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Office at West Seattle High School, December 1921
As part of the West Seattle High School's commercial classes, women students learned how to work in an office. In this photo, taken around 1921, they type letters, operate the telephone switchboard, and sort mail. Webster & Stevens number: 87357
ID Number:1983.10.2404.2
Date:1921
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Book room at West Seattle High School, December 1921
Like many high schools in the 1920s, West Seattle High School taught what were called "Commercial Subjects." Students learned how to staff an office, manage supplies, type and take dictation, and do other business tasks. At this time, most high school students did not go to college.In this photo, taken around 1921, students inventory and distribute textbooks in the Book…
ID Number:1983.10.2404.3
Date:1921
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West Seattle High School office, Seattle, circa 1921
Like many high schools in the 1920s, West Seattle High School taught what were called "Commercial Subjects." Students learned how to staff an office, manage supplies, type memos, and take care of routine administrative matters. Both boys and girls participated in this type of vocational educational classes. Handwritten on sleeve: West Seattle High Interiors.Webster & Stevens number: 87357
ID Number:1983.10.2404.9
Date:Circa 1921
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School children leaving Main Street School, December 11, 1921
The Main Street School opened in 1873, at Sixth Avenue South and Main Street. By the 1920s, the old wooden building was no longer adequate. On a rainy day in December 1921, the students and teachers left their old school building and walked to the new, brick Bailey Gatzert School on 12th Avenue South and Weller Street.In this photo, Main…
ID Number:1983.10.2408.1
Date:1921
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Carnation Milk advertisements at Moore's, circa 1919
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the…
ID Number:1983.10.2432.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Schwabacher delivery truck with Carnation milk, circa 1920
Schwabacher Brothers & Company, a San Francisco firm, opened an branch in Seattle in the 1860s. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other materials to the logging camps, mill towns, and farming communities. The first supplies were delivered across the water and upriver by steamer. In later years, the…
ID Number:1983.10.2435.1
Date:Circa 1920
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Carnation Milk Co. promotional photo showing a bull on a dock near a ship, circa 1919
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the…
ID Number:1983.10.2436.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Log rafts near the Ballard Bridge, circa 1919
Lumber mills lined both sides of the Lake Washington Ship Canal near Ballard. Rafts of logs were floated to the mills, where they were cut into lumber. In this photo, taken in about 1919, log rafts float at the southeast side of the Ballard Bridge, near the Bolcom Canal Lumber Company. Phinney Ridge rises in the right background. Webster &…
ID Number:1983.10.2476.1
Date:Circa 1919
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Log rafts near Ballard Bridge, Seattle, circa 1919
Lumber mills lined both sides of the Lake Washington Ship Canal near Ballard. Rafts of logs were floated to the mills, where they were cut into lumber. In this photo, taken in about 1919, log rafts float near the Ballard Bridge. Handwritten on sleeve: Ballard MillWebster & Stevens number: 96765
ID Number:1983.10.2476.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Bolcom Canal Lumber Company, Seattle, circa 1919
Lumber mills lined both sides of the Lake Washington Ship Canal near Ballard. Rafts of logs were floated to the mills, where they were cut into lumber. In this photo, taken in about 1919, log rafts float near the Bolcom Canal Lumber Company. Handwritten on sleeve: Ballard MillWebster & Stevens number: 96765
ID Number:1983.10.2476.3
Date:Circa 1919