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Music, notated
Ho, the Navy! Hail, the Navy!
In July 1933, a fleet of Navy ships paid its annual visit to Seattle. The city celebrated with Fleet Frolic Week, a celebration of dances, parades, games, and a carnival. In 1932, the city held a Fleet Week song-writing contest for Seattle composers. Rosetta Perry Gibbon (1904-1988), wife of a Seattle Times editorial writer, was the winner, but time was…
ID Number:2018.3.2.9
Date:1933
Correspondence
Letter from Francis Clowers about donating to the War & Community Chest campaign, Seattle, October 25, 1945
Seattle & King County’s 1945 War & Community Chest campaign kicked off on October 11th. In an equivalent to today’s United Way, volunteers and businesses solicited funds from area residents to support military service clubs, overseas war victims, and a number of local agencies. Fundraising was slow, and the campaign was extended into early November. In late October, as part…
ID Number:2018.64.23
Date:1945
Cartographic material
Local Aeronautical Chart, Seattle, October 21, 1954
Until 1958, when the Federal Aviation Administration was founded, the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey published aeronautical charts for flight navigation. These were published in various scales to show different information and were updated every six months. The most detailed are the local charts for airports, like this one showing the area around Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In addition to…
ID Number:2019.3.29
Date:1954
Cartographic material
Latona Addition to the City of Seattle, October 28, 1889
George Morris "Morris" Haller (1852-1889) was born in Pennsylvania to U.S. Army Colonel Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897), and his wife, Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910). The family moved frequently around the country during Granville's military service, and upon his retirement in 1882, they moved to Seattle permanently. Morris studied law in Seattle and became a successful attorney and real estate…
ID Number:2019.3.48
Date:1889
Cartographic material
Seattle War Camp Community Service map, circa 1918
Once the United States entered World War I in 1917, numerous military personnel began to pass through Seattle. The Seattle War Camp Community Service group formed to provide support to these visiting servicemen and veterans. Among other things, they published a map of downtown Seattle that promoted the Seattle Soldiers and Sailors Club and the Hospitality Club. It noted their…
ID Number:2019.3.51
Date:1918
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Charles V. (Tom) Gibbs., December 22, 2010
Interview with Charles V. (Tom) Gibbs, the former executive director of Seattle Metro, conducted by Marsha King at KCTS Studios in Seattle for the Experienced Leaders Oral History Project in December. Topics discussed include his background, his military service and career, and his environmental activism.
ID Number:2019.35.16.7
Date:2010
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Carl R. Meurk, July 21, 2011
Interview with Carl R. Meurk, a retired senior executive with Todd Pacific Shiipyards, conducted by Marsha King at KCTS Studios in Seattle for the Experienced Leaders Oral History Project in July 2011. Topics discussed include his background, his military service, and his career.
ID Number:2019.35.16.12
Date:2011
Photograph
Remember Soweto! Free South Africa! flier, 1988
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2019.96.2.19.2
Date:1988
Photograph
John Young at Fort Worden, 1936
In June 1936, over 100 members of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from colleges in California, Washington, and Utah arrived at Fort Worden in Port Townsend for training. Among the cadets was John Chew Young (1912-1987), a Chinese-American student from San Jose, California, arriving for his second consecutive summer of training at the US Army base. A…
ID Number:2020.13.1
Date:1936
Photograph
John Young at Fort Worden, 1936
In June 1936, over 100 members of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) from colleges in California, Washington, and Utah arrived at Fort Worden in Port Townsend for training. Among the cadets was John Chew Young (1912-1987), a Chinese-American student from San Jose, California, arriving for his second consecutive summer of training at the US Army base. A…
ID Number:2020.13.2
Date:1936