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Image of Helene Madison waving from train steps, circa 1929
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Helene Madison waving from train steps, circa 1929

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.2
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Studio photo of Helene Madison in swimsuit, circa 1929
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Studio photo of Helene Madison in swimsuit, circa 1929

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.3
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Swimming coach Ray Daughters in swimsuit, circa 1929
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Swimming coach Ray Daughters in swimsuit, circa 1929

Ray Daughters was a swim instructor at the Crystal Natatorium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, and later at the Washington Athletic Club, where Daughters worked after the facility opened in 1930. Daughters’ two most famous swimmers were Seattleites Helene Madison and Jack Medica, the USA’s top freestylers in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics respectively. This photo is from a scrapbook of…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.4
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Helene Madison sitting with coach Ray Daughters and her mother at the Moore Hotel pool, circa 1929
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Helene Madison sitting with coach Ray Daughters and her mother at the Moore Hotel pool, circa 1929

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.5
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Helene Madison's freestyle world record medallion, 1931
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Helene Madison's freestyle world record medallion, 1931

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.114.1
Date:1931
Image of Employees in costume posing at Pacific Telephone & Telegraph party, Seattle, 1920
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Employees in costume posing at Pacific Telephone & Telegraph party, Seattle, 1920

The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was a predecessor company of Pacific Bell Telephone Company. This image was taken at a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company party, where the employees are dressed in costume. This image is one of several from the party, donated by the Estate of Nathalia Matilda Jensen (1898-1971), who was a telephone operator at the time.
ID Number:1971.5068.35
Date:1920
Image of School teacher May de Crane, Seattle, 1914
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School teacher May de Crane, Seattle, 1914

May de Crane taught at eighth grade at Seattle's West Woodland School in 1913-1914. One of her students was Nathalia Jensen, daughter of Rasmus Peter Jensen, who came to Seattle from Denmark in 1889 and homesteaded in the West Woodland area. Caption information source: Seattle Public Schools Quarterly Report, January 1914.
ID Number:1971.5068.36
Date:1914
Image of Report card for Nathalia Jensen, 1914
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Report card for Nathalia Jensen, 1914

Rasmus Peter Jensen immigrated to Seattle in 1889 and homesteaded in the West of Woodland Park district (now the West Woodland neighborhood). He was a carpenter by trade and operated both a construction business and a general store out of his home. Mr. Jensen married Marie E. D. Hansen in 1892 and they had two children, Anna C. Jensen (1894-1912)…
ID Number:1971.5068.37
Date:1914
Image of Weed's Tolu-Turpin Compound label, circa 1930
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Weed's Tolu-Turpin Compound label, circa 1930

Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene (1854-1924) and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy. In 1906, Bert married Keene's daughter Mamie Luella Keene (1881-1970), and they had one daughter, Luell (Weed) Guthrie (1910-1987). Lake Washington Pharmacy…
ID Number:1971.5098.2.1
Date:Circa 1930
Image of Wampole's Creo-Terpin for coughs and colds advertising card, circa 1910
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Wampole's Creo-Terpin for coughs and colds advertising card, circa 1910

Melvin Albert (Bert) Weed (1882-1964) began in the pharmacy business in 1898 as a clerk at the Bartell Drug Company. After college he partnered with Albert G. Keene (1854-1924) and worked as a pharmacist at Lake Washington Pharmacy. In 1906, Bert married Keene's daughter Mamie Luella Keene (1881-1970), and they had one daughter, Luell Weed Guthrie (1910-1987). Lake Washington Pharmacy…
ID Number:1971.5098.3.1
Date:Circa 1910
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