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Ted Williams touring the Kingdome, January 1976
Ted Williams (1918-2002) was one of the most successful hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox, from 1939 to 1960, though he did not play from 1940 to 1943 in order to serve in World War II and missed most of the 1952 and 1953 seasons when he was recalled…
ID Number:2002.46.2178.19
Date:1976
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Ford employees posed outside at South Lake Union assembly plant, Seattle, 1916
In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company had a number of buildings across the country for local assembly of Model T cars. One assembly plant was located in Seattle, at the southern end of Lake Union, at what is now 700 Fairview Avenue North. The building, which still stands, was occupied by The Craftsman Press for a period and, as…
ID Number:2004.39.1
Date:1916
Cartographic material
Proposed Plan and Improvement of Salmon Bay Harbor, Seattle, November 1892
Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2008.54.48
Date:1892
Document
Fisher's Fair Recipes, Famous Exposition Scones and other Mary Mills' Timely Tested Recipes, circa 1932
Fisher Flouring Mills opened in 1911, founded by father and son O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher and O.D. (Oliver David) Fisher. The Fisher family mill was one of the first businesses to operate on Harbor Island. The Fishers founded radio station KOMO in 1926, in part to advertise their flour. One of the company's most famous products was Fisher Scones, introduced…
ID Number:2014.3.2.12
Date:Circa 1932
Ephemera
Fisher's Yellow Corn Meal Recipes, circa 1920
Fisher Flouring Mills opened in 1911, founded by father and son O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher and O.D. (Oliver David) Fisher. The Fisher family mill was one of the first businesses to operate on Harbor Island. The Fishers founded radio station KOMO in 1926, in part to advertise their flour. One of the company's most famous products was Fisher Scones, introduced…
ID Number:2014.3.2.13
Date:Circa 1920
Book
Fisher's Blend Fun Book with the Story of the Magic Sack, circa 1920
Fisher Flouring Mills opened in 1911, founded by father and son O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher and O.D. (Oliver David) Fisher. The Fisher family mill was one of the first businesses to operate on Harbor Island. The Fishers founded radio station KOMO in 1926, in part to advertise their flour. One of the company's most famous products was Fisher Scones, introduced…
ID Number:2014.3.2.14
Date:Circa 1920
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Members of the Royal Esquire Club on steps of Collins Field House, Seattle, September 11, 1949
The Royal Esquire Club is a private African American men's club in Seattle, founded in 1947 by five young Black men, as there was no welcoming venue in the city where they could socialize. Still active as of 2025 and now located in the Columbia City neighborhood, the club provides a space for social interaction, education, and entertainment for its…
ID Number:2014.49.010.003.0005
Date:1949
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The Leon Vaughn Band, Seattle, 1948
Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished in the first half of the twentieth century, with their popularity peaking in the late 1930s through early 1950s. Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of musicians and patrons, then returning the following week to sell prints.In the mid-1940s, trumpeter Leon Vaughn formed his own band…
ID Number:2014.49.14.007.12
Date:1948
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Three women talking at nightclub table, Seattle, circa 1945
Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished in the first half of the twentieth century, with their popularity peaking in the late 1930s through early 1950s. Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of musicians and patrons, then returning the following week to sell prints.Here, Smith photographs three women sitting at a table enjoying…
ID Number:2014.49.16.085.10
Date:Circa 1945
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Evelyn Willliams standing at bat, Seattle, circa 1938
The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the…
ID Number:2014.49.19.01.03
Date:Circa 1938