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Photograph
Terminal Dining Service menu, circa 1940
This menu for dining service at Seattle's central bus and rail terminal, located at 8th Avenue and Stewart Streets, features a photograph of University of Washington football players in action at their stadium.
ID Number:1986.15.23
Date:Circa 1940
Ephemera
Seattle Bombers football program, September 8, 1944
The Seattle Bombers were a professional men's football team that competed from 1942-1944 as part of two different but closely related professional football leagues, the Northwest War Industries League and the American Football League. The program pictured here is from the 1944 season and features biographies of team owner Al Davies and the coaching staff: Earl "Dutch" Clark, James Mandas,…
ID Number:1990.35.1
Date:1944
Photograph
Three women in front yard with tennis rackets, circa 1900
Joseph Swartz was a shingle mill owner in Granite Falls, Washington, in the 1890s and early 1900s. By 1908, he had relocated his business to Everett. Swartz was also an amateur photographer. His images of family, friends and local scenery, all on glass plate negatives, document life in Snohomish County at the turn of the 19th century.In this image, probably…
ID Number:1991.40.165
Date:Circa 1900
Photograph
Portrait of the members of the Gander Club, Seattle, circa 1940
The Gander Club was an organization of prominent Seattle outdoorspeople, headed by Ben Paris, an avid sportsperson, entrepreneur, and conservationist. The objective of the club was to promote outdoor sports in Washington state and to provide lasting friendships for its members. This photo of the members of the Gander Club, some holding signs with their names, was probably taken in…
ID Number:1991.64.7
Date:Circa 1942
Photograph
Bemis Bag Co. football team, 1911
The Bemis Bag Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858. By the early 20th century, the company operated eight bag factories in various parts of the United States, including Seattle, making burlap and cotton bags for grain, flour, feed, and many other products. Amcor acquired the company in 2019.The Seattle plant began with production of textile bags and…
ID Number:1994.15.1.25
Date:1911
Postcard
Moran-Lakeside School mailer, Seattle, 1921
In 1919, Frank G. Moran, founder of the Moran School for Boys on Bainbridge Island, opened an additional boys’ school on Lake Washington in Seattle’s Denny-Blaine district. Named Moran-Lakeside School, it lasted for four years before a series of changes in ownership, name, and location. Today, as Lakeside School, it serves both boys and girls at its campus in North…
ID Number:1996.55.4
Date:1921
Document
Olympic Games Boys' Tour brochure, 1931
In 1932, newspapers across the nation participated in the Olympic Games Boys' Tour, a competition among carriers for an all expenses paid trip to Los Angeles for the Tenth Olympiad. The Seattle Times sponsored the local competition, which was won by carriers Albert Jarvimak and John Collings, who secured the most Seattle Times subscriptions during a six week period, out…
ID Number:1998.22.3
Date:1931
Poster
The Beer of Summer poster, Seattle, circa 1975
The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was founded in 1893 by the merging of three Georgetown neighborhood breweries, the oldest of which had been founded in 1883 by Andrew Hemrich (1856-1910) and John Kopp (1853-1935). The company began production of Rainier, a lager-style beer, in 1893, and by 1904 was the largest brewery west of the Mississippi River. After the…
ID Number:1999.64.83
Date:Circa 1975
Photograph
UW crew team members Gordon Adam and Norm Turay, Seattle, circa 1936
In this image two members of the Husky men's rowing team sit outside what appears to be the crew house on the University of Washington campus. Both men were coached by the legendary Alvin M. Ulbrickson (1903-1980) and Thomas Bolles (1902-1978), racing in boats built by George Pocock (1891-1976). This famed period in UW rowing history was featured in Daniel…
ID Number:2000.107.002.18.01
Date:Circa 1936
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Morrie Alhadeff visiting a recovering horse, May 23, 1978
Morris Jerome "Morrie" Alhadeff (1914-1994), a Seattle native, spent 41 years working for the Washington Jockey Club, which operated the Longacres racetrack in Renton, ending his career as General Manager and Chairman of the Board. Strong supporters of civil rights, Alhadeff and his wife Joan Gottstein Alhadeff (1920-1996), daughter of Longacres founder Joseph Gottstein, were great patrons of Northwest art…
ID Number:2000.107.006.04.01
Date:1978