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Image of Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1917
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Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1917

Seattle’s main industrial area, which includes Harbor Island, was built on tidelands at the mouth of the Duwamish River using dirt from the 1907-1909 Jackson Street and other Beacon Hill regrades. In 1911, Fisher Flouring Mills built a large plant on Harbor Island. Shipbuilding and related industries followed. This panoramic photograph, taken from Admiral Way in West Seattle, looks east…
ID Number:2019.3.3
Date:1917
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Oral history interview with Rosemary Brester, July 24, 2003

Interview and plant tour with Rosemary Brester, president and CEO of Hobart Machined Products Incorporated, conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 24, 2003. Hobart Machined Products Incorporates specializes in precision machining for aerospace, defense, electronics, and space sectors. She and her husband later sold a portion of the company; she now…
ID Number:2019.35.7.2
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Rob Entrekin, July 21, 2003

Interview and plant tour with Rob Entrekin, Corporate Technical Staff 2 at Phillips Ultrasound at the time of the interview, which was conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 21, 2003. He is a biomedical engineer and this company produces medical ultrasound scanners.
ID Number:2019.35.7.4
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Lyle Eveland, August 18, 2003

Interview with Lyle Eveland, the former director of operations for Boeing Commercial Airplane Programs, conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on August 18. 2003. He had retired in 2001, two years prior to this interview.
ID Number:2019.35.7.5
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Jerry Hanauer and Jeff Alden, July 28, 2003

This interview with Jerry Hanauer and Jeff Alden was conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 28, 2003. At the time of this 2003 interview, Jerry Hanauer was Chairman of the Board of Pacific Coast Feather Company, a family-owned firm that he had run for several decades. He describes how the company…
ID Number:2019.35.7.8
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Tim Kennedy, July 7, 2003

Interview with Tim Kennedy, the founder and general manager of Tim's Cascade Style Potato Chips, conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 7, 2003. The company is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Foods, a packaged foods company which is a subsidiary of Conagra Brands. In 2003, Tim's won the American Culinary Institute's Gold…
ID Number:2019.35.7.11
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Zita Mears, August 6, 2003

Interview with Zita Mears conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on August 6, 2003. At the time of this interview, Mears was an associate scientist at Zymogenetics Incorporated.
ID Number:2019.35.7.13
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Jeff Walz, August 6, 2003

Interview with Jeff Walz conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project for August 6, 2003. At the time of the interview, Walz was the plant manager of Tacoma Guitars.
ID Number:2019.35.7.14
Date:2003
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Oral history interview with Gwen Bassetti, March 31, 2004

This March 2004 interview is with Gwen Bassetti, founder of the Grand Central Bakery in Seattle, and was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Bassetti describes running a bread, jam and vegetable stand on Lopez Island, opening The Bakery sandwich shop in the recently-renovated Grand Central Building in Pioneer Square in 1972, and founding the Grand…
ID Number:2019.35.8.1
Date:2004
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Oral history interview with Barry Bettinger, April 9, 2004

This is April 2004 interview with Barry Bettinger, owner of Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Bettinger describes his responsibilities at the ice cream business, from management and bookkeeping to the hands-on work of making ice cream, as well as working on the business’s upcoming move to a larger space in…
ID Number:2019.35.8.2
Date:2004
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