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Margaret Levald Jensen with doll and cradle, Seattle, October 28, 1923
Margaret Levald Jensen (1920-) was born in Seattle to Peter Johan Jensen (1882-1975) and Caroline (Hodt) Jensen (1885-1984). She attended Long Beach Junior College in 1942. She married Frank Norman Gangler (1916-2008), Commander, USNR, in 1945, and had three children. The couple retired to Whidbey Island in 1984.In this image a young Margaret poses outside with her doll and doll…
ID Number:1974.5930.4
Date:1923
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Amy Christensen Erickson, Seattle, circa 1911
Amy Christensen Erickson (1896-1973) was born in Seattle to Charles Christensen (1857-1912) and Augusta (Andersen) Christensen (1855-1927). Amy graduated from Acme Business College in 1912. She married Hans Erickson (1886-1935) in 1914, and together they had two children, Stanley Erickson (b. 1916), and Mary Ann Ericksen (b. 1928). Hans joined the Seattle Fire Department in 1913, and was the pilot…
ID Number:1974.5935.1
Date:Circa 1911
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Holsum Baking Co. employees pose in front of factory, Seattle, circa 1914
The Holsum Baking Company of Seattle incorporated in 1912, but went bankrupt just four years later amid allegations of fraud. The company was bought out by Seattle Baking Company, who ran a series of advertisements in 1921 called, "A Trip Through the Largest Modern Bakery in the Pacific Northwest." The Seattle Baking Company manufactured "Queenann," "Butter-Nut" and "Holsum" breads, and…
ID Number:1975.6000.1
Date:Circa 1914
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Rainier Restaurant and Bakery advertising card, circa 1920
Jim Boldt's Rainier Restaurant & Bakery was located at 913 Second Avenue. Jim Boldt was a caterer and restaurateur who came to Seattle from Kansas in 1909 to set up a concession stand at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Boldt fed Seattle for 51 years, either from his various restaurants, bakeries, and concession stands, or at catered events. Boldt was also president…
ID Number:1976.6296.6
Date:Circa 1920
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Coliseum Theatre ticket, 1911
On June 13, 1911, Seattle’s Coliseum Theatre opened a new group of photoplays (films), featuring “Human Tiger,” which was billed as “an intensely tragic story.” This was followed by a group of comic and sentimental films, and a performance by two local singers. Attendance was likely boosted by the distribution of free tickets for June 14, 15, and 16. The…
ID Number:1976.6296.20
Date:1911
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Dance card for the 11th Annual Ball, Printing Press Assistants Union No. 59, December 17, 1914
In December 1914, members of Local 59 of the Seattle Printing Press Assistants Union and others in the printing trades gathered for the local’s Eleventh Annual Ball. Some 150 couples enjoyed the evening’s reception and dance at Eagle’s Hall. Dance cards for the event listed some twenty dances, from the opening two-step to the unnamed “third extra.” Women could list…
ID Number:1976.6296.24
Date:1914
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Sherman Printing & Binding Co. business card, circa 1936
The Sherman Printing & Binding Co. was founded in Seattle by Alonzo A. Sherman around 1911. Sherman had worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the late 1890s and then worked as a printer in Spokane from about 1900-1905. Returning to Seattle, he worked for the Metropolitan Press and the Seattle Daily Star before opening his own business around 1908, first…
ID Number:1976.6296.25
Date:Circa 1936
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Portrait of gardener Ernest Fabi, Seattle, circa 1930
Ernest A. Fabi (1876-1939) was a well-known Seattle gardener and landscape architect. In 1898 he served during the Spanish American War with the 7th Illinois Infantry, Company I. Ernest married Jennie A Backe (1884-) in 1912, and he used their home and yard on Queen Anne Hill to display his many unique species of flowers and trees. There are magnolia…
ID Number:1976.6304.20
Date:Circa 1930
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Lillie Pauline White teaching certificate, King County, August 29, 1896
Lillie Pauline White (1858-1944) was a teacher in Washington until 1922, when she retired after 34 years of service. She taught at Denny School, the South School, Rainier School, and Jefferson School, among others. Ms. White was well-regarded and remembered in the Seattle community even after her retirement. In 1935 she was nominated by former pupils as Seattle's "Grand Old…
ID Number:1976.6362.230
Date:1896
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Portrait of Potlatch King Edgar L. Webster, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used imagery common to local Indigenous Peoples to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a…
ID Number:1977.6531.2
Date:1911