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Image of Garfield High School band and drill team in Husky Stadium, Seattle, 1937
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Garfield High School band and drill team in Husky Stadium, Seattle, 1937

The Seattle Public Schools' Parent Teacher Association and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sponsored the city-wide high school football championship games. Over 25,000 fans crowded Washington Field on the University of Washington campus to root for their favorite teams. The second game pitted Roosevelt High School against Garfield High School. Roosevelt beat Garfield 16 to 8. This photo shows the Garfield High…
ID Number:PI25514
Date:1937
Image of Bailey Gatzert School classroom after incarceration of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942
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Bailey Gatzert School classroom after incarceration of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942

Many of the students who attended Bailey Gatzert School in the 1920s and 1930s came from either Chinatown or Niponmachi (Japan Town). The school lost about 45 percent of its student body when Japanese Americans were incarcerated in camps in 1942. Handwritten on negative: Bailey Gatzert school. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - schools - Gatzert, Bailey (students).Date photograph was filed…
ID Number:PI25525
Date:1942
Image of Deaf children in classroom, November 1939
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Deaf children in classroom, November 1939

Seattle's deaf students went to class at T.T. Minor School. In 1939, the school started classes for preschool children with hearing disabilities. In addition to learning how to speak, the students learned to read lips and recognize certain sounds using hearing aids. They also began learning to read. When the teacher rang a bell or beat a drum, the children…
ID Number:PI25653
Date:1939
Image of Queen Anne High School students at football game, Seattle, 1939
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Queen Anne High School students at football game, Seattle, 1939

Written on negative: Queen Ann [sic] Kidds [sic]Handwritten on sleeve: Crowds - football.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 24, 1939.
ID Number:PI25680
Date:1939
Image of Cheerleaders at charity football game, December 2, 1939
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Cheerleaders at charity football game, December 2, 1939

In 1939, the Seattle Public Schools' Parent Teacher Association and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sponsored the city-wide high school football championship games. Over 25,000 fans crowded Washington Field on the University of Washington campus to root for their favorite teams. The second game pitted Roosevelt High School against Garfield High School. Roosevelt beat Garfield 16 to 8.This December 2, 1939 photo…
ID Number:PI25700
Date:1939
Image of Soccer team with championship pennant, January, 1936
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Soccer team with championship pennant, January, 1936

Soccer teams from Seattle's Washington and Beacon Hill grade schools were the finalists in the 1935 league championships. After Washington beat Beacon Hill 2 to 1 to win the title, team members posed for their picture with their trophy and banner. The initials on the banner stand for Public School Athletic League. Most of the team members were Japanese Americans…
ID Number:PI25750
Date:1936
Image of Whittier School students at flag raising, Seattle, June 14, 1940
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Whittier School students at flag raising, Seattle, June 14, 1940

The first Whittier School building opened in 1908, and a second building was constructed in 1928 to hold the more than 700 students from north Ballard. In this photo, Whittier elementary school students salute a flag being raised by one of the older students in the school yard on Flag Day in 1940.
ID Number:PI25765
Date:1940
Image of Bailey Gatzert School PTA officers, Seattle, 1946
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Bailey Gatzert School PTA officers, Seattle, 1946

The leaders of the Parent Teacher Association at Bailey Gatzert School reflected the diverse backgrounds of the student body. In the late 1940s, the school children were 10 percent Chinese American, 20 percent African American, 5 percent Filipino American, 27 percent Japanese American, and 35 percent European American, with 3 percent Native American. Caption slip identified officers as Minnie Beach,…
ID Number:PI25782
Date:1946
Image of Women training in wartime class at Rainier branch of Edison Technical School, Seattle, 1943
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Women training in wartime class at Rainier branch of Edison Technical School, Seattle, 1943

The Edison Technical School provided a broad range of practical training in full and part-time classes. During World War II, women trained in production related work, such as in this photo taken at the Building Trades Unit located in the old Rainier School at 23rd South and King Street. Note from MOHAI records: Rainier School opened three years after its…
ID Number:PI25831
Date:1943
Image of Cleveland and Garfield High School football game, Seattle, 1937
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Cleveland and Garfield High School football game, Seattle, 1937

The Seattle Public Schools' Parent Teacher Association and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sponsored the city-wide high school football championship games. Over 25,000 fans crowded Washington Field on the University of Washington campus to root for their favorite teams. The income from the championship games provided hot meals and medical care to school children in need. Handwritten on negative: Football - Cleve-Gar,…
ID Number:PI26764
Date:1937
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