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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909): Chinese Village
The Chinese Village was built for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (A-Y-P) Exposition in Seattle in 1909. The exposition took place between June 1 and October 16, 1909, drawing more than three million people. Visitors came from around the state, the nation, and the world to view hundreds of educational exhibits, stroll the lushly manicured grounds, and be entertained on the Pay Streak midway, while Seattle promoted itself as a gateway to the rich resources of Alaska, the Yukon, and Asia. The development and management of the Chinese Village was handled by Ah King (1863-1915), a successful Chinese merchant in Seattle. It was located in the northern part of the Pay Streak, right next to the Ferris wheel, and featured three buildings, including a Chinese temple, a restaurant, and a theater with acts that changed daily.
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909 -- A Slide Show of Seattle's First World's Fair
This is a Slide Show on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Washington's first World's Fair, which opened on June 1, 1909, and closed on October 16, 1909. More than three million people visited the fair, which took place in Seattle on the University of Washington campus. Written and Curated by Paul Dorpat, with Chris Goodman. Presented by Safeco.
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Allen, Raymond Bernard (1902-1986)
Trained as a medical doctor, Dr. Raymond B. Allen served as president of University of Washington (UW) from 1946 to 1951. Although his time at the UW was a relatively brief stop in a career that took him to the highest levels of academia and government, it was one of the most controversial periods in the school’s history. Allen recommended the firing of three professors in 1949 for suspected Communist associations, which kindled a rash of similar dismissals at universities and colleges across the country. After leaving the UW, he served briefly as director of the U.S. Psychological Strategy Board before becoming chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles from 1952 to 1959. He then served as Indonesian director for the U.S. International Cooperation Administration and later with the World Health Organization in Washington, D.C. The Seattle-King County Association of Realtors named Raymond Allen First Citizen of 1949.
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Bagley, Daniel (1818-1905) and Clarence B. Bagley (1843-1932)
Daniel Bagley was a Methodist preacher who traveled west in covered wagons with his family in 1852 as part of the Bethel Party. He and his wife Susannah Whipple Bagley (1819-1913) and son Clarence Bagley arrived in Seattle in October 1860. Daniel Bagley established the Brown Church in Seattle in 1860 and besides preaching became a key advocate for the Territorial University and its location in Seattle. He also managed the Newcastle coal mines. His only son, Clarence Bagley, was 17 when he arrived in Seattle. He became a printer, publisher, and writer, a founder of the Washington State Historical Society, and the region's first and preeminent historian.
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Ballard Branch, The Seattle Public Library
Ballard's public library has evolved from a reading room established more than a century ago to an important resource expressing the heritage and diversity of the community today. Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) helped build Ballard's first real library when Ballard was its own town and not yet a Seattle neighborhood. This library served readers for 59 years before being replaced in 1963 by a new building. In 2005 that structure, in turn, was replaced by a state-of-the-art facility financed by the 1998 "Libraries for All" bond issue. The new Ballard Branch, located at 5614 22nd Avenue NW, opened in May 2005.
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Barr, Roberta Byrd (1919-1993)
Roberta Byrd Barr was an African American educator, civil rights leader, actor, librarian, and television personality. She was born in Tacoma and lived for much of her life in Seattle.
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Bass, Robert A. (1926-2002)
Robert A. Bass was one of Washington state's first African American school principals. He was an advocate for diversity and equal educational opportunity in the school district. He and his twin brother Roscoe, also a Seattle educator, were strong advocates for the education of black children.
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Beacon Hill Branch, The Seattle Public Library
The Beacon Hill Branch of The Seattle Public Library is located on Seattle's Beacon Hill at 2821 Beacon Avenue S in a new building financed by the 1998 "Libraries for All" bond issue. Originally located in a small storefront at 2708 Beacon Avenue S, the library later moved into a converted retail store at 2519 15th Avenue S. It occupied that space for more than 40 years. The new building, designed by Carlson Architects, opened on July 10, 2004. It is three times the size of the old one, and includes special collections in Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Tagalog.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formally established in the summer of 1999. The new organization consolidated previous activities dating back to 1994, including family giving, the William H. Gates Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation's "Libraries Online" initiative, the Gates Library Foundation and later Gates Learning Foundation. With an endowment estimated at more than $22 billion in early 2000, it ranked as the largest philanthropic trust in the United States. Its contribution strategy focuses on global health and population control programs, libraries and access to information technology, education reform and minority scholarships, and a wide range of Pacific Northwest institutions and programs.
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Blaine, David (1824-1900) and Catharine Paine Blaine (1829-1908)
David Blaine and Catharine Paine Blaine came to Seattle from Seneca Falls, New York, the site of America's first women's rights convention, in which Catharine Paine participated. The Blaines were Methodist missionaries who arrived in Seattle in 1853 via the Isthmus of Panama sea route. David founded Seattle's first church, called the "Little White Church," and Catharine became Seattle's first teacher and school administrator. After the January 1856 Battle of Seattle (a conflict with Indians), the Blaines left for missionary duty in Portland. They returned to Seattle in retirement in 1882.
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Broadview Branch, The Seattle Public Library
The Broadview Branch, The Seattle Public Library, located at 12755 Greenwood Avenue N, began as one room in a portable classroom and has served northwest Seattle in one form or another since 1944. Broadview's history is distinguished by strong community support, which not only raised money and purchased and cleared land, but also staged protests to insure that readers had the library
services they deserved.
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Brotman, Jeffrey H. (b. 1942) and Susan R. (b. 1949)
Jeffrey and Susan Brotman have been one of the most dynamic public-spirited couples contributing to the region's well being, their efforts ranging over the arts, health care, education, and diversity. Jeffrey Brotman, born in Tacoma, Washington, into a family of retailers, is co-founder and chairman of Costco Wholesale Corporation, the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world. He was appointed a University of Washington Regent in 1998, reappointed in 2004, and named board president in 2004. Susan (Thrailkill) Brotman, born in Hamilton, Montana, was a retail executive prior to her marriage, and has served as an officer for a variety of non-profit institutions, from the Seattle Art Museum and Pacific Northwest Ballet to the University of Washington Foundation. The Brotmans have given millions of dollars to various causes. The Seattle-King County Association of Realtors named Jeffrey and Susan Brotman First Citizens of 2005.
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Burke Museum (Seattle)
The Burke Museum, founded in 1885 by a group of teenage boys, is Washington's oldest museum. Since its inception, the museum has been part of the University of Washington, and has had various homes on campus. The museum is responsible for Washington state collections of natural history and cultural heritage.
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Burton, Philip (1915-1995)
Philip Burton was a Seattle lawyer for more than 40 years, a voice for the disadvantaged, and a fighter for reforms to end discrimination
in education, housing, and employment. His legal actions led to the desegregation of Seattle Public Schools.
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Busing in Seattle: A Well-Intentioned Failure
In 1972, the Seattle School District launched the first phase of what became a decades-long experiment with mandatory busing to integrate its schools. Initially limited to a few thousand middle school students, by 1981 nearly 40 percent of all the district’s students were being bused for racial reasons. School officials defended busing against several legal challenges but gradually scaled back the program in response to waning public support. The district’s own data showed that busing disproportionately burdened children of color, undercut academic achievement, inhibited parental involvement, contributed to so-called "white flight,” and did little to reduce racial isolation in the schools. By 1999, when mandatory busing finally ended in Seattle, it was widely regarded as "one of those well-intentioned social experiments that don't work" (Morrill Interview).
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Cabrini, Mother Francesca Xavier (1850-1917)
Mother Francesca Xavier Cabrini, Saint Cabrini (1850-1917) was the first American citizen to be declared a saint by the Catholic Church. In her journeys around the country, she came to Seattle three times: in 1903 to establish an orphanage, in 1909 when she gained American citizenship (and attended the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), and in 1916 to establish a hospital.
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Capitol Hill Branch, The Seattle Public Library
The Capitol Hill Branch, The Seattle Public Library, opened at 425 Harvard Avenue E on May 31, 2003. The site was formerly home to the Susan J. Henry Branch, The Seattle Public Library. The Henry Branch served the Capitol Hill community from 1954 until November 2001, when it was demolished to make way for the new facility. Library services in the Capitol Hill neighborhood have developed over nearly a century from a tiny deposit station in the Mission Pharmacy to the $5.7 million Capitol Hill Branch. The Capitol Hill Branch was funded by the $196.4 million "Libraries For All" bond issue approved by Seattle voters in 1998. "Libraries For All" provided for replacement or renovation of existing branches, several new branches, and a new main library.
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Cedar River Education Center -- Slide Show
This Slide Show documents the opening of the Cedar River Education Center, located in eastern King County on Rattlesnake Lake, on October 2, 2001. Written and photographed by Alan Stein and sponsored by Seattle Public Utilities with Friends of the Cedar River Watershed.
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Central Library, 1960-2001, The Seattle Public Library
For more than 40 years, The Seattle Public Library's Central Library at 4th Avenue and Spring Street served as the city's largest branch and as system headquarters. The building with its International Style design opened in 1960 to replace the library's previous Beaux Arts style structure. It fit with other buildings going up downtown at the time such as the Municipal Building (1959) and the Norton Building (1959). The new library offered room for the various collections, staff offices, a bindery, meeting rooms, and classrooms.
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Central Library, 2002-present, The Seattle Public Library
The new Central Library of The Seattle Public Library opened in May 2004 in a startlingly unique and widely praised steel-and-glass building designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It boasts the most advanced library technology in the nation, and is being called the "first library of the twenty-first century" ( The New Yorker, May 24, 2004). The new library was built after Seattle voters approved the "Libraries For All" bond issue on November 3, 1998.
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Dr. Marcus Whitman establishes a mission at Waiilatpu on October 16, 1836.
On October 16, 1836, Dr. Marcus Whitman (1802-1847), a Presbyterian missionary and a physician, establishes a mission at Waiilatpu on the Walla Walla River. He chooses the site because of its proximity to the Cayuse tribe and to the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort Walla Walla. Whitman will assist many wagon-train immigrants from the United States, but will convert few of the natives. In 1847, members of the Cayuse tribe will murder Whitman and other whites at Waiilatpu.
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Seattle's first school, a tuition (private) school, begins instruction in 1854.
In 1854, Seattle's first school, which is a tuition or "select" school (a private school), opens its doors in a house in the village at the corner of Front Street (1st Avenue) and Madison Street. The teacher is Catharine Paine Blaine (1829-1908), who had arrived with her husband in 1853.
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Washington Territorial Legislature charters Whitman Seminary on December 20, 1859.
On December 20, 1859, the Washington Territorial Legislature approves the first charter for an institution of higher educational in the territory. The charter is for Whitman Seminary, a coeducational pre-collegiate academy, which is to be located at the mission site where Marcus and Narcissa Whitman worked from 1836 until 1847, when they were killed by a group of Cayuse Indians. The first classes are not held until 1866, and the school begins in the city of Walla Walla rather than at the nearby mission site. After many years of struggle, in 1882 Whitman College begins offering college curricula and the school attracts more support and students. During the twentieth century Whitman College will emerge as a distinguished liberal arts college.
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Territorial University (University of Washington) opens on November 4, 1861.
On November 4, 1861, the Territorial University (later, University of Washington) opens in downtown Seattle. The university was located at present-day 4th Avenue and University Street, where the Olympic Hotel was built in 1924.
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Mercer Girls reach Seattle on May 16, 1864.
On May 16, 1864, the first Mercer Girls from the East Coast reach Seattle. Seattle resident Asa Mercer (1839-1917) has recruited the group to provide teachers for the young community and in order to alleviate the problem of lack of women in the Puget Sound area.
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The Walla Walla Library Association is incorporated on January 20, 1865.
On January 20, 1865, the Walla Walla Library Association is incorporated by the Washington Territorial Legislature and becomes the first library established for the public in the City of Walla Walla. A group of Walla Walla professionals, interested in literary culture in the new and booming mining town of Walla Walla, had formed a literary society and then took steps to establish a circulating library for it. Subscriptions were collected, books were purchased, and an accessible location for the library was found. But interest in this early regional library endeavor will not prove to be sustainable. The vision of a public library -- and eventually a free public library -- for Walla Walla would be realized later by other, similarly-minded individuals.
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Seattleites organize Seattle Library Association on August 7, 1868.
On August 7, 1868, Seattle's first library association, the future Seattle Public Library, is organized. Sarah Yesler (1822-1887) is appointed first librarian.
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Seattle Public Library opens in April 1869.
In April 1869, Seattle's Library Association opens a loan library, the future Seattle Public Library. Sarah Yesler (1822-1887) serves as the first librarian.
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Washington Territory selects site of future Loyal Heights business district (Seattle) for school lands on May 24, 1870.
On May 24, 1870, Washington Territory selects the future Loyal Heights neighborhood of Seattle for school land. Loyal Heights is located in northwest Seattle, north of Ballard, on land that goes down to Shilshole Bay. In 1853, when the Federal Government established Washington Territory, it allowed the territory to retain two square miles out of each township (36 square miles) to be used for school purposes. In the township between Denny Way and NW 85th Street (including Magnolia, Ballard, and portions of Queen Anne and Loyal Heights), the sections usually allotted to the territory (sections 16 and 36) were found mostly under Puget Sound. In 1870, to make up for this deficiency, the territory chose for school land 527 acres in sections 1 and 2, which included the future site of the Loyal Heights retail district.
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Seattle's first public school house opens on August 15, 1870.
On August 15, 1870, Seattle's first public school house opens. It is located in the "northern portion of town" (now downtown) on 3rd Avenue between Madison and Spring streets in a two-story, two-room school house.The teacher is Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ordway (b. 1828), one of the original "Mercer Girls" who arrived in Seattle from Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1864.
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William Knight becomes first purchaser of the site of Seattle's future Greenwood business district on June 28, 1872.
On June 28, 1872, William Knight purchases 159 acres from the federal government in what would become a part of the Greenwood retail district of Seattle. The Greenwood district is located in north Seattle, north of Green Lake. Knight paid $1.25 per acre for the real estate. His purchase included land that would later be bounded by 80th to 85th streets and 3rd Avenue NW to Aurora Avenue, plus 85th to 90th streets and Greenwood to Fremont avenues. The land northwest of NW 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue N was set aside for school purposes.
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Teacher's Institute held in King County from September 18-20, 1872.
From September 18-20, 1872, a Teacher’s Institute for King County, sponsored by County School Superintendent Edmund Carr, is held. More than 32 teachers attend lectures and discuss school discipline, teaching methods, and "whatever else would tend to the advancement of both teachers and pupils.”
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Seattle Library Association elects officers on June 3, 1873.
On June 3, 1873, the Seattle Library Association elects officers. Thirty three of the 169 members of the organization hold their election in the association’s Reading Room, located in the Yesler Building on Mill Street (Yesler Way) just west of Commercial Street (1st Avenue S). Dexter Horton (1825-1904) is elected president of the Association by just two votes. Sarah Yesler (1822-1887) is elected treasurer by a wide margin. The library has 278 books and subscribes to 34 newspapers and periodicals from the United States and Canada.
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African American student at the UW stirs racism and a defense of civil rights in January 1874.
During January 1874, a “colored” (African American) student attends the winter session of the University of Washington. Some white parents complain to the Board of Regents for allowing “colored” children to take classes at the university. One “very ardent and active Republican politician” withdraws his children from the University. In response, Beriah Brown (1815-1900), editor of the Puget Sound Dispatch, defends civil rights: "Every child of African descent born in this country has the same right of access to our public schools as the children of the most privileged of Caucassian [sic] blood. No teacher or school officer has any more legal right to exclude one than the other."
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Clara McCarty becomes first person to graduate from the Territorial University (of Washington) in June 1876.
In June 1876, Clara McCarty (1858-1929) is the first person to graduate from the Territorial University (of Washington) in Seattle. McCarty becomes a teacher and the first superintendent of schools in Pierce County.
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Eldridge Morse dedicates the Snohomish Atheneum on June 5, 1876.
On Monday, June 5, 1876, Eldridge Morse (1847-1914) dedicates the Snohomish Atheneum beginning with the words, "Around me are many familiar faces of brave, true-hearted pioneers, who, a few years ago found this valley a wilderness, uninhabited by civilized beings." His address at the laying of the cornerstone will be published in his own newspaper, the Northern Star, the following Saturday. Located at Snohomish's central intersection of Avenue D and 1st Street, the two-story building represents the evolution of a literary and cultural organization begun in 1873 when the elite of early Snohomish pooled their books to establish the county's first lending library of some 300 volumes. Ultimately hard times will result in the building's being sold for use as a saloon. It will be dismantled and sold for scrap in 1910.
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Clara McCarty is elected superintendent of Pierce County schools on November 2, 1880.
On November 2, 1880, Clara McCarty (1858-1929) is elected superintendent of Pierce County schools. McCarty, age 20, is the first woman in Pierce County to win elective office. She was also (in 1876) the first college graduate of the University of Washington. McCarty wins this election three years before women in Washington Territory first obtain the right to vote. (Women win and lose the right to vote several times before 1910, when Washington state becomes the fifth state in the nation to enfranchise women.)
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Seattle School Board deplores school decrepitude in January 1882.
In January 1882, the Seattle School Board holds a public meeting to lament the deplorable and inadequate facilities and to gain public support for funding new buildings. One teacher, speaking of crowded conditions in the South School (built in 1872 at S 12th Avenue and Lane Street) informs the board that if the classroom became more crowded she would find more space by "hanging the little fellows up on the hooks on the walls of the room" (Erigero).
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Whitman College opens in Walla Walla on September 4, 1882.
On September 4, 1882, classes begin at Whitman College on the campus of Whitman Seminary in Walla Walla, Washington Territory. Originally chartered in 1859 as a coeducational pre-collegiate academy to memorialize missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Whitman Seminary had begun offering classes in Walla Walla in 1866 but struggled to remain open. By 1882, trustees decided that if the school were to survive it needed to expand into a college. Through local and national support, particularly through the Congregational American College and Education Society, Whitman College will establish itself as a traditional liberal arts college. After its first 25 years, Whitman will separate itself from the Congregational Church. In time, Whitman will develop into a distinguished liberal arts college.
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Benjamin Cheney visits the town and the academy bearing his name on September 17, 1883.
On September 17, 1883, the town of Cheney celebrates the visit of Benjamin P. Cheney (1815-1895), a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He admires the town that had been named after him two years earlier, visits the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy and delivers a speech. The academy will evolve into Eastern Washington University.
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A Librarian's Lamentation (Green Lake Branch, The Seattle Public Library, June 30, 1928)
This is a quarterly branch report written by Green Lake Branch librarian Ruth A. Dennis. In the report reprinted here, Dennis explains that the circulation numbers at her branch are down, particularly the juvenile numbers, and attributes this situation to the recent opening of the Greenwood-Phinney Branch. Dennis begins her report with a quote from the biblical book Lamentations, a collection of songs lamenting the fall of the city of Jerusalem, and continues in suit.
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Bob Ingram recalls the early years of the University of Washington Police
Robert F. "Bob" Ingram was a police officer at the University of
Washington from 1951 to 1978, retiring with the rank of Captain and head of all
the department's criminal investigations. The following is extracted from a
history of the University Police compiled by Captain Steven H. Robinson (Ret.).
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Dorothea Nordstrand Remembers the Do-It-Yourself Kindergarten at Green Lake, 1959
In this People's History, Dorothea Nordstrand relates the history of a kindergarten started by Moms in 1959, after the Seattle School System cut the kindergarten program. Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand has lived in Seattle since the family moved here from Pend Oreille County about 1920. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Enumclaw High School Days (1920s-1940s) by Jim Merritt
This reminiscence of Enumclaw High School was written by Jim Merritt (1920-2000). Merritt grew up in Enumclaw, which is located in southeast King County. He was the son of Frank and Emily (Morris) Merritt. His father was a mine foreman at the Morris Brothers Coal Mining Co., Inc. and Palmer Coking Coal Co., Inc. His mother was the fourth child born to George and Mary Ann (Williams) Morris, who emigrated from Wales to the Washington coal fields during the 1880s. Bill Kombol, manager of the Palmer Coking Coal Co. and first cousin once removed to Jim Merritt, assembled and edited this story from Jim Merritt's original booklet.
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Freeway Protest in Seattle on May 5, 1970: A Policeman's View
From a police officer's vantage point, former UW police officer David Wilma recounts the anti-war protests of May 5, 1970, a response to the United States invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The movement of demonstrators from jurisdiction to jurisdiction could be traced on the faces of the assembled authorities.
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God Dies: An Essay by Frances Farmer
Film star Frances Farmer (1913-1970) was a senior at West Seattle High School in April 1931 when she gained her first taste of national notoriety, with this award-winning essay, titled "God Dies." The essay won first place and a prize of $100 in a contest sponsored by The Scholastic, a magazine for high school students. It also generated considerable outrage, especially from local ministers.
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History, History Everywhere: A Remembrance of Growing Up in Snohomish County's Robe Valley
This reminiscence of growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in Snohomish County's Robe Valley was written by Joan Rawlins Biggar Husby. Robe Valley is located about 10 miles east of Granite Falls on the Mountain Loop Highway. Husby writes, "Growing up in the forties and fifties surrounded by Robe Valley history and the changes it wrought gave us Rawlins kids a hands-on perspective."
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Home of the Good Shepherd Oral History Interviews: former resident Jackie (Moen) Kalani
Toby Harris conducted this oral history interview of Jackie (Moen) Kalani, former resident of the Home of the Good Shepherd, on August 27, 1999, at the Good Shepherd Center, located at 4649 Sunnyside Avenue N. in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. The oral history project was funded by King County Office of Cultural Resources (Landmarks & Heritage). For 60 years, from 1907 to 1973, the Home of the Good Shepherd was operated by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to provide shelter and education to troubled young girls. Jackie Kalani was a resident from February 1949 to 1952.
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Junior Safety Patrol: A Reminiscence of Loyal Heights Elementary School (Seattle)
Former Seattle resident John M. Leggett offers this account of participating in the Junior Safety Patrol during the 1930s while attending Seattle's Loyal Heights Elementary School. Called the Schoolboy Patrol, the Junior Safety Patrol (which now includes girls) was sponsored by the AAA Club, and begun in Seattle Schools in September 1928. Its purpose was to increase safety for children crossing streets to get to school.
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Mandatory Busing in Seattle: Memories of a Bumpy Ride
Jovelyn Agbalog (b. 1969) and Linnea Tate Rodriguez (b. 1969) were in grade school when the Seattle School Board implemented mandatory, cross-town busing in the interests of racial integration in 1978. The two met each other on the first day of school the next year, while waiting for the bus that would take them from their Mount Baker neighborhood, in Seattle's South End, to Broadview Elementary School, at the northern edge of the city. Jovelyn, a Filipina, was entering the fifth grade and had already been through one year of busing. Linnea, a Caucasian, was a fourth-grade rookie, freshly moved to Seattle from Lewiston, Idaho. They recall their experiences on the bus and in the classroom in this interview with HistoryLink staff historian (and Linnea's mother) Cassandra Tate.
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Nordic Heritage Museum Vanishing Generation Interview with Holger Leander Berg
Holger Leander Berg, of Finnish heritage, grew up in Ballard and tells tales of his rambunctious childhood: harassing streetcar drivers with his Scout Troop, "creative" fishing around the Puget Sound, watching the silk trains fly by from the tracks at Shilshole Bay, and panning gold with a Scandinavian he met at Index on a camping trip. This is a Nordic Heritage Museum Vanishing Generation Oral History Interview by Phyllis L. Beaulieu that took place in Seattle on July 20, 2000.
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Padelford, Frederick Morgan (1875-1942): A Biography by his Great Grandson
This biography of Frederick Morgan Padelford, University of Washington English professor and Dean of the Graduate School, was written by his great grandson Gordon Padelford, who is 13 years old at this writing (May 2002).
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Parrington, Vernon Louis (1871-1929) -- Scholar, Teacher, Democrat, Gentleman, and Seattleite
HistoryLink.org contributor Junius Rochester presented this speech in May 1986 about Vernon Louis Parrington, University of Washington English professor and renowned author of Main Currents in American Thought (1927). Rochester presented the speech at a University of Washington Extension course in downtown Seattle, for people to attend during their lunch hour. Hunter Brown transferred it into electronic format.
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Roosevelt High School (Seattle): A Reminiscence by Dorothea Nordstrand
This is a reminiscence and reflection on Seattle's Roosevelt High School by 1934 graduate Dorothea (Pfister) Nordstrand. In 2009 Dorothea Nordstrand was awarded AKCHO's (Association of King County Historical Organizations) Willard Jue Memorial Award for a Volunteer, for contributing these vivid reminiscences to various venues in our community, including HistoryLink.org's People's History library.
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Schooling at Cedar Falls, 1922-1940
This excerpted account of schooling at a Cedar Falls railroad camp was originally recorded on June 15, 1993 as a part of the Cedar River Watershed Oral History Project. Dorothy Graybael Scott moved to Cedar Falls in 1922, as a young girl. Her father, Carl Graybael, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad in Cedar Falls, as a substation operator. Cheryl Meyer conducted the interview at Mrs. Scott's North Bend home.
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Seattle's Loyal Heights Elementary School: a Reminiscence of the 1930s
Former Seattle resident John M. Leggett offers this account of attending Seattle's Loyal Heights Elementary School in the 1930s.
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The 1978 August Mardesich/Larry Vognild Campaign
The year 1978 saw an unprecedented Washington primary campaign, one that pitted powerful pro-business incumbent State Senator August Mardesich against retired firefighter and pro-union newcomer Larry Vognild in the 38th Legislative District (Everett and the surrounding area). The story of this contest is excerpted from Class Wars: The History of the Washington Education Association, 1965 to 2001 (Seattle: WEA, 2004).
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Turning Point 8: From Bibles to Basketballs, the YMCA and Seattle Grow Up
The eighth essay in HistoryLink's series of Turning Point essays for the The Seattle Times recaps the history of the YMCA of Greater Seattle, and parallel developments in Seattle's religious, social, economic, and educational development. The article, written by Cassandra Tate, is condensed from a longer narrative prepared by HistoryLink for the YMCA's 125th anniversary. The essay was published in the Times on May 11, 2001.
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Vigilantes Pummel Demonstrators at UW in May 1970: An Eyewitness Account
On May 7, 1970, Bill Kennedy, then a University of Washington student, witnessed a surprisingly brutal vigilante retaliation against anti-war demonstrators. He recounts his memories and feelings that day.
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