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Vivid double wedding ring quilt. 1910-1930. Courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum digital archives.

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Limestone ostracon with image of a hippopotamus. Thebes, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 1479 - 1425 BC.

Source: https://imgur.com/oGdH3dU

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Stanley Tigerman, Residential Buildings on the Tegel Harbor, Building No. 8, Berlin, Germany, 1986

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“They swam through the sea, were a long time swimming.” Wonder tales from Russia. 1921.

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Sabine Finkenauer Plant, 2000 pencil on paper, 40x30 cm

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                                 On the Life of Chief Seattle 

One of the amazing holes in local history is a full-on biography of Chief Seattle, but now we have just such a book, in “Chief Seattle and the Town that Took his Name.” The book is about 30 years in the making, for digging up sources on the elusive Chief and getting native cooperation has taken years of effort by Buerge, a fine local historian and teacher. One breakthrough on sources: letters that Catholic missionaries sent back home. The Chief who emerges is complex and ambiguous—warrior, economic-development specialist, sage, majestic orator, and advocate for multi-racial harmony. His great speech, pieced together years later from notes scribbled by a Seattle doctor, is also shrouded in mystery: what were the actual words, how does it fit with pioneers’ experience? The book is rich in early Seattle history. It is also an overdue act of justice to the chief and a poignant story of betrayal as the noble Seattle’s hopes for protecting his people are forgotten.

Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound by David M. Buerge. Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, 2017.

Here are a couple of past attempts from our collection at documenting the life of Chief Seattle:

Chief Seattle by Eva Greenslit Anderson. Caldwell, Id., Caxton, 1943.

Chief Seattle by James Vernon Metcalfe. Seattle : Catholic Northwest Progress, 1964

top image:  Chief Seattle statue at Fifth and Denny, Downtown Seattle, 1936

via Folio

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Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833 in E. Weiß, Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, 1888 https://www.instagram.com/stephenellcock/

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“A ‘social situation’ as depicted by a young child.”  Psychological atlas. 1948. 

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In 1971, New York’s year-end issue included a 30-page preview of a new magazine. Ms. was its name, and Gloria Steinem, a New York columnist since our own launch three years earlier, was its founding editor. (The table of contents read “Ms. is devoted to today’s women considered as full human beings.”) One of the shortest pieces in the package — just one page — turned out to be one of the most durable: “I Want a Wife,” by Judy Syfers. She’d written it as a speech for a rally in San Francisco the previous year, and it also appeared in the premiere stand-alone issue of Ms. shortly thereafter.

(via ‘I Want a Wife,’ by Judy Brady Syfers: New York mag, 1971)

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“Properties of matter.” Physics: An Exact Science. 1959.

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Andrea di Bonaiuto - Via Veritas, or The Church Militant and Triumphant. Detail. 1365 - 1367

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Happy Easter! Unidentified glass plate negative from the Raton Museum collection, HP.2015.26.302

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Joseph Yoakum, Mt. Saddlerock, 1965

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Plate VII. Human figures and bears, inside and out. Comparative anatomy as applied to the purposes of the artist. 1883. 

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Teasing window display. Nearly three hundred ways to dress show windows. 1889.

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Suiseki or scholar’s stone in the form of a mountain peak with snowy seams, the origin of waterfalls, rising from a collar of clouds. Of Furuya type, grey-black stone with white quartz inclusions; on a finely carved and polished rosewood stand. Taisho era, circa 1912 – 1926.