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Archives spotlight: The Mary Mahoney Registered Nurses Club

Archives spotlight: The Mary Mahoney Registered Nurses Club

2019 brings the 70th anniversary of the Mary Mahoney Professional Nurses Association, which was founded as the Mary Mahoney Registered Nurses Club of Seattle. Mary Mahoney was one of the first African-American nurses in the United States. In recognition of Black History Month, Washington State Archives researcher Dr. Jewell Lorenz Dunn researched the historical records held at the Archives to show some history behind the trailblazers who founded the club. Mary Mahoney, was born in 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, to…

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Washington State Library launching grant-funded STEM program

Washington State Library launching grant-funded STEM program

In fall 2017, the Washington State Library teamed up with the Imagine Children’s Museum of Everett, School’s Out Washington and the Spokane County Library District for a grant application to fund a program to promote literacy-based STEM activities for children ages 3 to 10 and their families. The application was successful. This STEM program stood out from many others because the program begins the exploration of scientific concepts through sharing a children’s book. Few other STEM programs, if any, are literacy-based….

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Washingtonians in World War I

Washingtonians in World War I

2018 marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I, the “War to End All Wars.” Centennial events have taken place for the past several years throughout Europe, and last year the Washington State Library was honored to assist students from the American School in Paris as they embarked on a project to gather information about the Americans laid to rest at Suresnes American Cemetery. This Paris cemetery contains the remains of 1,541 Americans who died in World…

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Check out 1950 Washington highway map

Check out 1950 Washington highway map

Most Washingtonians probably can’t even remember life before Interstate 5, I-90 and I-405 were built in our state. But a 1950 state highway map found on our Legacy Washington webpage shows the routes drivers traveled before the arrival of our interstate freeways. You can make some interesting observations by closely examining the map, which was published by the Washington State Highway Commission: The main north-south highway in Western Washington was U.S. 99, which connected Bellingham, Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia and…

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Too Good to be True– The Hubbard Coil

Too Good to be True– The Hubbard Coil

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The Hubbard Coil sounded too good to be true. As it turned out there was a little secret component the inventor neglected to share with the press. This week’s random article about the seemingly magical energy-producing device demonstrated by Alfred M. Hubbard was found in The Monroe Monitor, Sept. 17, 1920:  MYSTERIOUS COIL PROVES SUCCESS RUNS AUTOMOBILE ON EVERETT STREETS AND BOAT IN SEATTLE LAKE….

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Klepto Cows

Klepto Cows

Random News from the Newspapers on Microfilm Collection: Kleptomaniac Cows in Everett From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Ah, the growing pains of urbanization as found in the Feb. 20, 1901 issue of the Everett Daily Herald: SHALL COWS RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZENS OF EVERETT?  A Long-Suffering Merchant Gives Expression to His Sentiments Thereon.  “The business men of the city have under serious advisement the matter of protection against…

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Charities and nonprofits, check this out!

Charities and nonprofits, check this out!

If you help run a charity or nonprofit, or if you’re serving on a charity or nonprofit board (or at least thinking about it), there is an upcoming event in Everett especially for you. Our office’s Corporations and Charities Division is holding its next Charities and Nonprofit Education Symposium on July 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Comcast Arena’s Edward D. Hansen Conference Center (2900 Hewitt Ave.). The symposium will provide lots of helpful info to help organizations…

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State Library Contributes 23 Newspaper Titles to Chronicling America

State Library Contributes 23 Newspaper Titles to Chronicling America

The Washington State Library recently contributed another 23,000 historic newspaper pages from seven newspapers to Chronicling America, making Washington State’s contribution to the program a total of 23 titles and over 115,000 pages. Read and research issues from these and other newspapers around the U.S. for free at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.  There are now 23 newspapers from Washington State currently included in Chronicling America:   Cayton’s Monthly, 1921 Cayton’s Weekly, 1917-1921 Colfax Gazette, 1900-1912   Colville Examiner, 1907-1922 Commonwealth (Everett), 1911-1914 Co-operative News, 1917-1921 Daily Republican (Seattle),…

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Washington Adds 50,000 Newspaper Pages to Chronicling America

Washington Adds 50,000 Newspaper Pages to Chronicling America

The Washington State Library recently contributed another 50,000 historic newspaper pages from nine newspapers to Chronicling America, making Washington State’s contribution to the program a total of 16 titles and 92,000 pages. People can read and research issues from these and other newspapers around the U.S. for free at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. There are now 16 newspapers from Washington State currently included in Chronicling America: Cayton’s Weekly, 1917-1921 Colfax Gazette, 1900-1912 Colville Examiner, 1907-1922 Commonwealth (Everett), 1911-1914 Daily Republican (Seattle), 1896 Leavenworth…

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From Your Corner of Washington: Everett

From Your Corner of Washington: Everett

Located along Puget Sound about 30 miles north of Seattle, the Snohomish County seat was well known for being a lumber mill town. It also was home of Henry “Scoop” Jackson, who served in the U.S. House from 1941 until 1953, and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until his death in 1983. Nowadays, Everett is renowned for its Boeing plant (featuring the world’s largest building by volume), where the 787 Dreamliner had its maiden flight last December. How did…

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