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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
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Brochure for The Cornish School, Mary Anne Wells, Head of Dance, 1921
Mary Ann (Wells) King (1894-1971) was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and moved to Seattle in 1915. Ms. Wells was a charter member of the Soroptimist Club and in 1916 founded the ballet department at the Cornish School (now Cornish College of the Arts). From 1923 until her retirement in 1958 Ms. Wells ran her own studio, the Mary Ann Wells…
ID Number:1971.5234.20
Date:1921
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Announcement for The Mary Ann Wells School of Dance, September 3, 1923
Mary Ann (Wells) King (1894-1971) was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and moved to Seattle in 1915. Ms. Wells was a charter member of the Soroptimist Club and in 1916 founded the ballet department at the Cornish School (now Cornish College of the Arts). From 1923 until her retirement in 1958 Ms. Wells ran her own studio, the Mary Ann Wells…
ID Number:1971.5234.21
Date:1923
Music, notated
Poor Unappreciated Dad
The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington, on June 19, 1910. Its founder hoped to start a national celebration for fathers similar to Mother’s Day. In 1913, Seattle businessman Herbert A. Schoenfeld formed a Dad’s Day Association, with a similar purpose. The city’s Dad’s Day took place on July 19, 1913. Its official song and two-step, “Poor…
ID Number:1971.5283.1
Date:1913
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Passengers boarding the Ferry Kalakala on Lake Union, Seattle, September 7, 1950
This image of passengers boarding the Ferry Kalakala at the U. S. Naval Marine Corps Armory (now MOHAI) on Lake Union is part of a series of photographs taken during the 37th biennial convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which took place in Seattle on September 4-7, 1950. Two boat rides were scheduled aboard the ferry Kalakala for…
ID Number:1972.5319.78
Date:1950
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Germania Hall building at 2nd Ave. and Seneca St., Seattle, circa 1903
This is a view of Germania Hall, located on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Seneca Street in downtown Seattle. This building is no longer standing. The building to the right of Germania Hall is Olympic Hall, which was used at least from 1896-1912 for union meetings and by Mount Zion Baptist Church. Businesses in image: Germania Café and…
ID Number:1972.5346.7
Date:Circa 1903
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Antlers Hotel, 320 Union St., Seattle, 1904
The Antlers Hotel, seen here on the northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Union Street in Seattle, was opened and managed by Frank L. Crampton from 1903-1910. The building is no longer standing. Note the surveyor working on the city streets in the bottom left of the frame. Businesses in image: Osier & [unreadable] Fashion; Pacific Window Shades Mfg. Co.;…
ID Number:1972.5346.16
Date:1904
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Denny Building housing The Seattle Daily Times, 1406 2nd Ave., Seattle, circa 1903
Founded when Alden J. Blethen (1845-1915) bought the Seattle Press-Times in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times, the Seattle Times continues to be Washington State's largest-circulation daily newspaper. The building in this image, the Arthur Wilson Denny Office Building, was built in 1901 on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Union Street in what is now the…
ID Number:1972.5346.17
Date:Circa 1903
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Corner of 2nd Ave. and Spring St., Seattle, circa 1907
This view is of the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Seattle. The site has been occupied by the Second & Spring Building at 1100 2nd Avenue since 1906. The building at the left edge of the frame is Olympic Hall, whose entrance was on First Avenue. Olympic Hall was used at least from 1896-1912 for…
ID Number:1972.5346.21
Date:Circa 1907
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Hotel Leland, 84 Pike St., Seattle, circa 1903
This image of the Hotel Leland features a Seattle Water Department official checking water meters. The Hotel Leland, located on First Avenue and Pike Street, was built in 1900 by brothers Frank (1865-1954), John, and Erwin Goodwin of the Goodwin Real Estate Company. Seven years later a wooden planked road, called Pike Place, was constructed off of Pike Street and…
ID Number:1972.5346.27
Date:Circa 1903