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Photograph
Seattle City Treasurer's office employees, June 1908
This portrait of the employees of the office of the City Treasurer includes the following identifications:First [front] row, left to right: J. F. Haney, Asst. Treas.; W. H. Sanders; Margaret Epler; Maude Judd; George F. Russell, City Treasurer (1906-1908); A. N. Graves; C. L. Blewett.Second row, left to right: Thomas Scott; Charles A. Duke; Amos Brown; Col. H. W. Beecher;…
ID Number:1969.4653.12
Date:1908
Ephemera
Invitation to Denny School program, February 20, 1903
Seattle was a fast-growing community in the 1880s and an elementary school was needed to serve the families in Seattle's north end (now the Belltown neighborhood). In 1884 the school board opened a two-story wooden building adorned with a bell tower located at Battery Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue. They named the new school Denny School in honor…
ID Number:1970.4875.1
Date:1903
Photograph
U.S. Post office employees in front of Columbia Station, Seattle, August 8, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.39
Date:1935
Photograph
U.S. Post office employees in front of West Seattle Station, August 10, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.41
Date:1935
Photograph
U.S. Post office employees in front of Broadway Station, Seattle, August 13, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.44
Date:1935
Photograph
U.S. Post office employees in front of University Station, Seattle, August 14, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.46
Date:1935
Photograph
U.S. Post office employees in front of North Garage, Seattle, June 1956
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.63
Date:1956
Photograph
Postmaster George Morry and post office supervisors, Seattle, October 30, 1956
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.72
Date:1956
Document
Lillie Pauline White teaching certificate, King County, August 29, 1896
Lillie Pauline White (1858-1944) was a teacher in Washington until 1922, when she retired after 34 years of service. She taught at Denny School, the South School, Rainier School, and Jefferson School, among others. Ms. White was well-regarded and remembered in the Seattle community even after her retirement. In 1935 she was nominated by former pupils as Seattle's "Grand Old…
ID Number:1976.6362.230
Date:1896
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