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Children and a rabbit at the Renton Rabbit Race, March 23, 1956
Four-footed contestants hopped down Wells Street in downtown Renton on March 23, 1956. The event was Renton's second annual Rabbit Race. Nine-year old Tommy Sepanen tried to speed up the pace of the second-place rabbit, White Stag, by beating the pavement with a rolled-up copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "You always get results with the Post-Intelligencer," commented the reporter who…
ID Number:1986.5.6765.1
Date:1956
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Children looking at Christmas tree at Seattle Children's Home, December 1942
Seattle's oldest charity, the Seattle Children's Home originated as the Ladies' Relief Society in April 1884 to aid orphaned children. In the 1930s, the home shifted its emphasis from orphans to troubled children. Beginning in the 1980s, it provided comprehensive treatment and services to troubled youth. In 2012, Seattle Children’s Home merged with Navos, one of the largest providers of…
ID Number:1986.5.7816.2
Date:1942
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Young patient looking out of window at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.1
Date:1954
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Doctor examining young patient at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital sered there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.2
Date:1954
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Young patient giving another a gift at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.3
Date:1954
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Teacher reading to young girl at Firland Sanitarium, Seattle, November 8, 1955
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9564.1
Date:1955
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Teacher reading to students at Firland Sanitarium, Seattle, November 8, 1955
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9564.2
Date:1955
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Boys participating in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.1
Date:1947
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Gordon Bradbury in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.2
Date:1947
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Winners of pie eating contest with judges, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.3
Date:1947