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Image of Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, page 28, March 15, 1895
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Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, page 28, March 15, 1895

Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.2
Date:1895
Image of Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, supplement to page 28, February 1, 1897
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Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, supplement to page 28, February 1, 1897

Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.3
Date:1897
Image of Anderson's Map of Seattle Tide Lands, circa 1907
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Anderson's Map of Seattle Tide Lands, circa 1907

Martin Burdett Crane (1872-1954) came to Seattle in 1892, after time in Alaska searching for gold and piloting boats. For several years he worked between Alaska and Seattle, and as early as 1898, M. B. Crane & Co. of Seattle and Dawson City was advertising in the Seattle Daily Times offering claims in the Klondike District. Crane married Seattle native…
ID Number:2019.3.28
Date:Circa 1907
Image of Ballard's Addition to Gilman Park, Seattle, March 11, 1890
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Ballard's Addition to Gilman Park, Seattle, March 11, 1890

Captain William Rankin Ballard (1844-1929) was a Seattle pioneer, banker, and land developer. His family came to the Puget Sound area in about 1865, and William was living in Seattle by about 1870. William's father, Dr. Levi Ward Ballard (1815-1897), and step-mother, Mary Esther (Condict) Ballard (1833-1909), settled south of Seattle, where Levi is remembered for his 1886 filing of…
ID Number:2019.3.47
Date:1890
Image of Map of Alaska, 1927
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Map of Alaska, 1927

In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.59
Date:1927
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Oral history interview with Elsie Anderson, October 18, 2004

Interview with Elsie Anderson, a Boeing employee during World War II. She started as a stenographer in the engineering department and retired as an executive secretary. Topics discussed include taking test pilots out to the hangar, playing Christmas music on the organ during lunch hours, work attire, and what Boeing was like when the war ended. Interview conducted by Patricia…
ID Number:2019.35.9.1.1
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with James S. (Jim) Perry, April 29, 2009

Interview with James S. (Jim) Perry about his memories of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, conducted by Charlie Anderson with Joe Bisignano for the Horizon House Century 21 Oral History Project in April 2009. Topics discussed include bussing people in for the fair, Seattle at the time of the fair, and his connection to an earlier fair.
ID Number:2019.35.13.14
Date:2009
Image of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company employees, May 9, 1949
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Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company employees, May 9, 1949

The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was a subsidiary of AT&T that provided communications services to most of the US West. It was founded in San Francisco in 1906. The first AT&T subsidiary in Seattle had been the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, which began operating in 1883. Sunset quickly expanded and provided service throughout Washington, but AT&T decided to…
ID Number:2021.14.1
Date:1949
Image of Black Lives Matter sign from March of Silence, June 12, 2020
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Black Lives Matter sign from March of Silence, June 12, 2020

In the summer of 2020, protests against police brutality and systemic anti-Black racism broke out across the United States in response to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by police officers in Minneapolis in May 2020. The protests were associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. In Seattle, protesters formed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP; also…
ID Number:2021.39.1
Date:2020
Image of Seattle Gay News, Vol. 17, No. 38, September 21, 1990
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Seattle Gay News, Vol. 17, No. 38, September 21, 1990

The Seattle Gay News (SGN) was founded in 1976 to provide news coverage focusing on Seattle’s gay community; it is the third oldest LGBTQ+ newspaper in the US. Seattle Gay News started as a newsletter produced by the Gay Community Center. It provided news to a community that was largely ignored by mainstream newspapers and advocated for gay rights in…
ID Number:2021.67.34
Date:1990
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