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Image of Seattle Bombers hockey team, 1953
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Seattle Bombers hockey team, 1953

The Seattle Bombers were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1952 to 1954, playing at the Civic Ice Arena. The team was founded during World War II as a company team for the Isaacson Steel plant and was called the Seattle Isaacson Iron Workers. In 1944, the team joined the semi-professional Pacific Coast Hockey League and…
ID Number:2000.107.257.09.01
Date:1953
Image of Seattle Totems team photograph, Seattle, February 1960
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Seattle Totems team photograph, Seattle, February 1960

The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.257.10.01
Date:1960
Image of Employees working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943
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Employees working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.47
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Women working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943
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Women working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.51
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Saxophone section of Jive Bombers, Seattle, circa 1944
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Saxophone section of Jive Bombers, Seattle, circa 1944

During World War II, Black musicians were recruited from across the country to officially serve as musicians in the U.S. Navy. Trained to play in big bands at the Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, the men formed 25-piece bands to tour naval bases and boost morale. One of the bands was transferred to the Sand Point Naval Air Station…
ID Number:2014.49.002.037.0234
Date:Circa 1944
Image of Trumpet section of Jive Bombers, Seattle, circa 1944
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Trumpet section of Jive Bombers, Seattle, circa 1944

During World War II, Black musicians were recruited from across the country to officially serve as musicians in the U.S. Navy. Trained to play in big bands at the Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, the men formed 25-piece bands to tour naval bases and boost morale. One of the bands was transferred to the Sand Point Naval Air Station…
ID Number:2014.49.002.037.0235
Date:Circa 1944
Image of Jive Bombers performance, Seattle, circa 1943
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Jive Bombers performance, Seattle, circa 1943

During World War II, Black musicians were recruited from across the country to officially serve as musicians in the U.S. Navy. Trained to play in big bands at the Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, the men formed 25-piece bands to tour naval bases and boost morale. One of the bands was transferred to the Sand Point Naval Air Station…
ID Number:2014.49.14.001.01
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Four Owls Club softball players on car, Seattle circa 1938
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Four Owls Club softball players on car, Seattle circa 1938

The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed Owls' pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.01
Date:Circa 1938
Image of Owls player jumping in the air, Seattle, circa 1938
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Owls player jumping in the air, Seattle, circa 1938

The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.02
Date:Circa 1938
Image of Evelyn Willliams standing at bat, Seattle, circa 1938
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Evelyn Willliams standing at bat, Seattle, circa 1938

The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.03
Date:Circa 1938
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