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San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaskan cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.2
Date:Circa 1935
Program
The Wayfarer program, 1925
"The Wayfarer" is a religious work combining drama, opera, pageant, and oratorio written by Reverend James Edwin Crowther (1874-1970), a minister from Seattle. The "Passion-Pageant," as it was known, combined previously existing songs and arias by various composers with tableaus of historic and religious subjects using a massive supporting cast. Local music teacher Montgomery Lynch (1879-1948) adapted and directed the…
ID Number:2011.86.1
Date:1925
Ephemera
Pilgrim Girls' Club Annual Magazine, 1928
A societal and educational group for young women that flourished from 1921-1935, the Plymouth Girls' Club was once the largest women's organization in Seattle. Hosted by the Plymouth Congregational Church, located since 1911 at Sixth Avenue and University Street, the club held weekly dinners followed by classes in everything from current events and golf to parliamentary law and hooked-rug making.…
ID Number:2011.86.2
Date:1928
Ephemera
Favorite Programs On Your Dial radio schedule, 1949
This "Radio Log" contains a four month listing of programs to be aired on several Seattle radio stations: KIRO, KJR, KOMO, KVI, and KING. There is also a weekly schedule of programming for KING-TV and ads for many local businesses.
ID Number:2011.86.3
Date:1949
Photograph
Crescent Manufacturing Company Social Association Picnic, Halls Lake, July 12, 1919
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and the following year consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington.The handwritten note on this photograph…
ID Number:2011.114.84
Date:1919
Document
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
Poster
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
Poster
Take Metro to Tut bus poster, Seattle, 1978
Ancient Egypt hit Seattle from July to November 1978 during the run of the “Treasures of Tutankhamun” exhibit at Seattle Center. The Seattle Art Museum had arranged for “Treasures of Tutankhamun” to visit Seattle, and nearly 1.3 million people crowded through the Flag Pavilion during its four-month run.King County Metro urged people to travel to the exhibit by bus, as…
ID Number:2012.34.16
Date:1978
Poster
Metro water conservation poster, Seattle, 1977
Metro, the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, was founded in 1958 to oversee regional wastewater treatment. In time, supervision of regional transit was added, but after Metro merged with King County in 1994, the water quality and transportation management functions were separated.The poster pictured here was created for Metro’s Community Involvement office and was displayed inside Seattle and King County buses,…
ID Number:2012.34.20
Date:1977
Poster
Metro neighborhood water quality poster, Seattle, 1977
Metro, the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, was founded in 1958 to oversee regional wastewater treatment. In time, supervision of regional transit was added, but after Metro merged with King County in 1994, the water quality and transportation management functions were separated.The poster pictured here was created for Metro’s Community Involvement office and was displayed inside Seattle and King County buses,…
ID Number:2012.34.21
Date:1977