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Races at the Meadows program, August 3, 1906
Built in 1902 by the King County Fair Association, The Meadows was the premier venue in the Northwest for horse racing. The track was located just five miles south of downtown Seattle, between the south end of Beacon Hill and the Duwamish River, in what is now known as the Georgetown neighborhood. The grandstands seated 10,000 spectators, who had convenient…
ID Number:2018.3.3.51
Date:1906
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The Seattle Referee, November 3, 1916
The issue of "The Seattle Referee" pictured here was published as a program for a boxing match between William August "Willie" Hoppe (b.1890) of San Francisco and "Smilin' George" Ingle of Seattle. The date on this program, November 3, 1915, is a misprint. The bout actually took place on Friday, November 3, 1916, at the Dreamland Pavilion in Seattle, and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.54
Date:1916
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High school football program, November 21, 1903
The program pictured here is for a football game played between Seattle High School and Portland High School on November 21, 1903, at Seattle’s Athletic Park on Madison Street. The program highlights the coaches and players of each team and includes photos, line-ups, and score cards. Seattle won the game 28-0.The Seattle team was coached by Bruce C. Short. Players…
ID Number:2018.3.3.55
Date:1903
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American House business card, circa 1877
John Harte McGraw (1850-1910) moved to Seattle from Maine in 1876 and got a job as a clerk in the Occidental Hotel. According to his obituary, he became an owner of American House boarding house in 1877, though the hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1878. That year he joined Seattle's tiny police force and began a successful career…
ID Number:2018.3.3.57
Date:Circa 1877
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Crawford & Conover business card, circa 1900
The real estate investment firm of Crawford & Conover was founded in Seattle in 1888 by Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper reporters turned business partners Samuel Leroy Crawford (1855-1916) and Charles Tallmadge Conover (1862-1961). C.T. Conover is credited with coining Washington State's nickname, "The Evergreen State," during an 1890 national campaign to advertise Seattle and Washington State. After Conover's retirement in 1941,…
ID Number:2018.3.3.58
Date:Circa 1900
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G. B. Sanborn business card, circa 1895
Gustavus B. Sanborn (1848-1902) moved to Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 1889 and began a successful hardware business. In 1901, Sanborn build a new brick and stone building for his business; the Sanborn Building still stands, as of 2018, at 5325 Ballard Avenue N.W.This business card for one of Mr. Sanborn's Ballard Avenue stores gives its address as simply "Ballard Ave.,…
ID Number:2018.3.3.59
Date:Circa 1895
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1882
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.61
Date:1882
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1890
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.63
Date:1890
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1887
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.64
Date:1887
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1886
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.65
Date:1886