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Photograph
University of Washington versus Dartmouth College football game at Husky stadium, Seattle, November 27, 1920
This image of the spectators and field at Husky Stadium on the University of Washington campus in Seattle was taken on November 27, 1920, during a game the Huskies lost 28-7 to Dartmouth. This was the first game held at the newly-completed stadium and the final game of the 1920 season. Although the student population at the time was only…
ID Number:1955.970.500.13
Date:1920
Photograph
Pleasant Beach, Bainbridge Island, circa 1900
Even before the automobile, Bainbridge Island's Pleasant Beach was a popular recreation destination. In the summertime, thousands of people from Seattle, Tacoma, and throughout Puget Sound arrived by boat to visit the beach, picnic grounds, bowling alley, or one of the saloons.This photograph, one half of a stereograph, shows the dock and some of the buildings at Pleasant Beach at…
ID Number:1956.1066.3
Date:Circa 1900
Poster
Julia Rochester concert poster, Seattle Theatre, December 27, 1893
Julia Gwynn (Smith) Rochester (1860-1931) was born in Missouri and came to Seattle in 1889 with her husband, George A. C. Rochester (1855-1929), a prominent lawyer, judge, and Librarian of the Seattle Public Library from 1907. An accomplished vocalist, Julia Rochester organized the Capitol Hill Unit of the Music and Art Foundation and represented the Ladies' Musical Club of Seattle…
ID Number:1957.1344.1
Date:1893
Document
Slo-Mo-Shun IV Gold Cup winner certificate, Seattle, June 2, 1956
This hand-drawn certificate from the Union of International Motorboating (UIM) declares in both French and English that SLO-MO-SHUN IV, owned by Stanley Sayres and driven by Joe Taggart, won the Best Performance Gold Cup, Unlimited Class on August 7, 1955, during a 15-mile heat on Lake Washington. The boat's speed was recorded that day as 166 kilometers per hour. Stanley…
ID Number:1959.1701.c.1
Date:1956
Photograph
Canoe War during Junior Day event at University of Washington, circa 1910
The University of Washington crew teams hosted "Junior Day" events, held in the spring at the end of the season, and located on the shores of Lake Washington's Union Bay. Included in the water fun were log rolling and the canoe fights. Canoe war participants were given a ten foot pole and the object was to force your opponent out…
ID Number:1960.1821.59.1
Date:Circa 1910
Photograph
UW student activity at Denny Field, Seattle, circa 1910
Sometime around 1910, a group of people gathered at Denny Field, on the campus of the University of Washington, for an unidentified activity. Tightly-packed men and a few women have formed a human chain around a large hook, while others watch from the bleachers and sidelines. The number of men in the group wearing the beanie hats usually worn by…
ID Number:1960.1821.63
Date:Circa 1910
Music, notated
The Potlatch Bug: A Ragtime Song of the Golden Potlatch
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon;" Elttaes" is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:1963.3018.3
Date:1912
Poster
Golden Potlatch ad, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; "Elttaes" is "Seattle" spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:1963.3018.4.1
Date:1911
Ephemera
Strip of young adult admission tickets for the Indian Village exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Tickets for children 15 years or under for the Indian village exhibit, printed with number 014511 through 014514. The Indian Village included a long house, teppes, and other displays, and hosted performers from various local Tribes as well as those from the Plains and eastern United States.
ID Number:1963.3119.52n
Date:1962
Ephemera
Admission ticket for Gracie Hansen Presents Barry Ashton's "A Night in Paradise," Seattle World's Fair, April 21-October 21, 1962
"A Night in Paradise" was an adults-only Vegas-style vaudeville show held at Gracie Hansen's Paradise International Theatre on Show Street. It ran for the duration of the fair, and although it was a financial failure, the combination of showgirl glitz, fancy costumes and jewlery, acrobats, ventriloquists, and other variety acts, made this show one of the most memorable attractions of…
ID Number:1963.3119.52o
Date:1962