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"Don't be deceived by the down town landlords" leaflet, 1912
The Municipal Plans Commission of Seattle, established in 1910, hired civil engineer Virgil G. Bogue to prepare a strategic development plan for the city. Bogue’s 1911 proposal was very ambitious, including a Civic Center in the Denny Regrade area, a park and boulevard system, separation of railroad tracks from streets, and a variety of other municipal improvements. The plan, as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.17
Date:1912
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Keep the ball rolling for Cotterill campaign advertisement, circa 1910
George Fletcher Cotterill (1865-1958), born in Oxford, England, was an American civil servant and politician. He came to Seattle in 1883 and found work as a civil engineer, and later ran for various city and state offices. He served as a state senator from 1906 to1910, as mayor of Seattle from 1912 to 1914, as chief engineer of the State…
ID Number:2018.3.3.18
Date:Circa 1910
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Vote for Ole Hanson postcard, 1918
Ole Hanson (1874-1940) was a man who packed multiple lives into one. He's best known in Washington for his role, as Seattle's mayor, in ending the city's General Strike of 1919, but he's also well known for founding the city of San Clemente, California, six years later. Though opportunistic and erratic, Hanson was a shrewd politician and realtor who left…
ID Number:2018.3.3.19
Date:1918
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"Be part of history: Join the big march for fair trade" flier, 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:2018.3.3.20
Date:1999
Document
Seattle Theatre Company stock certificate, 1893
This stock certificate for the Seattle Theatre Company was issued on December 20, 1893, to J. D. Lowman for 12.5 shares, valued at $1250. The company, of which Mr. Lowman was also president, owned the Seattle Theatre, located on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. A prominent Seattle business and civic leader, James D. Lowman (1856-1947) also…
ID Number:2018.3.3.23
Date:1893
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Jack Sturgis Air Transport Bureau ticket, circa 1930
This ticket offers a 50¢ credit to be used at any aviation company that is a member of the Jack Sturgis Air Transport Bureau. The bureau was run out of the Municipal Airport (also known as Boeing Field) in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. Services offered ranged from passenger tickets to Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, to aerial tours over downtown…
ID Number:2018.3.3.24
Date:Circa 1930
Program
Boeing Children's Christmas Party program, 1953
The workforce and economy of Seattle from WWII through the 1970s was largely dependent on the Boeing Company and the commercial-airplane market. In 1957 business was booming due to the rise of the jet airplane. At the time Boeing employed about 100,000 people, including half of King County's manufacturing workers, while the Seattle's total population was only 550,000. This program…
ID Number:2018.3.3.31
Date:1953
Program
Chief Seattle Day program, 1915
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In 1912 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Potlatch celebration (an early version of Seafair) and financed the statue of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.32
Date:1915
Program
Aida program, August 1927
"Aida" is an opera in four acts composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824-1893). Set in Egypt, it was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House on December 24, 1871. The opera has since been performed thousands of times all over the world, and remains a central piece in the operatic…
ID Number:2018.3.3.33
Date:1927
Program
Seattle War Memorial Plaza opening program, January 1951
During World War II, the King County War Finance Committee's Victory Square in downtown Seattle was a gathering place and symbol of Seattle's war efforts. After the war, Mayor William F. Devin (1898-1982) established a War Memorial Committee who oversaw design and construction of a memorial plaza that was built as part of the new Public Safety Building. The building…
ID Number:2018.3.3.34
Date:1951