538 results for: Clubs and Organizations
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Monks Club members and friend posing on steps, Seattle, November 1935
The Monks Club was a residential men's club that began May 1, 1904 at 321 Boren Avenue in what is now Seattle's Chinatown - International District neighborhood. The club maintained a boarding house that served as a "home away from home" for young unmarried businessmen. Membership in the club was also extended to nonresidents who gathered for social occasions. From…
ID Number:2000.107.170.30.03
Date:1935
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Members and guests dancing at Monks Club, Seattle, May 23, 1942
The Monks Club was a residential men's club that began May 1, 1904 at 321 Boren Avenue in what is now Seattle's Chinatown - International District neighborhood. The club maintained a boarding house that served as a "home away from home" for young unmarried businessmen. Membership in the club was also extended to nonresidents who gathered for social occasions. From…
ID Number:2000.107.170.30.04
Date:1942
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Members and guests examining busts at Monks Club, Seattle, April 27, 1946
The Monks Club was a residential men's club that began May 1, 1904 at 321 Boren Avenue in what is now Seattle's Chinatown - International District neighborhood. The club maintained a boarding house that served as a "home away from home" for young unmarried businessmen. Membership in the club was also extended to nonresidents who gathered for social occasions. From…
ID Number:2000.107.170.30.05
Date:1960
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Tip Toppers club officers posing with P-I copy boy, Seattle, December 14, 1958
Begun as the Seattle Timberliners around 1947, the Seattle Tip Toppers' Club, a non-profit social organization for tall persons, has been part of Tall Clubs International (TCI) since 1954. Minimum height requirements for membership in the club are 5’10” for women and 6’2” for men.In this image Art Thomas, Post-Intelligencer copy boy, poses with the newly elected officers of the…
ID Number:2000.107.171.08.01
Date:1958
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Tip Toppers club members with woman, Seattle, February 1955
Begun as the Seattle Timberliners around 1947, the Seattle Tip Toppers' Club, a non-profit social organization for tall persons, has been part of Tall Clubs International (TCI) since 1954. Minimum height requirements for membership in the club are 5’10” for women and 6’2” for men.In this image Yvonne Beaulier, 5' 2" tall, attempts to adjust the tie of Ken Hermanson,…
ID Number:2000.107.171.08.02
Date:1955
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Tip Toppers club members washing a car, Seattle, August 22, 1959
Begun as the Seattle Timberliners around 1947, the Seattle Tip Toppers' Club, a non-profit social organization for tall persons, has been part of Tall Clubs International (TCI) since 1954. Minimum height requirements for membership in the club are 5’10” for women and 6’2” for men.In this image club members Jim White, left, Al Bergman, and Zilpha Meador, wash a car…
ID Number:2000.107.171.08.03
Date:1959
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City councilman and boy in cab of bulldozer, Seattle, December 2, 1950
In this photo, Seattle City Councilman Clarence F. Massart and eleven-year-old Jerry Abrams sit in the cab of a bulldozer during the ground-breaking ceremonies for Wallingford's new Boys' Club building at 1310 North 45th Street. The organization still occupies the same site. The Boys Clubs, now Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, was founded in 1943 and continues to…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.07
Date:1950
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Wallingford Commercial Club members with tobacco donation, November 29, 1944
The Wallingford Commercial Club was founded in 1910 to promote the neighborhood's accomplishments and lobby for commercial expansion. In this image officers and members of the Wallingford Commercial Club pose with their Christmas gift of tobacco for U. S. military personnel serving in the Aleutian Islands. The individuals are identified, from left, as Clarence McReynolds, vice president, Alvin Comer, J.…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.08
Date:1944
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Louise Wejak dancing at a War Bond rally, Seattle, July 6, 1944
In this photo, nine-year-old Louise Wejak, a fourth-grader at University Heights Grade School, dances on drums at a July 1944 War Bond rally in Wallingford. The event was staged by the Wallingford Commercial Club. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.09
Date:1944
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Woman's Century Club members lighting anniversary candles, Seattle, July 18, 1961
Seattle's Woman's Century Club was founded in 1891 by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt and nine other Seattle women. The club, still in existence, was both social and educational, and numbered many notable Seattle women among its members. For many years the group met in its own clubhouse on Capitol Hill. Here, in 1961, three long-time members gather by seven candles…
ID Number:2000.107.171.11.02
Date:1961