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Photograph
NOAA ocean survey ship Oceanographer, Seattle, 1974
NOAAS Oceanographer (R 101), originally USC&GS Oceanographer (OSS O1), was an American Oceanographer-class oceanographic research vessel in service in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1966 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 to 1996. She served as flagship of both the Coast and Geodetic Survey and NOAA fleets. During her 30…
ID Number:1974.5946.1
Date:1974
Postcard
Car going through giant cedar stump, circa 1950
By about 1950, when this photographic postcard was probably made, the few remaining stumps of western Washington's gigantic trees existed only as curiosities -- something to marvel at or, in this case, drive through.This postcard image shows a car driving through a gigantic western red cedar stump at Arlington, Washington. The sign above the hole in the tree tells visitors…
ID Number:1975.5998.10
Date:Circa 1950
Photograph
Georgetown Yard of Pacific Coast Coal Co., Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. Handwritten on image: 17563. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USASigns in image: Red Front/ Tailors and Cleaners, Pacific Coast Coal Co./ Georgetown Yard, Preservative Paint Co., Mascot Crushed Tobacco,…
ID Number:1978.6585.19b
Date:Circa 1915
Photograph
Seattle High School Glee Club, 1903
When Broadway High School (originally Seattle High School) was built in 1902, Seattle some residents complained that it was too large and a waste of public money. By 1904 the school had 1,700 students, and the building was already crowded. The school closed in June 1946 and re-opened in September 1946 as Edison Technical College. Today the building's auditorium is…
ID Number:1978.6598.13
Date:1903
Photograph
Financial district, 2nd Ave. and Columbia St., Seattle, 1925
This view of the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle includes several buildings that remain standing. In the center of the frame The Seattle National Bank Building (now the United Way Building), built in 1921, stands at 720 Second Avenue. Moving south on Second Avenue, the 15-story Dexter Horton building is at 710 Second Avenue,…
ID Number:1980.6877.32
Date:1925
Ephemera
White Pass & Yukon Route leaflet, circa 1910
When gold was discovered in the Yukon in 1897, prospectors had to make the dangerous journey on foot from the Alaska coast to the gold fields, some 550 miles into the Canadian interior. After the building of the first section of the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad in 1898-1899, the trip, which had formerly taken days, could now be…
ID Number:1981.7290.3
Date:1910
Poster
Boeing Parade of Progress chart, 1965
Harl Vaughn Brackin, Jr. (1920-1977), began his career at The Boeing Company in Seattle as an engineer and in the early 1940s became a lead wind-tunnel designer. He later used his talents as an illustrator to create the product genealogy pictured here, "Boeing Parade of Progress," which depicts of all the propeller airplanes, jet airplanes, and helicopters produced by Boeing…
ID Number:1982.20.3.3.dd
Date:1965
Ephemera
Norman Archibald's POW leave permit, November 5, 1918
Both Norman Silas "Jim" Archibald (1894-1975) and his older sister Marjorie (Archibald) Draper (1891-1973) served in France during World War I. Norman was a lieutenant with the 95th Aero Squadron, U. S. Army, in September 1918 when his SPAD biplane fighter aircraft was shot down behind enemy lines. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and held in a camp…
ID Number:1982.105.1.2.1
Date:1918
Photograph
Studio portrait of Norman Archibald in uniform, circa 1918
Hazel Marjorie (Archibald) Draper (1891-1973) and Norman Silas "Jim" Archibald (1894-1975) were siblings born in Seattle to real estate developer Silas W. Archibald (b. 1864) and Elizabeth Jane (Langille) Archibald (b. 1866), who had emigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada, after their 1889 marriage. Both Hazel and Norman served in France during World War I. Norman was a lieutenant with the…
ID Number:1982.105.2.6
Date:Circa 1917
Photograph
Studio portrait of Norman Archibald and Hazel Draper, circa 1940
Hazel Marjorie (Archibald) Draper (1891-1973) and Norman Silas "Jim" Archibald (1894-1975) were siblings born in Seattle to real estate developer Silas W. Archibald (b. 1864) and Elizabeth Jane (Langille) Archibald (b. 1866), who had emigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada, after their 1889 marriage. Both Hazel and Norman served in France during World War I. Norman was a lieutenant with the…
ID Number:1982.105.2.7
Date:Circa 1940