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Image of Members of the Love Israel Family refinishing furniture, Seattle, August 1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family refinishing furniture, Seattle, August 1971

The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.1
Date:1971
Image of Members of the Love Israel Family at a bungalow, Seattle, August 1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family at a bungalow, Seattle, August 1971

The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.2
Date:1971
Image of Members of the Love Israel Family renovating a house, Seattle, August 1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family renovating a house, Seattle, August 1971

The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.3
Date:1971
Image of Members of the Love Israel Family reading scripture, Seattle, August 1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family reading scripture, Seattle, August 1971

The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.4
Date:1971
Image of Olmstead residence, Seattle, circa 1925
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Olmstead residence, Seattle, circa 1925

During Seattle's Prohibition years in the 1920s, Roy Olmstead became one of the largest and most successful bootleggers in King County. Learning how the trade operated from involvement in raids and arrests while serving as a Seattle Police Lieutenant, Olmstead noted the lack of organization of many bootleggers and began his own operation. After an arrest and dismissal from the…
ID Number:1986.5G.2263.1
Date:Circa 1925
Image of Denny family picnic on Snoqualmie River, circa 1918
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Denny family picnic on Snoqualmie River, circa 1918

In the 1890s and the first several decades of the 1900s, members of the Denny family spent a good deal of the time in the Cascade Mountains, where they mined for gold and enjoyed the outdoors.Sometime around 1917 or 1918, Lawrence Denny Lindsley photographed Victor W. S. Denny and his family eating a picnic lunch near North Bend on the…
ID Number:1987.89.76
Date:Circa 1918
Image of Snoqualmie River from above the falls, circa 1915
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Snoqualmie River from above the falls, circa 1915

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, David Denny and other members of the Denny family mined for gold at Gold Creek, at the north end of Lake Keechelus. In the early days, pack trains of mules and horses carried supplies between the mine and the Denny home at Licton Springs, near Seattle. The pack trains crossed the Snoqualmie River…
ID Number:1987.89.81
Date:Circa 1915
Image of The Winona, 1910
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The Winona, 1910

The 36-foot sloop Winona was built by N.J. Blanchard in a carriage house behind the family home when he was in his early 20s. Drawn on a horse-drawn dray from the house to the pier, the Winona was launched in May 1907. Blanchard courted his future wife, Millicent Norton, on the Winona, and the couple sailed the boat to Olympia…
ID Number:1989.89.244
Date:1910
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Mother and child in "Eskimo Village" at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909

The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. The AYPE included a constructed "Eskimo Village," which exhibited Indigenous people as attractions for the fair's visitors. This image shows Memlinga and Raltuga, a mother and child, wearing traditional furs…
ID Number:1990.36.31
Date:1909
Image of Indigenous family working in a hop field in western Washington, circa 1900
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Indigenous family working in a hop field in western Washington, circa 1900

From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:1990.45.11
Date:Circa 1900
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