Archives spotlight: The Mary Mahoney Registered Nurses Club

February 1, 2019 Secretary of State's Office

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…

A Ruse By Any Other Name

October 11, 2012 Secretary of State's Office

Arlington Buckingham Wadsworth From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The Nov. 15, 1902 issue of The Spokane Press has a news account of a well known international con artist being arrested in Australia. The writer reminds the readers this criminal had made Spokane his home at one time: HE WAS A SOCIETY MAN IN SPOKANE Now Arrested in Australia—Wanted in Many Places for Similar Offences. “The following telegraphic dispatch from Chicago will…

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