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Image of Electricab booth, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
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Electricab booth, Seattle World's Fair, 1962

"At your service on the Fairgrounds. Electricab Guided Tours & Taxis. Whether you want a complete guided tour of the fairgrounds or just a lift from here to there, ELECTRICABS are at your service. You'll find our drivers to be excellent guides...trained, courteous, knowledgeable." Here, an Electricab waits for passengers at its ticket booth next to the Coliseum. Queen Anne…
ID Number:1965.3598.25.52
Date:1962
Image of Monorail car interior, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
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Monorail car interior, Seattle World's Fair, 1962

"Clean lines and wide open interiors of the Alweg monorail trains offer passengers a pleasing ride to the Seattle World's Fair. The trains are 122 feet long and 10 feet wide. There are seats for 124 passengers and ample room for additional standing passengers for the quick 95-second ride to the fair." Stamped on verso: Exclusive Photo by Forde Photographers…
ID Number:1965.3598.25.53
Date:1962
Image of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Committee presenting a key to the city to sled dog Balto at Pier 2, Seattle, March 22, 1925
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Alaska-Yukon Pioneers Committee presenting a key to the city to sled dog Balto at Pier 2, Seattle, March 22, 1925

Balto was the lead sled dog on Gunnar Kaasen's 1925 Serum Run team, delivering diphtheria antitoxin serum to doctors at Nome, Alaska on the last leg of the relay. Balto and Kaasen arrived in Seattle on the Alaska Steamship Company's steamship Alameda, and they were honored at a ceremony on Pier 2 in Seattle by a committee representing the Alaska-Yukon…
ID Number:1966.3948.100
Date:1925
Image of Julean Arnold and China Club of Seattle aboard S.S. President Grant, Seattle, April 7, 1923
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Julean Arnold and China Club of Seattle aboard S.S. President Grant, Seattle, April 7, 1923

Julean Herbert Arnold was a U. S. Commercial Attache in China and Japan from 1914-1940, and a founder of the China Club in Seattle. Established in 1916, the China Club of Seattle still operates today and is committed to promoting closer trade and cultural relations with China. In 1923, Mr. Arnold spent four months touring the United States, including Seattle,…
ID Number:1967.4171.1
Date:1923
Image of Complete Map of the City of Ballard, Wash. and Vicinity, November 15, 1904
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Complete Map of the City of Ballard, Wash. and Vicinity, November 15, 1904

Seattle's Ballard neighborhood was an independent city when it incorporated in 1890 until it was annexed by Seattle on May 29, 1907. Six months earlier the vote by Ballard citizens to join Seattle had passed by a narrow margin, 996 to 874. The map pictured here was created three years before annexation and shows, among other features, "the changes in…
ID Number:1968.4347.1
Date:1904
Image of Portrait of Victor W. S. Denny, Seattle, circa 1890
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Portrait of Victor W. S. Denny, Seattle, circa 1890

Victor Winfield Scott Denny, Sr. (1869-1921), was born in Seattle to pioneers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa Boren (1827-1916). Following in his family's footsteps, he worked to develop the local timber and mining industries. Victor married Lillie Jane Frankland (1867–1931) and had three children: Victor W. S. Denny, Jr., Elizabeth Crocker (Denny) Harris, and Madge Decatur (Denny) Mathieu.In this…
ID Number:1968.4387.2
Date:Circa 1890
Image of Seattle City Treasurer's office employees, June 1908
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Seattle City Treasurer's office employees, June 1908

This portrait of the employees of the office of the City Treasurer includes the following identifications:First [front] row, left to right: J. F. Haney, Asst. Treas.; W. H. Sanders; Margaret Epler; Maude Judd; George F. Russell, City Treasurer (1906-1908); A. N. Graves; C. L. Blewett.Second row, left to right: Thomas Scott; Charles A. Duke; Amos Brown; Col. H. W. Beecher;…
ID Number:1969.4653.12
Date:1908
Image of Votes for Women, Vol. 1, No. 12, January 1911
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Votes for Women, Vol. 1, No. 12, January 1911

Missouri T.B. Hanna (1857-1926) was the first woman publisher in Washington State, and was heralded as “the mother of journalism” in Washington.Hanna, who also went by “Mrs. M.T.B. Hanna,” moved to Spokane Falls in Washington Territory in 1882, and then to the waterfront mill town of Edmonds in 1904. In 1905 Hanna purchased the weekly "Edmonds Review" and published it…
ID Number:1970.4814.16
Date:1911
Image of The New Citizen, February 1911
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The New Citizen, February 1911

Missouri T.B. Hanna (1857-1926) was the first woman publisher in Washington State, and was heralded as “the mother of journalism” in Washington.Hanna, who also went by “Mrs. M.T.B. Hanna,” moved to Spokane Falls in Washington Territory in 1882, and then to the waterfront mill town of Edmonds in 1904. In 1905 Hanna purchased the weekly "Edmonds Review" and published it…
ID Number:1970.4814.18
Date:1911
Image of Our Afternoon Trip, April 17, 1906
Manuscript

Our Afternoon Trip, April 17, 1906

Inga Caroline Hoffield (1894-1945) was born in Iowa to Norwegian-immigrant parents Benjamin Kornelius Hoffield (1865-1949) and Ellen B. (Strom) Hoffield (1872-c. 1905). The family moved to Seattle before 1900, and Inga and her two younger sisters attended Salmon Bay School at 26th Avenue W and W Prospect Street.The manuscript pictured here is an essay that Inga wrote while a student…
ID Number:1970.4879.1
Date:1906
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