472 results for: Celebrations
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Children at Weed pharmacy 50th anniversary celebration, Seattle, July 3, 1952
This image of children in Weed's Pharmacy was taken at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the pharmacy, located at 2601 South Jackson Street in the Central District of Seattle. The celebration included ice cream and candy for customers.Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he…
ID Number:1971.5098.9.5
Date:1952
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Suess Art Glass float for Potlatch parade, Seattle, circa 1920
In this image employees of the Suess Art Glass Company, dressed for a parade, pose in front of the company building at 764 Virginia Street in downtown Seattle. The company had begun in 1901, a few months after third-generation glazer and founder John Bernard Suess (1875-1930) moved to Seattle from Chicago with his wife, Bertha (Stumpf) Suess (1876-), and daughter…
ID Number:1971.5110.2
Date:Circa 1920
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Indigenous boat races on Elliott Bay, Seattle, circa 1912
This image of Elliott Bay faces east with spectators lining the docks and streets of downtown Seattle visible in the background. Two Indigenous wooden dugout canoes with 11 men each are racing south along the shoreline in front of Belltown. The event likely took place during one of the Golden Potlatch celebrations staged in the summers of 1911, 1912, and…
ID Number:1971.5202.73
Date:Circa 1912
Ephemera
Mary Ann Wells School of the Dance festival program, Seattle, June 4, 1927
Mary Ann Wells founded the dance department at Seattle's Cornish School of the Arts (now Cornish College of the Arts) and taught there for seven years. Sometime around 1920, she started her own dance school, which operated until 1958. Robert Joffrey and many other prominent dancers graduated from the Mary Ann Wells School of the Dance.The School's Eleventh Annual Dance…
ID Number:1971.5234.17
Date:1927
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Float in China Day parade, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The China Day celebration took place on September 13, 1909, funded by Seattle's Chinese American community. A parade with a Chinese dragon was a highlight of the festivities. This photo highlights a float in the parade. Embossed on mount: Harwood.Caption information source: "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle celebrates China Day and Montesano Day on September 13, 1909," by Phil Dougherty, HistoryLink.org…
ID Number:1974.5868.107
Date:1909
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Chinese dragon in parade for China Day, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The China Day celebration took place on September 13, 1909, funded by Seattle's Chinese American community. A parade with a Chinese dragon, shown here, was a highlight of the festivities. Embossed on mount: Harwood.Caption information source: "Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle celebrates China Day and Montesano Day on September 13, 1909," by Phil Dougherty, HistoryLink.org Essay 8962.
ID Number:1974.5868.111
Date:1909
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Women watching naval parade from roof, Seattle, 1908
In this image, two women can been seen watching a parade from the roof of the Bailey Building in downtown Seattle. According to the note on the back of the photo, they are wathcing a naval parade in 1908, possibly for the visit of the Great White Fleet to Seattle on May 26. Handwritten on verso: South from Roof of…
ID Number:1974.5868.309
Date:1908
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Naval parade spectators, Seattle, 1908
The Great White Fleet, or Atlantic Fleet, was sent by President Teddy Roosevelt on a peacetime goodwill tour around the world beginning December 16, 1907 and ending February 22, 1909. On May 23, 1908, the fleet arrived in Seattle for a four day visit, including a parade on May 26th. The parade had an attendance of over 300,000 people and…
ID Number:1974.5868.322
Date:1908
Program
Dance card for the 11th Annual Ball, Printing Press Assistants Union No. 59, December 17, 1914
In December 1914, members of Local 59 of the Seattle Printing Press Assistants Union and others in the printing trades gathered for the local’s Eleventh Annual Ball. Some 150 couples enjoyed the evening’s reception and dance at Eagle’s Hall. Dance cards for the event listed some twenty dances, from the opening two-step to the unnamed “third extra.” Women could list…
ID Number:1976.6296.24
Date:1914
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Seafair Princess Barbara Foy serving birthday cake at Washington Mutual's 75th anniversary celebration, September 21, 1964
Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008. For Washington Mutual's 75th anniversary, customers 75 years old were honored guests at all the bank's offices on September 21, 1964. This photo documents University…
ID Number:1979.6747.61
Date:1964