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Image of Sand Point Housing Project, Seattle, 1941
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Sand Point Housing Project, Seattle, 1941

During World War II, the Navy built temporary officers quarters on the south end of the Sand Point Naval Air Station. The University of Washington took over the housing in 1957, renting the units to married students at low rates. The buildings were torn down in 2000. Handwritten on negative: Sand Point Housing.Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - housing projects -…
ID Number:PI23714
Date:1941
Image of Chief Jerry Kanim and his family, Snoqualmie, February 21, 1948
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Chief Jerry Kanim and his family, Snoqualmie, February 21, 1948

The Snoqualmie people are a Coast Salish group who have lived in the Snoqualmie River Valley since time immemorial. They made dugout canoes which they used to navigate the river and reach Puget Sound. Traditionally the Snoqualmie burned off the bottom lands of the Snoqualmie Valley to create open areas that ensured an abundance of edible plants for foraging as…
ID Number:PI23889
Date:1948
Image of Racist graffiti in front of Japanese American home, Seattle, May 11, 1945
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Racist graffiti in front of Japanese American home, Seattle, May 11, 1945

On December 18, 1944, the United States government announced that Japanese Americans in incarceration camps could return to their homes after January 1, 1945. In Seattle, and elsewhere on the West Coast, this was a controversial issue. When the first returnees arrived in Seattle in January, some found a cold welcome and vandalized property. Groups like the Remember the Pearl…
ID Number:PI28083
Date:1945
Image of Graffiti on Japanese American home, Seattle, 1945
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Graffiti on Japanese American home, Seattle, 1945

On December 18, 1944, the United States government announced that Japanese Americans in incarceration camps could return to their homes after January 1, 1945. In Seattle, and elsewhere on the West Coast, this was a controversial issue. When the first returnees arrived in Seattle in January, some found a cold welcome and vandalized property. Groups like the Remember the Pearl…
ID Number:PI28084
Date:1945
Image of Kameno and Shinichi Seike at Nisei memorial dinner, Seattle, December 13, 1946
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Kameno and Shinichi Seike at Nisei memorial dinner, Seattle, December 13, 1946

Nearly 1000 veterans, family members, and friends attended a Nisei veterans' testimonial banquet at Seattle's Civic Auditorium on December 13, 1946. The event, sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), featured speakers paying tribute to Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) soldiers who lost their lives during World War II.Close relatives of those who died sat at special tables like…
ID Number:PI28185
Date:1946
Image of Women pulling children on sleds in Volunteer Park, Seattle, November 19, 1946
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Women pulling children on sleds in Volunteer Park, Seattle, November 19, 1946

Handwritten on sleeve: Snow - Seattle, with: Helen Rogers, (Mrs.) N. Breen, John Breen, Beverly Breen, Don Hall, (Mrs.) B.J. Hall, Dennis Hall, (Mrs.) Birdie Tintsman, Dorothy Tintsman, (Mrs.) Ruth Rankin, Elizabeth Young, Bobby Sinnett, Devitt Ward, Louis Sinnett, Jeanette Dengel, William H Ward.Handwritten on caption slip: Sno pix - Volunteer Pk, 11-19-46.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:PI28416
Date:1946
Image of Louisa Boren Denny and Rolland Denny Lamping, Seattle, circa 1910
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Louisa Boren Denny and Rolland Denny Lamping, Seattle, circa 1910

Louisa Boren Denny (1827-1916) and her sister Mary Ann Boren Denny (1822-1910) married brothers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Arthur Armstrong Denny (1822-1899), respectively. All four were members of the Seattle pioneers known as the Denny Party, 24 white people who settled in Seattle in 1851.In this image, Louisa poses with her great-great-grandnephew, Rolland Denny Lamping (1907-1980), the great-grandson of…
ID Number:SHS95
Date:Circa 1910
Image of Dexter Horton home, 3rd and Seneca, Seattle, circa 1875
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Dexter Horton home, 3rd and Seneca, Seattle, circa 1875

In 1853 Dexter Horton (1825-1904) came to Seattle with his first wife, Hannah Eliza (Shoudy) Horton (1828-1871), and their daughter, Rebecca. Developing a reputation as an honest businessman, he established the city's first real bank. Horton was also a founding volunteer in various social organizations, including the Seattle Library Association in 1873 and the Seattle Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)…
ID Number:SHS243
Date:Circa 1875
Image of John Leary home, 2nd and Madison, Seattle, circa 1890
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John Leary home, 2nd and Madison, Seattle, circa 1890

John Leary (1837-1905) came to Seattle in 1869 and was involved with virtually every major civic and commercial undertaking in Seattle in the 1870s and 1880s. He was the first president of the West Coast Improvement Company (WCIC), which shaped Ballard into the “Shingle Capitol of the World” (Leary Way still bears his name). Leary served three terms as a member…
ID Number:SHS258
Date:Circa 1890
Image of Elizabeth and Martin Stacy home, 3rd and Marion, Seattle, 1885
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Elizabeth and Martin Stacy home, 3rd and Marion, Seattle, 1885

In 1885 real estate investor Martin Van Buren Stacy (1837-1901) and his wife, Elizabeth A. Briggs Stacy (1824-1904), spent approximately $50,000 to erect their second home in Seattle, located at Third Avenue and Marion Street, in the grand French Second Empire style. After the Stacy's moved out in 1889 (their third home at 1004 Boren Street is now the University…
ID Number:SHS263
Date:1885
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