136 results for: World War I, 1917-1918 (WWI)
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Float at Labor Day parade, Seattle, September 2, 1918
For many years, Seattle's industries closed on Labor Day, and trade union members marched in the annual Labor Day parade. In 1918, the United States' armed forces were still fighting in Europe. Union members serving at forts and naval stations in the Seattle area marched in the parade in uniform. The Seattle Times reported that 50,000 union members took part…
ID Number:1983.10.10777.1
Date:1918
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Labor Day parade, September 2, 1918
For many years, Seattle's industries closed on Labor Day, and trade union members marched in the annual Labor Day parade. In 1918, the United States' armed forces were still fighting in Europe. Union members serving at forts and naval stations in the Seattle area marched in the parade in uniform. The Seattle Times reported that 40,000 union members were expected…
ID Number:1983.10.10777.8
Date:1918
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Bayonet drill, University of Washington, 1918
When the United States entered World War I in 1918, many students, faculty, and staff members left the University of Washington to serve in the military. The university expanded its military science programs, and the Reserve Officer's Training Corps organized ten units. Students in the ROTC program drilled for eight hours each week.This photo shows students at the University of…
ID Number:1983.10.10783
Date:1918
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Navy pilots attending training class on UW campus, Seattle, 1918
During World War I the U. S. Navy established a temporary Naval Training Station in Seattle, 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. In this image, 11…
ID Number:1983.10.10784
Date:1918
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Skinner & Eddy shipyard, circa 1917
In 1916, the Skinner & Eddy Corporation opened a shipyard at the foot of Massachusetts Street on the site of the old Moran Brothers yard. Skinner & Eddy built 75 vessels during World War I, becoming Seattle's largest shipyard. The end of the war, in 1918, brought a depression in shipbuilding, and the yard was sold in 1923.This photo of…
ID Number:1983.10.PA5.20
Date:Circa 1917
Correspondence
Letter from Isabelle Bailey to Joseph Orr about Armistice Day, November 1918
In this letter, Isabelle Orr Bailey (1886-1965) writes to her brother, Joseph Robert Orr (1893-1970), who had recently been injured while serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. She begins her letter on November 10, 1918, the day before the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany to end hostilities. The second page…
ID Number:1987.46.5
Date:1918
Diary
WWI Diary of Nurse Abbie Ewert, 1917-1919
Kentucky-born Abbie Viola (Ewart) Watkins (1889-1977) moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1910 and from Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing in 1913. After two years of caring for tuberculosis patients at Firland Sanatorium, Abbie Ewart opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle with another nurse. Ewart sold the surgery…
ID Number:1987.60.1
Date:1917-1919
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Abbie Ewart in nurse's rain outfit on the roof of the Irving Hotel, New York, May 1918
Kentucky-born Abbie Ewart (1889-1977) moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated from Queen Anne High School and then trained as a nurse. After caring for tuberculosis patients for two years at Firland Sanatorium, she and another nurse opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Ewart trained with…
ID Number:1987.60.18
Date:1918
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Nurses and soldiers at Base Hospital 47 in France, 1918
When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Seattle nurse Abbie Ewart trained with other nurses at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma. Several months later, the group sailed from New York City to France where they cared for the sick and wounded at American Base Hospitals 43 and 47, shown here. Handwritten on verso: 1st World War. Miss Ewart…
ID Number:1987.60.21
Date:1918
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Army nurses at Base Hospital 47 in France, circa 1918
When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Seattle nurse Abbie Ewart trained with other nurses at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma. Several months later, the group sailed from New York City to France where they cared for the sick and wounded at American Base Hospitals 43 and 47.In this photo, Abbie Ewart (far left) and her colleagues, including…
ID Number:1987.60.22
Date:Circa 1918