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Ephemera
Weekly Rental Bulletin, Seattle, April 21,1928
Born in Wisconsin and raised there and in Walla Walla, Washington, John Davis (1863-1917) moved to Seattle in 1887 where he founded his eponymous real estate brokerage. Following the panic of 1893, Mr. Davis expanded into property management, mortgages, loans, and insurance sales. The company grew steadily into one of the largest real estate corporations on the West Coast, and…
ID Number:1984.142.2
Date:1928
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Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization founders posing, Seattle, circa 1949
In 1949 the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Organization was begun by 13 African-American nurses in Seattle to support each other and to help young women who wanted to become nurses. Inspired by Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926), the first African-American woman to earn a nursing degree in the U. S., the organization has helped African American women and men in their…
ID Number:1985.62.1
Date:Circa 1949
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Oral history interview with Willard Wright, July 15, 1985
Willard J. Wright (1914-1997) was a Seattle lawyer at the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. A Seattle native, he attended the Lakeside School, graduating in 1932. He was a longtime trustee of Lakeside beginning in 1938 and was involved in the selection of the new headmaster after the sudden death of Headmaster Robert Adams in 1950. In this interview, Wright…
ID Number:1985.135.31
Date:1985
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Young men leaving Seattle for a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, April 14, 1937
On April 13, 1937, eighty men reported to the Armory in Seattle on the first day of the spring enrollment for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The program, created by the federal government in 1933 to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression, hired young men to work on conservation projects in remote areas of the United States. In March 1937,…
ID Number:1986.5.1829.1
Date:1937
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Young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps receiving a physical exam, 1937
Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. CCC jobs were generally manual labor, and focused primarily on the conservation and development of parks and other natural resources throughout the United States. Physical exams…
ID Number:1986.5.1829.2
Date:1937
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Hula hoop champion Janet Davis, Seattle, October 4, 1958
In 1958, children, teenagers, and a fair number of adults mastered the latest American fad, the Hula Hoop. In Seattle, Frederick & Nelson held Hula Hoop contests for children ages five to fifteen. During three days in early October, more than 700 boys and girls crowded the department store's usually-quiet Tea Room to compete for prizes. Winners received Frederick &…
ID Number:1986.5.4352.1
Date:1958
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Open housing demonstration at Westlake Mall, March 7, 1964
On March 7, 1964, supporters of the proposed open housing ordinance marched from four staging areas to converge on Westlake Mall for a rally to generate enthusiasm for the ordinance in the upcoming election. The open housing ordinance against racial discrimination in home sales and rentals was rejected by Seattle voters on March 10, 1964 by a margin of nearly…
ID Number:1986.5.5935.5
Date:1964
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Children and a rabbit at the Renton Rabbit Race, March 23, 1956
Four-footed contestants hopped down Wells Street in downtown Renton on March 23, 1956. The event was Renton's second annual Rabbit Race. Nine-year old Tommy Sepanen tried to speed up the pace of the second-place rabbit, White Stag, by beating the pavement with a rolled-up copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "You always get results with the Post-Intelligencer," commented the reporter who…
ID Number:1986.5.6765.1
Date:1956
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Parishioners outside Findlay Christian Church, Seattle, October 3, 1954
In this photo, members of the Findlay Christian Church at 4520 Findlay Street enter for a Sunday morning observance of World Wide Communion Sunday and homecoming. The Findlay Christian Church was founded in 1907 as a congregation of the Disciples of Christ and exists as of 2017 as Welcome Table. The church moved to Beacon Hill in 2016. Caption information…
ID Number:1986.5.7916.1
Date:1954
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Sternwheelers club members square dancing, Seattle, August 12, 1955
In this image the Sternwheelers, members of the Seattle Indoor Sports Club, present their wheelchair square dance to an enthusiastic crowd during the American Legion's Cavalcade of Music and Drill at Memorial Stadium as part of the Legion's state convention. The Legion invited the Sternwheelers to perform after a performance scheduled at the Seafair Fiesta of Floats was canceled on…
ID Number:1986.5.8531.1
Date:1955