120 results for: Clubs and Organizations
Sequin dress worn by Anne Slaugh, Miss Seafair 1997
The first Seattle Seafair Queen was crowned in 1950. The title was changed to Miss Seafair in 1972 as the role evolved to put more emphasis on academics and personal achievements. Anne Slaugh, Miss Seafair 1997, worked to expand her duties into a full year of public appearances and community service. This stunning blue sequined mermaid-like gown and matching shoes…
ID Number:2011.105.2.1
Date:1997
Sequin shoes worn by Anne Slaugh, Miss Seafair 1997
The first Seattle Seafair Queen was crowned in 1950. The title was changed to Miss Seafair in 1972 as the role evolved to put more emphasis on academics and personal achievements. Anne Slaugh, Miss Seafair 1997, worked to expand her duties into a full year of public appearances and community service. This stunning blue sequined mermaid-like gown and matching shoes…
ID Number:2011.105.2.23
Date:1997
Red Cross volunteer pin, 1940s
Marian Pease wore this pin as a Seattle Red Cross volunteer during World War II.
ID Number:2011.119.1
Date:Circa 1940
Washington Conservation Corps ring, ca. 1940s
This ring belonged to Evert "Eggie" Hillard Soderlund. Born in Preston, Washington, to Swedish immigrant parents, Mr. Hillard was the youngest so he had to work to help support his widowed mother. When he worked for the Conservation Corps, he helped build a camp in Vancouver, Washington, and his check was sent home to his mother.
ID Number:2012.55.2
Date:Circa 1940
Portrait of Mrs. Bailey (Babette) Gatzert by Abram Fuks, 1890
Babette Gatzert, wife of Bailey Gatzert, co-founded Seattle's first charity, the Ladies Relief Society (now Seattle Children's Home). She was also active in the early years of the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society. In 1890, Baiely Gatzert's portrait, along with his wife Babette's portrait were painted by a German artist, Abram Fuks, considered to be one of the most celebrated oil…
ID Number:2013.128.2
Date:1890
Radioactive dime souvenir from Hanford Laboratories, 1964
Dimes such as these were used by Boy Scouts from the Blue Mountain Council of Scouts in Washington and Oregon at the 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The dime was part of the new Atomic Energy Merit Badge created in 1963 and renamed the Nuclear Science Merit Badge in 2005. The Scouts traded the dimes with…
ID Number:2014.8.1
Date:Circa 1964
Chicken Soup Brigade dog tag and chain, ca. 1990s
In the 1980s, Chicken Soup was a support organization for the gay community with groups of volunteers cooking and caring for those who were ill with HIV.
ID Number:2014.40.7
Date:Circa 1990-1999
Hot pink T-shirt, "Act Up," owned by Philip Bereano, co-founder of ACT UP Seattle, ca. 1990
ACT UP stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and advocated for immediate and significant action to fight the AIDS crisis. ACT UP's radical style unleashed a new era of direct-action gay and lesbian political activism. This shirt was donated by ACT UP Seattle co-founder Philip Bereano.
ID Number:2014.56.1
Date:Circa 1990
Black T-shirt, "Silence = Death," ca. 1990
This shirt features the motto "Silence = Death" from the gay and lesbian political activist organization ACT UP which stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. ACT UP Seattle co-founder Philip Bereano donated this shirt to MOHAI.
ID Number:2014.56.2
Date:Circa 1990
T-shirt, "Read My Lips," owned by Philip Bereano, co-founder of ACT UP Seattle, ca. 1988
Artist collective Gran Fury created this “Read My Lips” image for T-shirts and printed material supporting ACT UP. ACT UP stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and advocated for immediate and meaningful action to fight the AIDS crisis and end homophobia. The original photograph of two WWII sailors embracing is in the collection of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana…
ID Number:2014.56.3
Date:Circa 1988