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Themed Collections

MOHAI’s Collections highlight important stories from Seattle’s history on a variety of topics.

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Seven women cooking salmon over a wood fire, Muckleshoot Reservation, circa 1950.

Indigenous Fishing

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Sign from Shelly's Leg Tavern, located in Pioneer Square, Seattle. Now in MOHAI's collections.

LGBTQIA History

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Ritsuko Terayama and Sumiko Furuta at window of ferry crossing Puget Sound, 1942.

Japanese American Incarceration during World War II

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Chinese dance group with decorated car on King Street in downtown Seattle, WA, circa 1921.

International District

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Commercial Street looking north showing a dirt street with a number of business fronts. Seattle, WA, 1865.

Early Seattle

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Mount Rainier and Lake Washington from Madrona neighborhood, Seattle, 1960.

Josef Scaylea Collection

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