Paul Brownell (ca. 1911-December 17, 1992) was born in Seattle to a musical family. He attended Roosevelt High School where he was a band member and orchestra, playing violin, viola, piccolo and flute. He joined the UW marching band and played the piccolo for six years before graduating in 1933 with a degree in education. (Mrs. Brownell said that Paul wanted to get a degree in music but during the Depression, he was unable to afford the private lessons required for the major.) He began teaching choral music at Blaine High School in Whatcom County a year after his graduation. He completed a masters degree in journalism at UW and taught orchestra, band, history, and journalism at Blaine High School eventually becoming the principal before he left the school in 1943. He eventually was hired by the Seattle Public Schools where he worked as a teacher and counselor until his retirement in 1975. He met Mildred Walker in Seattle and they were married in 1963.
Mildred Walker Brownell (January 5, 1925-July 18, 2012) was a graduate of Queen Anne High School, and the UW. She taught math and physics in Seattle Public Schools.
Photographs, including prints, negatives, and slides, films, sound recordings, scrapbooks, papers, and ephemera created mainly by Paul Brownell. Topics include Paul Brownell's music studies at the University of Washington, documentation of their lives in Seattle, Mildred and Paul's ancestors, and family travels. Travel photographs include Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, the USSR, and various locations around the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Hawaii, National Parks, and British Columbia. Ancestors include Clifton Brownell who worked for Frederick and Nelson, as well as ancestors from Germany. Included are home movies made by Paul some of which compliment scrapbooks of their travels. Also among the films are pre-eruption Mt. St. Helens, the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21), the 1964 New York World's Fair, and JFK.
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Michele (Shelly) Leonard (executer of the estate of Mildred Brownell)
Photographs of Brownell family. Includes panorama photograph.
Photographs, papers, audio tape, films, negatives, and audio cassettes. Includes "A Study of the Practices of Advisors of Secondary School Year Books in Schools of One to Five Hundred Pupils" Master's Thesis by Paul Brownell (1944) [two copies], Washington Education Journal (Dec 1944). Materials related to the University of Washington include parody map by John Kalbach (1937), Concert Band photograph (1934), and class of 1933 reunion materials (1983).
Includes photographs and clippings
Includes photographs and clippings
Includes photographs and clippings
Photographs and marriage memorial. Marriage memorial of Clifton and Rose Brownell, 1910.
Includes family photographs, clippings, correspondence, and memorial book for Rose Brownell and other materials related to her death
Includes photographs of Paul, Virginia, Mildred, Clifton, Rose, and others
Includes photographs of Clifton, Virginia, Rose, Mrs. Schoebel, Paul, and others. Papers include Paul and Virginia's baby books, materials related to travel photographs and films in Seattle, and Paul's visit to Consolidated Freightways.
Includes materials from a trip to New Zealand and Australia, clippings, correspondence, postcards, materials related to vacations, materials related to Paul's retirement, and souvenir book from the centennial celebration of St. Simon and St. Jude Roman Catholic Church in Tignish, Prince Edward Island (1961). Photographs include photographs of Paul and Mildred.
Photographs include Mildred, Rose, Clifton, others, and negatives. Sound reels include Christmas readings, music, film scripts and commentary, background noise, and others. Film labeled "1977, 78, 79 Ken, Virginia, Ma, M + P, + mom".
Includes Paul's high school diploma, family and travel photographs, Church of the Assumption Golden Jubilee materials, postcards, cards, and other materials
Prints and negatives of The Wayfarer production, The Wayfarer books [4 copies], and photographs from Paul and Rose's trip to Vancouver BC with the production.
The Wayfarer was a Christian passion play produced in Seattle in 1921. Rose Brownell had a role in the chorus.
Includes prints and negatives of the Brownell family and Paul and Rose's travels
Family and travel photographs. Includes photographs of Hawaii, Tasmania, Australia, and New Zealand.
Includes slides of family vacations
Includes slides of family vacations
Notebooks, prints and slides of travel photographs, postcards, Herbert Hoover poster, travel ephemera and souvenirs, and Eagle Crest promotional photographs and viewer
Includes marriage certificate (J. A. and Marmie Walker 1890), materials related to John Reitze including correspondence, Mildred Walker composition books, and Schoebel family letters and postcards
Includes family photographs, photographs and postcards from travels, Christmas cards, ephemera, and other materials
Includes family and travel photographs, including photographs and ephemera from Paul and Mildred's wedding, postcards, clippings, travel ephemera, and other materials
Includes date books (1972, 1978), travel notebooks and ephemera, family photographs, correspondence, Washington Education Journal (Dec 1944) [4 copies], 4 volumes of Between Ourselves, Mildred school records, financial records, C.W. Brownell retirement pamphlet, Paul's University of Washington materials, The Grange News Golden Jubilee edition, yearbooks, Seattle Pacific University Alumni directory, and materials related to Seattle Pacific College
Includes correspondence, clippings, materials related to travel, slides, Paul's University of Washington diploma, and other materials
Includes photographs of Clifton, Mildred's family, University of Washington bands, and Virginia Brownell Harvey
Includes family and travel photographs, negatives, and films of travel
Includes film of Lake Stevens High School, newsreels including World War II, coronation of Elizabeth II, vacation films, and family films