Survey conducted by the Seattle Urban League to investigate the racial attitudes of residents of Seattle's Broadview neighborhood, in response to a 1948 incident in which residents circulated petitions requesting that a biracial family be forced to...
Hillaire, Joseph; Totem Poles; Kōbe-shi (Japan)--Pictorial Works
Lummi carver Joseph Hillaire was commissioned to create a story pole for Seattle's sister city of Kobe, Japan, in 1961. This album documents his trip to Kobe to install and dedicate the pole. Hillaire was accompanied on the trip by Seattle Mayor...
Histories of Seattle area churches, arranged by denomination. The author, Ida Grace Corey, was a former society editor of the Seattle Times and donated the book to the Seattle Public Library in 1940. The Seattle Times reported on the donation:...
Typescript of memoir written by Jesse Jackson, the "mayor"of Seattle's Hooverville, a homeless encampment which stood from 1931 to 1941 at the site of the former Skinner and Eddy Shipyard in Seattle's industrical district. This typescript was...
Seattle Public Schools history textbook. The author, James Willis Sayre, "was a longtime resident of Seattle -- a journalist, arts promoter, and local historian whose work spanned more than five decades during the city's most explosive period of...