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Image of Cooks and Assistants Union pin, Seattle Local 33, 1975

Cooks and Assistants Union pin, Seattle Local 33, 1975

Member pin for Seattle Local 33 of the Cooks and Assistants Union under the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance Union.
ID Number:2021.20.8
Date:1975
Image of Copper tankard from the Vienna Saloon owned and operated by Lorenz Pavish, ca. 1905

Copper tankard from the Vienna Saloon owned and operated by Lorenz Pavish, ca. 1905

Lorenz Pavish was born in 1865 in Austria and immigrated to the United States in 1891. He arrived in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle in 1904 after stints in Pennsylvania, Kansas City, San Francisco, British Columbia, and Portland, Oregon. He bought the Georgetown property soon to be named the Vienna Building in 1904 and opened a saloon and hotel. Lorenz…
ID Number:2023.21.1
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Key for room 315 at the Hotel Butler, Seattle, WA, ca. 1920

Key for room 315 at the Hotel Butler, Seattle, WA, ca. 1920

Hotel Butler was located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood at the corner of Second Avenue and James Street. Construction began soon after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 and opened in 1894. It was managed by German immigrants Dietrich Hamm and Ferdinand Schmitz. The hotel was grand and hosted famous guests, including presidents Grover Clevland, William McKinley, and Theodore…
ID Number:2024.64.1
Date:Circa 1920
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