9 results for: Spanish American War, 1898
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Invitation to USS Rowan launching on April 8, 1898
In 1898, the Moran Bros. Company shipyard in Seattle launched the USS Rowan (also TB-8), a Navy torpedo boat which was the first war vessel built in the State of Washington. An estimated 10,000 people came to watch the ceremony on Elliott Bay during which the boat was christened by Adria Maude (Semple) Moale Langdon (1872-1947) the wife of Navy…
ID Number:1969.5072.102
Date:1898
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Portrait of gardener Ernest Fabi, Seattle, circa 1930
Ernest A. Fabi (1876-1939) was a well-known Seattle gardener and landscape architect. In 1898 he served during the Spanish American War with the 7th Illinois Infantry, Company I. Ernest married Jennie A Backe (1884-) in 1912, and he used their home and yard on Queen Anne Hill to display his many unique species of flowers and trees. There are magnolia…
ID Number:1976.6304.20
Date:Circa 1930
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Independence Day parade, Seattle, July 4, 1898
During the Independence Day celebrations in Seattle in 1898, the place of honor in the parade was held by the Fifth Regiment, Canadian Militia. The militia received a standing ovation from the crowd in a "demonstration of Anglo-Saxon unity," likely spurred on by the defeat the previous day of the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba, by U. S. forces,…
ID Number:1980.6923.16
Date:1898
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USS Oregon on last voyage, Seattle, June 9, 1925
The USS Oregon battleship launched in 1893 for the United States Navy and served during the Spanish-American War (1898), the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), and WWI before she was decommissioned in 1919. In 1925, she was lent to the state of Oregon to serve as a floating monument and museum in Portland. Her stripped hulk was later used as an ammunition…
ID Number:1983.10.3087.2
Date:1925
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Volunteer Park, Seattle, circa 1912
Seattle's Volunteer Park was named in honor of the men who served in the 1898 Spanish American War. The Olmsted Brothers' 1909 plan for the park included lawns, gardens, pavilions, and play areas which were designed to harmonize with the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood. Handwritten on sleeve: Volunteer Park.Photographer's Reference Number: 7541
ID Number:1983.10.7864.1
Date:Circa 1912
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Volunteer Park, 1910
Seattle's Volunteer Park was named in honor of the men who served in the 1898 Spanish American War. The Olmsted Brothers' 1909 plan for the park included lawns, gardens, pavilions, and play areas which were designed to harmonize with the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood.This photo shows an area of Volunteer Park, with rose gardens, lawns, winding paths, and a water…
ID Number:1983.10.8981.1
Date:1910
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Volunteer Park music pavilion, Seattle, circa 1912
Seattle's Volunteer Park was named in honor of the men who served in the 1898 Spanish American War. The Olmsted Brothers' 1909 plan for the park included lawns, gardens, pavilions, and play areas which were designed to harmonize with the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood. Handwritten on sleeve: Pan Volunteer Park Music Pavillion [sic]. Photographer's Reference Number: 19617
ID Number:1983.10.9228.1
Date:Circa 1912
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Volunteer Park, Seattle, circa. 1912
Seattle's Volunteer Park was named in honor of the men who served in the 1898 Spanish American War. The Olmsted Brothers' 1909 plan for the park included lawns, gardens, pavilions, and play areas which were designed to harmonize with the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood. Handwritten on mount: Volunteer Park - A Formal Park in Seattle. Volunteer Park ca. 1912.
ID Number:2002.3.2018
Date:Circa 1912
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Spanish-American War veterans in Memorial Day parade, Seattle, May 30, 1940
On May 30, 1940, Seattle area veterans of the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I held ceremonies of remembrance and marched in the Memorial Day parade. They gathered on Second Avenue at Virginia Street, moved down Second Avenue to Yesler Way and then marched back north on Fourth Avenue. National guard units, cadet corps, patriotic groups, Red…
ID Number:PI23376
Date:1940