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2024.FIC.064 - Poster
Poster for Winthrop's 49ers day annual celebration. 1974. The parade and associated events started in 1946 and involved a Grand Master. Later a Grand Lady and high school students who are a Queen or Princesses. The weekend includes a parade on Saturday morning at 11 and various additional activities during the second weekend in May. This poster features Jerry Sullivan, Jr.. Events included the parade, coronation program, variety show, bar-b-que...
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2024.FIC.065 - Poster
Poster for Winthrop's 49ers day annual celebration. 1989. The parade and associated events started in 1946 and involved a Grand Master. Later a Grand Lady and high school students who are a Queen or Princesses. The weekend includes a parade on Saturday morning at 11 and various additional activities during the second weekend in May. This poster features Grand Marshall Slug Davis and Grand Lady Gwennie Yockey. Events included the Washington Outf...
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2024.FIC.066 - Poster
Poster for Winthrop's 49ers day annual celebration. 1996. The parade and associated events started in 1946 and involved a Grand Master. Later a Grand Lady and high school students who are a Queen or Princesses. The weekend includes a parade on Saturday morning at 11 and various additional activities during the second weekend in May. This poster features Grand Marshall Dean Orr, Grand Lady Della Northcott, Queen Shahtese Gable and Princesses Broo...
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2024.FIC.067 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Silk Hat Kid," starring Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke, opened in 1935. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Josh Risley and later by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey.
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2024.FIC.068 - Poster
Winthrop Theatre movie poster. "If I Were King," starring Frances Dee, Basil Rathbone. It was a 1920s silent film. The Winthrop Thetre operated from the 1920s into the early 1970s. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the background while movie w...
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2024.FIC.069 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Handy Andy," starring Will Rogers and Peggy Wood, opened in 1934. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the background...
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2024.FIC.070 - Poster
Winthrop Theatre movie poster. "The Singing Cowboy," starring Gene Autry. It was a 1936 film. The Winthrop Theatre operated from the 1920s into the early 1970s. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the background while movie watchers read the sub...
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2024.FIC.071 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Hard Rock Harrigan," starring George O'Brien and Irene Hervey, opened in 1935. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and burned down in 1953. It was the community center for may years.of plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the backgr...
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2024.FIC.072 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Doubting Thomas," starring Will Rogers and Billie Burke, opened in 1935. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the bac...
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2024.FIC.073 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Powdersmoke Range," starring Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson, opened in 1933. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists played music in the ba...
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2024.FIC.074 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Riders of the Pasca Basin," starring Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, opened in 1939. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, local pianists...
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2024.FIC.075 - Poster
Twisp Opera House movie poster. "Parachute Battalion," starring Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly, Edmond O'Brien and Harry Carey, opened in 1941. The Twisp Opera House was built in 1903 and buried down in 1953. It was the community center for may years for events, plays, movies and other social activities, but it never hosted an opera. It was operated by Frank Airey and Loleta Risley Airey. During the time of the silent movies from 1894 to 1931, loc...
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2024.FIC.076 - Records
Squaw Creek Ranger District ledger of homestead application disputes with the Chelan National Forest with records starting in 1906 and ending in 1915. Two ledger pages of entries that include applicant name, town address, date received, date of settlement, township and range, section, date sent for examination, recommendation, date listed, acreage. 74 entries. Names are: Olive Tonseth, George N. White, Dock Elwell, Thomas Dean, M. S. Vanburen, Ir...
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2024.FIC.078 - Ledger
Business ledger from April thorugh August 1926. This is likely George Fender's ledger for his grocery store in Winthrop. It was found by Todd Smith who found it at his 132 Castle Avenue home. The ledger lists customer names, accounts receivable and payable, cash, bank, sales, purchases, cattle, labor and sundries. There are 153 pages of entries.
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2024.FIC.079 - Booklet
4-H Circular, June 1934, Clothing for Cub Girls, Second Year from the Extension Service of State College of Washington. 16 pages, Directions for making clothing using a sewing machine, choosing fabric, altering patterns, various seams.
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2024.FIC.082 - Booklet
Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. The massacre of the Ward family, told by Newton Ward, six pages. Al Ward raised his sons John and Clarence on Paradise Hill west of Brewster. Al's father Newton was the teller of the massacre. Clarence married Gladys Mabel Whitney Tonseth in 1945. Mabel's first husband was Magnus Tonseth who died in a mining accident in 1929 at the age of forty-six. The Alexander and Margaret Ward family moved fr...
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2024.FIC.083 - Booklet
Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. Early pioneer.... his diary, his homestead, told by Georgia Miller, Jim Robinson's stepdaughter, thiry-four pages. Jim and Tom Robinsons were early fur trappers in the Methow Valley, arriving in 1886 and trapping in the North Cascades above Winthrop and Nazama..Jim homesteaded near Methow and planted 200 fruit trees, then alfalfa. He worked in the mines running a donkey engine that cut wood to con...
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2024.FIC.085 - Booklet
Diaries and Reminisces, compiled by Bob Tonseth. Methow pioneer recalls early days, by Mrs. John Rust and Gold!!!, by Frank Heath, forty pages. John "Jack" Healam arrived in the Methow Valley in 1895, immigrating from England. He worked at mining camps, homesteaded in the town of Methow, married teacher Lucy Kerr, and had five children, John, Ted, Jim, Isabel and Margaret. He was active in fraternal orders and church affairs and a civic promoter...
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