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Videorecording
Oral history interview with Scott E. Leach, April 14, 2004
Interview with Scott E. Leach, the founder and owner of Leach Orchards in Zillah, WA, for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Jullie Kerssen onducted on April 14, 2004. He founded the orchard in November 1977 and produces Bartlett Pears, D'Anjou Pears, Red Delicious Apples, Golden Delicious Apples, and Granny Smith Apples.
ID Number:2019.35.8.9
Date:2004
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, September 1, 2005
Interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, difficulties with welding, working at the Boeing Little Red Barn, and the union. Please note that second part of interview is missing.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.3
Date:2005
Scrapbook
"The Boys in Blue," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, November 10, 1885
Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.12.2
Date:1885
Scrapbook
"The Riot Examination," Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer, February 20, 1886
Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.33.1
Date:1886
Photograph
Anna and Franz Hardow posing with friends and family near house, Seattle, 1940
Morningside Dairy was a small family business operating in Seattle from around 1922 until 1948. The dairy was owned by Franz Hardow (1886-1965), the son of Swedish immigrants, and Anna Gerrels Hardow (1894-1990), the daughter of German immigrants. The couple married in 1921, then left Minnesota for Seattle, where they leased land from Washington State for their home and farm…
ID Number:2024.6.2
Date:1940
Correspondence
Draft of letter from Evelyn Chapman to Washington legislators regarding Title I funding for the Northwest Center, May 26, 1969
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.01
Date:1969
Document
Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968
Photograph
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company band playing for the APL 49 launch party, Seattle, May 29, 1945
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.10.30b.1
Date:1945
Photograph
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company employees acting as waitresses for the APL 49 launch party, Seattle, May 29, 1945
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.10.30b.2
Date:1945
Photograph
Index Mountain, circa 1898
In 1890, Amos D. Gunn bought land on the north fork of the Skykomish River, in southern Snohomish County. He named a nearby mountain Mount Index because its sharp crags reminded him of a hand with an upward pointing index finger. He named his new settlement Index, after the mountain.This photo, taken by Anders Wilse sometime between 1897 and 1900,…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.276
Date:Circa 1898