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Ephemera
Copy of Certificate of Achievement, given to Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Seattle Division for contribution to National War Effort, December 15, 1945, plus notice to employees regarding such, January 24, 1946
The Seattle Division of Todd Shipyard Corporation originated in 1916, when the William H. Todd Corporation purchased the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company (formerly Moran Brothers Shipyard). Originally located on the Seattle waterfront, the shipyard built cargo vessels for the U.S. Shipping Board during World War I. Todd moved the operation to a new plant on Harbor Island in…
ID Number:2023.36.104
Date:1946
Correspondence
Draft of letter from Evelyn Chapman to Washington legislators regarding Title I funding for the Northwest Center, May 26, 1969
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.01
Date:1969
Document
Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968
Photograph
Police in riot gear during the WTO protests, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.16.14
Date:1999
Photograph
Union Way street sign at WTO protests, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.18.13
Date:1999
Videorecording
Princess of the Pow-Wow documentary film, 1987
Ella Aquino (1902-1989) was a Lummi, Yakima, and Puyallup activist from Seattle who dedicated her life to advancing the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples living in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1902, Aquino began her education in a boarding school where she was prohibited from embracing her Native heritage. As an adult, she helped create organizations and publications that…
ID Number:2025.9.1
Date:1987
Ephemera
Chinese language poster advertising performance by Seattle Chinese arts group in Vancouver, August 1962
This poster advertises an upcoming performance at the Majestic Theater in Vancouver BC by the Seattle-based Xiu Zhen Chinese Arts Group on August 19, 1962. Billed as "one performance only," the show included Cantonese opera excerpts performed by Ping Chow (center bottom), a leader in Seattle's Chinese American community and the husband of Ruby Chow; the Cantonese opera movie star,…
ID Number:2025.10.24
Date:1962
Photograph
Portrait of Babette and Joanna Eckstein, San Francisco, circa 1930
Sisters Joanna Eckstein (1903-1983) and Babette (Eckstein) Joseph Levinson (1906-1977) were the only children of prominent Seattle civic leader Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945) and Mina A. (Schwabacher) Eckstein (1877-1942). Nathan Eckstein Middle School is named in honor of Nathan's service as a member of the Seattle School Board. Joanna Eckstein was also civic-minded; she was president of Seattle Children's Home (now…
ID Number:Lib1986.2.51
Date:Circa 1930
Photograph
Beacon Hill regrading, Seattle, July 2, 1923
This photograph shows the north end of Beacon Hill facing north. Dearborn Street is visible coming from the left center edge of the frame, between Beacon Hill and what will later be the Chinatown - International District of Seattle. Advertisement billboards visible in the image are for Wrigley's Gum and Wing Foot Tires. This area south of downtown Seattle was…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.7.2.58
Date:1923
Photograph
Land fill and tidal flats south of downtown Seattle, November 27, 1923
This photograph shows the land fill and tidal flats of the area south of downtown Seattle. Visible at about the center of the right edge of the frame are men working on a new property by digging canals and deposing the soil to make new land. The building will likely be eventually connected to those around it via plank roads…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.7.2.118
Date:1923