21 results for: John Davis
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House at center of debate in Open Housing Campaign, Seattle, May 2, 1959
Seattle's African American population increased dramatically between 1940 and 1960, making the community the city's largest minority group. Like other minorities, African Americans experienced discrimination in many ways, including in housing. The enforcement of restrictive covenants in specific developments or subdivisions, realtors agreeing not to show houses to people of color, and red-lining, where banks denied credit to minorities, largely…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.02
Date:1959
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Commercial Club officers discussing projects, Seattle, March 5, 1951
The East Madison Commercial Club organized in 1935 in order to improve Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood. In 1959 the club, by then known as the East Union - East Madison Commercial Club, merged with the Central Community Club.In this image the officers of the East Madison Commercial Club talk about upcoming club projects. The individuals are identified from left as…
ID Number:2000.107.170.25.06
Date:1951
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North Broadway map, January 1937
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:2003.9.33
Date:1937
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Ballard District map, June 1931
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:2003.9.44
Date:1931
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N 85th St & Greenwood Ave map, circa 1935
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:2003.9.45
Date:Circa 1935
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California Ave & Admiral Way map, June 1931
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:2003.9.46
Date:1931
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West Seattle Junction map, May 1934
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:2003.9.47
Date:1934
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Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931
An unroped two-man non-guided party consisting of brothers Kenneth and Robert Zinn left Camp Muir for the summit of Mount Rainier on July 4th weekend of 1931. During the ascent Robert Zinn became exhausted; sitting to rest, he began a slide of 3,400 feet, striking Nisqually Glacier. A search party headed by District Ranger Charles Browne searched in vain on…
ID Number:2009.16.72
Date:1931
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Bob Frasier and John Davis posing at gym, Seattle, October 16, 1949
Bob Frasier, manager, assists John Davis, fighter and longshoreman, in the ring at a gymnasium located around 1st & Cherry. Bob is wearing a long sleeved shirt and pants with suspenders, and John is in a striped shirt and shorts, wearing protective gear and gloves.
ID Number:2014.49.010.001.0002
Date:1949
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Group posing at a party, Seattle, circa 1953
Isabelle (Donaldson) "Izzie" Smith, left, poses with, left to right, an unidentified man, Dorothy Hollingsworth, Dan, Betty Cox, Bill Conley, Ruth (Beck) Davis, and three unidentified others on the porch during a party at a fourplex house located at 19th Avenue E. and E. John Street.
ID Number:2014.49.014.021.0042
Date:Circa 1953