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Image of Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931
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Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931

An unroped two-man non-guided party consisting of brothers Kenneth and Robert Zinn left Camp Muir for the summit of Mount Rainier on July 4th weekend of 1931. During the ascent Robert Zinn became exhausted; sitting to rest, he began a slide of 3,400 feet, striking Nisqually Glacier. A search party headed by District Ranger Charles Browne searched in vain on…
ID Number:2009.16.72
Date:1931
Image of Band playing at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1987
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Band playing at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1987

The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s, when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.018.01
Date:1987
Image of Bob Frasier and John Davis posing at gym, Seattle, October 16, 1949
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Bob Frasier and John Davis posing at gym, Seattle, October 16, 1949

Bob Frasier, manager, assists John Davis, fighter and longshoreman, in the ring at a gymnasium located around 1st & Cherry. Bob is wearing a long sleeved shirt and pants with suspenders, and John is in a striped shirt and shorts, wearing protective gear and gloves.
ID Number:2014.49.010.001.0002
Date:1949
Image of Members of En Avante Social Club posing together, Seattle, circa 1949
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Members of En Avante Social Club posing together, Seattle, circa 1949

Twelve members of the En Avante Social Club pose in a room. From left to right they are Loyce (Johnson) Massey, Alice (Dhue) Tibbs, Juanita (Alexander) Davis, Amy (Gaston) Hammond, Dorris (Hickman) Height, Bessie Allen (married to Danny), Vera (Smith) Gayle, Edna Roten, unidentified woman, Muriel (Fletcher) Minni, Marquerite Jameson, and Bea Chatters.
ID Number:2014.49.010.014.0125
Date:Circa 1949
Image of Deloris and Rhone Berry entering car on their wedding day, Seattle, June 15, 1952
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Deloris and Rhone Berry entering car on their wedding day, Seattle, June 15, 1952

This photo shows a newlywed bride and groom stepping into a car. This couple was unidentified when MOHAI first received this photograph. Thanks to input from Delores Davis, we now know their names and that Howard Rhone was a fireman and Deloris was a graduate of Seattle University. The sign in the front passenger side window reads "Hold Her Tight."
ID Number:2014.49.010.019.0039
Date:1952
Image of Group around table at club party, Seattle, circa 1953
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Group around table at club party, Seattle, circa 1953

Here, a group sits at a table set for food and drink. The party may be at Faurot's Ballroom at 1214 E. Pike Street or The Trianon at 218 Wall Street. The guests are, left to right: unidentified man, Ruth (Beck) Davis of Tacoma, unidentified man, Betty Cox, Mr. Davis (Ruth Davis' husband), Dorothy Walton, and Frank Walton.
ID Number:2014.49.014.020.0038
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Group posing at a party, Seattle, circa 1953
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Group posing at a party, Seattle, circa 1953

Isabelle (Donaldson) "Izzie" Smith, left, poses with, left to right, an unidentified man, Dorothy Hollingsworth, Dan, Betty Cox, Bill Conley, Ruth (Beck) Davis, and three unidentified others on the porch during a party at a fourplex house located at 19th Avenue E. and E. John Street.
ID Number:2014.49.014.021.0042
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters posing with crest, Seattle, circa 1962
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Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters posing with crest, Seattle, circa 1962

This photo shows a group of women belonging to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority posing together with the sorority crest at an unknown event. Some of the women have been identified: Theresa Halley (standing, 8th from left), Nan Edwards (standing, 7th from left), Colleen R. Walls (standing, 4th from right), Shirley Wilcox (standing, 2nd from right), Helen Stafford and Melvina…
ID Number:2014.49.014.030.0069
Date:Circa 1962
Image of The Leon Vaughn Band, Seattle, 1948
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The Leon Vaughn Band, Seattle, 1948

Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished in the first half of the twentieth century, with their popularity peaking in the late 1930s through early 1950s. Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of musicians and patrons, then returning the following week to sell prints.In the mid-1940s, trumpeter Leon Vaughn formed his own band…
ID Number:2014.49.14.007.12
Date:1948
Image of Women singing at microphone at the Black & Tan nightclub, 1944
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Women singing at microphone at the Black & Tan nightclub, 1944

Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished in the first half of the twentieth century, with their popularity peaking in the late 1930s through early 1950s. Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of musicians and patrons, then returning the following week to sell prints.Here, Smith photographs two women singing at a microphone at…
ID Number:2014.49.16.101.03
Date:1944
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