557 results for: Alaska
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Bob Santos, Seattle, 1971
Bob Santos was a Filipino American community activist who helped start many organizations and programs in the Chinatown International District. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Santos as the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary's representative for the Northwest-Alaska area. Handwritten on sleeve: Robert Santos.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ…
ID Number:1986.5.54102.1
Date:1971
Ephemera
Don't Fail to See Ravenna (or Big Tree Park), 1909
Seattle's Ravenna Park was among the few areas that escaped the logger's ax in the late 1800s, thus preserving stunning examples of giant old-growth Douglas Firs. Centered around a stream that ran from Green Lake to Union Bay, the park opened in 1887 as Ravenna Springs Park, named for the Italian town which sits beside an ancient forest. Owners William…
ID Number:1987.69.1
Date:1909
Ephemera
Don't Fail to See Ravenna (or Big Tree Park), 1909
Seattle's Ravenna Park was among the few areas that escaped the logger's ax in the late 1800s, thus preserving stunning examples of giant old-growth Douglas Firs. Centered around a stream that ran from Green Lake to Union Bay, the park opened in 1887 as Ravenna Springs Park, named for the Italian town which sits beside an ancient forest. Owners William…
ID Number:1987.69.2
Date:1909
Document
Seattle Harbor Tours brochure, circa 1965
Captain Lynn Hilbert Campbell (1911-2013) moved to Seattle during the Depression, where he worked on a freighter between Seattle and Alaska. According to his obituary, after World War II, Mr. Campbell started a tugboat business in Elliott Bay. In 1949, he formed the Spring Street Water Taxi company, which ferried crews and supplies out to ships anchored in Puget Sound.…
ID Number:1989.68.2
Date:Circa 1965
Book
Mapleine Dainties and How to Make Them, circa 1920
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was established in Seattle in 1883 as a small company which specialized in vanilla extract. The company expanded rapidly during the Klondike Gold Rush by selling proprietary spice packets to miners. Crescent Manufacturing grew with their novel creation of an imitation maple flavoring which would not lose flavor over time or with temperature fluctuation. Mapleine debuted…
ID Number:1989.77.a
Date:Circa 1920
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Work boat "USS Highway," built by Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, 1924
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.147
Date:1924
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Indigenous family working in a hop field in western Washington, circa 1900
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:1990.45.11
Date:Circa 1900
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Birds-eye view of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition grounds, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. This photo shows a view of the AYPE grounds from the top of the Government Building, looking east toward Lake Washington.Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was the official photographer of the…
ID Number:1990.73.11
Date:1909
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Oriental Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington. This photo shows the Oriental Building, with the Forestry Building in the background at right.Frank H. Nowell (1864-1950) was the official photographer of the AYPE, and his photographs were displayed…
ID Number:1990.73.13
Date:1909
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Staging of Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition emblem with live models, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.The official AYPE emblem was designed by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson (1876-1932). One of the many published APYE guides explained the emblem in detail: "The figure on the right under the fir…
ID Number:1990.73.14
Date:1909