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Helene Madison and Charlie Fisher at Fleishhacker Pool, San Francisco, September 1930
Helene Madison started swimming at Green Lake when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records and 56 American awards. When she returned to Seattle, the city presented her with a car, a Navy and Police escort and Seattle's largest…
ID Number:1970.5051.13
Date:1930
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Helene Madison at Fleishhacker Pool, San Francisco, 1930
Helene Madison started swimming at Green Lake when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records and 56 American awards. When she returned to Seattle, the city presented her with a car, a Navy and Police escort and Seattle's largest…
ID Number:1970.5051.19
Date:1930
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Helene Madison and young swimmers at Natatorium in Wenatchee, Washington, June 29, 1930
Helene Madison started swimming at Green Lake when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records and 56 American awards. When she returned to Seattle, the city presented her with a car, a Navy and Police escort and Seattle's largest…
ID Number:1970.5051.33
Date:1930
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Helene Madison modeling for a painting class, San Francisco, circa 1930
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.45
Date:Circa 1930
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Helene Madison in nurse's uniform seated at desk, circa 1936
Helene Madison started swimming at Green Lake when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records and 56 American awards. When she returned to Seattle, the city presented her with a car, a Navy and Police escort and Seattle's largest…
ID Number:1970.5051.77
Date:Circa 1936
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Helene Madison's Olympic tryouts certificate, 1932
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.103.1
Date:1932
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Suess Art Glass employees standing in front of store, Seattle, 1910
The Suess Art Glass Company manufactured leaded, plate, and beveled glass and mirrors, as well as a variety of other products, including lenses for automobile headlamps. Headlamps weren't issued standard on cars until 1912, and performance and quality varied wildly. John Suess patented two devices for the rib lenses he sold, which controlled the headlight beam and eliminated "glare and…
ID Number:1971.5110.1
Date:1910
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Suess Art Glass float for Potlatch parade, Seattle, circa 1920
In this image employees of the Suess Art Glass Company, dressed for a parade, pose in front of the company building at 764 Virginia Street in downtown Seattle. The company had begun in 1901, a few months after third-generation glazer and founder John Bernard Suess (1875-1930) moved to Seattle from Chicago with his wife, Bertha (Stumpf) Suess (1876-), and daughter…
ID Number:1971.5110.2
Date:Circa 1920
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Suess Art Glass employees posing outside store, Seattle, circa 1908
The Suess Art Glass Company manufactured leaded, plate, and beveled glass and mirrors, as well as a variety of other products, including lenses for automobile headlamps. Headlamps weren't issued standard on cars until 1912, and performance and quality varied wildly. John Suess patented two devices for the rib lenses he sold, which controlled the headlight beam and eliminated "glare and…
ID Number:1971.5110.3
Date:Circa 1908
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Mary Ann Wells School of the Dance festival program, Seattle, June 4, 1927
Mary Ann Wells founded the dance department at Seattle's Cornish School of the Arts (now Cornish College of the Arts) and taught there for seven years. Sometime around 1920, she started her own dance school, which operated until 1958. Robert Joffrey and many other prominent dancers graduated from the Mary Ann Wells School of the Dance.The School's Eleventh Annual Dance…
ID Number:1971.5234.17
Date:1927