538 results for: Clubs and Organizations
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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
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Chamber of Commerce Building, Seattle, circa 1925
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:1983.10.391
Date:Circa 1925
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Workers at the Lighthouse Broom Company, circa 1925
The Lighthouse for the Blind was one of Seattle's early community service organizations. It provided work for people with impaired vision so they could support themselves and their families. Employees made brooms, wove rags into rugs, and cane fiber into chair seats. In this photo, a woman weighs a finished broom. Bunches of broom straw sit on the floor in…
ID Number:1983.10.433.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Ballard Building, June 20, 1927
The Ballard Building was built in the 1920s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Because of this, it is sometimes called the Eagles Building. The opening of the Ballard Building marked the shift of Ballard's commercial area to Market Street. This photo shows the multi-purpose Ballard Building in 1927. It houses the Bagdad Theater, drug and department stores, and meeting…
ID Number:1983.10.783
Date:1927
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Washington Children's Home residents with dolls, Seattle, circa 1921
The Washington Children's Home was located at 6516 32nd Avenue NE in the Ravenna neighborhood. Handwritten on sleeve: Washington Childrens Home Ext & Int.Photographer's Reference Number: 82370
ID Number:1983.10.1780.2
Date:Circa 1921
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Military veterans learning automobile mechanics, January 1920
After the veterans of World War I returned home in 1918, many had trouble finding work. The Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic benefit organization, sponsored a free evening school to help them learn job skills. In this photo, World War I veterans are learning auto mechanics. At least one member of the group is an African-American. Webster & Stevens…
ID Number:1983.10.1791.8
Date:1920
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Camp Fire Girls in office, circa 1919
The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded in the eastern United States and spread to the Seattle area in 1919. Camp Fire Girls' activities had Native American themes. Each member had an Indian name and made a ceremonial dress with leather trim. She received colored wooden beads for learning new skills, and added them to her dress. The Camp Fire…
ID Number:1983.10.1968.4
Date:Circa 1919
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Four members of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1920
On November 27, 1911, the "Native Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Prior to 1870" was organized in Seattle by sixty white, non-Indigenous, women from all over the Pacific Northwest to honor their settler heritage. The organization still exists as of 2018, now called Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, and promotes historic preservation and education.In this image four women…
ID Number:1983.10.2102.1
Date:1920
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Russian children, circa 1925
In the decade following the 1917 Russian Revolution, nearly a million Russians fled the country. Many refugees took the train across Russia and sailed to the United States from Chinese ports. In 1923 alone, the local Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Spiridon helped over 6,000 Russian refugees. Other churches and civic organizations also assisted in the resettlement.This photo, taken sometime…
ID Number:1983.10.2157.2
Date:Circa 1925
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The Scandinavian Seamen's Home and Mission Hotel, circa 1922
Sometimes sailors found themselves in Seattle without a place to stay between voyages. Others were too old or too sick to continue work. In the 1920s, organizations which helped them included the Scandinavian Seaman's Home and the Mission Hotel, managed by Reverend E.B. Slettedahl.This photo, taken in about 1922, shows the seamen's home and hotel building on Marion Street, convenient…
ID Number:1983.10.2327
Date:Circa 1922