25 results for: Seattle Daily Press, The
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Denny Building housing The Seattle Daily Times, 1406 2nd Ave., Seattle, circa 1903
Founded when Alden J. Blethen (1845-1915) bought the Seattle Press-Times in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times, the Seattle Times continues to be Washington State's largest-circulation daily newspaper. The building in this image, the Arthur Wilson Denny Office Building, was built in 1901 on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Union Street in what is now the…
ID Number:1972.5346.17
Date:Circa 1903
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Blethen child, Seattle, circa 1935
The Seattle Times started as the Seattle Press-Times in 1891. Seattle attorney Alden J. Blethen bought the newspaper in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times. The Blethen family continues to own the paper today. This photo of an unnamed Blethen child in the mid-1930s is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella…
ID Number:1974.5923.366
Date:Circa 1935
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Dance card for the 11th Annual Ball, Printing Press Assistants Union No. 59, December 17, 1914
In December 1914, members of Local 59 of the Seattle Printing Press Assistants Union and others in the printing trades gathered for the local’s Eleventh Annual Ball. Some 150 couples enjoyed the evening’s reception and dance at Eagle’s Hall. Dance cards for the event listed some twenty dances, from the opening two-step to the unnamed “third extra.” Women could list…
ID Number:1976.6296.24
Date:1914
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Sherman Printing & Binding Co. business card, circa 1936
The Sherman Printing & Binding Co. was founded in Seattle by Alonzo A. Sherman around 1911. Sherman had worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the late 1890s and then worked as a printer in Spokane from about 1900-1905. Returning to Seattle, he worked for the Metropolitan Press and the Seattle Daily Star before opening his own business around 1908, first…
ID Number:1976.6296.25
Date:Circa 1936
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Denny Building, Seattle, circa 1911
In 1902, The Seattle Daily Times moved to the Denny Building at the corner of Second Avenue and Union. People walking by on the street could read the posted news bulletins and watch the presses through the basement windows. During elections or baseball games, they could stop by to get the latest results. Signs in image: Merchants Printing Co. [Hamaker?]…
ID Number:1983.10.6653
Date:Circa 1911
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Janet McCloud, Lillian Gregory, and Jack Tanner at press conference, Olympia, July 3, 1968
Janet Joy "Yet-Si-Blue" (Renecker) McCloud (1934-2003) was a Tulalip tribe member and an Indigenous activist who was prominent in the "fish wars" that led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and steelhead trout catch.In this image Janet McCloud, left, and Jack Tanner, right, listen to Lillian Gregory, center, speak at a press…
ID Number:1986.5.26914.23
Date:1964
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Portrait of Beriah Brown, Seattle, circa 1890
Beriah Brown (1815-1900), originally from New York, was an editor and politician who helped establish Seattle's journalistic and educational institutions. A vocal critic of President Lincoln and devoted to preserving state's rights to choose slavery, following Lincoln's assassination Mr. Brown was forced to flee San Francisco, where he edited the Daily Democratic Press. Arriving in Seattle around 1870, he launched…
ID Number:1989.80.1
Date:Circa 1890
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Richard Belmont speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972
When 140 acres of their ancestral land on Oyster Bay was declared surplus by the federal government, the Suquamish Tribe sought to have it returned to the tribe. They wanted to use to site for an Indian canoe house and racing area, an Indian historical and cultural center, an center for marine science and ecology, and a meeting facility that…
ID Number:2000.107.019.39.01
Date:1973
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Sbeebayoo (Billy) and Ellen Phillips, Seattle, January 8, 1910
In 1910 Chief Si'ahl's (Chief Seattle) nephew, Sbeebayoo (known as "Indian Billy" Phillips) and his wife Ellen (1812-1910), members of the Duwamish Tribe, were struggling to survive in their home at the foot of Stacy Street, just south of the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters seized the story, describing how Sbeebayoo's camping places along the Puget Sound shoreline had…
ID Number:2000.107.095.28.04
Date:1910
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Ellen Phillips in doorway of her home, Seattle, May 10, 1910
In 1910 Chief Si'ahl's (Chief Seattle) nephew, Sbeebayoo (known as "Indian Billy" Phillips) and his wife Ellen (1812-1910), members of the Duwamish Tribe, were struggling to survive in their home at the foot of Stacy Street, just south of the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters seized the story, describing how Sbeebayoo's camping places along the Puget Sound shoreline had…
ID Number:2000.107.095.28.05
Date:1910