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Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1976-1977
Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1977-1978. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…
Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1978-1979
Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1978-1979. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…
Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1978-1979
Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1978-1979. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…
Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1979-1980
Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1979-1980. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…
Grant Elementary School, Staff of 1980-1981
Picture of the Grant Elementary School staff of 1980-1981. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the students…
Grant Elementary School, 6th grade class of 1979-1980
Picture of the 1979-1980 6th grade class of Grant Elementary School. In 1972 Edison Elementary, a school in the East Central neighborhood with a diverse study body with one of the highest enrollments of Black students in District 81, closed and the…
Hip Sing Association Membership Book
This directory for the Spokane area Hip Sing Association lists individual members along with their membership dues. One of the enduring functions of the Hip Sing organization was to ensure proper burial for its members by helping to fund transport of…
Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Co. Storefront on West Sprague Avenue
The Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company in Spokane was established in 1905 by Hoy Gar (also known as Hoy Sam). Hoy was born in Portland, Oregon in 1869 and started his medicine shop on 126 1/2 Wall Street in 1905.The store likely operated on the second…
A Proper Burial Is Group's Goal
This article describes ongoing efforts by the Hip Sing Association to provide for the proper burial of members of the Chinese community. It highlights the decades-long role the group has played in supporting community members in a time of need and…
Chinatown's "Little One" Roams without Playmates
This article is about Tony Eng, identified by report Dorothy Powers as "China Alley's only Chinese child." The article suggests that the Chinese community in Trent Alley is dying out due to the age of its storekeepers and the fact that many of the…
Noodle Grill on East Sprague Avenue
This illustration and caption from the Spokesman-Review describes the new home for the Noodle Grill, a popular Chinese Restaurant in Spokane that operated since the 1930s. The new location on East Sprague is indicative of the movement of Chinese…
"Welcome" Sign Greets Hip Sing Tong
This image and caption form the Spokesman-Review depicts Trent Alley decorated for an upcoming meeting of Hip Sing officials from across the United States. The Hip Sing Association was one of a number of organizations that played an important role in…
Gew Ah Yen Certificate of Residence
The passage of the 14th Amendment provided all persons born in the United States birthright citizenship, a right confirmed by the 1898 Supreme Court Decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark. Despite this ruling, United States citizens married to…
Joe and Kon Leong at Lunar New Year Celebration at the Noodle Grill
As with Western New Year celebrations, food and drink are an important part of Lunar New Year festivities. In Spokane, the Leong family frequently served a banquet consisting of traditional Cantonese dishes to the Chinese community to commemorate the…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Trent Alley, 1950
Trent Alley is typically associated with three blocks between Trent Avenue (now Spokane Falls Boulevard) and Main Avenue. This map depicts those blocks with the eastern edge at the top of the map. The eastern-most block, where Trent Alley forms an…
Sanborn Map of Spokane Block Containing Chinese Businesses and Boarding Houses, 1889
Prior to the existence of Trent Alley, many Chinese residents lived and worked north of Front Street (now Spokane Falls Boulevard) in the eastern half of what as of 2024 is Riverfront Park. The structures toward the top of the map (Stevens Street)…
Noodle Grill Menu
Menu for the Noodle Grill on 512 West Main in Spokane, Washington. The restaurant operated on W. Main from 1936 until 1971, when it moved to a new location in the East Central neighborhood, which was labelled Spokane's International District as part…
Logan Hotel
The Logan Hotel and the various ground floor businesses from the southeast corner of Stevens Street and Main Avenue. This photograph, likely taken during the late-1950s based on the billboard advertising the Edsel, was taken from the same angle as…
Nisei Basketball Team Members
By the 1930s, the first American-born generation of Japanese Americans began to come of age. This generation were called Nisei, which translates to second generation (the immigrant generation were called Issei). This portrait is of a group of…
Takami Family Seated in Logan Hotel
This photograph of the Takami family includes members of three generations of the family. Starting from the back-left going clockwise, the individuals photographed are Ikuta (Harry) Takami, Linda Takami, Tsuruyo (Mary) Takami, and Taki Takami. Ikuta…
Spokane Chinese Aid War Effort
Attitudes toward Chinese Americans began to shift during World War II. As this article from the Spokesman-Review indicates, Americans of Chinese descent were seen as allies in the fight against Japan. For many Chinese Americans, support for…
Was She Abducted?
One of the most prominent Chinese American families in Spokane during the late-19th and early-20th century was the Ah Yen family. While local newspaper coverage of the Ah Yens reflects a measure of esteem for the prominent family, many articles are…
Keith Oka Drawing at His Desk
Keith Oka was born in Okayama, Japan in 1916. He immigrated to the United States with his mother, Rin, in 1919 and graduated from Broadway High School in Seattle in 1935. Oka worked as a commercial artist for many years serving as the art director…
Hoy Gar Funeral
Hoy Gar, owner of the Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company in Spokane, Washington, died on February 27, 1926 from an appendicitis. A popular figure within both Spokane's Chinese American community and in Spokane at large, Hoy's funeral drew hundreds of…
Prince Hall Masonic affiliation unit standing together at charter function
A newspaper clipping featuring the Prince Hall Masonic Affiliation unit standing together at charter function.
Top row from left to right: Charles Bridges, Howard Lanier, Rev. D. D. Banks, Charles Bridges. Second row from left to right: John…
Top row from left to right: Charles Bridges, Howard Lanier, Rev. D. D. Banks, Charles Bridges. Second row from left to right: John…
Lotus Block
The Lotus Block was constructed after the 1889 fire that burned down much of Spokane. According to the August 8, 1889 issue of the Spokane Falls Review, the fire "cleaned out a number of little frame buildings" occupied by Chinese boarders and…
Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Co. and Citizen's Savings and Loan Society Storefront on 126 1/2 Wall Street
The Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company in Spokane was established in 1905 by Hoy Gar (also known as Hoy Sam). Hoy was born in Portland, Oregon in 1869 and started his medicine shop on 126 1/2 Wall Street in 1905.The store likely operated on the second…
Noodle Grill Staff
In this photograph, the Noodle Grill wait staff stands next to the booths in the store on 512 West Main Avenue. In an interview, Lotus Leong, the daughter of Noodle Grill founder Joe Leong, recalled the Noodle Grill's interior. According to Leong,…
Logan Hotel
The Logan Hotel was constructed in 1890. By 1913, it was run by a trio of Japanese American partners identified as Maeguchi, Nihonmatsu, and Tejima in this photograph by Ryosuke Akashi. During the 1910s, Japanese businessmen established themselves in…
Members of the Phyllis Wheatley Girls Club at their Mother's Day tea party
Members of the Phyllis Wheatley Girls Club at their Mother's Day tea party.
Top row from left to right: Alta Finley, Margery Boyd, Madeline Smith, Mrs. Charles V. Evans, Zrelda Gordon, Isabel Richerson. Front row from left to right: Bernice…
Top row from left to right: Alta Finley, Margery Boyd, Madeline Smith, Mrs. Charles V. Evans, Zrelda Gordon, Isabel Richerson. Front row from left to right: Bernice…
James Chase preparing to take a photograph with William Tucker crouching next to him and Frances Freeman and others at a picnic table
Two photographs printed together. The bottom photograph includes James Chase preparing to take a photograph, and William Tucker crouching next to him. The top photograph includes Frances Freeman on box with others bending over lake picnic table…
Mechanics in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Four men in uniform coveralls posing in front of a car in the Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Group of five including Frances Scott, James Chase and Willabell Tucker
Group of five sitting together on the floor of a house engaged in an activity. From left to right: unidentified man, Frances Scott, James Chase, unidentified woman, and Willabell Tucker.
Francell and Wally Hagin posing next to a car
Francell and Wally Hagin posing next to car by a house.
Clarence Freeman posing in front of white water rapids
Clarence Freeman posing on the ground on a ledge in front of white water rapids.