107 results for: Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Ephemera
Seattle Choral - Symphony Society season ticket, 1907-1908
In 1906, music educator and conductor James Hamilton Howe (d. 1934) proposed the formation of a permanent choral-symphony society in Seattle. Many local musicians took an interest, and the venture was backed by the Ladies Musical Club, the Schubert Society, the Chamber of Commerce, and other local organizations. Howe planned to present at least six concerts a season, with Sunday…
ID Number:1953.641.1c
Date:1907-1908
Serial
Some Scenes Attending End of Round the World Flight, October 18, 1924
In 1924, four Douglas World Cruisers, each manned by an Army Air Corps pilot and mechanic, took off from Seattle's Sand Point Field to fly around the world. Some 175 days later, on September 29, 1924, three of the planes arrived back in Seattle. An estimated 40,000 people greeted the flyers as they landed at what is now Magnuson Park.…
ID Number:1956.1145.2.1
Date:1924
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Church leaders posing together at St. Mark's Church, Seattle, 1894
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1889 to meet the needs of a growing Seattle population. The congregation's first dedicated church building was built in 1890 at 5th Avenue and Stewart Street, in downtown Seattle. By 1897 they had outgrown it and moved into a new building at Seneca and Broadway on First Hill. In 1923 land was purchased on…
ID Number:1957.1290.1
Date:1894
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William O. McKay, Broadway High School Football Player, Seattle, 1907
Broadway High School athlete William O. "Bill" McKay was a football teammate of Wee Coyle. The William Jennings "Wee" Coyle collection chronicles Coyle's sports career and teammates starting in high school and on through college, as well as his later career as Lieutenant Governor of Washington State.William O. "Bill" McKay (1887-1956) attended the University of Washington, but left before graduating…
ID Number:1960.1821.12
Date:1907
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Grover Tyler, Mayor Bertha Landes, and James Spangler near plane, Seattle, September 15, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Bertha vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.24
Date:1926
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Mayor-Elect George F. Cotterill dinner menu, Seattle, March 15, 1912
George Cotterill was elected Mayor of Seattle in 1912, after working as Assistant City Engineer and holding other public offices. A dinner welcoming Cotterill and other elected city officials was hosted by the New Seattle Chamber of Commerce on March 15, 1912, at the New Washington Hotel. The menu lists the courses to be served at a dinner and is…
ID Number:1980.7025.3
Date:1912
Music, notated
The City of Progress
The lyrics for "The City of Progress," a march dedicated to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, were written by Alvin L. Snow, and the music was composed by prominent local musician and educator Adolph Edgren. The song was written for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), a world's fair held in 1909 on the campus of Seattle's University of Washington to promote…
ID Number:1980.7097A.23
Date:1909
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Chamber of Commerce Building, Seattle, circa 1925
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:1983.10.391
Date:Circa 1925
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Mike Dederer, July-August 1985
Michael Dederer (1905-1995) built the Seattle Fur Exchange into one of the foremost fur auctions in the country and an international presence in the industry. Born in Canada, Dederer moved with his family to Montana in 1914. Working at a department store while still in high school, Dederer had developed an interest in the fur trade. Shortly after moving to…
ID Number:1985.135.7
Date:1985
Videorecording
Oral history interview with William S. Street, 1985
William S. "Bill" Street, (1904-2000) was a department store executive who was president of Seattle's Frederick & Nelson store from 1946 to 1962. He also served as vice-president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. Street retired to chair the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition). In 1963, he became president of United Pacific (later Univar), which had interests in…
ID Number:1985.135.26
Date:1985