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Be Ready to Rely on Your 3-Day Food Supply, circa 1955
The Emergency Food Supply brochure pictured here was distributed to Seattle and King County residents by King County Civil Defense Department (now Department of Public Defense). It was issued by the Washington State Department of Civil Defense, probably in the 1950s when Seattle was considered a potential Major Target Area for a thermonuclear attack (hydrogen bomb). The instructions include a…
ID Number:2018.3.3.104
Date:Circa 1955
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Musicians' Mutual Protective Union of Seattle membership card, June 17, 1892
Frank Buell Cade (1868-1954) came to Seattle in 1890, the same year that saw the creation of the Seattle chapter of the Musicians Mutual Protective Union (MMPU), Local 30 of the National League of Musicians (NLM) (later AFM Local 76, now AFM Local 76-493). Mr. Cade began working as a bookkeeper for the People & Knowles Sheet Metal Works (he…
ID Number:2018.3.3.105
Date:1892
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Marriage certificate of Amos Brown and Annie Peebles, November 5, 1867
Seattle's population had more than doubled in the decade since the first families founded the city in 1852, however the population largely consisted of young bachelor men who came to work in the timber and fishing industries. In the early 1860s Asa Shinn Mercer (1839-1917), first president of the Territorial University of Washington (now University of Washington) and its only…
ID Number:2018.3.3.106
Date:1867
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Black Manufacturing Company trade catalog, 1924
George Black founded the Black Manufacturing Company in Seattle in the early 1900s. In this 1924 catalog, the Black Bear label is seen on a wide variety of work and dress clothing for men and boys for activities ranging from logging to hiking to office work. The company also sold bedding, household linens, gloves, socks, and underwear. Black Manufacturing remained…
ID Number:2018.3.3.107
Date:1924
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Bacon & Matheson Forge Company, Catalog No. 21, 1921
Bacon & Matheson of Seattle made heavy-duty iron and steel hardware and equipment for the mining, logging, construction, trucking, maritime and shipping industries. The firm's 1921 catalog includes images of their plant at West Lander Street, Seattle, images of small and large products, and equipment in action.
ID Number:2018.3.3.108
Date:1921
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Directory of Pacific Coast Salmon Packers, 1915
This Pacific Coast Salmon Packers directory for 1915 lists packing companies in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, giving names of officers, addresses, number of canneries, and brand names packed at each location. The volume also includes a detailed description of the 1914 salmon pack; a sample of these pages is shown here.
ID Number:2018.3.3.109
Date:1915
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Anderson & Thompson Ski Company catalog, 1956
In the 1930s, Norwegian Jorgen Aaland experimented with making a laminated wooden ski. He lived in Seattle at the time and took his idea to Ray Anderson, a ski instructor and president of the city's General Furniture Company. Anderson developed the idea further and received a patent from the US Patent Office in May 1933. Anderson and mountaineer Ben Thompson…
ID Number:2018.3.3.110
Date:1956
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Seattle Drug Store prescription, circa 1880
Moses Rideout Maddocks (1833-1919) arrived in Washington Territory in 1858, where he worked as a logger and was elected to the state legislature (he later served as Seattle's fourth mayor). He came to Seattle permanently in 1864, and about two years later became part owner of a drug store. He bought out his partner after 18 months and solely operated…
ID Number:2018.3.3.111
Date:Circa 1880
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Millroy's Pathfinder to Alaska and the Klondyke Gold Fields, circa 1898
In 1897, in response to the Klondike Gold Rush, Canada passed a number of new laws addressing mining in the Klondike Region. These concerned the management of claims, mining by proxy, and other matters. A map publisher living in Seattle at the time, John James Millroy, Jr. (1862-1908), used government and private surveys to create "Millroy's Map of Alaska and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.112
Date:Circa 1898
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Alaska Department of Seattle Chamber of Commerce card, circa 1925
On April 17, 1882, 26 leading Seattle citizens and businessmen organized the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with the intent of protecting local interests. The Chamber reorganized in 1910 to broaden its scope, taking the name “New Seattle Chamber of Commerce.” Among the goals of the new Chamber were “to promote the growth and development of the State of Washington, the…
ID Number:2018.3.3.113
Date:Circa 1925