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Members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, circa 1904
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:SHS9796
Date:Circa 1904
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Red Cross ambulance drivers and ambulances, circa 1917
The United States entered World War I in April 1917. A number of American women drove ambulances and other vehicles for the American Red Cross during the war. In this photo, some of Seattle's Red Cross drivers line up with their ambulances on Western Avenue. The women wear the uniform of the Red Cross Motor Corps. The sign outside the…
ID Number:SHS15757
Date:1900