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| Title | Dance card from Stockade Hotel at Alki, 1905 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 1905 |
| Notes | Caption: Solid Comfort at "The Stockade" Grand Opening Ball Thursday, May 25th, 1905. Alki Point was a community of resorts and vacation homes catering to well-to-do Seattle residents, and viewed itself as a distinct community separate from the City of West Seattle. The Stockade Hotel claimed to be "one of the finest summer hotels in the Pacific Northwest" and was the polling place for Alki residents for annexation elections to West Seattle on October 6, 1906, and May 25, 1907. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact Southwest Seattle Historical Society/ Log house Museum, 3003 71st Avenue SW, Seattle 98116, 206-938-5293,www.loghousemuseum@home.com. |
| Credit Line | Southwest Seattle Historical Society; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Southwest Seattle Historical Society |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | Dance card is heavy cotton with attached black and white photograph; pencil printed names and wrist tag. 7.75" height x 4.125" wide. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
