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Image of War bond sign at Home of the Green Apple Pie, Seattle, 1945
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War bond sign at Home of the Green Apple Pie, Seattle, 1945

Signs in image: August 24, 1937 - We Baked Our 1,000,000th Pie - We're On Our Way to Our Second Million. Buy War Bonds to Build Boeing Bombers - Seattle's Own Flying Fortress. Stacked These Pies Would Be 15 Times Higher Than Mt. Rainier Which is 14,409 ft. Tall. 1,436,409 Pies Would Make a Tower 475 Times as High as…
ID Number:1983.10.15338.2
Date:1945
Videorecording

Oral history interview with Edward C. Wells, March 1985

Edward C. Wells (1910-1986) was an engineer and senior vice president of the Boeing Company, and served on the company’s board of directors. He played a major role in the design of Boeing planes, from bombers, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29, to jet transports, including the 707, 747 and others. Wells was born in Boise, Idaho and…
ID Number:1985.135.29
Date:1985
Image of Aerial view looking down on nine Martin bombers in formation, 1938
Photograph

Aerial view looking down on nine Martin bombers in formation, 1938

Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 9, 1938
ID Number:1986.5.255.3
Date:1938
Image of Seattle Totems vs. Victoria Cougars, Seattle, April 2, 1961
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Seattle Totems vs. Victoria Cougars, Seattle, April 2, 1961

The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:1986.5.4135.1
Date:1961
Image of Seattle Totems vs. Victoria Cougars, Seattle, April 2, 1961
Photograph

Seattle Totems vs. Victoria Cougars, Seattle, April 2, 1961

The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:1986.5.4135.2
Date:1961
Image of Seattle Totems vs. San Francisco Seals, Seattle, January 24, 1965
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Seattle Totems vs. San Francisco Seals, Seattle, January 24, 1965

The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:1986.5.4156.1
Date:1965
Image of Man test driving Sherman tank in river, Renton, 1942
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Man test driving Sherman tank in river, Renton, 1942

The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment. During World…
ID Number:1986.5.6757.1
Date:1942
Image of Workers building tanks at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943
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Workers building tanks at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943

The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment. During World…
ID Number:1986.5.6759.15
Date:1943
Image of Boeing B-17 ceremony, Seattle, 1945
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Boeing B-17 ceremony, Seattle, 1945

A large crowd gathers at the Seattle Boeing plant to commemorate the conversion of production from B-17 to B-29 bombers. The Army Air Corps ordered the first B-17s in early 1936, and at the peak of its production in 1944, the Seattle Boeing plant would complete 16 B-17s every 24 hours. The heavily-armed Flying Fortresses were legendary for their ability…
ID Number:1986.5.7449.1
Date:1945
Image of Seattle Bombers football program, September 8, 1944
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Seattle Bombers football program, September 8, 1944

The Seattle Bombers were a professional men's football team that competed from 1942-1944 as part of two different but closely related professional football leagues, the Northwest War Industries League and the American Football League. The program pictured here is from the 1944 season and features biographies of team owner Al Davies and the coaching staff: Earl "Dutch" Clark, James Mandas,…
ID Number:1990.35.1
Date:1944
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