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Owls Club players and coaches, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.05
Date:Circa 1938
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Two Owls Club softball players at practice, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.06
Date:Circa 1938
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Two Owls softball players in car, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.07
Date:Circa 1938
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Owls Club women's softball team, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.08
Date:Circa 1938
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Owls Club women's softball team, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.09
Date:Circa 1938
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Owls Club women's softball team players, Seattle, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.10
Date:Circa 1938
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Barbers at Bertha's Barber Shop, Seattle, circa 1958
In addition to his jazz club images, photographer Al Smith took many photos of family, friends and other local people in their everyday lives. Here Smith photographs Bertha M. Johnson, center, owner of Bertha's Barber Shop on 23rd Avenue, with her two male barbers. Beauticians and barbers formed an important part of the Central District's thriving business sector. They put…
ID Number:2014.49.29.01.04
Date:Circa 1958
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Two children sitting on car in front of Hills Bros. BBQ, Seattle, circa 1953
Run by brothers Robert and Zeb Hill, Hill's Bros. BBQ opened in 1952 in a small wooden building on 21st Avenue between East Cherry and East Jefferson streets in Seattle's Central Area. Here, Al Smith photographs Robert Hill's sons, Robert (left) and Zebedee, sitting on a Crosley automobile in front of Hill's Bros. BBQ. According to the Smith family, the…
ID Number:2014.49.092.015.01
Date:Circa 1953
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Ceremony honoring early Black schoolteachers, Seattle, March 20, 1988
Marita Harris, Edith Johnson, Orie Greene, and Virginia Galloway were among the first Black teachers in Washington state schools. The women were hired between 1946 and 1948, the first years that school districts in the Seattle area began hiring Black teachers. This image shows a ceremony honoring the four for their service to the community and their pioneering legacy. The…
ID Number:2014.49.097.010.12
Date:3/20/1988
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Ceremony honoring early Black schoolteachers, Seattle, March 20, 1988
Marita Harris, Edith Johnson, Orie Greene, and Virginia Galloway were among the first Black teachers in Washington state schools. The women were hired between 1946 and 1948, the first years that school districts in the Seattle area began hiring Black teachers. This image shows a ceremony honoring the four for their service to the community and their pioneering legacy. The…
ID Number:2014.49.097.010.16
Date:3/20/1988