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Oral history interview with G. Spencer Reeves, May 21, 1985

G. Spencer Reeves worked in health education during World War II and taught first aid and swimming during the war. In this iInterview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on May 21, 1985. He speaks about the University of Washington campus experience during the war and justifies Japanese American incarceration because of fear.…
ID Number:1985.134.19
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Dr. Joel Baker, August 6 and 19, 1985

Dr. Joel Baker Sr. (1905 -1999), born in Shenandoah, Virginia, earned his medical degree from University of Virginia and moved to Seattle in 1930, where he joined the Virginia Mason Hospital Mason Clinic team. Baker served as chief of surgery at Virginia Mason for three decades before retiring at age 65. During his career, Dr. Baker invented a method of…
ID Number:1985.135.2
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with James W. Haviland, July 15, 1985

James W. Haviland (1911 – 2007) was a Seattle doctor and specialist in Internal Medicine, co-founder of the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-founder of the Northwest Kidney Centers.James Haviland was born in New York and completed medical school and residency training at Johns Hopkins University. From the late 1940s through the 1970s, Dr. Haviland was a leader…
ID Number:1985.135.12
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Dr. William Hutchinson, July 18, 1985

William B. Hutchinson (1909 –1997) was an physician and surgeon, and the founder of both the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in his native Seattle, Washington. The latter facility is named in memory of his younger brother, Fred Hutchinson, a Major League Baseball pitcher and manager whose life and career were cut short by…
ID Number:1985.135.13
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Kate Webster, March 30, 1988

Kate Belcher Webster (1924-2017) was a longtime Washington State University (WSU) regent and a leader at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Born and raised in New York City, Webster moved to Seattle some time after her marriage to Holt Webster, founder of the Airborne Express delivery company. She described herself as a “professional volunteer.” In Seattle, Webster first became involved with the…
ID Number:1985.135.32
Date:1988
Image of Woman receiving dental care at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942
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Woman receiving dental care at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942

In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into "assembly centers" while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds in Puyallup and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska. This…
ID Number:1986.5.6682.6
Date:1942
Image of Children praying before breakfast at Seattle Children's Home, August 22, 1941
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Children praying before breakfast at Seattle Children's Home, August 22, 1941

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:1986.5.7814.1
Date:1941
Image of Children praying before breakfast at Seattle Children's Home, August 22, 1941
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Children praying before breakfast at Seattle Children's Home, August 22, 1941

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:1986.5.7814.4
Date:1941
Image of Women and children sitting at table at Seattle Children's Home, December 24, 1942
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Women and children sitting at table at Seattle Children's Home, December 24, 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:1986.5.7815.4
Date:1942
Image of Children looking at Christmas tree at Seattle Children's Home, December 1942
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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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