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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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