517 results for: Museum of History
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Roy Chapman Andrews and Wilhelmina Christmas Andrews, Seattle, June 1936
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960) was a naturalist who led expeditions through the Gobi Desert and Mongolia, and later became director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is shown here with this second wife Wilhelmia Christmas Andrews in 1936.This photo is part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the…
ID Number:1974.5923.374
Date:1936
Ephemera
Seattle Police Dept Band souvenir, 1913
The Seattle Police Department Band formed in 1913, under the direction of Sergeant Clarence G. Carr. It began with 22 instruments and planned to expand from there. The souvenir pamphlet for the new band assures readers that "The band will not be ready for service until the players have reached a point of efficiency that will satisfy musical critics."In addition…
ID Number:1976.6296.22
Date:1913
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Damage to Seattle business district after Great Fire, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889 was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the City. The fire started in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and swept a southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business district and waterfront. The inferno completely consumed the business district's wooden…
ID Number:1976.6362.224
Date:1889
Document
Teaching certificate for Lillie Pauline White, King County, November 12, 1887
Lillie Pauline White (1858-1944) began her 34-year teaching career in Seattle in 1887. She was issued the Second Grade Teacher's Certificate pictured here by the King County Board of Examiners, Isaac P. Rich, H. T. Jones, and Katherine F. Cheasty. Handwritten on the certificate are Ms. White's scores in the 10 subjects she was tested in: Orthography, Reading, Arithmetic, Physiology,…
ID Number:1976.6362.228
Date:1887
Ephemera
Anderson Supply Co. photo catalog, circa 1910
Seattle entrepreneur Oliver Phelps Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. Oliver trained as a draughtsman and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company). An avid amateur…
ID Number:1977.6486.3.8.1
Date:Circa 1910
Photograph
Great Seattle Fire at 1st and Union, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started at 2:30 p.m. in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and over the course of the next 18 hours swept a southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business…
ID Number:1977.6487.7
Date:1889
Cartographic material
Track System of Seattle Municipal Street Railway map, January 1920
Seattle's first street railway line was built in 1888 and over the next three decades at least six different cable car companies operated throughout the city. In 1919 the City of Seattle took over all of the city's transit lines and formed the Seattle Municipal Street Railway (today's METRO). Because of its steep hills, Seattle kept its cable car lines…
ID Number:1977.6521.4
Date:1920
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The start of the Great Seattle Fire, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started at 2:30 p.m. in a paint and woodwork shop at Front Street (now First Avenue) and Madison Street and over the course of the next 18 hours swept a southward across…
ID Number:1979.6815.3
Date:1889
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Joseph Mayer & Brothers Co. floor clock, Broadway High School, Seattle, circa 1920
Broadway High School opened (as Seattle High School) in 1902 on the corner of Broadway and E Pine Street. It was Seattle's first building specifically constructed as a high school. The high school Principal's office, shown here, contains a large portrait of the class of 1903, which had 103 graduates, at the time the largest graduating class in the history…
ID Number:1980.6877.5.104
Date:Circa 1920
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Pilot Eddie Hubbard with Boeing B-1 mail plane at Lake Union, circa 1925
Eddie Hubbard piloted the Boeing B-I flying boat shown here from 1920 to 1927, flying air mail on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria, BC. The plane could carry two passengers plus mail and cargo. After seven years of service without losing a single piece of mail, the B-1 was retired from airmail service in…
ID Number:1980.6877.176
Date:Circa 1925