200 results for: European American Settlement
Photograph
Game of Slahal, Treaty Day celebration, Tulalip, 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.66
Date:1912
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Tulalip Indian School boys band, 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.83
Date:1912
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Tulalip Indian School building, circa 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.86
Date:Circa 1912
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Nellie Stimson's basket collection, Seattle, circa 1900
At the turn of 19th to 20th centuries, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets and carvings specifically for the tourist trade and were experimenting with form and design. In Nellie (Mrs. Fred) Stimson's Seattle home, baskets from the Pacific Northwest as well as from the Great Basin and Southwest were displayed in abundance. Caption information source: "Northwest…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.60
Date:Circa 1900
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Unveiling the totem pole at Pioneer Square, Seattle, 1899
This Tlingit totem was carved around 1790 to honor a tribal woman named Chief-of-All-Women and it was placed in the village of Tongass on the Alaska coast. In 1899, a group of leading Seattle businessmen on a goodwill tour of southeastern Alaska stole the totem and brought it back to Pioneer Square. The businessmen were indicted for the theft, but…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.146
Date:1899
Photograph
Index Mountain, circa 1898
In 1890, Amos D. Gunn bought land on the north fork of the Skykomish River, in southern Snohomish County. He named a nearby mountain Mount Index because its sharp crags reminded him of a hand with an upward pointing index finger. He named his new settlement Index, after the mountain.This photo, taken by Anders Wilse sometime between 1897 and 1900,…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.276
Date:Circa 1898
Correspondence
Isaac and Isabelle Bechtel letter about Great Seattle Fire, June 24, 1889
In 1882 Isaac Kinsey Bechtel (1848-1890) arrived in the Puget Sound area and bought 129 acres around what is now Main Street in downtown Bellevue. He had left his wife, Isabella (Lind) Bechtel (1852-1938), and their children behind in Waterloo, Ontario, but in 1885 he was able to send money for them to join him. The cabin Mr. Bechtel built…
ID Number:Lib1996.24.3
Date:1889
Manuscript
"A trip to 'Alki' point near Duwam[i]sh Bay," by Edward Huggins, Seattle, July 4, 1901
"A Trip to 'Alki' point near Duwam[i]sh Bay" was written by Edward Huggins (1832-1907), a Hudson's Bay Company employee who in 1850 had been stationed at Fort Victoria and then at Fort Nisqually, an important fur trading and farming post in the Puget Sound area. Mr. Huggins served at the fort in various capacities until its closure in 1869, at…
ID Number:MS.COLL.49
Date:1901
Manuscript
Henry A. Smith's recollection of 1856 "Battle of Seattle," circa 1900
On the morning of January 26, 1856, the "Battle of Seattle" began when Native Americans raided the settlement of Seattle. Previously warned of the attack, most settlers had barricaded themselves in a blockhouse. The attackers were driven off by artillery fire and by Marines from the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war Decatur, anchored in Elliott Bay. Although there were relatively few casualties…
ID Number:MS.COLL.204
Date:Circa 1900
Ephemera
Territorial anniversary ball invitation, February 20, 1863
In 1853, the Territory of Washington was created from a portion of the Oregon Territory, and in 1863, right about the time the Territory attained its final boundaries, the residents of Seattle threw a tenth anniversary party to celebrate. Although not incorporated as a town until 1865, Seattle in 1863 was a growing community of about 300 white settlers (not…
ID Number:MS.COLL.556
Date:1863