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Alaska and Western Canada Collection The Alaska and Western Canada collection is a digital collection of historic photographs documenting the geographic area of Alaska and the Canadian provinces of Yukon Territory and British Columbia. The collection features images of the Seward Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and areas of interest in Alaska and the Yukon Territory relating to the Gold Rush of 1898-1900. |
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Photographs The 660 photographs from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition document the fair held on the campus of the University of Washington during the summer of 1909. Images include depictions of the buildings, grounds, entertainment, and exotic attractions at the fair. |
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Albert Henry Barnes Photographs Both a photographer and a painter, Albert Henry Barnes (1876-1920) photographed the people, the cities and the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 302 images gives a representative sample of his work. Includes images of Mount Rainier National Park and the Columbia River. |
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American Indians of the Pacific Norhtwest Collection This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Maps are available that show traditional territories or reservation boundaries. |
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Ancient Near East Photographs This collection, created by Professor Scott Noegel, documents artifacts and archaeological sites of the ancient Near East. While the majority of the collection depicts structures and sites dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE, the collection also has images of more recent sites, such as the al-Azhar Mosque and the modern creation, Lake Nasser. Currently, all images are of Egypt and Israel, although plans exist to eventually add images from Anatolia, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The images were collected over a ten year period by University of Washington scholars, and the images included in this database were chosen to facilitate research and to supplement general reading in a variety of disciplines. The richness of this image collection can be seen in the diversity of the topics represented by the images within. In addition to topic-specific images, one can find pictorial data to supplement to the study of pharaonic history, daily life in ancient times, ancient art, architectural features, and the history of religions (Egyptian, Canaanite, Israelite, Judaism, Coptic Christianity, Early Islam, etc.). |
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Boyd Photograph Album, William F. William F. Boyd was one of Seattle's earliest and most important photographers. His original studio, set up in 1889 was burned out by the great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. He then formed a partnership with George H. Braas which lasted until 1893 when he began his own business. This small collection of 43 images shows early views of Seattle and the Puget Sound Region. |
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Boyd and Braas Photographs The partnership of William F. Boyd and George H. Braas began in 1890 and ended when Boyd left the partnership to form his own business. This small collection of only 45 images shows the aftermath of the Seattle fire of June 6, 1889 and other pre-20th century views of Seattle, of its pioneers and of the surrounding region. |
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Centralia Massacre Collection The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), sometimes known as the Wobblies, is a radical labor organization that was most active from 1900 to the 1930's. This collection of pamphlets, leaflets and letters, originally held by the now defunct I.W.W. Seattle Office, focuses on the Centralia Massacre of 1919 in Centralia, Washington. The material for this database was drawn from a collection in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division entitled, Industrial Workers of the World. Seattle Office, Accession No. 544. Not all the material from this collection was included in this database. |
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Chandless Photographs, Robert Henry Robert Henry Chandless arrived in Shanghai from New York around 1900 to join the British import-export firm of Pool Lander. Although little is known about him, his collection of photographs represent a fascinating travelogue of images of China in the early 1900s. |
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Checklist of U.S. Public Documents 1789 - 1909 An index that lists public documents issued by the U.S. Government from 1789-1909. |
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Cities and Buildings Database The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web. Begun in 1995, the collection was conceived as a multi-disciplinary resource for students, faculty, and others in the academic community. It has grown steadily since then, with contributions from a wide range of scholars, and now contains nearly 10,000 images ranging from New York to Central Asia, from African villages, to the Parc de la Villette, and conceptual sketches and models of Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. These have all been scanned from original slides or drawn from documents in the public domain. They are freely available to anyone with access to the Web for use in the classroom, student study, or for individual research purposes. |
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Civil Works Administration Photographs The New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression by the establishment of a number of emergency relief programs. The Civil Works Administration was a subdivision of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration which provided work relief for a large number of men during the winter of 1933 and 1934. Photographs depicting CWA projects in the state of Washington include road construction and improvements, bridge construction and maintenance, waterway improvements, playfield and park improvements, water and sewage pipeline repairs, school maintenance projects, hospital and nursing activities, and airport improvements. Despite the efforts of the CWA and similar programs, unemployment persisted in the early years of Roosevelt's presidency. By the end of 1934, about one-sixth of the entire country was still on relief. |
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Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive Selected documents, reports, records, maps, photographs, newspapers, artifacts, and oral history interviews convey the contribution of ethnic groups in Pacific Northwest history. A project of Washington State University Vancouver, the Idaho State Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, and Washington State University-Pullman. |
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Curtis Company Photographs, Asahel The Asahel Curtis Photo Company Photographs of 1,677 items provides one of the most valuable photographic records of Seattle, Washington State, Alaska and the Klondike covering a period from the 1850s until 1940. |
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Dearborn-Massar Photographs The Phyllis and Robert Massar Photograph Collection of Pacific Northwest Architecture is a photographic archive created when they were professional architectural photographers in the Pacific Northwest during the period 1943-1963. |
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Digital Collections, University of Washington Libraries Grouped by themes such as photographs, travel and exploration, architecture, book arts, and literature, these digital collections mainly concentrate on Pacific Northwest history. Also, features essays, faculty and research projects, and collaborative projects with other universities, museums, and historical societies. |
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Digital Maps Archives Presents a selection of annual reports and bulletins issued by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Washington State Geological Survey. |
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Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection The University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division houses over 250 musical instruments from around the world. Each year since the founding of the Ethnomusicology program in 1962, one or more international artists have been invited to the campus to share their musical traditions through teaching and performance. The musical instrument collection has grown over the years as the result of these residencies, and its make-up reflects the instrumental traditions of the artists who have been our guests. Additional donations have expanded the collection to its present size. |
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Everett Herald Photos The photographs in this collection were taken by three photojournalists who worked for the Everett Herald. The 131 selected images come from a collection of 7,000 stored at the Everett Herald and focus on the 1950s and 1960s. |
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Everett Massacre, The Tells the story of the Everett Massacre, the climate that created it, and the aftermath through a remarkable display of oral histories, videos, union songs, and photographs. tells the story of the Everett Massacre, the climate that created it, and the aftermath through a remarkable display of oral histories,videos, union songs, and photographs. |
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Fashion Plate Collection This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, courrier des salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and others. The hand-colored illustrations cover many stylistic periods in French and English history. These styles overlapped as the fashions and tastes changed. These include the Empire (1806-1813), Georgian (1806-1836), Regency (1811-1820), Romantic (1825-1850), Victorian (1837-1859), Late Victorian (1860-1900) and Edwardian (1901-1915). |
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Photographs The New Deal under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-34) attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression by the establishment of a number of emergency relief programs. Among these the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) program, the first of his major relief operations, provided state assistance for the unemployed and their families. Rather then having large numbers of workers on the dole, Roosevelt believed in work relief, or payment for work performed, to help maintain the morale of the recipients. Although more costly, this program and others provided work for over 20 million people. The following collection documents FERA projects established in King County. These include street construction, bridge building and sewer laying projects; park grounds and playfield improvements; school and public building construction and repair; land clearing, landscaping, wood cutting and land slide prevention; ditching, dredging, flood control and waterway improvement projects; establishment of FERA offices and stores; creation of recreation projects for children; organization of furniture, stove and tool repair, sewing, clothing distribution, boot and shoe repair, toy-making shops. |
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Freshwater and Marine Image Bank The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is an ongoing digital collection of images related to freshwater and marine topics, in all their diversity. It includes images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. Its scope is global. |
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Grand Coulee Dam Collection This collection contains images of photographs and text documenting the creation of the Grand Coulee Dam, built during the first half of the twentieth century. Included are images of the Works Progress Administration work camps, land clearing activities, the moving of towns, and the dam construction itself. Also presented are documents outlining arguments both for and against this enormous undertaking. |
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Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 Railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman led a team of twenty-three scientists, including the great naturalist John Muir, on a two month expedition to explore the waters and coastal territory of Alaska. Over 5,000 photographs were taken during the voyage and were used to compile the souvenir album of the expedition presented here with 254 of those images . |
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Hegg Photographs, Eric A. Eric A. Hegg Photographs: 736 photographs documenting the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes from 1897 - 1901. Images include depictions of frontier life in Dawson City, the Yukon Territory, and Skagway and Nome, Alaska. |
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Hester Photographs, William Between 1893 and 1906 Wilhelm Hester documented both the maritime activities of the Puget Sound Region and of his time spent in Alaska during the gold rush of 1898. He left a remarkable collection of early photos of Nome, Alaska and the surrounding region and a valuable record for the history of ships and shipping in Washington state. |
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Industries and Occupations Photographs An ongoing and expanding collection devoted to the workers in the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to the 1940s. Many occupations and industries are represented including the logging and lumber industry, shipping, fisheries, oystering,canning and agriculture. |
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King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities King County Snapshots presents King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities |
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Kinsey Photographs Collection, Clark Clark Kinsey's work as a photographer documented a vital aspect of the Pacific Northwest's economic and industrial history. Raised near Snoqualmie, Washington, Clark first practiced photography in the early 1890's with his brothers Darius and Clarence. During the Yukon Gold Rush, Clark and Clarence operated a studio in Grand Forks, where they remained for several years. About 1906, Clark returned to Seattle to operate a contracting business throughout the Northwest until shortly before World War I. From that time he returned to photography and spent the rest of his career documenting the logging and milling camps and other forest related activities in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia. He was said to be the official photographer for the West Coast Lumberman's Association, and it is believed that he made approximately 50,000 negatives until his retirement in 1945. The images presented here comprise only a part of his life's work as a photographer. |
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Kinsey Photographs, Darius Darius Kinsey was the most important and prolific photographer of logging activities in the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 130 selected images from the Libraries' collection illustrate all aspects of logging and lumbering from the turn of the century until the 1940s. |
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J.A. Juleen Studio Collection A growing database of commercial photographs taken by Everett photographers John and Lee Juleen from 1910 to 1954. The library's Juleen Collection contains nearly 5,000 negatives, prints and postcards. |
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J. Willis Sayre Photographs The collection consists of a selection of 9,856 images from more than 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 and 1955 (some of the materials date back to the 1870s). The collector was J. Willis Sayre: drama critic, journalist, promoter. |
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John N. Cobb Photographs John N. Cobb, founder of the University of Washington College of Fisheries, was a photographer in his own right. He specialized in the documentation of fisheries in the United States, especially those in Alaska and the Pacific Coast. Among the photographs included in this digital collection are images of salmon, halibut and cod fisheries along the West Coast, whaling activities in Alaska, clamming and oystering industries in Washington, and images reflecting the first 6 or 7 years the University of Washington College of Fisheries. Also included are photos of cities and landscapes from Cobb's travels. |
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Lake Union Improvement Company Photograph Album The Lake Union Improvement Company of Seattle produced this small photograph album as a sales tool in 1891. Photographed by Frank La Roche, it contains an historical photographic record of early Seattle and its expansion northwards along the shores of Lake Union. |
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Language of the Kalispel Presents digitized versions of Kalispel language resources including an English-to-Kalispel language dictionary and a Kalispel-to-English dictionary. A collaboration between Gonzaga University and the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. |
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La Roche Photographs, Frank Frank La Roche Photographs consists of 310 photographs depicting scenes of Seattle, Washington state, Alaska, and the western United States and Canada. |
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Lee Photographs, James Patrick James Patrick Lee began his career in 1910 as a messenger boy for the Seattle Engineering Department and retired from the same department in 1957. Throughout his career he photographed Seattle. This collection contains 270 images selected from a collection of 727 photographs that illustrate the architecural and engineering history of Seattle during the first half of the 20th century. |
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Loon Lake, Washington Digital Project Features a series of slides about the history of the Loon Lake Area. A joint project between the Stevens County Rural Library District and the Loon Lake Historical Society. |
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Magnificent Views & Vistas: Mountaineers 1912-1916 Through the use of photographs and journals, this site offers a compelling chronicle of early 20th century mountaineers and mountaineering in Washington State. A joint project between the Tacoma Public Library, Washington State Historical Society, and the Tacoma Mountaineers. |
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McKenney and Hall Indian Tribes of North America Text and 121 hand colored lithographs from: The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. By Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle, 1836-1844. |
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Meed Photographs, William E. William E. Meed was not a professional photographer, but he compiled one of the most important photographic records of the Klondike between the years 1898 and 1907. He collected photographs by well known photographers and included snapshots taken by himself and his friends which he later supplemented with a narrative account in a binder of handwritten notes. |
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Menus Collection This collection represents menus, placemats, and other graphic materials from many of the Puget Sound area's most famous restaurants and dining facilities in the years between 1889 and 2003. |
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Modern Photographers Collection A selection of images from the work of nationally and internationally renowned local photographers Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. These photographers were active in the Pacific Northwest community from the late 1920's to the present. |
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Morning Leader, The The Port Townsend Leader began publication as a daily in 1889, when the area was experiencing rapid growth in business ventures and real estate sales. From 1895 to 1904 it was known as the Morning Leader, and was issued every day but Monday. This collection, hosted by the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections, contains issues from 1902 and 1903. |
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Mt. St. Helens Succession Collection The Mount St. Helens Succession Collection consists of 235 photographs taken by Dr. Roger del Moral since 1980. These consist of a series of "permanent plot views", photos taken of the same site over a period of years, general aspects of impacted habitats, and photos of some of the more common species of plants. The impacts of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens varied from very minor deposits of ash to total destruction. These photos capture some of the changes that have occurred during the last 20 years. |
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19th Century Actors Photographs The 19th Century Actors Photographs collection consists of 610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s. |
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Nowell Photographs, Frank H. Photographer Frank Nowell spent a portion of his career in Nome, Alaska documenting the events after the gold rush of 1900. The photographs here present a picture of the towns and business enterprises as they developed during this early stage of Alaskan history. He also chronicled the local native populations with special focus on Eskimo life and customs. |
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Peiser Photographs, Theodore E. Theodore E. Peiser, an early pioneer photographer, was active in Washington State from the 1880s to 1907. He documented early scenes in Seattle including pioneers, 1900 military expedition to China and the Territorial University. Unfortunately, early during his stay in Seattle, he experienced the loss of his photographic studio and equipment in the Great Fire that swept the city in June of 1889. However, some of his photographic images did survive. These and others are presented as part of the Theodore E. Peiser Photograph Collection. |
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Photography Archive, Tacoma Public Library's With more than one million photographic images, this archive documents the social, industrial, commercial, and agricultural growth and development of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest. |
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Pickett Photographs, Lee The Lee Pickett collection of over 900 photographs documents scenes from Snohomish, King and Chelan Counties in Washington State from the early 1900s to the 1940s. Based in Index, in the heart of the Cascade Mountains, he took thousands of photographs of that region. This includes the towns and people of Index, Gold Bar, Scenic, and Sultan. Local industries, such as the Heybrook Lumber Co. and Index Granite Works, are also depicted. Pickett was perhaps best known for his job as official photographer for the Great Northern Railway Company. A large number of his photographs reflect the program undertaken by the company in the 1920s to improve the line over the Cascade Mountains. |
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Pieces of the Past: Des Moines History Online An online collection that consists of a database of historical photographs, a catalog of museum items, a reproduction of the Des Moines Historical Quilt, and links to other sites of local interest. |
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Pierce County Buildings Index Contains 29,000 addresses in Tacoma and Pierce County representing information on historic houses and buildings built from 1883 to 1942. Also includes images of some of the buildings. |
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Plants of Western Washington Collection This collection consists of nearly 600 views of plants commonly found in Western Washington. The views are not diagnostic in that one would rarely be able to determine technical features such as the numbers of stamens. However, most provide "aspect" level identification such that in most cases, a person with a little training could identify the plant illustrated to species. Considerable ecological information is also provided. One can search for species within a plant family, species with the same wetland indicator value, species found in particular locations, or species not native to the state. |
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Portraits Database The Portraits database is an ongoing digital collection of photographs of individuals well known not only in the Pacific Northwest, but also nationally. These include politicians, government officials, early pioneers, artists, architects, and photographers. Because we will be on occasion adding new images to the digital collection, the database will be updated periodically. In addition, our staff will continue to supplement the metadata attached to each image as new research alters the descriptive records. |
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Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs Pat Prior and his wife/partner Effie May Norris formed the vaudeville team of Prior and Norris, and later, with their daughter as the third member, were known as The Prior Trio. The couple spent the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century touring around the United States performing on the vaudeville circuits. The 230 photographs and ephemera from The Prior and Norris Troupe Collection document not only their performances, but additional vaudeville performers and acts of the late 1800s and early 1900 |
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Prosch Washington Views Album The 101 images of Washington State contained in this database were collected into an album by Thomas Prosch, an early Seattle pioneer. Included are images of the Wenatchee, Chelan and Okanogan regions, as well as of historic Seattle and the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. |
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Rainier National Park Mountain-Glacier Wonderland Photograph Album The Rainier National Park Mountain Glacier Wonderland Photograph Album is a series of images produced by Ranapar Studio of Tacoma Washington to highlight the scenic, recreational and tourist activities to be found in Rainier National Park. The album dates from the mid-1920s and documents the early development of Mount Rainier National Park. |
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Salmon Collection The Salmon Collection contains documents, photographs and other original material describing the roots of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Material specific to this collection is comprised of text drawn from the pamphlet and book collections housed in the UW Libraries Special Collections Division. Additional relevant material is taken from existing digital collections which include the Tollman and Canaris Photographs, John N. Cobb Photographs, Industries and Occupations Photographs, American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, and the Freshwater and Marine Images. |
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Sarvant Photographs, Henry M. Series of photographs taken by Henry Mason Sarvant, a pioneer Tacoma civil engineer before the turn of the century and later mayor of Steilacoom. A portion of the collection depicts Mt. Tacoma (Mount Rainier) climbing expeditions and scenes of the vicinity, undertaken by Sarvant and his companions from 1892-1912. During this period he made extensive surveys of this region and also one of the first maps of Mount Rainier. An additional group of images document his adventures in the Klondike Gold Rush from August 1897 to November 1901. They chronicle Sarvant's trip up through Dyea and over the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson and also mining operations and life amidst the gold fields of Bonanza, Eldorado, Hunker, and Adam's Creeks, Yukon Territory. |
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Seattle Photographs The Seattle Photograph Collection is an ongoing digital collection of photographs documenting the neighborhoods of Seattle. It features images from many of Seattle's well-known neighborhoods such as Fremont, Ballard, West Seattle and the Capitol Hill District. Included are images of recreation and entertainment, businesses, stores and restaurants, residential street scenes, and transportation. Because we will be on occasion adding new images to the digital collection, the database will be updated periodically. In addition, our cataloging staff will continue to supplement the metadata attached to each image as new research alters the descriptive records. Included are images of recreation and entertainment, the Century 21 Exhibition, businesses, stores and restaurants, residential street scenes, and transportation. |
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Social Issues Photographs The Social Issues Collection is an ongoing database of historical images from the Western United States and the Pacific Northwest region. The collection covers a variety of political and social topics. These include women's issues, government, labor organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, utopian colonies, ethnic groups such as Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans and Scandinavians, and social and leisure activities including mountaineering, camping and boating. Images document, in addition, the World War II Japanese Internment camps of the Minidoka Relocation Center and the Puyallup Assembly Center known as Camp Harmony. |
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Stereocard Collection "The making of stereoscopic pictures is one of the most lucrative departments of photography, and the number and variety of subjects everywhere obtainable of the wonders of the world, together with the vast assortment of historical views, and local bits of interest, make a collection of endless extent and beauty." (A Practical Suggestion for Stereo-Landscape Negatives. Photographic Mosaics; an annual record of photographic progress. 1874, p. 121). |
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collection Known mainly for its infamous collapse in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge continues to hold a place in engineering and Pacific Northwest history. This collection contains images and text drawn from the University of Washington Special Collections Division and the Museum of History and Industry. They document the creation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, its collapse and subsequent studies involving its aerodynamics, and finally the construction of a second bridge spanning the Narrows. |
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Through Open Eyes: 95 Years of Roslyn's Black Mining History Chronicles 95 years of cultural history in the former mining town of Roslyn, Washington. |
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Thai Journal Index The Thai Journal Indexing Project, based at UW Libraries, is part of a cooperative initiative of the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (a sub committee of the Association for Asian Studies) to strengthen access to vernacular journal literature from Southeast Asia. |
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Thwaites Photographs, John E. John Edward Thwaites was employed in Alaska by the federal government as a clerk for the Railway Mail Service during the early part of the 20th century. From 1905 to 1912 he settled into life onboard the wood hulled mailboat S.S. DORA owned by the Northwestern Steamship Company and traveled the route from Valdez to Unalaska delivering mail to the coastal communities. He was also an amateur photographer, who by using a Kodak camera, documented his experiences in Southeastern Alaska. Although not trained as a professional photographer, he quickly took advantage of the burgeoning postcard market selling thousands of photographic postcards depicting Alaska scenes. This collection includes his images of: the aftermath of Aleutian chain volcanic eruptions; maritime disasters including the famous Farallon shipwreck in 1910; Aleutian Natives and Eskimos, including an Aglegmiut shaman in costume depicting what is believed to be the only images of an actual shaman wearing these ceremonial costumes; Alaska industries including fox farming, whaling, codfish salteries, copper mining; glaciers and scenic wonders; and small towns and daily life encountered en route. |
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Todd Photographs, Calvin F. Calvin F. Todd was a commercial photographer in Washington State from ca. 1905 to the 1930s. His business partners included Asahel Curtis and later the firm of Depue Morgan & Co. He was founder of the Pacific International Photographers Association, the Seattle Photographic Society and a member of the Bellevue Camera Club. He retired in 1952. The collection includes images of the University of Washington campus and scenes from Seattle including the waterfront, various buildings especially apartments, regrading activities, and the Pike Place Market. |
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Tollman and Canaris Photographs These photographs by two little known photographers document the salmon fishing industry on the southern Washington coast and in the lower Columbia River around the year 1897 and offer valuable insights into the history of commercial salmon fishing and the techniques used at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Transportation Photographs Transportation Photographs is an ongoing digital collection of photographs depicting various modes of transportation in the Pacific Northwest region and Western United States during the first half of the 20th century. Examples of material included are: automobiles and roads; aviation with emphasis on the Boeing Co.; railroads, such as the Milwaukee Road, Northern Pacific Railway, and Great Northern Railway. Selections from our Ships Collection are also represented. These include images of the many steamships, schooners, and ferries that plied the Puget Sound and Alaskan waters. This is a growing collection. We will occasionally add new images and update records as new information is uncovered by research. |
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University of Washington Campus Photographs These photographs reflect University of Washington campus history from the time the Territorial University was established in the Central Business District of Seattle in 1861 to later days when the campus was transferred to its present location. The cornerstone of the university was laid in downtown Seattle on May 20, 1861 and six months later classes began with about 30 students. In 1894 the cornerstone was removed and transferred to the site of the new university campus on Union Bay. The collection traces the growth of the university through, among other things, the buildings as they were first erected on campus. Represented are images of Denny Hall, which is probably the most photographed building on the campus, Parrington Hall, Suzzallo Library, the Liberal Arts Quad, and the Health Sciences complex. Student life is reflected in various organizations and activities. These include "Campus Days" which was instituted in 1904 and continued until 1934, student athletics, clubs and graduation ceremonies. The images also reflect the development of colleges and academic departments on the UW campus. |
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Van Olinda Photographs, Oliver S. A collection of 420 photographs depicting life on Vashon Island, Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities of Washington State's Puget Sound from the 1880s to the 1930s. This collection provides a glimpse of early pioneer activities, industries and occupations, recreation, street scenes, ferries and boat traffic at the turn of the century. Also included are a few photographs of Native American activities such as documentation of a potlatch on Whidbey Island. Most of the photographs were taken by Oliver Scott Van Olinda (1868-1954) a career newspaperman and resident of Vashon Island. |
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Vietnam War Era Ephemera This database contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. They reflect the social environment and political activities of the youth movement in Seattle during that period. |
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Waite Photographs, Alvin H. Alvin H. Waite was an outdoorsman and traveler, and, along with his friends and associates Albert Barnes and Henry M. Sarvant, became one of Tacoma's most important landscape photographers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During his career he documented in detail street scenes and the waterfront in Tacoma, and scenes during his travels including bicycling trips and hiking adventures in the Cascade Mountains. Some of his most vivid photographs presented here are the monumental scenes captured on Mt. Rainier during his mountaineering expeditions to the park and vicinity. |
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War Posters Collection A selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division. Included are propaganda on purchasing war bonds, the importance of national security and posters from allied and axis powers. |
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Warner Photographs, Arthur Churchill Arriving in Seattle in the 1880s, Arthur Churchill Warner engaged in photographing views of Seattle for the tourist trade. These included conventional street scenes, the ships on Elliot Bay, and the mills along the waterfront. In 1888, he joined a Mt. Rainier climbing expedition and was the first to use a camera to record the summiting of the highest peak in Washington State. He had a brief three year stay in Alaska and the Yukon, documenting the Gold Rush of 1898-1900, before returning to the Pacific Northwest to continue his photographic career. His images have left us with a lasting visual impression of the early days of Seattle and its regional history. |
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Washington State Localities Photographs Washington Localities Photographs - an ongoing database of historical images from Washington State including cities and towns, fortifications, public works, and national parks. |
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Washington State Pioneer Life Database The Washington State Pioneers database is a collection of writings, diaries, letters, and reminiscences drawn from various sources within the Special Collections Division collections that recount the early settlement of Washington, the establishment of homesteads and towns and the hardships faced by many of the early pioneers. |
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Watson Photographs, Dwight Photographs taken by mountaineer and amateur photographer Dwight Watson depicting scenic views and skiing expeditions to the Cascade Range and the Olympic Mountains. |
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WTO Seattle Collection The protests depicted in this collection took place between November 29, 1999 and December 3, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its ministerial meeting in Seattle. This collection of images was chosen to illustrate both the diversity of the protests and the mobilization efforts that brought so many activists to Seattle. |
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