Broussais C. Beck papers 1919-1961

Beck, Broussais C.

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Broussais Coman Beck, Seattle businessman and rowing enthusiast, was born in Walla Walla, Wash., on Aug. 29, 1886. He attended the University of Washington and was active in both football and rowing, winning outstanding honors as an oarsman. He left the UW in 1910, and finished his education at Yale, graduating in electrical engineering in 1911. Despite this degree, he went into merchandising, taking department-store jobs in Boston and Portland before a position as the Bon Marche's ...

Allen, Frederic W.

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Beck, Broussais C.

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Broussais Coman Beck, Seattle businessman and rowing enthusiast, was born in Walla Walla, Wash., on Aug. 29, 1886. He attended the University of Washington and was active in both football and rowing, winning outstanding honors as an oarsman. He left the UW in 1910, and finished his education at Yale, graduating in electrical engineering in 1911. Despite this degree, he went into merchandising, taking department-store jobs in Boston and Portland before a position as the Bon Marche's ...

Varsity Boat Club (University of Washington)

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Established in 1910, the Varsity Boat Club was begun by Coach Hiram Conibear to be a social organization for the varsity upperclassmen who rowed on the University of Washington crew team. The club was originally housed in the old Coast Guard Station, a temporary building constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Over the years, the Varsity Boat Club evolved into a student and alumni organization focused on fundraising and support for the Crew program. Through Title IX, women were allo...

Allen, Frederic W.

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Bon Marché (Department store)

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In 1890 Edward and Josephine Nordhoff moved from Chicago to Seattle and opened their store the Bon Marché. The name means “good market” and was chosen as a reference to the Maison à Boucicault au Bon Marché, a store Nordhoff had greatly admired as a young man living in Paris. Originally located in the Belltown district of Seattle at First and Cedar streets it moved downtown in 1896. Starting with the Nordhoff’s savings of $1,200, thirty-three years later in 1923 annual sales were up...

Ebright, Carroll M.

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Ebright, Carroll M.

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Witter, Dean

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Meisnest, Darwin

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Bon Marché (Department store)

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In 1890 Edward and Josephine Nordhoff moved from Chicago to Seattle and opened their store the Bon Marché. The name means “good market” and was chosen as a reference to the Maison à Boucicault au Bon Marché, a store Nordhoff had greatly admired as a young man living in Paris. Originally located in the Belltown district of Seattle at First and Cedar streets it moved downtown in 1896. Starting with the Nordhoff’s savings of $1,200, thirty-three years later in 1923 annual sales were up...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Conibear, Grace

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Varsity Boat Club (University of Washington)

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Established in 1910, the Varsity Boat Club was begun by Coach Hiram Conibear to be a social organization for the varsity upperclassmen who rowed on the University of Washington crew team. The club was originally housed in the old Coast Guard Station, a temporary building constructed for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Over the years, the Varsity Boat Club evolved into a student and alumni organization focused on fundraising and support for the Crew program. Through Title IX, women were allo...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Balliet, Andrew J.

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Conibear, Grace

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Witter, Dean

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Meisnest, Darwin

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Balliet, Andrew J.

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