408 results for: Seattle High School
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Portrait of Abbie Ewart in her Army nurse's uniform, circa 1918
Kentucky-born Abbie Ewart moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated form Queen Anne High School and then trained as a nurse. After caring for tuberculosis patients for two years at Firlands Sanatorium, she and another nurse opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Ewart trained with other…
ID Number:1987.60.26
Date:Circa 1918
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Studio portrait of Florence Denny Heliker, Seattle, August 1898
Florence Denny Heliker (1878-1962) was born to Seattle pioneer Rolland Herschel Denny (1851-1939) and Alice Martha Kellogg (1857-1940, daughter of Whidbey Island pioneer Dr. John Coe Kellogg). After attending Seattle High School, Florence and Dr. Mabel Seagrave were the first Seattle women to attend Wellesley College, graduating in 1904. Florence married skating rink proprietor Winthrop G Heliker (b.1878) in 1904,…
ID Number:1990.45.88
Date:1898
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Portrait of Leona Fengler, Seattle, 1926
Iowa-born Leona Nathalie Fengler (1903-1990), a graduate of Queen Anne High School, was chosen as Miss Seattle to represent the city at the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant (now the Miss America Pageant) in 1926. Miss Fengler did not win the pageant but was declared by the judges to be equally at home in a drawing room or on the tennis…
ID Number:1992.47.1
Date:1926
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Back to School fashion show program, Seattle, Fall 1971
The first Frederick & Nelson retail store opened in 1889, right after Seattle's great fire. By 1916, the company was doing so well that it built a large new store at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street, which many people thought was too far out of town. Frederick & Nelson was one of Seattle's landmark companies for over a century before…
ID Number:1993.43.14.3.1
Date:1971
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Frederick & Nelson elevator operators, circa 1955
Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store was proud of its customer service. When its new building opened in 1918, the store had eight elevators, each run by its own operator. By the 1940s, the job of elevator operator had become a popular part-time job for high school girls. F&N hired girls who were slim, dark-haired, and didn't wear glasses. Some…
ID Number:1993.43.20.27.1
Date:Circa 1955
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Clarence Acox directing Jazz Ensemble at Garfield High School, Seattle, May 11, 1991
In this image director Clarence Acox leads the Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble in some swinging music of the '30s and '40s in the high school gymnasium. A native of New Orleans, Clarence Acox Jr. is a well-known jazz drummer and band director who has been teaching at Garfield since 1971. Acox has led the Garfield Jazz Ensemble to win…
ID Number:2000.107.002.17.01
Date:1991
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Grave of Lewis Albanese visited by his mother and sister on Memorial Day, May 30, 1968
This image of Rosita Albanese, 16, and Mrs. Giannina Albanese was taken as they arrange flowers on the grave of local hero PFC Lewis Albanese (1946-1966). Born in Itlay, Lewis grew up in Seattle and graduated from Franklin High School. He worked for Boeing before joining the Army in October 1965, and was sent to Vietnam in August 1966 as…
ID Number:2000.107.005.29.01
Date:1968
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Students in substance abuse support group, Lake Washington High School, Seattle, April 28, 1989
In this image Lake Washington High School students attend a year-long, one credit course addressing issues the students face as former addicts. The student at left, speaks freely of his family problems as the other two listen. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.006.09.01
Date:1989
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Glen Alps & Edwin Essex with model for City Hall fountain, Seattle, September 1961
Glen Alps (1914-1996) was an artist and art professor. He was born in Colorado and moved to Seattle to attend graduate school at the University of Washington (UW), graduating in 1947. He began teaching at UW while a student, became a full professor in 1962, and stayed at UW until his retirement in 1984. Alps’ primary artistic medium was printmaking,…
ID Number:2000.107.006.31.01
Date:1961
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Cal Anderson, October 2, 1987
Calvin “Cal” Anderson (1948-1995) was a progressive politician in Washington. Born in Seattle, he became involved in politics early, working for political campaigns beginning in middle school. After high school, he served as a court reporter for the US Army in Vietnam and received two Bronze Stars. After returning to Seattle, Anderson became more involved in politics, working as an…
ID Number:2000.107.007.19.04
Date:1987