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Image of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 80 poster, King County, March 1942
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Civilian Exclusion Order No. 80 poster, King County, March 1942

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the incarceration of all people of Japanese descent, including American citizens, from "designated military areas." Just a few weeks later, the U. S. Army began posting notices detailing the Civilian Exclusion Orders issued in cities along the West Coast. As instructed on these signs, incarcerees could take with…
ID Number:1991.72.13
Date:1942
Image of P.F.C. Donald P. Myers, U. S. Army, posing at Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, California, 1918
Photograph

P.F.C. Donald P. Myers, U. S. Army, posing at Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, California, 1918

This portrait of Private First Class Donald P. Myers (1898-1991) was taken at Camp Fremont in Palo Alto, California, in the spring of 1918. This image is one of several photographs pasted to an album page, featuring photographs of Myers and others from Base Hospital No. 50 in California and France. Don Myers was born in Seattle and was a…
ID Number:1992.68.2.1
Date:1918
Image of Interior of tent decorated for Christmas at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, December 1918
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Interior of tent decorated for Christmas at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, December 1918

This image of the interior of a tent decorated for Christmas at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50 was probably taken in Mesves sur Loire, France, in December 1918. This image is one of several photographs pasted to an album page, featuring photographs of Private First Class Donald P. Myers (1898-1991) and others in California and France. Don Myers…
ID Number:1992.68.2.2
Date:1918
Image of Personnel at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, 1918
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Personnel at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, 1918

This image of U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50 personnel posing was probably taken at in Mesves sur Loire, France, in 1918. The man at the far right is likely Don Myers. This image is one of several photographs pasted to an album page, featuring photographs of Private First Class Donald P. Myers (1898-1991) and others in California and…
ID Number:1992.68.2.3
Date:1918
Image of Personnel in mess hall line at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, 1918
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Personnel in mess hall line at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50, Mesves sur Loire, France, 1918

This image of personnel lined up to enter the mess hall was taken at U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 50 in Mesves sur Loire, France, probably in 1918. This image is one of several photographs pasted to an album page, featuring photographs of Private First Class Donald P. Myers (1898-1991) and others in California and France. Don Myers was…
ID Number:1992.68.2.4
Date:1918
Image of I Am Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier Boy
Music, notated

I Am Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier Boy

The music and lyrics for "I Am Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier Boy" were written by R. N. Moffat. It was arranged by Dudley Huntington McCosh and published by R. N. Moffat in Seattle. The piece was performed at least once locally, at Fort Lawton by the Fourteenth Infantry Band. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times,…
ID Number:1998.54.10
Date:1917
Image of Grave of Lewis Albanese visited by his mother and sister on Memorial Day, May 30, 1968
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Grave of Lewis Albanese visited by his mother and sister on Memorial Day, May 30, 1968

This image of Rosita Albanese, 16, and Mrs. Giannina Albanese was taken as they arrange flowers on the grave of local hero PFC Lewis Albanese (1946-1966). Born in Itlay, Lewis grew up in Seattle and graduated from Franklin High School. He worked for Boeing before joining the Army in October 1965, and was sent to Vietnam in August 1966 as…
ID Number:2000.107.005.29.01
Date:1968
Image of Members of American Legion in Goof parade, Seattle, September 9, 1949
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Members of American Legion in Goof parade, Seattle, September 9, 1949

In this image the Yakima Yearlings, a drum and bugle corp from the American Legion's Logan Wheeler Post #36 of Yakima, Washington, march in a parade on opening day of the American Legion state convention. This "Goof" parade was staged by the Voyageurs of La Societie des Forty Hommes et Eight Chevaux ("40 & 8") along Third Avenue in downtown…
ID Number:2000.107.007.01.01
Date:1949
Image of Sandbag fortification at Black Panther headquarters, Seattle, 1971
Photograph

Sandbag fortification at Black Panther headquarters, Seattle, 1971

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.03
Date:1971
Image of Alexander Chau, left, welcomes his family from Vietnam, Seattle, July 16, 1977
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Alexander Chau, left, welcomes his family from Vietnam, Seattle, July 16, 1977

After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. This image shows the Chau family in Seattle. From left: son Alexander, daughter Le Phuong,…
ID Number:2000.107.034.29.01
Date:1977
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