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Photograph
Seattle Photo-Engravers Union picnic, August 3, 1941
On August 3, 1941, members of the Seattle Photo-Engravers Union and their families gathered at an unidentified park for their annual picnic. Seattle photographer Joseph J. Kneisle took this panoramic informal photo of the group. The men, women, and children show a variety of ages, clothing styles, and moods. Handwritten on negative: Annual Picnic * Seattle Photo-Engravers * August 3d,…
ID Number:1997.18.100
Date:1941
Cartographic material
Traffic Code Map, Seattle, circa 1923
This double-sided traffic map is "compliments of the Department of Streets & Sewers, W. D. Barkhuff, Superintendent." William D. Barkhuff was the Superintendent of Streets and Sewers from 1922 to 1928. This map was probably for visitors to the city, outlining where cars could park and "stand," along with rules for drivers in the city and major thoroughfares throughout the…
ID Number:1997.30.30
Date:Circa 1923
Document
Lumbermen Celebrating the New Lumber and Shingle Tariff at the Arctic Club, Seattle, Wash., October 30, 1909
In April of 1909, during a special session, the United States Congress passed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, raising tariffs on imports to the United States. One of these tariffs was 20 cents a thousand on shingles imported to the United States, which shingle makers and lumbermen in the Seattle region thought "kept them from bankruptcy."On October 30, 1909, businessmen from…
ID Number:1998.2.3
Date:1909
Program
Program for Paul Robeson concert at Seattle Civic Auditorium, May 20, 1952
On May 20, 1952, American actor and singer Paul Robeson overcame blacklisting, a press blackout, and a City Council ban to perform at the Seattle Civic Auditorium in a "Peoples Program" presented by the Seattle Chapter of the National Negro Labor Council.A civil rights activist and anti-fascist sympathetic to communism, Robeson was investigated and blacklisted beginning in the late 1940s.…
ID Number:1998.4.2
Date:1952
Photograph
Miners posing at Coal Creek, Newcastle, March 12, 1915
The history of coal in Puget Sound is tied to the development and expansion of the railroad in the West. Locomotives burned coal, and coal, which is heavy and bulky, could not be transported without the railroad. These two industries grew together in the region, the health of each enabling the growth of both. One the largest mines in the…
ID Number:1998.19.1
Date:1915
Document
Olympic Games Boys' Tour brochure, 1931
In 1932, newspapers across the nation participated in the Olympic Games Boys' Tour, a competition among carriers for an all expenses paid trip to Los Angeles for the Tenth Olympiad. The Seattle Times sponsored the local competition, which was won by carriers Albert Jarvimak and John Collings, who secured the most Seattle Times subscriptions during a six week period, out…
ID Number:1998.22.3
Date:1931
Photograph
Building Owners and Managers Conference delegates outside New Washington Hotel, Seattle, April 1920
In this photo, delegates at the Second Pacific Northwest Conference of Building Owners and Managers pose outside of the New Washington Hotel, the meeting headquarters. The convention opened April 23, with delegates from San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, B.C., Spokane, Tacoma, and Seattle attending. The delegates discussed the costs of operating commercial properties, zoning regulations, and the need for "alert, efficient…
ID Number:1998.31.1
Date:1920
Photograph
Seattle General Hospital nurses on roof, circa 1915
Seattle General Hospital was located at 909 Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle from 1900-1971, later merging with two other local hospitals to become the Swedish Medical Center. Considered one of the best teaching hospitals in the region, 598 student nurses were trained at the hospital's School for Nurses between 1897-1938. In this image four nurses or nursing students pose on…
ID Number:1998.41.12.1
Date:Circa 1915
Photograph
Seattle Elks band at Boys Picnic, Woodland Park, 1923
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) hosted an annual picnic for boys at Woodland Park in Seattle, and on July 27, 1923, they had a special guest. President Warren G. Harding was on a Western tour across the United States, in what he called his "Voyage of Understanding." He gave a speech at Woodland Park for 30,000 assembled…
ID Number:1998.44.1
Date:1923
Music, notated
I Am Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier Boy
The music and lyrics for "I Am Proud to be the Mother of a Soldier Boy" were written by R. N. Moffat. It was arranged by Dudley Huntington McCosh and published by R. N. Moffat in Seattle. The piece was performed at least once locally, at Fort Lawton by the Fourteenth Infantry Band. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday Times,…
ID Number:1998.54.10
Date:1917