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Employees reclaiming hardware at Goodwill, Seattle, October 15, 1942
Seattle Goodwill was founded in 1923 by a group of local businessmen, and provides employment training and basic education to individuals experiencing significant barriers to economic opportunity. Today a significant portion of its operating funds are derived from its nine thrift stores in the area.In this image, several people earn hourly wages at Goodwill salvaging nuts, screw bolts, and other…
ID Number:2000.107.173.09.01
Date:1942
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Exterior of Horluck Brewing Co., Seattle, 1939
Nebraska-born George Fausbol Horluck (1901-1975) came to Seattle with his parents and siblings before 1910. Beginning with the purchase of a number of ice cream parlors, Horluck Creameries, Inc., soon gained enough profit that George and his father, Hans Jorgen Horluck (1863-1933), formed their Horluck Investment Company with a starting capital of $99,000. Seeing a new opportunity with the end…
ID Number:2000.107.175.05.01
Date:1939
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:2000.107.176.33.01
Date:Circa 1931
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:2000.107.176.33.02
Date:Circa 1931
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New trucks parked at the Metropolitan Laundry Company, Seattle, January 8, 1938
In 1938, the Metropolitan Laundry Company took delivery of ten new International D-2 panel trucks, shown here in front of the laundry. The company was located at 244 Pontius Avenue N., in Seattle's Cascade neighborhood. Numerous ads in The Seattle Times urged housewives to save time by sending their family clothing out to be washed or dry cleaned by Metropolitan.As…
ID Number:2000.107.177.01.02
Date:1938
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Crowd gathered after bank robbery at Pike Place Market, Seattle, November 6, 1964
In November 1964 the Pike Place Market branch of the National Bank of Commerce was robbed of $870 by a man carrying a small pistol. Six days later Seattle Police officers investigating Charles Walter Endicott (b. 1938) for illegal possession of narcotics arrested him for the robbery as well. Endicott, who identified himself as an unemployed salesman, later plead guilty…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.02
Date:1964
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Dick Spady in front of Dick's Drive-In on 45th, Seattle, December 21, 1993
Dick's Drive-In, or simply Dick's, is a fast-food restaurant chain in Seattle co-founded in 1954 by Richard Jack "Dick" Spady (1923-2016). Spady's vision to bring fast-food to Seattle capitalized on American's desire for a place to easily park and enjoy the new American classic meal: burgers, fries, and shakes. Dick's simple menu has changed little over time, and the organization…
ID Number:2000.107.203.01.01
Date:1993
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DeCharlene Williams in her beauty salon, August 6, 1993
DeCharlene Williams (1943-2018) came to Seattle with her first husband in 1958. Williams graduated from Seattle Central College, then attended Edward's Beauty School in Seattle, graduating in 1961. After divorcing in 1965, she worked at a beauty salon and other jobs, saving money to buy her own building. As a single woman of color, she was denied loans by numerous…
ID Number:2000.107.230.38.03
Date:1993
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973