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Baseball fans entering Dugdale ballpark, Seattle, 1921
Signs in image: Seattle Base Ball Club. Bleacher 50 Cent Tickets Here. Grand Stand Ticket 75 Cents.Handwritten on sleeve: Base Ball opening Crowd Entering.Webster & Stevens number: 81638
ID Number:1983.10.10874
Date:1921
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Frank Foyston in hockey gear standing in doorway, Seattle, circa 1920
Frank Corbett "The Flash" Foyston (1891-1966) was a Canadian-born hockey player who became a major figure in early Seattle hockey. Foyston started his career with the Toronto Blueshirts, then moved to Seattle in 1915 to join the Seattle Metropolitans, an expansion team of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). Foyston played nine seasons with the Metropolitans and led the team…
ID Number:1983.10.11224.2
Date:Circa 1920
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University of Washington football player Hamilton Greene, Seattle, 1923
Handwritten on sleeve: Ham Green[sic], U of W football.Webster & Stevens number: 100891
ID Number:1983.10.11419
Date:1923
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Yacht Pirate sailing on Lake Union, Seattle, April 7, 1926
The R-class racing yacht "Pirate" was designed by Ted Geary and built by the Lake Union Drydock Company in 1926. The Pirate was built for Tommy Lee, son of Los Angeles yachtsman Don Lee, as a reward for winning the Pacific Coast Star Championship in 1925, and embodies the most advanced skills and talents in both yacht design and yacht…
ID Number:1983.10.12357.2
Date:1926
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Aerial of Renton looking southeast, May 31, 1933
The city of Renton is located at the southern shore of Lake Washington, on the site of earlier Native encampments. Settlers built a sawmill in the area in the 1850s, and coal was discovered nearby in the 1870s. Renton was also an agricultural center. For many years, its primary crop was hops, used in brewing beer.This view of Renton shows…
ID Number:1983.10.17530.1
Date:1933
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View of Kingdome exterior, Seattle, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.102
Date:1983
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Beacon Hill Merchants Baseball Team program, 1927
The Seattle Community Baseball League was founded in 1926, as a semi-professional league of eight teams. The inaugural teams were the West Seattle Athletic Club, Georgetown Merchants, Fremont Community Club, Alki Merchants, Mercer Athletic Club, Rainier Valley Merchants, and South Park Merchants. Ballard was offered a team, but could not put one together, so Interbay was given the eighth slot.…
ID Number:1984.135.1
Date:1927
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Motorcycles in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo shows racing motorcycles on an s-curve at the track. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.2
Date:1966
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Motorcycle in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo focuses on one of the motorcycles in the race. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.3
Date:1966
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Greenwood Boys' Club boxing team, December 1949
The Greenwood Boys' Club was founded in the spring of 1943 to give unsupervised neighborhood teen boys a safe place to hang out. The organizers rented an old empty nightspot at 8537 Greenwood Ave. for $1 a year to start the club, which had a pool table and ping pong, and a playground at Fremont Avenue north of 85th Street…
ID Number:1986.5.1195.1
Date:1949