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Navy personnel at Naval Training Station, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.31
Date:Circa 1918
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Football team sitting on bleachers, U.S. Naval Training Station at University of Washington, 1917
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image shows the Naval Training Station football…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.38
Date:1917
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Navy personnel at station commissary, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.53
Date:Circa 1918
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Toyo Cinema marquee, Seattle, July 1986
Toyo Cinema was a movie theater near the intersection of Rainier Avenue S. and S. Orcas Street in Seattle. The building was completed in 1921 and first housed the American Theatre, and later the Beaux Arts Theater. In the mid-1960s, it became the Toyo Cinema, which primarily showed Japanese language films subtitled in English. The Toyo showed new releases, which…
ID Number:Lib1993.41.1.9.1
Date:1986
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Exterior of Toyo Cinema, Seattle, July 1986
Toyo Cinema was a movie theater near the intersection of Rainier Avenue S. and S. Orcas Street. The building was completed in 1921 and first housed the American Theatre, and later the Beaux Arts Theater. In the mid-1960s, it became the Toyo Cinema, which primarily showed Japanese language films subtitled in English. The Toyo showed new releases, which often filled…
ID Number:Lib1993.41.1.9.2
Date:1986
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Columbia City Theater facade, 1986
The Columbia City Theater was built in 1923 and was home to movie theaters under a few names - the Columbia, the Pix, and the Rainier. It was also a music venue, which reportedly hosted Jimi Hendrix's first show, while he was still a student at Garfield High School. The Rainier Cinema operated in 1970s, showing Black and "Blaxploitation" films.…
ID Number:Lib1993.41.2.126.1
Date:1986
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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees working with sheets of lead at the Seattle plant. Caption information source:…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.6
Date:Circa 1950
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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.8
Date:Circa 1950
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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.9
Date:Circa 1950
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Launching of boat Warden Johnston at McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington, May 1945
During World War II, the McNeil Island prisoners built a number of boats for military and civilian use. The 65-foot passenger boat Warden Johnston was launched on McNeil Island in May 1945. The vessel was designed by L.H. Coolidge, a Seattle naval architect. The officials supervising construction were Henri Andersen, V.E. Smith and Evert Soldin. Prisoners were paid 15 cents…
ID Number:Lib1996.11.15
Date:1945