WAURooseveltEleanorSeattleVisitPHColl1215.xmlGuide to the Eleanor Roosevelt Visit to Seattle Photographs March 24, 1938Roosevelt (Eleanor) Visit to Seattle PhotographsSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries2023 (Last modified: 7/7/2023)
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University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH1215Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962Eleanor Roosevelt Visit to Seattle photographsMarch 24, 193821 photographs (1 folder)Collection materials are in English.Photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt visiting local Works Progress Administration sites during trip to Seattle in 1938

Photographs from Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Seattle in March, 1938, during which she visited several local sites related to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), including the local Household Service Demonstration Project house, a Federal Art Project exhibit, a West Seattle recreation center, a Boy Scout Camp, and a flood control project featuring a model of the Puyallup river. Roosevelt is accompanied in several images by her daughter Anna, who worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer during this period.

The Household Service Demonstration Project, initiated as part of the WPA in July 1937, was designed to train women for domestic employment, with instruction in cooking, table setting, child care, laundry, budgeting, and cleaning. Demonstration sites were located in several cities across the United States; in Seattle the project ran classes out of a house located at 1708 Interlaken Blvd, where trainees worked under the auspices of the National Youth Administration (NYA), another New Deal-era agency. The Household Service Demonstration Project lasted until January 1942 and trained thousands of women.

Photographs in the collection are arranged by date in accordance with details in Roosevelt's national syndicated newspaper column My Day , one of the few complete chronicles of her public actions. See the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project for further details and digitized versions of My Day .

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Transferred from Portrait Collection, PH563, 2022.

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11Street view of the Household Service Demonstration Service Project house at 1708 Interlaken Blvd, SeattleMarch 23, 1938

Title typed on verso: The Household Service Demonstration Service Project home. 35 girls are trained under qualified instructors in housemaking, for placement in private homes.

12Members of the National Youth Association (NYA) setting table for lunch at the Seattle House Service Demonstration Project houseMarch 23, 193813Eleanor Roosevelt and other guests during lunch at the Seattle Household Service Demonstration Project houseMarch 23, 1938 14National Youth Association (NYA) trainees June Bickhart and Norene Fulling serving lunch for Eleanor Roosevelt and guests at the Seattle Household Service Demonstration Poject houseMarch 23, 1938

Figures indentified on verso (left to right): Mrs. F.F. Powell, city councilwoman; Mrs. Don G. Abel; Mrs. Michael Patterson, P.T.A (Parent Teachers Association); Don G. Abel, state administrator, WPA (Works Progress Administration).

15National Youth Association (NYA) trainees June Bickhart and Norene Fulling serving lunch for Eleanor Roosevelt and guests at the Seattle Household Service Demonstration Poject houseMarch 23, 1938

Figures indentified on verso (left to right): Mrs. F.F. Powell, city councilwoman; Mrs. Don G. Abel; Mrs. Michael Patterson, P.T.A (Parent Teachers Association).

16Eleanor Roosevelt being served by June Bickhart, National Youth Association (NYA) member, at the Seattle Household Service Demonstration HouseMarch 23, 193817Eleanor Roosevelt and Don G. Abel, Works Progress Administration state administratior, conversing during lunch at the Seattle Household Service Demonstration Service Project houseMarch 23, 193818House cleaning lesson at the Seattle Household Demonstration Service Project houseMarch 23, 1938

Typed on verso: Supervisor instructs student in proper use of rug cleaner.

19NYA trainee being instructed in dusting at the Seattle Household Demonstration Service Project houseMarch 23, 1938

Typed on verso: Appointment and decoration receive due attention.

110Unidentified National Youth Association (NYA) trainee hanging laundry at the Seattle Household Demonstration Service Project houseMarch 23, 1938

Typed on verso: Completely equipped laundry in basement of practice home and ample drying facilities allow adequate instruction in home service.

111Unidentified National Youth Association (NYA) trainee working at a stove in the Seattle Household Demonstration Service Project houseMarch 23, 1938

Typed on verso: Emphasis is placed on cookery and operaton of culinary equipment.

112Eleanor Roosevelt delivering a speech in front of large portrait of President Franklin D. RooseveltMarch 24, 1938

Title typed on verso: Mrs. Roosevelt addresses the W.P.A (Works Progress Administration) administrative staff.

Photograph appears to be a composite image with background portrait of President Roosevelt added.

113Eleanor Roosevelt addressing local staff of the Works Progress AdministrationMarch 24, 1938

Image has a cut-out portion behind the central figure.

114Eleanor Roosevelt inspecting a model ship alongside Don G. Abel, state administrator for the Works Progress Administration, R. Bruce Inverarity, Washington state director of the Federal Arts Project (FAP), and her daughter, Anna Boettiger, as part of a local Federal Arts Project displayMarch 25, 1938

The model ship is described on the verso as the Discovery

115Eleanor Roosevelt and R. Bruce Inverarity, Washington state director of the Federal Arts Project (FAP) conversingMarch 25, 1938116Eleanor Roosevelt standing next to a model of the ship Discovery at a local Federal Arts Project displayMarch 25, 1938117Eleanor Roosevelt planting a tree alongside Don G. Abel, state administrator for the Works Progress Administration, and Dean Hugo Winkenwrider, University of Washington College of Forestry, in the ArboretumMarch 25, 1938118Eleanor Roosevelt and Don G. Abel, state administrator for the Works Progress Administration, inspect the West Seattle golf course and recreation FieldMarch 25, 1938119Eleanor Roosevelt and Don G. Abel, state administrator for the Works Progress Administration, standing in front of a minature Puyallup river built as part of the University of Washington flood control project. March 25, 1938

Composite photograph with imagery from item 18.

120Eleanor Roosevelt visiting a Boy Scout Recreation Camp with Ben Evans, Seattle Park Department, Don G. Abel, her daughter, Anna Boettiger, and other unidentified figuresMarch 26, 1938121Eleanor Roosevelt sampling fruits at a frozen food laboratory alongside her daughter, Anna BoettigerMarch 26, 1938