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Unidentified man working on car
Unidentified man facing away using a circle bladed power tool on the side of a car most likely at Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Unidentified man working on car
Unidentified man facing away using a circle bladed power tool on the side of a car most likely at Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Riverbank flooded
Unknown Riverbank [potentially Spokane River] flooded up to home and cars. Some tops of trees visible in the water.
Riverbank flooded
Unknown Riverbank [potentially Spokane River] flooded up to housing developments with construction machine dumping unknown substance in the water. Some tops of trees visible in the water.
Monroe Street Bridge and City Hall
Monroe Street Bridge from the southwest side with City Hall in the background.
Pauline and Sylvester Lake in formal attire
Pauline and Sylvester Lake hand-in-hand in formal attire at an event.
Peaceful Valley neighborhood flooded
Corner of Ash and Water Street in the Peaceful Valley neighborhood flooded. People standing on street and sidewalk looking towards the Spokane River.
Kenneth Kato in Trent Alley
Kenneth Kato's family lived in the Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry on 333 Trent Boulevard when he was born in 1949. The back of the building opened up onto Trent Alley, which served as an entrance to the hotel on the second floor run by Kato's…
Kato Family in Trent Alley
The group photograph taken in Trent Alley includes Kenneth Kato's grandparents Testumu (back row left) and Ume Terao (front center), his mother (left of Ume Terao), and Kenneth (right of Ume Terao). The Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry is behind…
Hisako Kato on the Fire Escape of the Northwestern Hotel
Trent Alley was never known for its abundant plant life. This photograph of the back fire escape of the Northwestern Hotel and Hand Laundry captures a large hanging vine that grew in the portion of the alley where the Davenport Grand currently…
Oriental Bath and Laundry Storefront
One of the economic niches filled by Chinese and Japanese Americans in the United States was the hand laundry business. The April 9, 1892 issue of the Spokesman-Review includes an article on a meeting of the Anti-Chinese League in which Alderman Ambs…
Witness Attestation for Sue Ah Yen
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to curb immigrant laborers from China from entering the United States. Part of this law denied reentry to Chinese laborers leaving the United States. As a result, Chinese merchants, like Sue Ah Yen needed to…
Grant Street Methodist Church
A large group of people gathered for a group portrait in front of the Grant Street Methodist Church on Fifth Avenue and Grant Street. According to the church's' history published in 1967, the photograph was taken for a 35th anniversary celebration on…
Japanese Methodist Mission Kindergarten Portrait
The Japanese Methodist Mission in Spokane was founded in 1902 above the home of Reverend Genshichi Tsuruta. Initially, the mission served young men migrating to Spokane for work or school, but by 1910, when the church ran services out of a building…
Meejosee Wong, Yut Sun Hoy, and Sandy Wong in Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company
Yut Sun Hoy ran the Wing Wo Chinese Medicine Company after the death of his uncle Hoy Sam in 1926. In 1953, Yut Sun moved the store to 917 West Sprague Avenue, which is currently the block containing the Bing Crosby Theater and the Knitting Factory.…
New Chinese Republic Parade Float
According to the 1910 census, the Chinese American population in Spokane County was 263. Many in this community lived near Trent Avenue (now Spokane Falls Boulevard) between Browne Street and Howard Street. The population held enough recognition that…
Tetsuzo Terao Near His Home on Cowley Street
Many Japanese Americans living in Spokane who could afford a house in the first half of the 20th century, purchased homes on the lower South Hill east of Division Street. These neighborhoods were amongst those where families of color were not barred…
Prince Hall Freemasons
Group of 21 unidentified Prince Hall Freemasons posing with memorabilia around a podium.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church 90th anniversary cake
White frosted sheet cake with green trim and floral embellishments. Text reads in green frosting: "Bethel A. M. E. Church 90th Anniversary."
Group at an event
Group of eleven people posing together in a room in formal attire.
Front row from left to right: Alta Dalbert, Pauline Lake, center Josephine Barrow?, Mrs. Coltrane?, Helen Gaskin.
Second row from left to right: Eleanor Chase, farthest right…
Front row from left to right: Alta Dalbert, Pauline Lake, center Josephine Barrow?, Mrs. Coltrane?, Helen Gaskin.
Second row from left to right: Eleanor Chase, farthest right…
Elmo Dalbert sitting at an event table
Elmo Dalbert seated with an unidentified woman at an event table in formal wear.
James and Eleanor Chase sitting in chairs
James Chase and Eleanor Chase sitting in the corner of a room.
Group photograph including Pauline Lake, Sylvester Lake, Eleanor Chase, and James Chase
Group of Five posing together in formal wear. From left to right: Pauline Lake, unidentified man, Sylvester Lake, Eleanor Chase, James Chase.
Man in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender building lobby
Unidentified man in brown jacket in the lobby of Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender.
Man in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender building
Unidentified man in denim jacket in the lobby of Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender.
Man in front of ambulance in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender building
Unidentified man in brown jacket and glasses with Spokane Ambulance in the background.
Two mechanics in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Two unidentified men standing in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage with car in the background. Man on the left is wearing mechanic coveralls.
James Chase and Elmo Dalbert with a girl outside
James Chase and Elmo Dalbert standing together at an outdoor event with Elmo Dalbert draping his left arm over an unidentified girl playing with a toy.
Man in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Unidentified man in mechanic coveralls standing by the bumper of a car in the Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Mechanic working on a car at Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Unidentified man in mechanic coveralls working on the right side of a car with a hammer at Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Mechanic in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Unidentified man in checkered skirt holding mechanic coveralls in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage.
Dennis "Denny" Dalbert at a desk in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender office
Dennis "Denny" Dalbert sitting at a desk in the Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender office.
Alta Dalbert at a desk in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender office
Alta Dalbert sitting and reading at a desk in the Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender office.
Mechanic working at Chase and Dalbert Fender and Body garage
Unidentified man in mechanic coveralls working by a table covered in paint at Chase and Dalbert Fender and Body garage.
Man working on car outside Chase and Dalbert Fender and Body garage
Unidentified man in mechanic coveralls standing by a car prepped for painting outside Chase and Dalbert Fender and Body garage.
Man in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Unidentified man posing in the Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage with a truck in the background.
Two men in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage
Two unidentified men having a conversation in Chase and Dalbert Body and Fender garage with car in the background. Man facing away is wearing mechanic coveralls.
Man on the right is same person as in 005_286.
Man on the right is same person as in 005_286.
Elmo and Alta Dalbert at a Black Centennial event celebration at the Davenport
Unidentified woman, Elmo Dalbert, and Alta Dalbert posing in front of the Black Centennial event sign in the Historic Davenport Marie Antoinette Ballroom. Text reads: "Black Centennial 1981."
Peggy Freeman, Elmo Dalbert, and Mona Jones at a Black Centennial event at the Davenport
From left to right Peggy Freeman, Elmo Dalbert, and Mona Jones standing together in the Historic Davenport Marie Antoinette Ballroom during the Black Centennial Celebration.