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Correspondence
Isaac and Isabelle Bechtel letter about Great Seattle Fire, June 24, 1889
In 1882 Isaac Kinsey Bechtel (1848-1890) arrived in the Puget Sound area and bought 129 acres around what is now Main Street in downtown Bellevue. He had left his wife, Isabella (Lind) Bechtel (1852-1938), and their children behind in Waterloo, Ontario, but in 1885 he was able to send money for them to join him. The cabin Mr. Bechtel built…
ID Number:Lib1996.24.3
Date:1889
Music, notated
Seattle, My Own Home Town
The music and lyrics for "Seattle, My Own Home Town," were written by two women who were born elsewhere but spent their adult lives in the greater Seattle area. A songwriter born in Illinois who enjoyed considerable success in Seattle, Rosetta Adelle (Perry) Gibbon (1904-1988), also wrote "Hail, the Navy," which won a 1933 Chamber of Commerce Fleet Week contest,…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.13
Date:1952
Music, notated
There's Something Else Goes With It!
Between 1900 and 1925 Seattle was a thriving music publishing center with at least half a dozen houses printing songs. As many as 10,000 copies of each musical piece would be sold, some of them peddled from door to door. Most songs were written by amateur or professional singers, although many songs were written as "singing commercials" to promote a…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.14
Date:1907
Music, notated
Seattle Town
The popularity of songs about cities prompted the Young Men's Business Club of Seattle to commission local composer Harold Taylor Weeks to write a song for Seattle. Weeks had already gained a national reputation for a number of hits, including his popular 1918 jazz song "Hindustan," which he wrote with Oliver G. Wallace. The Seattle Times reported that the composer…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.16
Date:1923
Music, notated
Gloria Washington
The words and music for "Gloria Washington," the official march of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, were written by Frederick Neil Innes (1854-1926), a musician and conductor from Chicago who served as the Fair's director of music. The score was copyrighted by F. B. Innes and published by Clegg Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The AYPE was a world's fair held…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.17
Date:1909
Ephemera
Official Instructions for air raid or gas attack, 1942
In 1942, Crescent Soda, a national soft-drink company, reprinted and distributed official civilian defense releases from the Office of Civilian Defense and the Washington State Defense Council. Printed here on one page, the instructions give step-by-step information on what to do if the city has an air raid or gas attack.
ID Number:Lib1996.28.19a
Date:1942
Ephemera
Rules for Test Blackout Night, March 7, 1941
The City of Seattle ran a Test Blackout Night on March 7, 1941. Mayor John E. Carroll declared an official emergency for the duration of the blackout, and the city distributed this handbill telling people what to expect and what to do. All male citizens of Seattle were called upon to report violations to city authorities.
ID Number:Lib1996.28.19b
Date:1941
Program
Program for the United Nations Victory Festival, Seattle, December1945
The Seventh Annual United Nations Christmas Festival, known in 1945 as the Victory Festival, was held at Seattle's Civic Auditorium, with costumed representatives from fourteen countries participating in the "Pageant of the Nations Going Home," a celebration of courage and hope after the devastations of war. United Nations representatives from twenty nations attended, and the entertainment also included performances by…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.22
Date:1945
Ephemera
Edison Technical School brochure, May 1957
Seattle Public Schools opened the Broadway High School Annex in 1921 to house vocational and technical programs. Renamed for inventor Thomas Edison in 1930, the annex became part of Seattle Central Community College (now Seattle Central College) in 1966. This 1957 catalog describes Edison's day and evening classes as well as trade training and apprenticeship programs. Caption information source: HistoryLink.org…
ID Number:Lib1996.44.5
Date:1957
Manuscript
Morgan Carkeek's recollection of 1886 anti-Chinese riots, Seattle, circa 1900
A stone mason originally from England, Morgan James Carkeek (1847-1931) arrived in Seattle in 1870 and began building a construction and real estate empire. Mr. Carkeek and his wife, Emily (Gaskill) Carkeek (1852-1926), donated the land for Seattle's Carkeek Park. Deeply interested in conservation and the study of Seattle-area history, in 1911 the Carkeeks founded the Seattle Historical Society, which…
ID Number:MS.COLL.41
Date:Circa 1900