Help create an archive of the Locks

Ballard resident Jim Broumley is taking on a monster of a project — to create an archive of the Ballard Locks and Carl English Gardens from scratch. Jim thinks there are nearly 3,000 uncataloged photos and slides.

By the end of summer, Jim wants to inventory all photo collections, documents, and artifacts. His plan is to create a volunteer organization to raise funds for specific equipment and supplies, recruit volunteers for the history project and gardens, scan all photos and slides in the collections and conduct several oral history interviews of former staff and volunteers. In the end, his goal is to put all the photos online. If you’d like to help Jim with this unique project, you can email him at jim@ridinthewave.com and check out his Roving Historian blog. Jim is passionate about this project and took it on as an internship to finish his MA in History from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy the Army Corps of Engineers and Jim Broumley.)