517 results for: Museum of History
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"Be part of history: Join the big march for fair trade" flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.20
Date:1999
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Seattle Theatre Company stock certificate, 1893
This stock certificate for the Seattle Theatre Company was issued on December 20, 1893, to J. D. Lowman for 12.5 shares, valued at $1250. The company, of which Mr. Lowman was also president, owned the Seattle Theatre, located on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. A prominent Seattle business and civic leader, James D. Lowman (1856-1947) also…
ID Number:2018.3.3.23
Date:1893
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Gorst Air Transport Air Ferry brochure, circa 1928
Vernon C. Gorst, who previously had founded Pacific Air Transport in 1926, (which provided the first airmail service between Los Angeles and Seattle), established Gorst Air Transport, Inc., sometime in the late 1920s. In addition to providing hourly commuter flights for passengers, the air service carried parcels, letters and small packages. This leaflet advertises Gorst's "Air Ferry" service, a 12-minute…
ID Number:2018.3.3.26
Date:Circa 1928
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Seattle Tennis Club Tournament program, August 1899
The Seattle Tennis Club was founded in 1890 as the Olympic Tennis Club (renamed in 1896), and the club operated two clay courts at the northwest corner of Madison Street and Minor Avenue on First Hill. By 1919 a larger facility was needed and the club purchased land at their current location on the shore of Lake Washington in Madison…
ID Number:2018.3.3.48
Date:1899
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1882
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.61
Date:1882
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1890
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.63
Date:1890
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1887
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.64
Date:1887
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1886
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.65
Date:1886
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1885
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.66
Date:1885
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Edmund Meany Hotel brochure, circa 1940
Designed by Seattle-based architect Robert C. Reamer (1873-1938), the proximity of the Edmond Meany Hotel to the University of Washington ensured it became a center of University District activities from the time it opened in November 1931. Named in honor of early Seattle resident and distinguished UW history professor, Edmond Stephen Meany (1862-1935), the hotel is a notable example of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.69
Date:Circa 1940