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Cartographic material
New Gold Fields of North-Western Alaska, 1899
Gold was discovered in the Nome, Alaska, area in 1898, drawing prospectors from the Klondike and other goldfields. More miners poured in when gold was discovered in Nome’s beach sands. To meet the needs of prospectors, D.A. Macdonald used 1897 and 1898 information to publish a map of the new mining districts of northwestern Alaska in 1899.The map includes information…
ID Number:1983.35.7
Date:1899
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Bartenders and patrons holding beer glasses at Hotel Globe bar, Seattle, circa 1910
Seattle's Globe Hotel operated from 1898 until the mid 1960s in a building originally built in 1891 as a warehouse. The building, historically called the Marshall-Walker Building, is a four story brick block located on the southeast corner of South Main Street and First Avenue South. Part of the city's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood, the building now houses office and…
ID Number:1983.103.1
Date:Circa 1910
Program
Beacon Hill Merchants Baseball Team program, 1927
The Seattle Community Baseball League was founded in 1926, as a semi-professional league of eight teams. The inaugural teams were the West Seattle Athletic Club, Georgetown Merchants, Fremont Community Club, Alki Merchants, Mercer Athletic Club, Rainier Valley Merchants, and South Park Merchants. Ballard was offered a team, but could not put one together, so Interbay was given the eighth slot.…
ID Number:1984.135.1
Date:1927
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Erroll Rawson, April 28, 1985
Erroll Rawson was a Seattle doctor who volunteered his skills on the wartime homefront (including creating an emergency medicine system) and maintained a private practice as World War II began. In this April 28, 1985, interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project, Rawson speaks about medical care in wartime Seattle area and racial…
ID Number:1985.134.18
Date:1985
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Kenneth Fisher, April 23, 1985
Kenneth Robinson Fisher (1906-1999) was the grandson of O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher, founder and owner of Seattle’s Fisher Flour Mill. Fisher built his mill, the largest in the west, on the newly constructed Harbor Island in Elliott Bay at the mouth of the Duwamish waterway, one of the first industrial businesses to open on the island. Fisher ran the business…
ID Number:1985.135.10
Date:1985
Videorecording
Oral history interview with H. Dewayne Kreager, October 17, 1985
H. (Henry) Dewayne Kreager (1912 – 2001) was a banker and businessman, a Washington state native who attended college at Washington State University, Duke, and Harvard. Kreager started his professional career in Washington, D.C., working with the federal Foreign Economic Administration from 1941 to 1946, with the State Department as assistant director of the Foreign Service Institute in 1946 -1947,…
ID Number:1985.135.14
Date:1985
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Young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps receiving a physical exam, 1937
Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. CCC jobs were generally manual labor, and focused primarily on the conservation and development of parks and other natural resources throughout the United States. Physical exams…
ID Number:1986.5.1829.2
Date:1937
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Circle of children holding hands in a wooded clearing, 1939
Young children participating in an educational program, likely lead by a Civilian Conservation Corps employee, in what is probably Mount Rainier National Park. Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. CCC jobs were…
ID Number:1986.5.1830.8
Date:1939
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Open spillway at the Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River Basin, Washington, 1942
Grand Coulee is the largest dam in the Columbia River Basin, about 90 miles northwest of Spokane. Construction began in 1933 and was completed in 1941. A hydroelectric dam with four power plants and an average annual energy output of about 2,300 megawatts, Grand Coulee produces enough power to continuously supply the needs of two cities the size of Seattle.…
ID Number:1986.5.3867.1
Date:1942
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Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River Basin, Washington, 1942
Grand Coulee is the largest dam in the Columbia River Basin, about 90 miles northwest of Spokane. Construction began in 1933 and was completed in 1941. A hydroelectric dam with four power plants and an average annual energy output of about 2,300 megawatts, Grand Coulee produces enough power to continuously supply the needs of two cities the size of Seattle.…
ID Number:1986.5.3867.2
Date:1942