713 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
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Coxey's Army in Seattle, 1894
The 1893 nationwide depression threw many Americans out of work. In 1894, the Commonweal of Christ, made up of groups of unemployed people from all over the country, marched to Washington D.C. They wanted the government to create jobs and reform the money system. People called these groups Coxey's Army, after Jacob Coxey, the movement's leader. Congress did not pass…
ID Number:SHS16535
Date:1894
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John Henry Smith, Seattle, circa 1921
Typed on verso: Smith, John Henry, active in I.W.W., 1913-25. Born in England, he immigrated to Canada shortly after the turn of the century, coming to Seattle about 1910. A hod carrier by trade, he became active in I.W.W. circles about 1913. He married Helen L. Livingston in 1913. They had two daughters, Helen (1914) and Edna (1916). Smith died…
ID Number:SHS16652
Date:Circa 1921
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Seattle City Light line crew with horse-drawn wagon, January 1914
By the 1910s, electricity from Seattle City Light powered homes and businesses as well as the streetlights and trolleys. This photo, taken in 1914, shows a Seattle City Light line crew and their horse-drawn wagon parked near a power line. The caption on the photo notes that this was one of four line crews, and identifies the workers as, left…
ID Number:SHS17525
Date:1914
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PT&T operators working at Garfield Exchange, Seattle, circa 1921
Telephone service in Seattle began with 90 customers in 1883. One of Seattle's original service providers, Sunset Telephone-Telegraph Company (later Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, then AT&T) built a new exchange building in 1921 to help handle what was by then 83,347 customers, making half-a-million local telephone calls every day. The Garfield Exchange was built on Queen Anne Hill at…
ID Number:SHS17731
Date:Circa 1921
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Henry Finch posing with diving equipment, Seattle, January 1924
In January 1924, divers from the Seattle marine engineering firm Henry Finch & Son were called in to repair a broken six-inch water main running beneath the Duwamish Waterway. This image, from an album of photographs taken for the Finches, shows Henry Silas Finch, Jr. (1887-1961), posing in diving gear at the job site. He is holding a helmet and…
ID Number:SHS18658
Date:1924
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Diver holding a water main joint, Seattle, January 29, 1924
In January 1924, divers from the Seattle firm Henry Finch & Son were called in to repair a broken six-inch water main running beneath the Duwamish Waterway. This image, from an album of photographs taken for the Finches, shows an unidentified diver on board the firm’s support vessel. He is wearing his helmet and holding a broken flexible joint from…
ID Number:SHS18660
Date:1924
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Worker making saddle at Duncan & Sons, Seattle, December 23, 1918
Duncan & Sons was a harness and saddle manufacturing business located at 212 Second Avenue South. Their familiar model horse stood above the entrance to the business for many years, only recently to disappear when the company closed. In this photo, a worker rivets coat straps to the body of a cavalry saddle. It is part of a series of…
ID Number:SHS19314
Date:1918