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United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975
This 1975 poster calls for the boycott of all lettuce and grapes sold without the UFW label, and calls out Gallo wine in particular for its contract with the Teamsters rather than the farm workers union. Printed on both sides, the poster also describes union-busting efforts by grape growers, the hazardous nature of farm work, and the success of the…
ID Number:2002.23.8.14.4
Date:1975
Poster
First Annual Salmon Homecoming poster, Seattle, September 16-19, 1993
In 1992, the Seattle Aquarium held its first Salmon Homecoming celebration, with a month of educational events to highlight the return of salmon to the streams of their birth. In 1993, this became a four-day event called the First Annual Salmon Homecoming Celebration, held on September 16-19 and presented by the Seattle Aquarium in conjunction with the Tribal Communities of…
ID Number:2007.25.14
Date:1993
Photograph
Park Ranger Charles Browne with ice axe near crevasse, Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1930
Charles Browne became a National Park Service Ranger around 1928, working first in Mount Rainier National Park, and later in Olympic National Park. After 37 years of service, Browne retired from the National Park Service in 1965.
ID Number:2009.16.3
Date:Circa 1930
Photograph
Park Ranger Charles Brown and others with bear trap, Mount Rainier National Park, 1930
The bear trap pictured here consisted of a corrugated pipe with a trap door at one end, mounted on two wheels and attached to a park truck. Bears would be baited into the trap with meat and released into another area of the park.Park Ranger Charles Browne is pictured at far right.
ID Number:2009.16.19
Date:1930
Photograph
Park Ranger Charles Browne and climbing party, Mount Rainer National Park, 1930
Charles Browne became a National Park Service Ranger around 1928, working first in Mount Rainier National Park, and later in Olympic National Park. After 37 years of service, Browne retired from the National Park Service in 1965.Ranger Browne, at far left, is shown here with a party of climbers, perhaps other rangers. The men hold ice axes, and are probably…
ID Number:2009.16.43
Date:1930
Photograph
Search party for Forrest Greathouse, Mount Rainier National Park, July 1929
Often referred to as "the Greathouse accident," the most highly publicized tragedy in Mount Rainier climbing history occurred on July 2, 1929 when six climbers slid into a deep crevasse on upper Ingraham Glacier. Apprentice guide and Lincoln High School football coach Forrest Greathouse and climber Edwin A. Wetzel were killed and the other four climbers badly injured. The search…
ID Number:2009.16.51
Date:1929
Photograph
Five men near a crevasse during search and rescue operation, Mount Rainier National Park, July 1929
Often referred to as "the Greathouse accident," the most highly publicized tragedy in Mount Rainier climbing history occurred on July 2, 1929 when six climbers slid into a deep crevasse on upper Ingraham Glacier. Apprentice guide and Lincoln High School football coach, Forrest Greathouse, and climber Edwin A. Wetzel were killed and the other four climbers badly injured. The search…
ID Number:2009.16.53
Date:1929
Photograph
Search and rescue team on horseback, Mount Rainier National Park, July 7, 1931
An unroped two-man non-guided party consisting of brothers Kenneth and Robert Zinn left Camp Muir for the summit of Mount Rainier on July 4th weekend of 1931. During the ascent Robert Zinn became exhausted; sitting to rest, he began a slide of 3,400 feet, striking Nisqually Glacier. A search party headed by District Ranger Charles Browne searched in vain on…
ID Number:2009.16.72
Date:1931
Photograph
Two women Mountaineers on way to Rockdale showing Denny Mountain and Snoqualmie River, September 7, 1914
Part of an album recounting trips made by the Mountaineers between 1913 and 1916. This photograph shows a Labor Day outing of the Mountaineers that included three days of hiking as well as working on the lodge. These women are on their way back to the train station in Rockdale at the end of the weekend.
ID Number:2011.3.3.7
Date:1914
Photograph
Beaux Arts Village gazebo on bridge, circa 1910
Beaux Arts Village, a lakeside community near Bellevue, Washington, was originally established in 1908 by several Seattle members of the Society of Beaux Arts, including artist, editorial cartoonist, photographer, and architect Alfred Renfro (1877-1964). The isolated artists colony, created for members to live and work in a natural setting, included ten acres for community outdoor recreation, art studios, and craft…
ID Number:2013.39.18.12
Date:Circa 1910