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Photograph
Officer Roy Maryatt at the Naval Training Station, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image shows Roy Lincoln Maryatt, Sr. (1891-1980),…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.1.42
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Commandant Freeman and Boatswain Hazard at the Naval Training Station, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy officers (left)…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.1.46
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Parade of Naval Training Station personnel, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. Women were also recruited into the Naval Reserve…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.13
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Parade of Naval Training Station personnel, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.14
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Navy personnel at Naval Training Station, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.31
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Football team sitting on bleachers, U.S. Naval Training Station at University of Washington, 1917
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image shows the Naval Training Station football…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.38
Date:1917
Photograph
Navy personnel at station commissary, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.53
Date:Circa 1918
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
Manuscript
Morgan Carkeek's recollection of 1886 anti-Chinese riots, Seattle, circa 1900
A stone mason originally from England, Morgan James Carkeek (1847-1931) arrived in Seattle in 1870 and began building a construction and real estate empire. Mr. Carkeek and his wife, Emily (Gaskill) Carkeek (1852-1926), donated the land for Seattle's Carkeek Park. Deeply interested in conservation and the study of Seattle-area history, in 1911 the Carkeeks founded the Seattle Historical Society, which…
ID Number:MS.COLL.41
Date:Circa 1900
Manuscript
Henry A. Smith's recollection of 1856 "Battle of Seattle," circa 1900
On the morning of January 26, 1856, the "Battle of Seattle" began when Native Americans raided the settlement of Seattle. Previously warned of the attack, most settlers had barricaded themselves in a blockhouse. The attackers were driven off by artillery fire and by Marines from the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war Decatur, anchored in Elliott Bay. Although there were relatively few casualties…
ID Number:MS.COLL.204
Date:Circa 1900