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George Butler and George T. Snow, circa 1920
This double portrait depicts Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) Seattle Lodge No. 2 members George Butler and George T. Snow wearing YOOP sashes, with the YOOP banner depicted in the center.The Yukon Order of Pioneers (YOOP) fraternal organization was formed on December 1, 1894 at Forty Mile, Yukon Territory, Canada. With the motto "Do unto others as you would be…
ID Number:1966.3948.38
Date:Circa 1920
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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
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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Lincoln High School graduating class, Seattle, 1919
In the fall of 1907, Lincoln High School opened in the Wallingford neighborhood, at Interlake Avenue North and North 43rd Street. It had thirty classrooms, a study hall, and a gymnasium. There were so many students in the area that the school was already too small when it opened. After several additions and 74 years of service, Lincoln High School…
ID Number:1967.4162.1
Date:1919
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Horace C. Henry home, Seattle, circa 1920
One of Seattle's early residents, Horace Chapin Henry (1844-1928) was a businessperson who made a fortune with building contractor Henry Balch when they formed Henry and Balch, a construction company that won many contracts for railroads and roads throughout the United States. Work brought Henry to Seattle in late 1891, and he began to make investments in local businesses, later…
ID Number:1967.4235.6
Date:Circa 1920
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Horace and Susan Henry home, Seattle, circa 1900
One of Seattle's early residents, Horace Chapin Henry (1844-1928) was a businessperson who made a fortune with building contractor Henry Balch when they formed Henry and Balch, a construction company that won many contracts for railroads and roads throughout the United States. Work brought Henry to Seattle in late 1891, and he began to make investments in local businesses, later…
ID Number:1967.4235.14a
Date:Circa 1900
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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Three men near concrete mixer and concrete transport car, circa 1925
This photograph documents a City of Seattle Engineering Department project involving construction of a truck sewer and subsewers as part of improvements along Oregon Street. Three men pose near a concrete transport car on rails which will bring wet concrete from the mixer to various points along the sewer tunnel under construction. Numbered on mount: 2A
ID Number:1968.4524.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Men in concrete transport car on tracks over sewer construction, circa 1925
This photograph documents a City of Seattle Engineering Department project involving construction of a truck sewer and subsewers as part of improvements along Oregon Street. The transport car was used to carry loads of wet concrete from the mixer to various points along the sewer tunnel under construction. Numbered on mount: 4A
ID Number:1968.4524.3
Date:Circa 1925
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 6, 1919
The Seattle General Strike was a work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in Seattle from February 6-11, 1919. The strike began in shipyards when workers were refused pay increases after two years of World War I wage controls. Most of the city's 110 local unions, including members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of…
ID Number:1969.4599.1
Date:1919