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Correspondence
Isaac and Isabelle Bechtel letter about Great Seattle Fire, June 24, 1889
In 1882 Isaac Kinsey Bechtel (1848-1890) arrived in the Puget Sound area and bought 129 acres around what is now Main Street in downtown Bellevue. He had left his wife, Isabella (Lind) Bechtel (1852-1938), and their children behind in Waterloo, Ontario, but in 1885 he was able to send money for them to join him. The cabin Mr. Bechtel built…
ID Number:Lib1996.24.3
Date:1889
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Migrant family in makeshift housing, September 22, 1940
On September 22, 1940, a King County deputy sheriff found a family camped by the side of West Marginal Way. Harry Cooper had left North Dakota with his seven children, hoping to find a job in the Pacific Northwest. When found, the family had had nothing to eat for three days but some vegetables brought by neighbors.This photo shows the…
ID Number:PI22392
Date:1940
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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