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Image of Currin-Greene Shoe manufacturing employees, Seattle, 1955
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Currin-Greene Shoe manufacturing employees, Seattle, 1955

Hugh Currin and Warren Greene founded the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company in 1908. They built their first plant on Seattle’s Eastlake Avenue and moved in 1920 to a new plant on Western Avenue. The company specialized in specialty and heavy-duty work boots and shoes, which they sold throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The company later acquired the Rainier shoe…
ID Number:2013.114.24
Date:1955
Image of Northern Pacific Steamship Company S.S. Victoria Christmas menu, 1902
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Northern Pacific Steamship Company S.S. Victoria Christmas menu, 1902

The transatlantic ocean liner S.S. Victoria was built in Scotland in 1870 and was originally known as the S.S. Parthia. It was sold to Tacoma-based Northern Pacific Steamship Company in the early 1900s, and then ended up with the Alaska Steamship Company in 1908. This menu is for a special Christmas dinner aboard the Victoria.
ID Number:2014.3.1.73.1
Date:1902
Image of S.S. North Sea menu, June 19, 1936
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S.S. North Sea menu, June 19, 1936

This postcard dinner menu is from a Northland Transportation Company passenger liner on the Alaska-Seattle run. An image of S.S. North Sea at Taku Glacier is on the back of the menu.
ID Number:2014.3.1.74
Date:1936
Image of Joe Louis and Al Smith, Sr., Seattle,  circa 1945
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Joe Louis and Al Smith, Sr., Seattle, circa 1945

Professional boxer and heavyweight champ Joe Louis (1914-1981) served in the U.S. Army during World War II, from January 1942 to October 1945. The Army placed him in the Special Services Division, where Louis went on celebrity tours and staged boxing exhibitions for charity and to boost the morale of American soldiers. This photo shows Louis, left, in his Army…
ID Number:2014.49.010.019.0037
Date:Circa 1945
Image of Men standing at the rail of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953
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Men standing at the rail of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953

Three unidentified crew members stand at the rail on the deck of an Alaska Steamship Company vessel. The men appear to be galley workers or stewards. One holds copy of a newspaper called The Dispatcher, with the headline "Stewards Signup Passes 75%," indicating the event is probably related to a union dispute.
ID Number:2014.49.014.026.0059
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Men shaking hands on a dock in front of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953
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Men shaking hands on a dock in front of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953

A group of unidentified stand on the dock near the gangplank of an Alaska Steamship Company vessel. One man is holding a copy of the newspaper The Dispatcher. Another man is flashing a "V" sign, and two others are shaking hands. The event is probably related to a union dispute.
ID Number:2014.49.014.026.0060
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Men standing at the rail of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953
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Men standing at the rail of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953

Lester Catlet and four other unidentified crew members stand at the rail on the deck of an Alaska Steamship Company vessel. The men appear to be galley workers or stewards.
ID Number:2014.49.014.026.0061
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Crew members working in the galley of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953
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Crew members working in the galley of a ship, Seattle, circa 1953

An unidentified cook cracks eggs beside the rest of the kitchen crew in the galley of an Alaska Steamship Company vessel.
ID Number:2014.49.014.052.0130
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Bob Santos entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
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Bob Santos entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984

Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. In this image, Seattle civil-rights activist and community organizer Robert (Bob) Santos, wrists zip tied, steps into a police van. He and 22 others were arrested…
ID Number:2014.49.033.057.06
Date:1984
Image of Police Force of Seattle, Washington Territory, circa 1888
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Police Force of Seattle, Washington Territory, circa 1888

In 1869 the Seattle City Charter created a Marshall position, and by 1875 Ordinance 66 established day and night police. An amendment to the city charter in 1883 changed the Marshall to the Chief of Police. This D. R. Judkins photograph, taken during J. C. Mitchell's term as chief in 1888-1889, shows 17 men in police uniforms in two rows.…
ID Number:2015.17.1
Date:Circa 1888
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