1513 results for: City of Seattle
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All Seattle needs Landes for mayor, 1926
Bertha Ethel (Knight) Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.6
Date:1926
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Mayor Bertha Landes and Captain Roald Amundsen at train station, Seattle, June 28, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.17
Date:1926
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Grover Tyler, Mayor Bertha Landes, and James Spangler near plane, Seattle, September 15, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Bertha vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.24
Date:1926
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Mayor Bertha Landes and newspaper boy, Seattle, circa 1927
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.30
Date:Circa 1927
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Mayor Bertha Landes and Mae Murray, Seattle, November 1927
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.31
Date:1927
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Mayor Landes and Marie of Romania, Seattle, November 4, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Bertha vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.34
Date:1926
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Manning & Byrne Undertakers business card, circa 1912
Joseph R. Manning was born and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. He held a position on the city council in New Haven, and was appointed health commissioner. Manning moved to Seattle in 1905, first working in the county auditor's office, and as superintendent of the King County Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, before establishing an undertaking business in around 1911.…
ID Number:1974.5903.59a
Date:Circa 1912
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Baseball player Rube Oldring, Seattle, 1921
'Rube' Harry Reuben Oldring (1884-1961) was born in New York City and began his Major League baseball career on October 2, 1905, with the New York Highlanders. He then played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1906-1918, with the exception of 1916 when he played for the New York Yankees and 1917 when he retired for one year. As a quick-footed…
ID Number:1974.5923.11
Date:1921
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Artist Kathleen Eva Houlahan, Seattle, circa 1930
Kathleen Eva Houlahan came to Seattle in 1902 at the age of eighteen and graduated from the University of Washington in 1906. She pursued painting at the Art Students' League In New York City, returning to Seattle in 1923 after completing studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. Houlahan worked in oils and painted rugged outdoor scenes as well as portraits,…
ID Number:1974.5923.51
Date:Circa 1930
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Blanche Owen, Seattle, 1931
Blanche Owen was the wife of Henry B. Owen, who is listed as General Superintendent for Frederick & Nelson department store in the Seattle City Directory.This portrait of Owen is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She…
ID Number:1974.5923.59
Date:1931