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| Title | Mary Gates and son Bill Gates at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, 1959 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1959 |
| Caption | Mrs. William Gates, Jr. watches as her three and a half year-old son William Gates III examines an old medical kit included in a "Tillicum Box." Mrs. Gates was the Junior League chairman of the project that began in November 1958 with Junior League members visiting fourth grade classes with a box of museum artifacts. The school box program still exists today as the HOME Trunk (Historical Outreach Materials for Educators)and provides a fun way to learn about local history. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Gates, William, Jr., Mrs. and William III.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 29, 1959. |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business people--Washington (State)--Seattle; Boys--Washington (State)--Seattle; Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, Wash.); Galleries & museums--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Gates, Mary Maxwell
Gates, Bill, 1955- |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Montlake (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.26003 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
