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Image of Exterior of Chicago Boot & Shoe Store before Great Seattle Fire, circa 1889
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Exterior of Chicago Boot & Shoe Store before Great Seattle Fire, circa 1889

This image was taken before the fire destroyed the Chicago Boot and Shoe Store, located on the northeast corner of Front Street (now First Avenue) and James Street in Pioneer Square. By the next year, proprietor John Henry Rengstorff (1860-1917) had reopened his shoe store at 707 Second Avenue, near Cherry Street. The individuals in the image are unidentified except…
ID Number:1980.7092.2
Date:Circa 1889
Image of James Clise Jr., Redmond, circa 1903
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James Clise Jr., Redmond, circa 1903

This photo of James Clise Jr., son of Seattle real estate developer and banker James W. Clise (1855-1939), was taken around 1903. Caption on label: Artist - Gail Clements, Battle Creek, Mich.Handwritten on mount: James.
ID Number:1980.7158.2.15
Date:Circa 1903
Image of Mina Schwabacher Eckstein in wedding dress, San Francisco, 1902
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Mina Schwabacher Eckstein in wedding dress, San Francisco, 1902

This photo is part of Joanna Eckstein's photograph collection. Eckstein was one of two daughters (with her sister Babette) of Nathan Eckstein and Mina Schwabacher Eckstein. Mina Schwabacher was a daughter of Abraham Schwabacher (circa 1838-1909) and Sarah Lehrberger (1847-?), who married in 1869. Abraham and his brothers Louis and Sigmund owned the Schwabacher Brothers wholesale grocery stores in Walla…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.21
Date:1902
Image of Mina and Nathan Eckstein walking down street in Victoria, circa 1942
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Mina and Nathan Eckstein walking down street in Victoria, circa 1942

A native of Bavaria, Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945) spent 10 years in New York’s wholesale grocery business before moving to the west coast. In San Francisco in 1902 he married Mina Alice Schwabacher (1878-1942) and the couple relocated to Seattle. Nathan served as vice president and then chief executive officer of Schwabacher & Company, which grew to become one of Seattle’s…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.71.1
Date:1942
Image of Nathan and Mina Eckstein on Luna Park souvenir postcard, 1907
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Nathan and Mina Eckstein on Luna Park souvenir postcard, 1907

A native of Bavaria, Nathan Eckstein (1873-1945) spent 10 years in New York’s wholesale grocery business before moving to the west coast. In San Francisco in 1902 he married Mina Alice Schwabacher (1878-1942) and the couple relocated to Seattle. Nathan served as vice president and then chief executive officer of Schwabacher & Company, which grew to become one of Seattle’s…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.71.3
Date:1907
Image of Anna Brand with son Leonard and other children reading a lesson, Seattle circa 1910
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Anna Brand with son Leonard and other children reading a lesson, Seattle circa 1910

The Brand family ran the Kalmar Hotel on First Hill. They had three children, and the youngest Leonard is shown in this photo with a group of girls in white dresses. Leonard's mother Anna reads with the pupils. Stamped on photo: Johnson, 3rd and Union, Seattle
ID Number:1981.7328.18
Date:Circa 1910
Image of Ladies Musical Club charter members, Seattle, March 24, 1941
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Ladies Musical Club charter members, Seattle, March 24, 1941

The Ladies Musical Club, Seattle’s oldest musical organization, was founded in 1891 by 22 women who were classically trained musicians. Over the years, in addition to holding meetings for members, the group has brought well-known musicians to Seattle for public concerts.On March 24, 1941, the group celebrated its 50th anniversary at the DAR Rainier Chapter house on Capitol Hill. The…
ID Number:1981.7337.68
Date:1941
Image of Ladies Musical Club members posing for the club's 30th anniversary, Seattle, 1921
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Ladies Musical Club members posing for the club's 30th anniversary, Seattle, 1921

The Ladies Musical Club (LMC) of Seattle was organized officially on March 2, 1891, during the heyday of the national women's club movement from the 1890s through the 1920s. Women's organizations not only provided countless benefits to urban and rural communities, but they also helped give a public voice and influence to women even before they were enfranchised as full…
ID Number:1981.7337.288.5
Date:1921
Image of Studio portrait of Norman Archibald in uniform, circa 1918
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Studio portrait of Norman Archibald in uniform, circa 1918

Hazel Marjorie (Archibald) Draper (1891-1973) and Norman Silas "Jim" Archibald (1894-1975) were siblings born in Seattle to real estate developer Silas W. Archibald (b. 1864) and Elizabeth Jane (Langille) Archibald (b. 1866), who had emigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada, after their 1889 marriage. Both Hazel and Norman served in France during World War I. Norman was a lieutenant with the…
ID Number:1982.105.2.6
Date:Circa 1917
Image of Irma Beatrice Hall in dance costume designed by Jessie Hall, 1935
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Irma Beatrice Hall in dance costume designed by Jessie Hall, 1935

Irma Beatrice Hall was the daughter of Jessie Hall, and older sister of Bessie Hall Dempsey (mother of Seattle actor Mark Dempsey). Jessie Hall operated a successful seamstress studio in Missoula and designed costumes for the vaudeville circuit. After her second marriage failed in 1922, Jessie moved with her daughters to Seattle. Irma and Bessie Hall studied classical ballet, folk…
ID Number:1982.172.51
Date:1935
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