1950 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
Program
Golden Gloves program, February 1958
The program pictured here is from the 23rd annual Golden Gloves Northwest Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships, a boxing competition held February 21-22, 1958, at the Civic Auditorium in Seattle. The event was sponsored by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, and featured former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Dempsey as guest of honor.
ID Number:2018.3.3.53
Date:1958
Program
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
Program
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
Program
Seattle International Horse Show program, October 1928
The Seattle International Horse Show was first held in 1928 at the city's recently constructed Civic Auditorium (site of the present-day Seattle Center). The show was held annually until 1969, featuring events governed by the Association of American Horse Shows (now the United States Equestrian Federation or USEF). The program pictured here is from the first show, October 20-27, 1928.
ID Number:2018.3.3.56
Date:1928
Ephemera
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
Ephemera
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
Ephemera
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
Correspondence
Dexter Horton National Bank Christmas card, 1920
Seattle pioneer Dexter Horton (1825-1904) arrived in Washington Territory in 1853, and after working at his uncle Henry Yesler's mill, opened a general store in Seattle. He also served as an informal banker, making loans and accepting deposits from loggers, trappers, and others. In 1870, Horton opened the city's first official bank, and in 1876, he built the city's first…
ID Number:2018.3.3.60
Date:1920
Ephemera
Balke, Cole, & Co. account statement, August 28, 1890
According to the 1890 Polk Directory, Balke, Cole, & Co. was located at 1217 and 1219 Front Street (now First Avenue) in downtown Seattle. Proprietors Francis Cole, Rudolph L. Balke, and Walter James Coffman (1867-1898) sold mirrors, pictures, and art material. The receipt pictured here details sales made to John Leary totaling $24.35 (about $650 in 2018). Lawyer, businessman, and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.62
Date:1890
Ephemera
Olympia Brewery letterhead, June 16, 1909
Olympia Brewing was founded in 1896 by German immigrant Leopold F. Schmidt (1846-1914) as the Capital Brewing Company in Tumwater, Washington. In 1902, the firm's secretary, Frank Kenney, came up with the long-used slogan "It's the Water" to promote their beer brewed with water from artesian wells. Through a series of consolidations, the company was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company…
ID Number:2018.3.3.67
Date:1909