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Henry Lancelot Broderick was a Seattle realtor, civic leader, memoirist, and historian. Broderick was born to Irish immigrants Lawrence and Mary Broderick (née Cronin) in 1880 as one of 10 children in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended public school until age 13 after which he began work and was later in his life given an honorary law degree from Seattle University in 1966.
Broderick married Mary Barclay and moved to Seattle in 1901 when he was 21 years old, and during the next ten years he successfully established himself as an expert in Seattle real estate. In 1908, founded his own real estate firm, Henry Broderick, Inc. He remained president of the company until 1965 and then served as its chairman until 1969, when the firm was sold to Coldwell Banker. Henry Broderick, Inc. became the city's largest real estate firm and one of its largest property management firms. He used his natural talents in advertising and real estate to rise quickly in management for John Davis & Company. In 1908 he left to start his own business, Henry Broderick, Inc. One of his major clients during those early years was Union Pacific Railroad, for which Broderick managed a four or five man team and led their Seattle land purchases during the height of the railroad boom in 1906. According to the
Henry and Mary Broderick did not have children but had numerous godsons and goddaughters as well as local artists and children that they would mentor and considered family. Henry Broderick had at least five goddaughters over his life including Henrietta (Henri) Ruef, May Lee (née Su Hwa), and Gina Funes. Broderick was a longtime mentor and close friend of Seattle University's 15th president Father A. A. Lemieux. As a promintent local historian, businessman, philanthropist he was close friends with many prominent artists, civic leaders and politicians such as Corinna Mura, A.A. Lemieux, Ted Roethke, and Warren G. Manguson.
Although best known as a businessman and civic leader, Broderick was also a popular local historian, memoirist, writer, and poet. Broderick wrote aobut his experiences and his political views, resulting in publications such as "The HB Story" and "Timepiece" as well as yearly chapbooks from 1932-1975 of news articles and thoughts distributed to friends and family at Christmas through Dogwood Press. Broderick kept detailed scrapbooks and diaries from 1939 to the month of his death in 1975 covering his social life, business, sports, music, theater, and news.
From the outset of his career, Broderick, a Roman Catholic, refused to participate in real estate covenants against Jews. He adopted this policy as early as his time at John Davis and Company: around 1904 he refused to have the firm manage a large apartment complex that excluded Jews. Many Jewish entrepreneurs had professional contact with Henry Broderick as he was a major player in Seattle's growth and real estate market. Seattle had become a Jewish center in Washington State for the influx of Eastern European immigrants during the late 1880s and early 1900s. Some profited from the Alaska-Yukon gold rush and contributed to the economic development of Seattle as well. Jewish families purchased and/or rented property from Broderick beginning in his early years. Broderick's honesty in his business dealings and his consistency in management policies and rates contributed to his large, lucrative, well-run organization. His respectful treatment of Jews gained him enough trust that many Jewish families continued their professional relationship with him until his death in 1975, including an honor at the 1959 National Conference for Christians and Jews (NCCJ) now known as the National Conference for Community and Justice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Conference_for_Community_and_Justice
Collection materials includes a tape recorded interview of Henry Lancelot Broderick conducted by Meta Kaplan and Karyl Winn in 1974, as well as a transcript and medal. The majority of the collection contains a large selection of personal journals, ledgers, scrapbooks, publications, photographic prints and correspondence recorded by Henry Broderick during the last 77 years of his life, with a memorial booklet and card printed after his passing.
The majority of materials span the years 1952 to his death in 1975, where Broderick would record near daily annotations on his social life, work, and events and persons of interest, including many of Broderick's close friends, family, goddaughters, godsons, as well as major politicians, artists, and celebrities of the time periods in a yearly scrapbook. Materials of particular focus within the scrapbooks include invitations, telegrams, and greeting cards describing his social events such as formal luncheons, dinners, awards, board meetings, dedication ceremonies, commencement, charity auctions, art gallery openings and previews, concert, or theater performances. Many of these events are recorded and annotated with photos, descriptions of the occasion, table arrangements and guest lists along with often full menus, and event programs or pamphlets. The collection also includes numerous photographic prints from a variety of luncheons, press, and dinner table photos alongside personal photos of politicians, celebrities, close friends, and family.
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Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries for oral history transcript(s) and recording. Remaining analog materials copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.
A microfilm copy of one of Broderick's scrapbooks is available through
Henry Broderick's annual Christmas chapbooks, compilations, and other publications can be found in
This veteran realtor gives background on Jewish families and individuals his firm has represented. He describes the financial aid given by Jacob Furth, pioneer Seattle banker to Alfred Shemanski, later a Seattle Jewish philanthropist. He mentions the Concordia Club, a primarily Jewish social club where Jacob Furth and others played poker. He acknowledges discrimination against Jews in the early part of the century, in particular that they sometimes had difficulty getting loans and that some landlords would not accept them as tenants. His protest of an instance of this latter form of discrimination brought him a lot of business from Jews. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings detailing Brodericks's real estate deals, 1904-1910.
Materials of particular focus within the scrapbooks include invitations, telegrams, and greeting cards describing his social events such as formal luncheons, dinners, awards, board meetings, dedication ceremonies, commencement, charity auctions, art gallery openings and previews, concert, or theater performances. Many of these events are recorded and annotated with photos, descriptions of the occasion, table arrangements and guest lists along with often full menus, and event programs or pamphlets. Included are also records of more personal engagements such as christenings, thank you cards and congratulation messages, marriages, funerals, births, personal correspondence, and responses to Broderick's frequent political editorials in local papers dealing with personal profiles, topics of liquor sales, city regulations, nuclear energy, war, communism, trade shows and expositions, prison, crime, and capital punishment, real estate sales and historical buildings, and early Seattle reflections. Broderick also documented extensively the careers and lives of his at least 5 god-daughters, including May Lee, Gina Funes and Henrietta (Henri) Ruef, as well as other close friends, staff, and proteges such as Gayle Matzen, Corinna Mura, Don McKeta, Phoebe Samonte, Charlotte Groshell, Ted Roethke, Father A.A. Lemieux, Alfred Shemanski, Dr. Su Jan Lee, Dr. Virginia Scholl, Odette Trujillo Ricardo, Joshua Green, Dan Starr, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, Ed Donahoe, John Callaghan, and others.
Other scrapbook materials include train, plane and event tickets, newspaper clippings, poems, sample of Broderick's publications, telegrams, photographic prints, historical menus with pricing, personal annotations, auction listings, postcards and invitations, obituary and funerary cards and speeches, financial reports and ledgers, and articles and correspondences related to theater, music, fine arts, boxing, horse racing, and harmonica recitals.
Correspondence, annotations, or invitations from government officials are also included such as from ambassadors and representatives from Russia, The Republic of China, Canada, Ethiopia, Ireland, France, Canada, and Korea. Invitations for events including military naval ship dedications and exercises are included alongside invitations and correspondence regarding luncheons, dinners, or correspondence for presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. Broderick was also close friends with Warren G. Magnuson and many Seattle mayors including Allen Pomeroy and correspondence with them is included.
Details of his time as a Seattle University regent, and board member of the Seattle First National Bank and Broderick Inc. as well as various art commissions and real estate boards are included. Award ceremony details for events he attended such as the Seattle First Citizens, and Seattle University Economic Statesmanship award are included along annual charity auctions like the Poncho auction are included. Dedications and details of funding and unveiling of major buildings including the Fred Hutch Research Center, Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Temple De Hirsch Sinai, many Seattle University Buildings and occasions such as the Century 21 Exposition, of which Broderick was a board member of.
Photographic prints in the collection include many luncheons, press, and dinner table photos alongside personal photos, such as those with Seattle Mayor Allen Pomeroy, Pat Bishop, Gayle Matzen, Joshua Green, John Callaghan, Ed Donahoe, Pat Suzuki, Alfred Shemanski, Charlotte Groshell, Ted Roethke, Dr. Virginia Scholl, Odette Trujillo, John Reddin, Don McKeta, Bill Boeing, Joe Swalwell, Lawrence Arnold, Wilbur Scruby, Judge Findlay,, William L. Lindberg, Warren G. Magnuson, Dan Starr, Ed Donahoe, Jean and Don Brunni, Cornelius (Connie) Byrne, Robert A. Banks, Judge Malcolm Douglas, Priscilla and Howard Ellis, and others. Many photos include annotations on the photo facing with names and associated careers. Many wedding and baby photos are also included such as those for the 25th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Sanches or marriage of friends Phoebe Samonte as well as Dr. Su Jan Lee and May Lee. An assortment of personal and vacation photos of Henry, Mary Broderick, and Gayle Matzen are also included, including many from Mr. and Mrs. Broderick's 50th wedding anniversary.
Publications of Henry Broderick's include a gift copy of "The HB Story" with additional correspondence to relative Bill Gannon alongside personal articles such as "The Shoveler", "Lines to an Irish Girl", and samples of his yearly Christmas booklets to friends and family published through Dogwood Press.
Financial ledgers include transaction details relating to Broderick's real estate business during the years of 1909-1911.
Apart from extensive newspaper clippings from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Seattle Times and The Sunday Times, the scrapbook collection contains clippings from various local and national publications including The Seattle University Magazine, The Puget Sounder, The Daily Journal of Commerce, The Capitol Hill Times, The Argus, The Snoqualmie Valley Record, The Daily Racing Forum, The Catholic Northwest Progress, Puget Soundings Magazine, The Seattle Guide, Western Jesuit Magazine, Time Magazine, Seattle University Alumni Magazine ("The Chieftain"), The Washington Teamster, Cascade Magazine, The Age of Achievement. Broderick also collected local press from various regional or small print papers which covered friends and family or his writing such as The Evening Sun, The Albertan, The Minneapolis Star, The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, and the Paahao Press.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the dedication and construction of Seattle University's Marycrest Hall, Puget Poet awards, the career of Corinna Mura and photographic print of her daughter Kiki's 1955 marriage, The China Club of Seattle's New Year luncheon, political editorials and responses surrounding J. Robert Oppenheimer's ban from the University of Washington, Seattle University's 1955 Economic Statesmanship Award for William E. Boeing, a copy of a 1907 photographic print of Henry Broderick's father, nieces and nephews in an automobile, and a photographic print of Roscoe "Torchy" Torrance, Henry Broderick and Father A. A. Lemieux at a police banquet.
Includes correspondence and articles regarding the release of Broderick's 1953 book "Timepiece" which was sent to friends and family as well as many prominent figures. Also includes photographs from Joe Swalwell's 80th birthday party.
Includes five years of personal brief diary entries recording largely visits and social events. A small lock is on the jacket with key in the back of volume.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include daily activities and theater performances and ticket stubs including those by Judy Garland, a photographic print of Seattle Mayor Allen Pomeroy, Captain Harald Fritzner, and Henry Broderick, as well as a visit from Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie with a photographic print of the emperor and an autograph from Selassie's granddaughter Seble Desta.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a collection of historical restaurant and event menus, correspondence with Father A. A. Lemieux, correspondence with President Harry S. Truman in response to a gift of Henry Broderick's "The Shoveler", the wedding of longtime friend Dr. Su Jan Lee and May Lee and photographic print of the wedding party, the Puget Poet awards and other local poetry, and a large variety of local sporting, musical and theatrical events.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the 1956 Seattle First Citizen Award for Reverend A. A. Lemieux, an exhibition at Tai Tung Cafe by god-daughter May Lee and Dr. Su Jan Lee, correspondence with first archbishop of Seattle Thomas A. Connolly, luncheons for filmmaker Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Auerbach of the F.B.I., an invitation and photographic print of a 25th wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Anches and the death of Jay C. Silverstone's widow, Esther Silverstone.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the death and memorial of Mrs. Mary Barclay Broderick, Henry Broderick's use of taxicabs, an award to Broderick for 50 years of real estate service, editorials discussing nuclear testing by Edward Teller, Henry Schmitz and others, the original first admission ticket to the Century 21 Exposition given by Miss Washington Ann Henderson, correspondence with Pat Suzuki and Norm Bobrow, and personal news and gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Su Jan Lee.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the 1959 National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) honoring Mrs. Robert M. Jones and Henry Broderick, Broderick's time on the Washington State Parole Board, donation of a bronze statue of Chief Seattle to Seattle University and Broderick Fountain funding, and a photographic print of Broderick with an elm tree he planted in 1891 in Minneapolis for the first national Arbor Day.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include close friends Charlotte Groshell and Don McKeta, the funeral of Sister Mary Gonzaga, the dedication of Temple De Hirsch Sinai and fundraising for a new Jewish community center, and a commemorative bookmark from the Seattle Public Library, artworks and exhibitions by god-daughter May Lee, Dr. Su Jan Lee's career, correspondence with Father A. A. Lemieux, invitations from the consulates of Japan and the Republic of China, and a magazine featuring a young Henry Broderick.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Henry Broderick's "Common-Sense Control Committee" for liquor sales reform, footballer Don McKeta, correspondence and photographic prints with poet Ted Roethke, The Seattle Day Nursery, Century 21 Exposition planning, artworks by god-daughter May Lee, performances at the Moore Theatre, and a 1959 photographic print of Senator Warren G. Magnuson and friends on Christmas.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a 1933 hand-bound book gifted by Herb Niccolls to Broderick, a permanent exhibit of Pacific Northwest authors by the Seattle Public Library, a postcard invitation to visit the world's first nuclear powered passenger cargo ship Savannah, an invitation and program to First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 American Pageant of the Arts, original fair pamphlet to the 1962 Century 21 Exposition alongside other fair events, images, and activity booklets.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a Seattle University Alumni Service award for Judge Malcolm Douglas, an invitation from protege and baroque harpsichord musician Neil Roberts, a profile on Henrietta (Henri) Ruef, the KIRO 7 1962 Outstanding Citizenship Awards, the 12th International Trade Fair reception, Ted Roethke's Death and president John F. Kennedy's assassination, many local theater, orchestral and dance productions, and a photographic print of an elm tree planted by Broderick in Minneapolis on first Arbor Day in 1895.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Phoebe Samonte and Henrietta (Henri) Ruef's marriages, friendship with Judge Malcolm Douglas, exhibitions and benefit dinners by the Chong Wa Benevolent Association, the 2nd annual Northwest Flower and Garden Festival, the Washington Region National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), a visit from Soviet ambassador and wife Mr. and Mrs. Anatoly Dorbynin, and a Photographic print of banjoist Eddy Peabody and Henry Broderick.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Seattle's regulations for gambling and Sunday liquor sales, the groundbreaking for the Seattle University library, a signed photograph from harpist Heidi Lehwalder, Gina Funes' performances, Alfred Shemanski's 90th birthday, the 1965 April 29th Seattle earthquake, a Seattle Civic Appreciation dinner and pamphlet for Father A. A. Lemieux, University of Washington Huskies matches, and Boxing news about Cassius Clay.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Seattle University's award of an honorary law degree to Henry Broderick, receipt of a plaque gifted from Taiwan delivered by Dr. Su Jan Lee and goddaughter May Lee to Broderick, birth news from Phoebe Samonte and Henrietta (Henri) Ruef, the sale of a 1906 Renault at the annual Poncho auction, details, photographic prints, and pamphlet of an exhibition and art sale by May Lee, Alley Pomeroy's funeral, god-daughter Gina Funes' performances, a friendship with linguist Anna Falkoff, and a 1898 photograph of a football team in Minneapolis Broderick managed.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the Poncho annual charity auction, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's golden jubilee, Ernie Yoris' death alongside Alfred Shemanski's funeral and memorial pamphlet, 1967 Seattle First Citizen award reception for Milton Katims, Gina Funes and Fred Radke's careers, invitations from the consulate of the Republic of China and Canada, as well as a photo of Henry Broderick playing harmonica and of a chapel on the Tohono Oʼodham reservation in New Mexico dedicated to Broderick.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Seattle Post-Intelligencer's 1968 Man of the Year Banquet for Kaye Hall, the funeral of Judge Malcolm Douglas, Charlotte Reese (Groshell) and Eartha Kitt's attendance at a White House luncheon, the dedication of a new KIRO broadcasting building, a luncheon for trustees of The China Club and the Worlds Affair Council, Dinner with Irish ambassador Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Fay, and photographic prints of Broderick Fountain.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include the merger of Henry Broderick Inc. and Coldwell Banker, interviews about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Joshua Green's 100th birthday, the death of Charles B. Lindeman, a full program for the 1969/1970 Seattle Opera season, and correspondence with Louis Lurie, Maurice Chevalier, and J.W. Erlich.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include Broderick's first airplane flight to visit Louis Lurie and Maurice Chevalier, a California art exhibit by May Lee, a 1975 memorial card for Henry Broderick's funeral, correspondence with vice president Spiro Agnew, the publication of The "HB" Story by Henry Broderick, a prized letter from Father A. A. Lemieux, correspondence from Gypsy Rose Lee preceding her death, and various music, fine arts, boxing, college sports and horse-racing news.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a Christmas booklet entitled "Henry's Hats", a large exhibition in Berkeley by May Lee Mok, correspondence with Maurice Chevalier and Gene Austin, interviews with Broderick on business and capital punishment, a "The Heritage of Seattle Hotels" pamphlet, and an award from The Seattle Historical Society to Henry Broderick
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a birthday flight to Minneapolis, the merger of Coldwell Banker and Henry Broderick Inc., the death of Louis R. Lurie, May Lee mural commissions for the opening of Emeryville City Hall, Gina Funes' performances, Henrietta Ruef's family, The death of Maurice Chevalier and his correspondence with Broderick in the days before.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a postcard from Bienvenida Ricardo Martínez, a 1938 rejection letter from The Evening Sun, correspondence with Duke Ellington regarding Gina Funes, groundbreaking for the Fred Hutch Research Center, the career of boxer Boone Kirkman, a harmonica performance by Broderick at North Seattle Community College, a full copy of "The Industrial Illustrator" magazine, and details regarding the transfer of the Broderick Building to Bernie Whitebear, Seattle Indian Services Commission Chairman, for use as a social services center alongside a copy of the presented check.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include a luncheon with the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Expo '74 World's Fair in Spokane, a postcard from Bienvenida Ricardo Martinez asking Broderick to care for her daughter Odette Trujillo Ricardo, correspondence with Emma Veary's husband, the death of a longtime friend Cornelius (Connie) Byrne, an editorial from director of Seattle Symphony Milton Katims on a vote to remove him as well as news regarding boxing events, Gina Funes, and college sports.
Includes personal news, correspondence, and photographic prints. Other topics include art exhibits at the openings of three new offices for Henry Broderick, Inc., a dedication event for the Fred Hutch Research Center, correspondence from Father A. A. Lemieux's and his Golden Jubilee reception, Gina Funes' career, an article about baseball player Babe Ruth's application to a Seattle team, obituaries for Joshua Green.
50th Anniversary wedding scrapbook. Includes congratulatory cards and letters as well as photographic prints of Mary and Henry Broderick and attendees.
Transaction and salary ledger. Contains stock award for Grant Market Company
Transaction and salary ledger.
Transaction and salary ledger.
Signed copy of The "HB" Story for Bill Gannon. Included are newspaper clippings about Broderick's life and correspondence between Broderick and Gannon.
Memorial pamphlet celebrating 100 years since Henry Broderick's birth prepared by Bill Gannon