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Game at the United Air Lines exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Electronic games can be played by spectators visiting United Air Lines exhibit in Building 37 - the Hall of Industry at the Seattle World's Fair. Visitors will be able to test their skill with 'INSTAMATIC,' the airline's new electronic reservations system which has three games built into the computer for matching wits with the machine in speed, accuracy and memory.…
ID Number:1965.3598.15.27
Date:1962
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Display in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exhibit was located in the southwest corner of the International Plaza. The exhibit was NASA's first major attempt to tell the story of the United States space program. The introductory displays explained NASA's history and mission. Next was a section devoted to models and mock-ups of satellites. A small theater ran continuous showings…
ID Number:1965.3598.27.8.7
Date:1962
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exhibit, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exhibit was located in the southwest corner of the International Plaza. The exhibit was NASA's first major attempt to tell the story of the United States space program. The introductory displays explained NASA's history and mission. Next was a section devoted to models and mock-ups of satellites. A small theater ran continuous showings…
ID Number:1965.3598.27.8.17
Date:1962
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NASA Exhibit "Space for the Benefit of Mankind" leaflet, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
This leaflet describes the five areas of the NASA exhibit "Space for the Benefit of Mankind:" Application Satellites, Space Sciences. Orbits, Tracking and Data Acquisition, Space Vehicle Technology, and Manned Space Flight. The leaflet describes each area, including a list of the exhibits presented.
ID Number:1965.3689.5
Date:1962
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WWI aviators Lieutenant Stuart Torney and friend, circa 1921
U. S. Army Air Corps pilot Stuart Wellington Torney (1899-1923) was born in Chicago and raised in Seattle. After graduating high school in Medford, Oregon, he enlisted in the United States Air Service. He married Edna Hutton (1902-1977) in 1920 and their daughter, Jacqueline Stuart Torney (1922-2001), was born in Illinois. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant in 1921, Torney participated in…
ID Number:1968.4514.2
Date:Circa 1921
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Charles A. Lindbergh reception and dinner menu, September 13, 1927
A reception and "Business Men's Dinner" for Charles Lindbergh, presided over by Mayor Bertha K. Landes, was held in the Spanish Ball Room at the Olympic Hotel on September 13, 1927. The cover of the menu features an illustration of Lindbergh and Lindbergh's autograph. The multi page menu and program is hand bound with a satin cord. The engraved invitation…
ID Number:1974.5855.1
Date:1927
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Grover Tyler, Mayor Bertha Landes, and James Spangler near plane, Seattle, September 15, 1926
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Bertha vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor 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,…
ID Number:1974.5855.24
Date:1926
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Gus Carlson's machinists union dues book, 1919-1923
The Seattle General Strike was a work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in Seattle from February 6-11, 1919. The strike began in shipyards when workers were refused pay increases after two years of World War I wage controls. Most of the city's 110 local unions joined the walkout in solidarity with the shipyard workers. Although the strike was non-violent…
ID Number:1977.6478.2
Date:1919-1923
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Pilot Eddie Hubbard with Boeing B-1 mail plane at Lake Union, circa 1925
Eddie Hubbard piloted the Boeing B-I flying boat shown here from 1920 to 1927, flying air mail on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria, BC. The plane could carry two passengers plus mail and cargo. After seven years of service without losing a single piece of mail, the B-1 was retired from airmail service in…
ID Number:1980.6877.176
Date:Circa 1925
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Boeing Parade of Progress chart, 1965
Harl Vaughn Brackin, Jr. (1920-1977), began his career at The Boeing Company in Seattle as an engineer and in the early 1940s became a lead wind-tunnel designer. He later used his talents as an illustrator to create the product genealogy pictured here, "Boeing Parade of Progress," which depicts of all the propeller airplanes, jet airplanes, and helicopters produced by Boeing…
ID Number:1982.20.3.3.dd
Date:1965