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Japanese American boy standing near a soldier with a rifle, possibly in Seattle, 1942
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California…
ID Number:1986.5.41879.1
Date:1942
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Die-in protest to protest nerve gas shipments, Seattle, May 17, 1970
In 1969, the U.S. Army announced plans to ship nerve gas from Okinawa to storage depots in the Pacific Northwest. Some 36 trains would carry the gas through Washington and Oregon. Opposition was strong and included lawsuits and demonstrations. In May 1970, the Seattle chapter of the People Against Nerve Gas (PANG) announced a “die-in” demonstration to take place at…
ID Number:1986.5.52302.7
Date:1970
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Bernie Whitebear, Seattle, 1971
Bernie Whitebear was born in the town of Nespelem on the Colville Reservation in 1937. After growing up in poverty on the reservation, he moved to Western Washington in 1955 and shortly became a fisherman on the Puyallup River. In the late 1950s, Bernie Whitebear joined a campaign of activism to protect Native fishing rights, which had been guaranteed by…
ID Number:1986.5.55140.1
Date:1971
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WWI Diary of Nurse Abbie Ewert, 1917-1919
Kentucky-born Abbie Viola (Ewart) Watkins (1889-1977) moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1910 and from Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing in 1913. After two years of caring for tuberculosis patients at Firland Sanatorium, Abbie Ewart opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle with another nurse. Ewart sold the surgery…
ID Number:1987.60.1
Date:1917-1919
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Army nurse Abbie Ewart in uniform, Germany, 1919
After graduating from Queen Anne High School, Abbie Ewart trained as a nurse at Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. Ewart cared for tuberculosis patients for two years at Firland Sanatorium, then, with another nurse, opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Ewart trained with other nurses at Fort Lewis,…
ID Number:1987.60.19
Date:1919
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Nurses and soldiers at Base Hospital 47 in France, 1918
When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Seattle nurse Abbie Ewart trained with other nurses at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma. Several months later, the group sailed from New York City to France where they cared for the sick and wounded at American Base Hospitals 43 and 47, shown here. Handwritten on verso: 1st World War. Miss Ewart…
ID Number:1987.60.21
Date:1918
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Boeing Marine Systems brochure, circa 1972
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:1987.72.7
Date:Circa 1972
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Work boat "USS Highway," built by Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, 1924
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.147
Date:1924
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Motor yacht "Conquista," former submarine chaser converted by Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, circa 1921
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.272
Date:Circa 1921
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"Fortress 1" Bombers awaiting delivery to Britains Royal Air Force, circa 1941
Under military contract, the bomber went from design to flight test in just 12 months. Making its first flight on July 28, 1935, it was Boeing's first military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit and was armed with bombs and five .30-caliber machine guns. Boeing plants built 6,981 of more than 12,000 B-17's delivered during World…
ID Number:1989.99.2
Date:Circa 1941