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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
Ephemera
Souvenir announcement of the 15th wedding anniversary of Professor and Mrs. Adolph Edgren, Seattle, November 17, 1915
On November 17, 1915, Professor and Mrs. Adolph Edgren celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary with a music festival and speeches at Seattle’s Good Templar Hall. Professor Edgren had previously operated a large music school in San Francisco, and in 1906 he founded the Edgren School of Music in Seattle at 811 East Howell Street.Inside the leaflet are images of the…
ID Number:1966.4024.1
Date:1915
Ephemera
Allen & Nelson Mill Company business card, circa 1900
In 1872, Watson Allen (1842-1912), a carpenter and Civil War veteran from New Jersey, moved with his wife and daughters to Fall City, Washington, where he opened a sawmill on nearby Tokul Creek. The business was successful and grew to include another mill at Monohon, on the east side of Lake Sammamish, which manufactured lumber, lath, shingles, moldings, and other…
ID Number:1966.4061.3
Date:Circa 1900
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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
Cartographic material
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
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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
Music, notated
The Seattle Girl
According to a statement printed on the back cover of the score pictured here, Mrs. M. C. Robinson was inspired to write “The Seattle Girl” when in Seattle from Tacoma to visit sculptor James Wehn. Mr. Wehn had recently completed a statue of his sweetheart (unnamed), whose portrait appears on the front cover of the score. He asked Mrs. Robinson…
ID Number:1968.4425.2
Date:1909
Cartographic material
Visitors' Guide to Fairground, layout for printing, 1962
The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair. The exposition's displays and attractions were centered around themes of science and technology, but included showcases for a variety of world cultures.Seattle artist Stuart Moldrem (1925-2015) drew this map of the fairgrounds. Moldrem ran…
ID Number:1968.4505.6
Date:1962
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Kilbourne & Clark employees posing in front of factory, Seattle, June 1922
Kilbourne & Clark Manufacturing Co. was a firm founded in 1899 by electrical engineer Walter Gordon Clark (1876-1950) and dentist-turned-promoter of electric power utilities Edward Corliss Kilbourne (1856-1959). Initially established to sell electrical machinery and supplies, the firm scored a long string of successes in making and marketing early radio equipment for the U. S. Navy, shipping, and broadcast receivers.In…
ID Number:1969.4571.1
Date:1922
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Washington Laundry building and delivery carriages, Seattle, 1910
Born in Tennessee, James Thomas Huff (1868-1924) moved to Seattle in 1894, finding work at the Seattle Laundry. In 1904, he established his own laundry business, Washington Laundry, at 1165 Eastlake Avenue on Lake Union.In this image Mr. Huff stands next to his Winton automobile in front of Washington Laundry. The laundry delivery drivers with their horses and wagons are…
ID Number:1969.4602.2
Date:1910