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Music, notated
On Our Way to Paradise
Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington state, opened in 1899. It was the nation's fifth national park and the first to allow cars. The road to the Paradise section of the park was built in 1910. This 1915 sheet music, published five years later, shows several cars passing through the park entrance on their moonlit way up Mount Rainier to…
ID Number:1976.6292.1
Date:1915
Menu
Frederick & Nelson's Tea Room menu for Afternoon Tea, circa 1935
Frederick & Nelson's new building at 5th Avenue and Pine Street, which opened in 1918, included a large, elegantly furnished tea room on the fifth floor. With seating for 400, the tea room became Seattle's most sophisticated place for shoppers to dine. This menu features a wide range of choices for afternoon tea and is bound into a heavy, textured…
ID Number:1976.6296.1
Date:Circa 1935
Menu
Frederick & Nelson's Tea Room menu, circa 1935
Frederick & Nelson's new building at 5th Avenue and Pine Street, which opened in 1918, included a large, elegantly furnished tea room on the fifth floor. With seating for 400, the tea room became Seattle's most sophisticated place for shoppers to dine. This menu features a selection of items for lunch and is bound with a ribbon into a decorative…
ID Number:1976.6296.3.1
Date:Circa 1935
Ephemera
Sherman Printing & Binding Co. business card, circa 1936
The Sherman Printing & Binding Co. was founded in Seattle by Alonzo A. Sherman around 1911. Sherman had worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the late 1890s and then worked as a printer in Spokane from about 1900-1905. Returning to Seattle, he worked for the Metropolitan Press and the Seattle Daily Star before opening his own business around 1908, first…
ID Number:1976.6296.25
Date:Circa 1936
Document
Frederick & Nelson account statement, December 1908
The founders of premiere Seattle department store Frederick & Nelson got their start selling used furniture during the rebuilding of Seattle after the Great Fire of 1889. The business expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men's and women's fashions. The owners built a reputation for elegance and customer service. Although the company went out…
ID Number:1976.6359.1
Date:1908
Photograph
Washingon Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle, 1921
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. This photo documents the bank's location at the Walker Building on Second Avenue. Caption accompanying image: The Walker Building, built in 1899 was purchased by…
ID Number:1979.6747.28
Date:1921
Photograph
Edward Nolan on stump, Seattle, circa 1910
Carl Henry Moen was born in Seattle in 1892 to Norwegian immigrant parents. His family moved several times as he was growing up, but settled in Ballard when he was nine years old. He helped harvest and sell the produce, milk, and poultry his family raised, and also was a messenger for Western Union, dug clams, and worked for Bemis…
ID Number:1980.6880.90
Date:Circa 1910
Photograph
Southwest view of Seattle after fire, July 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889 was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the City, destroying 100 acres of Seattle's business district and waterfront. The city didn't take much time to mourn; most businesses decided to rebuild where they had been, and rebuilding began almost immediately, creating a building…
ID Number:1980.6923.118
Date:1889
Photograph
Boxer Freddie Steele and trainer Jack Connors, 1936
Freddie "the Tacoma Assassin" Steele (born Frederick Earl Burgett in Seattle in 1912) started boxing as a young teenager after being noticed by his future manager Dave Miller at Miller's gym. Steele won his first amateur bout in 1926, and did not lose a bout until his 47th fight in 1930. Steele won the Pacific Northwest Welterweight Title in January…
ID Number:1982.216.10
Date:1936
Photograph
Boxer Freddie Steele with manager Dave Miller and trainer Jack Connors, circa 1930
Freddie "the Tacoma Assassin" Steele (born Frederick Earl Burgett in Seattle in 1912) was first noticed by his future manager Dave Miller when, as a young teen, Steele practiced boxing at Miller's gym. Miller began managing Steele's career and also became a surrogate father figure for the talented young boxer. Steele won his first amateur bout in 1926, and did…
ID Number:1982.216.16
Date:Circa 1930