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Preston Clark leading his welcome home parade, Seattle, April 11, 1991
In this image young Fanny Boone holds the hand of her cousin, Marine Cpl. Preston Clark, as the gulf war soldier's homecoming parade wends its joyful way east on Yesler Way towards his home. Cpl. Clark is on 20 days leave from his unit, the 3rd Tank Battalion, Alpha Company, which was one of the first units to cross into…
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.01
Date:1991
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Marine Cpl. Preston Clark with family and friends at his homecoming, Seattle, April 11, 1991
In this image, Marine Corporal Preston Clark smiles while surrounded by family and friends on the porch of his home on Yesler Way. Clark was greeted with a surprise parade which accompanied him from 23rd and Yesler to his home The Gulf War soldier was on 20 days leave from his unit, the 3rd Tank Battalion, Alpha Company, which was…
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.02
Date:1991
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Students’ Army Training Corps group on steps of Washington State Museum, University of Washington campus, 1918
The establishment of Students' Army Training Corps (SATC) units during World War I was authorized by the Selective Service Act of 1917, and implemented by the newly created Committee on Education and Special Training of the US War Department. The short-lived SATC program utilized the facilities, equipment, and faculty of colleges and universities to select and train officer candidates and…
ID Number:2009.32.1
Date:1918
Poster
Sunny Jim Raspberry Preserves poster, circa 1955
Sunny Jim Peanut Butter was founded by Germanus Wilhelm Firnstahl in 1921 after he moved with his family to Seattle from Wisconsin. Germanus and his wife Cecilia lined up their five children and selected son Lowell to be the face of their new peanut butter manufacturing company, "Sunny Jim." Despite his untimely death in 1933 in a football accident, Lowell's…
ID Number:2013.12.1
Date:Circa 1955
Photograph
Portrait of Walter Gordon Clark, Seattle, circa 1900
Walter Gordon Clark, engineer, was born in Utah and attended universities in the United States and Germany. He spent the early years of the 20th century in Seattle, where, sometime between 1900 and 1910, he and E. C. Kilbourne founded Kilbourne & Clark, an engineering firm and agency for Eastern electrical companies. By 1915, with Clark in New York, the…
ID Number:2013.111.1
Date:Circa 1900
Menu
Twin T-P's menu, circa 1938
The Twin T-P's was located on Aurora Avenue across from Green Lake. The Twin T-P's was part of the Clark's restaurant chain, founded by Walter Clark, with 22 restaurants all across Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and Yakima. The Twin T-P's restaurant was an unusual landmark with a building shaped like two teepees next to one another, and decorated with Native-themed designs…
ID Number:2014.3.1.33
Date:Circa 1938
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Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway train at Issaquah depot, circa 1890
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway incorporated in 1885 when a group of businessmen, headed by Thomas Burke, decided to invest in a line to connect downtown Seattle with points east. By 1889 the railroad had reached Snoqualmie Falls, where it linked to a northbound line. This photo shows a passenger train at the depot in Issaquah. Stamped on…
ID Number:2016.81.1
Date:Circa 1890
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Two men standing on Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railway drawbridge across Snohomish River, circa 1890
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway incorporated in 1885 when a group of businessmen, headed by Thomas Burke, decided to invest in a line to connect downtown Seattle with points east. By 1889 the railroad had reached Snoqualmie Falls, where it linked to a northbound line. This photo shows two men standing on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern…
ID Number:2016.81.2
Date:Circa 1890
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Twin Teepees restaurant, Seattle, 1985
In 1937, Seattle’s Twin T-Ps opened on Aurora Avenue North (then the Pacific Highway) at North 72nd Street. Designed by Delland Harris, it was but one of many eye-catching roadside attractions built along the nation’s growing highway systems at the time. Walter Clark, who built a regional restaurant chain, purchased the Twin T-Ps in 1942. Later called Powers Pancake House,…
ID Number:2020.42.1.20.02.05
Date:1985
Videorecording
You Have the Right to Know: Visiting Nurse Services, Community Television Agency program, April 7, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.08
Date:1989