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Go Hing Festival decorations on King Street, Seattle, May 1921
On May 23 through 28, 1921, Seattle's Chinese residents held a week-long carnival to raise money for the Chinese Famine Fund, which was raising money for the those impacted by famine in northern China. The event was called Go-Hing and was sponsored by the China Club, Chinese consul Goon Dip, and an advisory committee of Seattle and Washington state civic…
ID Number:1983.10.10959.2
Date:1921
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West Seattle Junction, circa 1925
The primary commercial district in the West Seattle neighborhood, commonly called the Junction, was originally formed in 1907 at the crossroads of two street car lines along what are now California Avenue SW and SW Alaska Street. Heavy promotion encouraged a residential real estate boom to the area, and the 1920s saw significant commercial growth. This image of the intersection…
ID Number:1983.10.12198.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Seattle police women and police van, 1919
The Seattle Police Department hired women to look after female prisoners in the city jail and to work with women and children in cases of crime or domestic violence. As early as 1901, a police matron was assigned to King Street Station to protect women traveling alone. Another early police matron cared for runaway children in her home, because the…
ID Number:1983.10.12318
Date:1919
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Art Barduhn and Stan Boreson performing in KING television studio, Seattle, 1950
Webster & Stevens number: 50-027
ID Number:1983.10.17019
Date:1950
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South side of US Naval Reserve Armory, Lake Union, August 22, 1942
Built on the former site of a Duwamish village, the Naval Reserve Armory was announced in 1937 but trouble with funding delayed completion of the project for several years. The Armory was designed by well-known theater architect B. Marcus Priteca and William R. Grant. The Works Progress Administration, one of the New Deal agencies, constructed the building. Groundbreaking occurred in…
ID Number:1983.10.17273.3
Date:1942
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Aerial view of Marine Hospital, Seattle, 1937
The Marine Hospital in Seattle was completed in 1932, and opened in 1933, serving veterans, merchant seamen, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Light House Service, and "federal compensation cases" (the poor and indigent). Now the Pacific Tower, and previously the Pacific Medical Center, the 16-story building is located on Beacon Hill in Seattle, at 1200 12th Avenue South. Designed by…
ID Number:1983.10.17640
Date:1937
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Aerial view of Seattle from south, 1935
This aerial view of downtown Seattle was taken facing north from the present-day location of the SoDo neighborhood. Prominent in the foreground is King Street Station and the rail yard that opened in 1906 to serve both the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway, and has served Amtrack since 1971. The waterfront and Elliott Bay are visible on the…
ID Number:1983.10.17697.5
Date:1935
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Aerial of Camp Cherry Valley, near Carnation, February 15, 1935
Camp Cherry Valley was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp located in the Snoqualmie Valley on land leased from Weyerhaeuser. In 1935, the Washington State Department of Welfare took over the camp and used it as a location to house and feed homeless men in the area. The men were also given jobs constructing public works. During WWII the camp…
ID Number:1983.10.17731.2
Date:1935
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Air mail plane at Boeing Field, Seattle, circa 1933
In the 1920s, King County voters passed a bond issue to buy land for a commercial airport south of Seattle. Low lying land was graded with fill dredged from the Duwamish Waterway. The new airport, Boeing Field, was dedicated in July 1928. By 1938, the field served three major airlines, passenger planes and airborne freight carriers. Boeing Field is also…
ID Number:1983.10.17984.8
Date:Circa 1933
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Letter from Selden Burrows to his sister, Lillian, about the Seattle Fire, June 7, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889 was a turning point in Seattle's history, destroying 100 acres of Seattle's business district and waterfront, changing both the physical and political landscapes of the city. Albert Selden Burrows (1871-1944) wrote this letter his sister, Lillian, about the Great Fire. Selden Burrows taught in area schools and became the King County Superintendent of…
ID Number:1984.66.26
Date:1889