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Deed to City of Seattle for Carkeek Park property, Seattle, August 21, 1918
Seattle’s original Carkeek Park was located on Lake Washington, roughly where Magnuson Park is today. English-born Seattle businessman and contractor Morgan J. Carkeek had come to Seattle in 1875. In 1919, he and his wife gave some 23 acres of land on Lake Washington to the City of Seattle for a park, to be called “Carkeek Park”. On August 21,…
ID Number:2012.3.3
Date:1918
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Elliott Bay Water Taxi poster, Seattle, 1997
West Seattle is Seattle's oldest and biggest neighborhood, situated on a peninsula in Elliott Bay. Early public transportation between West Seattle and Seattle was mostly limited to the irregular and infrequent service provided by “Mosquito Fleet” steamships that traveled from port to port around Puget Sound. In 1888 the West Seattle Land and Improvement Company built a dock and launched…
ID Number:2012.26.65
Date:1997
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Donna Rydberg, Gracie Hansen and John Eaton on stage at Century 21 groundbreaking event, 1961
Donna Rydberg (1933-2008) was born and raised in Seattle, the only child of German immigrants Leo and Freida Bartl. During the 1960s, Rydberg had a successful modeling career and her work appeared in magazines, newspapers and fashion catalogs. She was also featured at various charity events and fashion show benefits at venues such as the Edgewater Inn, Frederick & Nelson,…
ID Number:2012.38.34
Date:1961
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John Eaton adjusting headpiece on model Donna Rydberg, 1961
Donna Rydberg (1933-2008) was born and raised in Seattle, the only child of German immigrants Leo and Freida Bartl. During the 1960s, Rydberg had a successful modeling career and her work appeared in magazines, newspapers and fashion catalogs. She was also featured at various charity events and fashion show benefits at venues such as the Edgewater Inn, Frederick & Nelson,…
ID Number:2012.38.40
Date:1961
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Donna Rydberg in costume on stage with John Eaton and Gracie Hansen, 1961
Donna Rydberg (1933-2008) was born and raised in Seattle, the only child of German immigrants Leo and Freida Bartl. During the 1960s, Rydberg had a successful modeling career and her work appeared in magazines, newspapers and fashion catalogs. She was also featured at various charity events and fashion show benefits at venues such as the Edgewater Inn, Frederick & Nelson,…
ID Number:2012.38.43
Date:1961
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Seattle Star, February 5, 1919
The Seattle General Strike was a work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in Seattle from February 6-11, 1919. The strike began in shipyards when workers were refused pay increases after two years of World War I wage controls. Most of the city's 110 local unions, including members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of…
ID Number:2012.48.1
Date:1919
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This is Public Housing 10th Anniversary Report, 1949
This booklet is the combined 1948/1949 report issued by the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, titled "This is Public Housing, 10th Anniversary Report." The booklet commemorates the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Housing Authority and, using photographs and personal stories, illustrates how the Housing Authority came to be and its work. The booklet includes photographs and…
ID Number:2012.58.2
Date:1949
Ephemera
New Washington Hotel stationery folder, circa 1950
In 1908 real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. The 13-story hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style and, as the city's premier hotel for several decades, welcomed many prominent guests,…
ID Number:2013.58.3
Date:Circa 1950
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Palace Fish and Oyster Co. brochure, circa 1935
Nessim D. Alhadeff (1884-1950) was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. He began working in fish markets and by 1907 had set up his own market, Palace Market. Within three years he had helped his six brothers emigrate, and the growing family business was known over time as Palace Fish and…
ID Number:2013.58.15
Date:Circa 1935
Poster
Draft Information Picnic & Benefit poster, Fall City, September 7, 1980
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter reinstated the draft in response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Depending upon their year of birth, men were required to register by a particular week during the summer and fall of 1980.This poster advertises an event to provide information about the draft, sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and The…
ID Number:2013.87.107
Date:1980