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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 11 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 14 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 4 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 12 |
| 1876 | 131 |
| 1877 | 97 |
| 1878 | 44 |
| 1879 | 6 |
| 1880 | 19 |
| 1882 | 19 |
| 1883 | 108 |
| 1884 | 55 |
| 1885 | 113 |
| 1886 | 42 |
| 1887 | 50 |
| 1888 | 50 |
| 1889 | 167 |
| 1890 | 19 |
| 1891 | 127 |
| 1892 | 246 |
| 1893 | 256 |
| 1894 | 252 |
| 1895 | 398 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 30 |
| 1899 | 77 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 6 |
| 1903 | 121 |
| 1904 | 94 |
| 1905 | 10 |
| 1907 | 9 |
| 1908 | 56 |
| 1909 | 138 |
| 1910 | 44 |
| 1911 | 16 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 30 |
| 1915 | 30 |
| 1916 | 58 |
| 1917 | 33 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 21 |
| 1924 | 11 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
5 stories matching part
- The $50 Fee That Thinned Filipino Enrollment at the U.W.
A Filipino community leader reports only forty students enrolled at the University of Washington, blaming rigid scholarship rules and a new non-resident charge imposed on Filipino students.
- A Clubhouse Dream Dies on 12th Avenue
In 1923, Seattle’s University Filipino Club thought it had a deal for a $39,500 headquarters. Then the owner added interest charges—and neighbors made clear they did not want Filipino residents next door.
- The Chinese Girl Barred From the Y.W.C.A. Pool
In a 1926 essay, a Chinese writer catalogues American prejudice—segregated Y.M.C.A.s, a church donor’s daughter turned away from a swimming pool, and lecturers who twist China to fit their biases.
- Seattle’s Forgotten Filipino Poets—and the Prejudice They Turned into Verse
A 1928 Filipino Forum essay introduces Narciso Ines and a circle of Northwest poets writing beauty and protest from the margins of Seattle life.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.