253 results for: Washington Hotel
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Sourdoughs posing on truck at reunion, Seattle, August 1935
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. The events of the Klondike gold rush rapidly became embedded in North American culture, being captured in poems, stories, photographs, and promotional campaigns long after the end of the stampede. Some terminology from the…
ID Number:SHS10085
Date:1935
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Lillian Goon Dip posing in Chinese dance costume, circa 1925
Lillian Goon was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1900. Her father was Seattle’s Chinese consul and hotel owner, Goon Dip. Until 1933, Lillian Goon lived with her family at the Milwaukee Hotel, in Seattle’s Chinatown. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1924. Ms. Goon studied ballet with several teachers, including Seattle’s well-known Mary Ann Wells, and she frequently…
ID Number:SHS14125
Date:1920
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Lillian Goon Dip, 1937
Lillian Goon was born in Portland, Oregon in 1900. Her father was Seattle’s Chinese consul and hotel owner Goon Dip. Until 1933, Lillian Goon lived with her family at the Milwaukee Hotel, in Seattle’s Chinatown. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1924. Ms. Goon studied ballet with several teachers, including Seattle’s Mary Ann Wells, and she frequently performed…
ID Number:SHS15846
Date:1937