11 results for: World War I, 1917-1918 (WWI)
Gavel presented to the "Seattle Council of Minute Women," 1923
The Washington Woman's Work Committee of the State Council was dubbed the "Minute Women" because "they, like the men of old, were to be ready at a minute's notice to carry messages for the government." This gavel, made from the wood of the oak and elm trees in Belleau Wood, France, and from artillery shells left after the WWI battle…
ID Number:1967.4109.34
Date:1923
World War I Navy Officer's black leather belt, ca. 1914
This belt belonged to Mortimer B. Carraher who was a United Stated Navy ensign and commanded a mine sweeper during the removal of mines from the North Sea Mine Barrage in 1919. During World War I, this mine barrage was laid east of the Orkney Islands to Norway with the purpose of stopping German U-boats from reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
ID Number:1967.4242.2
Date:Circa 1914
Emergency Police badge, ca. 1919
This pin is thought to have been used during the General Strike of 1919 as an Emergency Police badge. Seattle's Police Chief deputized thousands of citizens to deal with unrest.
ID Number:1969.4641.1
Date:1919
Flag with three stars representing three sons serving in World War I, 1918
This flag hung outside the home of Norval Hastings Latimer and Margaret (Moore) Latimer in Seattle. The three stars represent their three sons who served in WWI including Arthur Griffith Latimer, radio operator on Atlantic Transport of troops, US Navy ensign; Chester Moore Latimer, US Navy ensign in command of sub-chaser #308; and Earl Hastings Latimer, lieutenant in US Army,…
ID Number:1973.5652.2
Date:1918
Pair of brass flower vases, ca. 1918
These ornate vases, owned by a Seattle doctor, were made from WWI artillery shells. Many of the artillery shells left over from the war were collected by either soldiers or local artists and were subsequently transformed into mementos for both sentimental reasons and for the tourist trade.
ID Number:1973.5661.6
Date:Circa 1918
Boy Scout pin from the Treasury Department, 1917
This award was given to William Jones in 1917 when he was a Boy Scout in Troop #10 at Isaac I. Stevens School in Seattle. Jones was honored by the US Treasury War Service for selling war bonds for the Liberty Loan campaign during World War I with the motto, "Every Scout to Save a Soldier."
ID Number:1974.5867
Date:1917
Medal from the Disabled American Veterans, 1921
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) organization was created in 1920 in the wake of the first World War. Over 200,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces had been wounded during the war, including becoming blind, deaf, or mentally ill (referred to as “shell shock” at the time). Little government support was available at the time, so DAV aimed to support…
ID Number:1980.7023.7
Date:1921
Badge, "Inspector, American Protective League, Auxiliary to U.S. Dept. of Justice, F 68," ca. 1917
The American Protective League was an organization of private citizens who spied on and reported the activities of suspected German sympathizers during WWI, as well as other “radicals” who were considered a threat to the war effort. The latter included left-wing labor and political organizations, anarchists, and anti-war activists. The APL was sponsored by the United States Department of Justice…
ID Number:1982.178.43
Date:Circa 1917
Oil painting of the Duthie Shipyards by Amos Grant, 1919
J. F. Duthie & Company was a small shipyard in Seattle, Washington, established in 1911, that built cargo ships during during World War I . Most of the vessels built were "West boats," or steel-hulled cargo ships, used by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) on the west coast of the US. Not much is known about the artist Amos…
ID Number:1992.10
Date:1919
Silver commemorative coin honoring the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, minted in 2018
This commemorative coin, part of set number 41 of 65 sets and from the New York Numismatic Club, features Lau Sing Kee as one of four World War I soldiers who marched in a parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1919. Kee was honored in the parade because of his heroism in World War I and that…
ID Number:2019.67.1
Date:2018