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Image of WWI aviators Lieutenant Stuart Torney and friend, circa 1921
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WWI aviators Lieutenant Stuart Torney and friend, circa 1921

U. S. Army Air Corps pilot Stuart Wellington Torney (1899-1923) was born in Chicago and raised in Seattle. After graduating high school in Medford, Oregon, he enlisted in the United States Air Service. He married Edna Hutton (1902-1977) in 1920 and their daughter, Jacqueline Stuart Torney (1922-2001), was born in Illinois. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant in 1921, Torney participated in…
ID Number:1968.4514.2
Date:Circa 1921
Image of Portrait of pianist Rosamond Crawford, Seattle, circa 1916
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Portrait of pianist Rosamond Crawford, Seattle, circa 1916

Rosamond (or Rosamonde) L. Crawford (1897-1969) was born in Ohio to Donald V. and Agnes (Watkins) Crawford. The family moved to Seattle between 1900-1910, and Rosamond attended Lincoln High School. She studied piano under prominent Seattle music teachers Silvio and Elaine (French) Risegari. About 1920 she moved to New York for further training at the La Forge-Berumen Studios, later becoming…
ID Number:1969.4616.4
Date:Circa 1916
Image of Helene Madison McGiver with teacher and students at Lincoln High School, Seattle, February 1952
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Helene Madison McGiver with teacher and students at Lincoln High School, Seattle, February 1952

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.83
Date:1952
Image of Helene Madison and Ray Daughters at train, circa 1929
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Helene Madison and Ray Daughters at train, circa 1929

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.1
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Helene Madison waving from train steps, circa 1929
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Helene Madison waving from train steps, circa 1929

Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.2
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Swimming coach Ray Daughters in swimsuit, circa 1929
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Swimming coach Ray Daughters in swimsuit, circa 1929

Ray Daughters was a swim instructor at the Crystal Natatorium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, and later at the Washington Athletic Club, where Daughters worked after the facility opened in 1930. Daughters’ two most famous swimmers were Seattleites Helene Madison and Jack Medica, the USA’s top freestylers in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics respectively. This photo is from a scrapbook of…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.4
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Cora Dollart's Certificate of Promotion, Seattle, Washington, January 24, 1908
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Cora Dollart's Certificate of Promotion, Seattle, Washington, January 24, 1908

Cora Dollart's Certificate of Promotion to High School from Seattle Public Schools Grammar School Department. Her parents were Russian immigrants of German heritage. They settled in Roslyn before moving to Seattle, where Cora and her brother Henry attended public schools. Awarded on January 24, 1908
ID Number:1972.5567.116.10.3
Date:1908
Image of Seattle High School course schedule, 1907-1908
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Seattle High School course schedule, 1907-1908

When Seattle High School (later Broadway High School) was built in 1902 in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, 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…
ID Number:1973.5709.3
Date:1907
Image of Thelma Rydeen, Kathryn Tesack, and friend on sailboat, Puget Sound, August 1922
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Thelma Rydeen, Kathryn Tesack, and friend on sailboat, Puget Sound, August 1922

Kathryn Elizabeth Tesack (1906-1999) was born in Nome, Alaska, to John Anthony Tesack (1874-1960) and Mame Elizabeth Tesack (d. 1955). John owned a grocery store in Seattle from at least 1920-1940. Kathryn attended UW from 1926-1928, and in 1935 married Walter Henry Williams (1899-1992), in Nanjing, China, where their son John Walter Olding Williams was born in 1936. After Walter's…
ID Number:1974.5806.10
Date:1922
Image of Lawrence Calvert, Seattle, circa 1933
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Lawrence Calvert, Seattle, circa 1933

Lawrence Cragin Calvert was born in Seattle in 1897, attended Broadway High School, and graduated from the University of Washington. From 1933 to 63, he was president of the San Juan Fishing and Packing Company, a business initially started by his father. Calvert was also president of American Mail Line and director of Pacific National Bank during his lifetime. As…
ID Number:1974.5923.62
Date:Circa 1933
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