3246 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Crowds at Fourth and Pike on V-J Day, Seattle, August 14, 1945
Just after midnight on August 14, 1945, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hit the streets with the news that the Japanese would accept the allied peace terms. Sirens blared, car horns honked, church bells rang and people danced in the streets to celebrate the end of World War II. The day of the victory over Japan came to be known as V-J…
ID Number:PI28290
Date:1945
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Sailor climbing lamppost on V-J Day, Seattle, August 14, 1945
Just after midnight on August 14, 1945, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hit the streets with the news that the Japanese would accept the allied peace terms. As sirens announced the end of World War II, merrymakers in a "rooting, tooting, honking mass" spilled onto the streets of downtown Seattle. Civilians and servicemen, including several Navy men from Bremerton, came together in…
ID Number:PI28297
Date:1945
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Group displaying V-J Day newspapers, August 14, 1945
Just after midnight on August 14, 1945, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hit the streets with the news that the Japanese would accept the allied peace terms. Sirens blared, car horns honked, church bells rang and people danced in the streets to celebrate the end of World War II. The day of the victory over Japan came to be known as V-J…
ID Number:PI28299
Date:1945
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Sailors kissing girls on V-J Day, Seattle, August 14, 1945
Just after midnight on August 14, 1945, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hit the streets with the news that the Japanese would accept the allied peace terms. Sirens blared, car horns honked, church bells rang and people danced in the streets to celebrate the end of World War II. The day of the victory over Japan came to be known as V-J…
ID Number:PI28300
Date:1945
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Puget Sound Bridge & Dredge Co. employees on V-J Day, Seattle, August 14, 1945
Handwritten on negative: V-J day rally at Puget Sound Bridge & Dredge.Handwritten on sleeve: World War II - Seattle - V-J Day.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 15, 1945.
ID Number:PI28310
Date:1945
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War brides and children disembarking from plane, probably in Seattle, 1950
Handwritten on sleeve: World War II - War brides, with Mrs. Ruby Starr, Mrs. John Ross, Mrs. Raymond Trotter, Mrs. Irving Deshwier, Mrs. Roy Spencer.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 20, 1950.
ID Number:PI28316
Date:1950
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Women pulling children on sleds in Volunteer Park, Seattle, November 19, 1946
Handwritten on sleeve: Snow - Seattle, with: Helen Rogers, (Mrs.) N. Breen, John Breen, Beverly Breen, Don Hall, (Mrs.) B.J. Hall, Dennis Hall, (Mrs.) Birdie Tintsman, Dorothy Tintsman, (Mrs.) Ruth Rankin, Elizabeth Young, Bobby Sinnett, Devitt Ward, Louis Sinnett, Jeanette Dengel, William H Ward.Handwritten on caption slip: Sno pix - Volunteer Pk, 11-19-46.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:PI28416
Date:1946
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Intelligencer building at 1st and Cherry, circa 1876
Seattle's oldest newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was founded in 1863 as the weekly Seattle Gazette, when Seattle was little more than a sawmill, a few dozen wooden buildings, and a couple of hundred people. This image shows the paper's new building, constructed in 1874 by Henry Yesler at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Cherry Street. The name on the…
ID Number:SHS252
Date:Circa 1876
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Shorey's Books at 3rd Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle, circa 1895
Legendary Seattle bookstore Shorey's was founded by newspaperman Samuel Fernald Shorey (1851-1932) in 1890 as a small magazine and cigar store at Third and James. Sam's great-nephew John W. "Bill" Todd Jr.(1914-2007) bought the store in 1939, and it was later run by his son, Jim Todd. Shorey's maintained its huge inventory even though the store had to move several…
ID Number:SHS1317
Date:Circa 1895
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Mayor Bertha K. Landes at her desk, Seattle, circa 1927
In 1926, Bertha Knight Landes was the first woman to be elected mayor of a major American city when she became mayor of Seattle. She vowed to clean up city government, running on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club, the Women's…
ID Number:SHS2344
Date:Circa 1927