egeland
  • Glen Fleming
  • Cora Elsie Elwell Moe Fowler
    This oral history contains information about Shaw Island
  • Elmon Adams Geneste, Jr.
    This oral history contains information about the history of transportaion on San Juan Island
  • Marie Larsen Johnson Greenfield
  • Martha Holden Nash Gubelman
  • Lynette King Guard
  • Sally Dodd Hall
    This oral history contains information about Yellow Island
  • Carla Jean Higginson
    This oral history contains information about Carla's ancestor's Christopher Rosler and his wife Anna Pike Rosler who was a Native American woman
  • Garreth Jeffers
    This oral history contains information about the Friday Harbor Fish Cannery
  • Nourdine H. Jensen
    This oral history contains information about boat building on San Juan Island
  • Carlton Wright King
    This oral history contains information about the history of King's Market
  • Louise Karen Lovaas King
  • Georgia May Smith Krumdiack
  • Roger Loring
    This oral history contains information about the Cemetary
  • Laura Roland
  • Mildred King Sandwith
  • Virginia Gertrude Reed Sandwith
  • Ray Sheffer
    This oral history contains information about law enforcement on San Juan Island
  • Helga Lindquist Settles
    This oral history contains information about the living in the Lime Kiln Lighthouse on San Juan Island
  • Claudine Helen Sundstrom
  • Frederick Daniel Sundstrom
    This oral history contains information about the history of agriculture on San Juan Island
  • Ruth Guard Sundstrom
  • Edward Norman Tuck
    This oral history contains information about Roche Harbor Lime Kiln
  • Edna Beryl Boyce Wade
    This oral history contains information about the Cemetary
  • Robert William Workman
    This oral history contains information about the Roche Harbor Lime Quarries
  • William Arthur Wotton
  • Kendo Yasuda
    This oral history contains information about the history of the Japanese on San Juan Island