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S.C. Renner business card, circa 1917
Sydnia C. Renner (circa 1874-1924) owned S. C. Renner North West Radiator and Fender Works, repairing and manufacturing automobile parts, which operated between 1914 and 1920. Mr. Renner was president of the Mutual Businessmen's Club in 1919 and "one of the youngest successful businessmen on the [automobile] row," according to a Seattle Daily Times article in 1917, having worked on…
ID Number:2018.3.3.140
Date:Circa 1917
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Rainier Camping Equipment brochure, circa 1958
Incorporated as Rainier Sporting Goods in 1950, and later known as Rainier Camping Equipment, ALL RAINIER, or Rainier Gear, the company sold tents, air mattresses, sleeping bags, camp cots, and other camping equipment for the Seattle Tent and Awning Company. Seattle Tent and Awning Company was begun by S. W. Robb (1866-1929) when he arrived in Seattle in 1896; in…
ID Number:2018.3.3.141
Date:Circa 1958
Cartographic material
City of Seattle map, 1874
Canadian-born Angus Mackintosh (1839-1904) moved to Seattle in 1870, when the population was a modest 900 people. Mr. Mackintosh discovered King County had no registry of property titles, so he began preparing abstracts and built an extensive business doing the same for Pierce, Island, and Whatcom counties. Later he expanded into buying and selling real estate, banking, and the Seattle,…
ID Number:2018.3.8.1
Date:1874
Cartographic material
Sea Gull's View of Seattle map, 1927
Clara P. Reynolds (1875-1961) created this colorful pictorial map to be distributed by the National Education Association, with quotations on each border of the map stressing the importance of art education in schools. Clara P. Reynolds was an art educator in the Seattle Public Schools after arriving in Seattle in 1905, via New York and Europe. She taught at Franklin…
ID Number:2018.3.8.6
Date:1927
Music, notated
Beware the Military
The music and lyrics for "Beware the Military" were written by Oliver George Wallace (1887-1963), at the time a theater organist. In 1932 he began working for Disney Studios where he composed many film scores, including "Dumbo," for which he and Frank Churchill won an Oscar. "Beware the Military" was co-written by Harold Taylor Weeks (1893-1967), a sheet music merchant,…
ID Number:2018.3.2.1
Date:1918
Music, notated
I'd Start a Battle to Get Back to Seattle
The music and lyrics for "I'd Start A Battle To Get Back To Seattle (And the Great Northwest) were written by Jack Stern, a "singing comedian" and composer. Jacob Abraham "Jack" Stern (1896-1985) grew up in New York and traveled extensively for his career. He married actress Grace Hamilton (Leete) Alcine Stern (1883-1953) and they spent some time in Seattle,…
ID Number:2018.3.2.2
Date:1925
Music, notated
Here At Home We're Backing You
The music and lyrics for "Here at home we're backing you khaki lads and blue clad Jackies," were written by John H. Lyons, a Y.M.C.A. song leader at Camp Lewis outside of Tacoma. The song was inspired by the Fourth Liberty Loan, which was issued on October 24, 1918, and sold in the United States to support the Allied cause…
ID Number:2018.3.2.3
Date:1918
Music, notated
My Washington
The music and lyrics for "My Washington" were written by Harry Lauriston Stone (b. 1881) a well-known songwriter and music publisher from Spokane who was briefly married to Evelyn Comiskey, daughter of Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey. The song was published by Benson and Stone, and a history of Seattle is printed on the verso of the title page.…
ID Number:2018.3.2.4
Date:1923
Music, notated
On the Shores of Puget Sound
The lyrics for "On the Shores of Puget Sound" were written by Edward Livingston Greenwood (1876-1957) and the music was written by Patrick William Guyheen (1881-1958). Both men were Washingtonians (also Washingtonian movement, Washingtonian Temperance Society, or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) and the song was written for their local chapter. The piece was published by G. & G. Publishing Company…
ID Number:2018.3.2.5
Date:1934
Music, notated
Mother Did from The Alaskan
Seattle landmark The Moore Theatre, the city's oldest still-active theater, opened on December 28, 1907, to a crowd of nearly 3,000. The first show, "The Alaskan," was a comic opera about prospecting during the Klondike Gold Rush, and featured falling snow, sled dogs, and 13 singing totem poles. This song "Mother Did" was one of several in the opera.Joseph Blethen,…
ID Number:2018.3.2.7
Date:1907