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Correspondence
Rev. Robert E. Dunlap's letter from Mayor J.T. Ronald, October 3, 1893
Judge J. T. Ronald served the Seattle community for well over sixty years. He and his wife, Rhoda, moved to Seattle in 1882 with Ronald beginning his long law career the next year when appointed King County Deputy District Attorney. Ronald served as U.S. District Attorney of King, Kitsap, and Snohomish counties, was Seattle mayor in 1892, and had a…
ID Number:1980.7046.1
Date:1893
Document
Americanized Macaroni Products: An Interesting Story of the Macaroni Family, 1939
Guido P. Merlino (1903-1991) founded the Mission Macaroni Mfg. Company during the economically challenging times of the Great Depression in 1932. Originally from Taranta Peligna, Italy, Merlino immigrated to the United States in 1920 at age 17, settling near his brother in Fresno, California. He later joined his cousins in Seattle as an owner of Pacific Coast Macaroni Co., producing…
ID Number:1980.7051.187
Date:1939
Program
The Curtis Picture Musicale program, circa 1912
From 1911 to 1913, photographer Edward S. Curtis toured the country with a multimedia production, The Curtis Picture Musicale, based on his photographs of Indigenous peoples. At this point, Curtis’s efforts to document Indigenous life had already taken 14 years, and he expected that it would take eight additional years to complete the project. The Musicale, a fund-raising effort, was…
ID Number:1980.7060.1
Date:Circa 1912
Photograph
Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1967
In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly formed Coliseum Company to build an elegant theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. It closed…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.11.1
Date:Circa 1967
Music, notated
The New Steel Trail
The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway, known as The Milwaukee Road, started service between the Midwest and Seattle in 1909. In 1911, the company added two new, all-steel, state of the art trains to the line, one of which was called The Olympian. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, the Milwaukee Road reduced all trains'…
ID Number:1980.7097A.15
Date:1918
Music, notated
See You in Seattle (at the Big World's Fair)
The Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's World's Fair, ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The fair promoted the worlds of space, science, and the future. The cover of this sheet music shows a woman, a man, and a little girl walking excitedly through the fairgrounds below the Space Needle. The official logo of the fair is printed below the…
ID Number:1980.7097A.20
Date:1961
Music, notated
The City of Progress
The lyrics for "The City of Progress," a march dedicated to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, were written by Alvin L. Snow, and the music was composed by prominent local musician and educator Adolph Edgren. The song was written for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), a world's fair held in 1909 on the campus of Seattle's University of Washington to promote…
ID Number:1980.7097A.23
Date:1909
Music, notated
Meet Me Next Sunday at Woodland
The music and lyrics for "Meet me next Sunday at Woodland" were written by Agnes Farrand (Terry) Perry (1873-1937). The song was published by the Empire Music Publishing Company of Seattle. The title refers to Woodland Park , a 90.9-acre public park in Seattle's Phinney Ridge and Green Lake neighborhoods that originated as the estate of Guy C. Phinney, lumber…
ID Number:1980.7097A.26
Date:1911
Music, notated
The Potlatch Tickle
The music for "The Potlatch Tickle (A Seattle Rag)" was composed by Donald A. Robertson, arranged by Carl A. Weber, and published by the Empire Music Publishing Company of Seattle. A native of Germany, Carl Alfred Weber (1863-1929) came to Seattle about 1910 and opened a music studio where he taught and arranged music. Donald Alexander Robertson (1888-1934) was a…
ID Number:1980.7097A.28
Date:1911
Photograph
Central Building under construction, Seattle, October 31, 1907
This image was taken during construction of the Central Building at Third Avenue and Marion Street in downtown Seattle, which was completed in 1909 and still stands as of 2017. Designed by local architect Charles Ronald Aldrich (1866-1939), the building utilized a steel frame and reinforced concrete intended to ensure the building withstood fires and earthquakes. The image was taken…
ID Number:1980.7134.18
Date:1907