1892 results for: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
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Butterworth & Sons funeral wagon, Seattle, circa 1905
After moving to Seattle in 1892, furniture maker Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847-1921) went full time into the undertaking business, motivated by the $50 paid to take each dead body off the street. A pioneer of the modern approach to the business of undertaking, he built the city's first custom-built modern mortuary in 1903, the Butterworth Block at 1921 First Avenue.…
ID Number:SHS18953
Date:Circa 1905
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Ibsen family water skiing on Lake Washington, Seattle, circa 1955
Water skiing pioneer Donald Sylvester Ibsen (1910-1993) was a star athlete at Roosevelt High School, and made his first pair of water skis the summer he graduated, in 1928. Within 10 years he had started the Olympic Water Ski Club and created a water ski team to perform shows around the Northwest. He also appeared on the pages of Life…
ID Number:SHS19348
Date:Circa 1955