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Photograph
Group with ROOTS Reunion sign, Seattle, 1984
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:2014.49.04.012.17
Date:1984
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Kohga Photographic Society members at giant cedar stump, Snohomish County, circa 1950
Seattle photographer Al Smith began taking photographs as a hobby as a teenager and continued documenting his experiences, both abroad and at home, throughout his life. Best known for his photos of Seattle's Jackson Street area jazz clubs and musicians, Smith also photographed family, friends, and local people in their everyday lives.After World War II, Al Smith was invited to…
ID Number:2014.49.005.066.0710
Date:Circa 1950
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Group near bar at Black & Tan nightclub, Seattle, circa 1945
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 Al Smith photographs a group of friends posing in…
ID Number:2014.49.16.076.01
Date:Circa 1945
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Mrs. Kreisel's grandchild in cowboy costume, Seattle, circa 1949
A toddler, the grandson of Mrs. Kreisel, stands on the sidewalk below the front steps of a home, dressed in a cowboy costume. He is posed with a red pull wagon decorated as pioneer's wagon, with a doll in the driver's seat and a sign on the side reading "Day's of '49'" [sic]. On the ground near the boy is…
ID Number:2014.49.018.003.0004
Date:Circa 1949
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Gus Williams and others at Sonics event, February 11, 1985
On February 11, 1985, a roast for retired Seattle SuperSonics basketball player Fred Brown (aka "Downtown Freddie Brown") was held at the Sea-Tac Red Lion as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Several of Brown's former Sonics teammates and other Sonics personnel attended the event. This photo shows former Sonics player Gus Williams at center, with other unidentified men…
ID Number:2014.49.054.029.0002
Date:1985
Cartographic material
Map Showing Northern Pacific Railroad with Branches and Connecting Lines in Washington Ter., 1887
The Northern Pacific Railway was chartered by the U. S. Congress in 1864 with the goals of connecting the Great Lakes with Puget Sound, and linking Oregon and Washington with the rest of the country. This map of the Northern Pacific Railroad and connecting lines covers an area from the south of Portland and the Columbia River well into British…
ID Number:2015.60.1
Date:1887
3-D object
Pacific Northwest Cycling Association patch, circa 1941
The Pacific Northwest Cycling Association was founded in 1940 by a group of racing cyclists and University of Washington students who had purchased some of the new "lightweight" English bicycles imported to Seattle prior to World War II. The increased popularity of recreational cycling dovetailed with the growing youth hostel movement in the Puget Sound area and British Columbia area,…
ID Number:2016.16.12
Date:Circa 1941
Menu
American Italian Athletic Club menu, circa 1937
Several Seattle Italian organizations, including the American Italian Athletic Club, joined in 1935 to form the Italian Club. They moved into a new headquarters at 620 Union Street in 1937. The club was open only to men of Italian descent .This elegant dark red menu features silver lettering on the front and an image of a discus thrower. Daily $1.25…
ID Number:2016.36.5
Date:Circa 1937
Menu
Hotel Sorrento Christmas Dinner menu, 1923
The Hotel Sorrento, one of the city's first "boutique" hotels, opened in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1909. Among the hotel's first customers were some of the millions of visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair highlighting the development of the Pacific Northwest. The Hotel Sorrento continues in business at its original location on the corner of Madison…
ID Number:2016.36.8
Date:1923
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Jazz musicians in Shanghai, China, circa 1938
Many American jazz musicians traveled to Shanghai during the city's golden age in the 1930s, when "the Paris of the Orient" was the newest horizon on an increasingly international jazz music scene. For Black musicians, who were often excluded from white musicians' unions in the U. S. and subjected to other forms of segregation, Shanghai provided steady, well-paid work, and…
ID Number:2016.84.2.9.1
Date:Circa 1938