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Poster
Seattle Girls War Relief Bazaar sign, 1917
After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, base hospitals were mobilized at universities and civilian hospitals across the country. In October 1917, the American Red Cross authorized the University of Washington to organize an army hospital, with the provision that the local Seattle Chapter raise $50,000 to equip the unit. The War Relief Bazaar was the…
ID Number:1956.1124.11
Date:1917
Photograph
Pavilion of Electric Power, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Water splashing over the spillways of a 40-foot-high model dam forms the background for the Pavilion of Electric Power exhibit of the Electric Utilities of Washington State. Theme of the exhibit is the harnessing of the power of flowing water to provide better living for less - electrically. A major feature is a 16-foot by 24-foot relief map of the…
ID Number:1965.3598.1.7
Date:1962
Photograph
Sculptor James FitzGerald with bronze fountain, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
"Turbid artistry - James FitzGerald regards fruit of his labor over last eight months, 21-ft. solid bronze sculpture which he fabricated by electric welding of forms designed first of waxed patterns. Fountain stands at entrance of World's Fair Playhouse, was created as subjective mood of nature in the Northwest."The fountain is still in operation in the courtyard of the Intiman…
ID Number:1965.3598.16.2
Date:1962
Photograph
Fugitive flamingo wading in Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle, October 16, 1960
In October of 1960 the whereabouts of a flamingo escaped from Woodland Park Zoo was front page news around Puget Sound. The flamingo escaped on October 12 after a flight from his open enclosure at the zoo. Acting park superintendent, Edward J. Johnson, said the flamingo was likely eating well and its dense feathers would allow it to easily survive…
ID Number:1974.5887.1
Date:1960
Postcard
Car going through giant cedar stump, circa 1950
By about 1950, when this photographic postcard was probably made, the few remaining stumps of western Washington's gigantic trees existed only as curiosities -- something to marvel at or, in this case, drive through.This postcard image shows a car driving through a gigantic western red cedar stump at Arlington, Washington. The sign above the hole in the tree tells visitors…
ID Number:1975.5998.10
Date:Circa 1950
Postcard
Snoqualmie Falls, near Snoqualmie, circa 1950
By 1918, the railroad and the Sunset Highway brought tourists to Snoqualmie Falls. Some stayed at Snoqualmie Falls Lodge or stopped off to enjoy one of the lodge's famous breakfasts. Across the river from the lodge was the Puget Sound Power & Light Company's hydroelectric generating station, built in the 1890s. The electrical station is still there, but Salish Lodge…
ID Number:1975.6181.1
Date:Circa 1950
Music, notated
On Our Way to Paradise
Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington state, opened in 1899. It was the nation's fifth national park and the first to allow cars. The road to the Paradise section of the park was built in 1910. This 1915 sheet music, published five years later, shows several cars passing through the park entrance on their moonlit way up Mount Rainier to…
ID Number:1976.6292.1
Date:1915
Photograph
Portrait of gardener Ernest Fabi, Seattle, circa 1930
Ernest A. Fabi (1876-1939) was a well-known Seattle gardener and landscape architect. In 1898 he served during the Spanish American War with the 7th Illinois Infantry, Company I. Ernest married Jennie A Backe (1884-) in 1912, and he used their home and yard on Queen Anne Hill to display his many unique species of flowers and trees. There are magnolia…
ID Number:1976.6304.20
Date:Circa 1930
Ephemera
Anderson Supply Co. photo catalog, circa 1910
Seattle entrepreneur Oliver Phelps Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. Oliver trained as a draughtsman and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company). An avid amateur…
ID Number:1977.6486.3.8.1
Date:Circa 1910
Photograph
Winona Bailey at Dodwell-Rixon Pass, Olympic Mountains, 1927
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.5
Date:1927