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Sarah Price's hair book, March 1853
The keepsake book pictured here was made in March 1853 by Sarah (Ousley or Owsley) Price (1815-1886) prior to her move from Iowa to Oregon. Sarah was born in Indiana, moved to Iowa with her husband and children, and then together left from there for Oregon. The book contains names and hair clippings, some in ornate braids, collected by Sarah…
ID Number:1976.6375.8
Date:1853
Program
Program for Peer Gynt at Seattle Repertory Playhouse, February 1931
Seattle Repertory Playhouse founders Florence and Burton James left the theater scene in New York in 1923 for teaching positions at Cornish College of the Arts. Outspoken proponents of theater's social mission, the Jameses were critical to establishing the contemporary "art theatre" scene in Seattle. The couple resigned from Cornish in 1928, when their artistic decisions and political commitments clashed…
ID Number:1977.6405.1
Date:1931
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Portrait of Potlatch King Edgar L. Webster, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used imagery common to local Indigenous Peoples to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a…
ID Number:1977.6531.2
Date:1911
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Northern Pacific trestle along shore of Lake Union, showing frontage owned by Pacific Coast Coal Co., Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. Handwritten on image: 17524. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USASigns in image: L Rank Signs/ 1628 4th At Times SquareTyped on verso: View of Lake Union showing Northern Pacific…
ID Number:1978.6585.18b
Date:Circa 1915
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Portrait of Jessie Stewart, Seattle, circa 1905
Jessie M. Stewart (1879-1960) was born in Ontario and went to homestead near Shelton in 1887 with her parents Malcolm Donald Stewart (1827-1914) and Ann (Nicholson) Stewart (1835-1929). She was a bookkeeper and amateur actress. Her older sister Mary Stewart (1876-1960) was a teacher for 49 years at B. F. Day Elementary School in Seattle. Caption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:1978.6598.2
Date:Circa 1905
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Portrait of Winona Bailey as a child, 1879
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.1
Date:1879
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Portrait of Winona Bailey, circa 1890
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.4
Date:Circa 1890
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Winona Bailey at Dodwell-Rixon Pass, Olympic Mountains, 1927
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.5
Date:1927
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Winona Bailey posing in car, Seattle, circa 1935
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.6
Date:Circa 1935
Music, notated
Dixy Lee Rag, 1980
Tacoma-born Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) held many prestigious posts in Washington State: first woman on the Atomic Energy Commission, director of the Pacific Science Center, and longtime University of Washington professor. A political novice, Ms. Ray served as Washington's first female governor from 1977-1981, gaining popularity as an outsider and a non-politician. Her blunt style won her as many enemies…
ID Number:1979.6775.12a
Date:1980