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U.S. Army draftees parading through downtown, Seattle, May 10, 1918
On May 10, 1918, 62 men, conscripted from Seattle and King County through the new Selective Service system, paraded through downtown Seattle streets before entraining for Vancouver Barracks, where they would join the U.S. Army. The men assembled at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Club, where they received packages of food, tobacco, and other useful items, then marched to King Street…
ID Number:1983.10.1091.1
Date:1918
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Exterior of The Nut House, Seattle, circa 1920
In 1909 Atlanta-born Anton Louis Delkin (1889-1974) arrived in Seattle from British Columbia with $40 cash and five barrels of peanuts. By 1918 Delkin, the "Chief Nut," was selling $1,350,000 worth of nuts per year through his company, The Nut House. After an attempt in the early 1920s to expand into additional cities, the board of trustees decided in 1923…
ID Number:1983.10.1287
Date:Circa 1920
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Soldier on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I, all branches of the military used motorcycles for carrying messages. In this photo, a soldier poses outside the Times Square Building in downtown Seattle on a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle. It was taken for the Hirsch Cycle Company around 1918.
ID Number:1983.10.1367
Date:Circa 1918
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Shozo Tsutakawa in front of the Japanese American Commission Company, Seattle, circa 1919
Shozo Tsutakawa (1877-1951) was a successful Japanese businessman who immigrated to the US around 1904 and started the Japanese American Commission Company, importing and exporting food and other goods to and from Japan. He was also president of the Japanese Commercial Club in Seattle. In 1919, Tsutakawa wrote an article in the Seattle Times about the huge growth in trade…
ID Number:1983.10.1617.1
Date:Circa 1919
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Shozo Tsutakawa in front of Japanese American Commission Company, circa 1919
Shozo Tsutakawa (1877-1951) was a successful Japanese businessman who immigrated to the US around 1904 and started the Japanese American Commission Company, importing and exporting food and other goods to and from Japan. He was also president of the Japanese Commercial Club in Seattle. In 1919, Tsutakawa wrote an article in the Seattle Times about the huge growth in trade…
ID Number:1983.10.1617.2
Date:Circa 1919
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View of Western Ave., Seattle, circa 1919
This view of Seattle was taken facing north from about where the Public Market Parking Garage is now located. The large building in the center of the frame is the Seattle Seamen's Institute (also Seamen's Bethel, or Seaman's Hotel), opened by the Seamen's Friend Society in 1904 as a home for retired sailors and mariners. On the eastern side of…
ID Number:1983.10.1659.4
Date:Circa 1919
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Organ at Coliseum Theatre, Seattle, circa 1920
By 1915, Seattle's downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca,…
ID Number:1983.10.1883
Date:Circa 1920
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Four members of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1920
On November 27, 1911, the "Native Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Prior to 1870" was organized in Seattle by sixty white, non-Indigenous, women from all over the Pacific Northwest to honor their settler heritage. The organization still exists as of 2018, now called Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, and promotes historic preservation and education.In this image four women…
ID Number:1983.10.2102.1
Date:1920
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Fourth of July fireworks at the Times Square Building, Seattle, circa 1921
The Times Square Building was the center for many of Seattle's community activities. This photo, taken during an Independence Day celebration in the early 1920s, shows fireworks shooting from the roof of the building and lighting the night sky. Webster & Stevens number: 86173
ID Number:1983.10.2156.2
Date:Circa 1921
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Chinese dance group with decorated car on King Street, 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:1983.10.2187.2
Date:1921