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Women

 Subject

Subject Source: archiveswest

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Maid Adams collection of Seattle Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) materials

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-002
Abstract

This collection contains materials gathered by CORE member Jean “Maid” Adams. The bulk of the materials relate to CORE activities and fall into two categories: materials dating from the 1960s focusing on CORE campaigns and civil rights activism and more recent materials relating to the publication and promotion of the 2011 book Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity.

Dates: circa 1960-2016

Air Raid Warden ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-011
Abstract

Materials include training guides, handbooks, reporting forms, first aid notes, newspaper clippings, and ephemera related to the Air Raid Warden program in Seattle, WA circa 1941-1945.

Dates: circa 1941-1945

Alaska Fur Company letters

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-021
Abstract

Letters addressed to Herman Krupp (1900-1989), circa 1929-1934, while he was based in Kobe, Japan as a buyer for Alaska Fur Company.

Dates: circa 1929-1934; Majority of material found within circa 1929-1934

Capitol Hill Seafair parade float collection

 Collection — Binder 1
Identifier: 1000-038
Abstract

The collection includes scrapbook pages and images documenting the design, construction and exhibition of Seafair parade floats sponsored by the Capitol Hill Commercial Club circa 1959-1961.

Dates: circa 1959-1961

LeEtta Sanders King collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-010
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs and other ephemera related to Seattle music teacher, LeEtta Sanders King and her son, Winfield King, who was a local bandleader and a member of the Negro Musicians Union.

Dates: 1891-1955

Kurtzer Flying Service and Seafair visiting beauty queen photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-008
Abstract The collection includes 105 photographs (and 29 additional duplicates) depicting beauty queens from communities throughout the Pacific Northwest as they prepare for seaplane excursions with Kurtzer Flying Service between 1956 and 1968. The young women visited Seattle to participate in Seafair activities and these photographs were subsequently published in their hometown newspapers. The collection also includes some earlier views of Lana Kurtzer and Kurtzer Flying Services which he founded...
Dates: circa 1930-1968

Lusty Lady photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1000_029
Abstract

Photographs showing construction projects at Lusty Lady, interior and exterior views of the building and candid shots of employees.

Dates: circa 1996

McChord Air Force Base photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2021-011
Abstract

The collection documents the activities at McChord Air Force base in the 1940s including portraits of commanding officers and photographs depicting events such as medal ceremonies, training exercises and leisure activities.

Dates: circa 1940s

Reverend Samuel B. McKinney collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-001
Abstract

This collection includes materials related to Reverend Samuel B. and Louise McKinney as well as Mt. Zion Baptist Church where Samuel McKinney served as pastor for over 40 years.

Dates: 1892-2018

Marjorie Sotero photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1000-069
Abstract

This collection includes 43 photographs showing events, dances and other daily activities of Army service clubs at Camp George Jordan, Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton between 1944 and 1951. The collection is notable for photographs of Black soldiers based at Camp Jordan and images of integrated service club events.

Dates: circa 1944-1951