557 results for: Alaska
Photograph
Portrait of Ringwald Blix, circa 1925
In this photograph, Blix is wearing a badge of the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, Cabin No. 1, Seattle, Wash. Around 1896, Ringwald Blix built the highly regarded Blix Roadhouse in Copper Center, Alaska. Blix also served as U.S. commissioner and postmaster in Copper Center before leaving Alaska for Seattle in 1918.The Alaska-Yukon Pioneers fraternal organization was probably formed in Seattle when the…
ID Number:1966.3948.92
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Committee presenting a key to the city to sled dog Balto at Pier 2, Seattle, March 22, 1925
Balto was the lead sled dog on Gunnar Kaasen's 1925 Serum Run team, delivering diphtheria antitoxin serum to doctors at Nome, Alaska on the last leg of the relay. Balto and Kaasen arrived in Seattle on the Alaska Steamship Company's steamship Alameda, and they were honored at a ceremony on Pier 2 in Seattle by a committee representing the Alaska-Yukon…
ID Number:1966.3948.100
Date:1925
Photograph
Charles "Slim" Williams, John Logan, and dog "Blizzard," December 9, 1939
This photo depicts Slim Williams (left) and John Logan with their dog "Blizzard" after their arrival in Seattle by motorcycle in December 1939. Clyde C. "Slim" Williams was a promoter of the Alaska Highway in the 1930s. Williams first rode the proposed route in 1933, by dogsled and in a Model T pulled by sled dogs, from Copper Center, Alaska…
ID Number:1966.3948.128
Date:1939
Postcard
Two men with train backdrop at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This souvenir postcard from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition shows two men posing within a train backdrop. Such souvenirs photographs, depicting subjects against various backgrounds, were popular among fairgoers at the AYPE. Text on sign on train: Exposition Special A.Y.P Through Train Spokane to SeattleText on sign on train: North Coast Limited
ID Number:1966.4058.6
Date:1909
Postcard
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition promotional postcard, Seattle, circa 1909
Promotional photograph for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, with illustrations connecting Seattle to Alaska (including with an Alaska Native totem pole), which encourages people to arrive by steamship and railroad. Caption on image: Hello Bill! Meet me on the Pay Streak at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition - June 1st - Oct 16th - Seattle U.S.A. 1909.Postcard Number: 1853
ID Number:1966.4058.8
Date:Circa 1909
Music, notated
Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me
By 1908, Seattle had seen eleven years of rapid growth and prosperity, beginning in 1897 with the arrival of the first shipment of gold from the Yukon gold fields. "Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me" was one of a number of songs written at that time promoting the Pacific Northwest's good climate for business and trade. This marketing and development…
ID Number:1969.4635.6
Date:1908
Postcard
Birdseye view of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This aerial illustration highlights the new buildings forthe Alaska-Yukon-Pacific with the Elliott Bay, Lake Washington, and Mt. Rainier in the background. Caption on image: Birdseye view of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington.Postcard number: 1922
ID Number:1969.4756.11
Date:1909
Correspondence
Letter on birch bark, August 29, 1898
The letter pictured here was written on birch bark by Joe Masters, a prospector, to his wife while traveling up the Koyukuk River in Alaska. Gold deposits were discovered on the middle fork of the river, sparking a gold rush similar to the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory of Canada 500 miles to the east. In 1898 about…
ID Number:1969.4798.8
Date:1898
Serial
Votes for Women, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 1909
Missouri T.B. Hanna (1857-1926) was the first woman publisher in Washington State, and was heralded as “the mother of journalism” in Washington.Hanna, who also went by “Mrs. M.T.B. Hanna,” moved to Spokane Falls in Washington Territory in 1882, and then to the waterfront mill town of Edmonds in 1904. In 1905 Hanna purchased the weekly "Edmonds Review" and published it…
ID Number:1970.4814.5
Date:1909
Manuscript
Our Afternoon Trip, April 17, 1906
Inga Caroline Hoffield (1894-1945) was born in Iowa to Norwegian-immigrant parents Benjamin Kornelius Hoffield (1865-1949) and Ellen B. (Strom) Hoffield (1872-c. 1905). The family moved to Seattle before 1900, and Inga and her two younger sisters attended Salmon Bay School at 26th Avenue W and W Prospect Street.The manuscript pictured here is an essay that Inga wrote while a student…
ID Number:1970.4879.1
Date:1906