3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Bailey Gatzert School students salute flag, Seattle, May 18, 1943
Youngsters at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School salute the flag as part of a city-wide "I Am An American" Day celebration. The student body at this school represented many races and backgrounds at a time when wartime patriotism ran strong. A major component of the celebration was the granting of citizenship to 46 men who recently donned uniforms for the U.S.…
ID Number:PI25526
Date:1943
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Deaf children in classroom, November 1939
Seattle's deaf students went to class at T.T. Minor School. In 1939, the school started classes for preschool children with hearing disabilities. In addition to learning how to speak, the students learned to read lips and recognize certain sounds using hearing aids. They also began learning to read. When the teacher rang a bell or beat a drum, the children…
ID Number:PI25653
Date:1939
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Queen Anne High School students at football game, Seattle, 1939
Written on negative: Queen Ann [sic] Kidds [sic]Handwritten on sleeve: Crowds - football.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 24, 1939.
ID Number:PI25680
Date:1939
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Cheerleaders at charity football game, December 2, 1939
In 1939, the Seattle Public Schools' Parent Teacher Association and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sponsored the city-wide high school football championship games. Over 25,000 fans crowded Washington Field on the University of Washington campus to root for their favorite teams. The second game pitted Roosevelt High School against Garfield High School. Roosevelt beat Garfield 16 to 8.This December 2, 1939 photo…
ID Number:PI25700
Date:1939
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Soccer team with championship pennant, January, 1936
Soccer teams from Seattle's Washington and Beacon Hill grade schools were the finalists in the 1935 league championships. After Washington beat Beacon Hill 2 to 1 to win the title, team members posed for their picture with their trophy and banner. The initials on the banner stand for Public School Athletic League. Most of the team members were Japanese Americans…
ID Number:PI25750
Date:1936
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Whittier School students at flag raising, Seattle, June 14, 1940
The first Whittier School building opened in 1908, and a second building was constructed in 1928 to hold the more than 700 students from north Ballard. In this photo, Whittier elementary school students salute a flag being raised by one of the older students in the school yard on Flag Day in 1940.
ID Number:PI25765
Date:1940
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Bailey Gatzert School PTA officers, Seattle, 1946
The leaders of the Parent Teacher Association at Bailey Gatzert School reflected the diverse backgrounds of the student body. In the late 1940s, the school children were 10 percent Chinese American, 20 percent African American, 5 percent Filipino American, 27 percent Japanese American, and 35 percent European American, with 3 percent Native American. Caption slip identified officers as Minnie Beach,…
ID Number:PI25782
Date:1946
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Women training in wartime class at Rainier branch of Edison Technical School, Seattle, 1943
The Edison Technical School provided a broad range of practical training in full and part-time classes. During World War II, women trained in production related work, such as in this photo taken at the Building Trades Unit located in the old Rainier School at 23rd South and King Street. Note from MOHAI records: Rainier School opened three years after its…
ID Number:PI25831
Date:1943
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Launching of the "Executive" and the "Facility," June 1944
The Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company built several river steamers for the Klondike gold rush and over 20 naval vessels for World War I. After building the pontoons for the first Lake Washington floating bridge, the company turned back to building ships for World War II.In this photo, taken on a sunny June day in 1944, a large crowd…
ID Number:PI26304
Date:1944
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Seattle Indians batter swinging at ball, August 1934
In the 1920s and most of the 1930s, Seattle's professional baseball team, the Indians, had a long streak of bad luck. Its playing was poor and the team didn't win a Pacific Coast League pennant after 1924. Added to that, the Indians' ballfield burned in 1932 and the team had to move its games to the poorly-equipped Civic Stadium. In…
ID Number:PI26678
Date:1934