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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
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
Manuscript
"A trip to 'Alki' point near Duwam[i]sh Bay," by Edward Huggins, Seattle, July 4, 1901
"A Trip to 'Alki' point near Duwam[i]sh Bay" was written by Edward Huggins (1832-1907), a Hudson's Bay Company employee who in 1850 had been stationed at Fort Victoria and then at Fort Nisqually, an important fur trading and farming post in the Puget Sound area. Mr. Huggins served at the fort in various capacities until its closure in 1869, at…
ID Number:MS.COLL.49
Date:1901
Document
Woman's Century Club membership certificate, 1924
The Woman's Century Club was founded in 1891 by ten Seattle women, including noted suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947). Noting their times as a "Woman's Century," the founders intended the club to be both social and educational, with gatherings and lectures on a variety of topics. One noted member in the 1920s was Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943), Seattle's first woman…
ID Number:MS.COLL.111
Date:1924
Ephemera
The Bachelors' Club invitation, circa 1885
The Bachelors' Club of Seattle, likely a social club for unmarried men, held its second “Social Party” at the city’s Arlington Hotel on February 16th; the day of the week would place it in either 1882 or 1888 as Washington Territory became Washington State in 1889. The evening featured dancing, card games, and a late meal for $2.50. The members…
ID Number:MS.COLL.148
Date:Circa 1885
Manuscript
Henry A. Smith's recollection of 1856 "Battle of Seattle," circa 1900
On the morning of January 26, 1856, the "Battle of Seattle" began when Native Americans raided the settlement of Seattle. Previously warned of the attack, most settlers had barricaded themselves in a blockhouse. The attackers were driven off by artillery fire and by Marines from the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war Decatur, anchored in Elliott Bay. Although there were relatively few casualties…
ID Number:MS.COLL.204
Date:Circa 1900
Program
Swimming carnival program, 1924
On August 9, 1924, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hosted a swimming carnival at Madrona Bathing Beach, a popular recreation area on the Lake Washington waterfront. Various competitions were held among the 382 children who had participated in summertime swimming lessons at eight local beaches.This program has two names, Mary and Roseanne, handwritten next to the events in which they competed and…
ID Number:MS.COLL.244
Date:1924