Photograph Collections

ST. MICHAEL SCHOOL
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON

Photograph Inventory
1900-1960s

Overview of Records

Repository:  Providence Archives, Seattle, WA

Date:   c. 1900-1960s

Abstract: Photographs document the facilities, personnel, departments, and activities of St. Mary Hospital and its staff.

Quantity:  1 linear foot (2 boxes plus negatives, album and oversize photographs).
  Approximately 402 items.

Administrative Information

Restrictions: Providence Archives is a private repository; access to some records is at the discretion of the archivist.

Preferred Citation: [Description or number of cited item].  (62) St. Michael School Photograph Collection, Providence Archives, Seattle, Washington.

Accession Information: These photographs were transferred to the Archives from the school and from sisters in ministry there over a period of years.

Processing Information: Photographs were added over the years by Archives. A typed inventory was created and the collection rehoused in May 2002 by Peter Schmid. Processing was completed in March 2003 by Peter Schmid.

Series A: Facilities

23 items

A1 Building 1 (1881-1953)

Dates: 1952; n.d.

A2 Building 2 (1953-76)

Dates: 1960; n.d.

A3 Convent

Dates: n.d.

A4 Plat Maps

Dates: 1919; 1924

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Series B: Personnel

28 items

B1 Clergy

Dates: n.d.

B2 Lay Faculty

Dates: n.d.

B3 Sisters

Dates: 1927; 1932; 1938; 1950; 1957; 1959; n.d.

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Series C: School

195 items

C1 Students--Elementary

Dates: 1921; 1929; 1932; 1935-36; 1938-43; 1946-59; 1961; n.d.

C2 Students--High School

Dates: 1923; 1946; n.d.

C3 Sports

Dates: 1945; 1949-51; 1955; 1957-58; n.d.

C4 Classes & Classrooms

Dates: 1955; 1962; n.d.

C5 Graduation

Dates: n.d.

C6 Miscellaneous Activities & Groups

Dates: 1955; 1962; n.d.

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Series D: Subjects

74 items

D1 Exhibit

Dates: 1909

D2 Groundbreaking (1950)

D3 Dedication (1951)

D4 Altar Boys

Dates: 1960

D5 Alumni Meeting (1924)

D6 Alumni Meeting (1925)

D7 Chapel & Religious Instruction

Dates: 1922; 1957; 1959; n.d.

Includes photographs taken both at the school chapel and the parish church, St. Michael's.

D8 Auxiliary

Dates: 1957; n.d.

D9 Choir

Dates: n.d.

D10 Christmas

Dates: 1955; n.d.

D11 Herman D. Crow--Supreme Court Justice

Dates: n.d.

D12 First Communion

Dates: 1935; 1953-54; n.d.

D13 Theatrical Productions

Dates: 1917; 1922; n.d.

D14 Leadership Conference

Dates: 1960-61; n.d.

These images were removed from the file of Sr. Virginia Stein (4395).

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Series F: Albums & Scrapbooks

82 items

F1 Building, Classrooms & Students

Dates: 1948-51

Photographs removed from scrapbook by SRB, 1999. Excellent classroom scenes.

F2 May Crowning

Dates: 1952

Ceremonies were held at St. Edward Seminary, Kenmore, Washington.

F3 Scrapbook

Dates: n.d.

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

F4 Students, Faculty & Activities

Dates: n.d.

Photographs removed from scrapbook in 1999.

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Series G: Postcards

G1 Building 1 (1881-1953)