About Camano City Schoolhouse Archive

 Our community archive is how we refer to our post-custodial collection, meaning we digitize and publish community historical records and artifacts in our online catalog before returning the original items back to the person, business, or family who owns them. This allows us to be a useful repository for the island’s history, to safeguard digital facsimiles of photos, documents, etc. without overwhelming our archive space. It also allows our Camano community members to keep their records and historic items at home or pass them down to family where they can be enjoyed and treasured in person.  

 Yes! You can find our existing archive in the lower level of the Camano City Schoolhouse and we’re constantly updating our online digital catalog, which can be found here. Our volunteers are usually at the schoolhouse on Wednesdays and the archive is open to the public from 1-4pm on Wednesdays. 

If you’ve got items to donate, a research question, or if you’d like to visit the archive outside of our normal hours, please contact us ahead of time at archiveccsf@gmail.com

• Volunteer with the archive to help us catalog the island’s history by emailing the archive (above) or coming in on a Wednesday afternoon. We need help scanning, organizing, and photographing items, as well as identifying people and places in photos, and transcribing written or printed stories
• Donate any photos, diaries, newspapers, business documents, organization records, etc. that relate to Camano Island’s history (up to the present day) to either our permanent collection or our community archive
• Donate funds to the Schoolhouse Foundation to help support the continuation of our archive for many years to come