584 results for: Alaska
Cartographic material
Anderson's Map of Seattle Tide Lands, circa 1907
Martin Burdett Crane (1872-1954) came to Seattle in 1892, after time in Alaska searching for gold and piloting boats. For several years he worked between Alaska and Seattle, and as early as 1898, M. B. Crane & Co. of Seattle and Dawson City was advertising in the Seattle Daily Times offering claims in the Klondike District. Crane married Seattle native…
ID Number:2019.3.28
Date:Circa 1907
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Map of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Seattle held its first world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), in 1909 on what is now the University of Washington campus. The fair promoted the region’s growth and prosperity that had begun with the 1897 arrival of the first shipment of Yukon gold. Howard & Galloway were the supervising architects, and the Olmsted Brothers were the landscape architects.This promotional flyer…
ID Number:2019.3.45
Date:1909
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Map of Alaska, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia Showing all the Recent Gold Discoveries, 1898
James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) founded Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company in 1882. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers, and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos, and organs. Later they expanded into selling photographic equipment and other supplies to people leaving for the gold fields. The company existed in one form or…
ID Number:2019.3.58
Date:1898
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Map of Alaska, 1927
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.59
Date:1927
Cartographic material
Pacific Steamship Co. Explanation of Routes, 1917
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company was an important early shipping company that operated steamships on the west coast of North America. Organized in 1867 under the name of Goodall, Nelson and Perkins, the company effectively ceased business in 1916 when its vessels were purchased by the Admiral Line. The Admiral Line (also American Mail Line, and later Admiral Oriental Line)…
ID Number:2019.3.60
Date:1917
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Canterbury T. (C.T. or Barry) Hatten, June 25 and October 26, 2002
Interview with Canterbury Theodore (C.T. or Barry) Hatten conducted by Melanie Noel on June 25 and October 26, 2002 for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project. Hatten was a Seattle-area lawyer who specialized in unions, civil rights, and criminal law for 50 years before retirement. Hatten was part of the defense team for University of Washington professors during the…
ID Number:2019.35.1.33
Date:2002
Ephemera
Sea-Kold Fresh Oysters cookbook, circa 1938
This cookbook contains 12 recipes for oysters, including scalloped, fried, grilled, oyster paddies, and cold oyster cocktail. The oysters were packed by the Glacier Bay Oyster Company of Seattle, and were likely gathered from Glacier Bay in Alaska. In addition to the recipes, the cookbook includes a story about the health benefits of eating oysters and describes the packing process…
ID Number:2023.14.29
Date:Circa 1938
Photograph
Alaska Music Festival Seafair float in the Lake City Parade, Seattle, July 28, 1962
While Seafair was originally intended to celebrate the centennial of Seattle’s 1851 founding, excited planners debuted the first Seafair a year early, in August 1950. Over the years, this summer festival has grown to include parades, boat races, royalty, concerts, community festivals, concerts, and more.Lake City, in northeast Seattle, celebrates Seafair with its Western Days, featuring a salmon bake and…
ID Number:2024.12.5
Date:1962
Photograph
Girls basketball team, Tulalip Indian School, 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.14
Date:1912
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Associated Shipbuilders employee operating a sandblaster, Seattle, September 12, 1941
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:Lib1988.13.4.2a.1
Date:1941