Saturday Speaker Series — A Historical Tour of Washington State in 75 Documents
Sat, Mar 08
|Old Redmond Schoolhouse
Please note this is an in person program. A recording will be available following the event.
Time & Location
Mar 08, 2025, 10:30 AM
Old Redmond Schoolhouse, 16600 NE 80th St, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
About the Event
This presentation showcases diaries, correspondence, postcards, maps, patent drawings, labels, advertisements, works of art, posters, and periodicals from the 1850s up to 2000. All the documents are interesting visually but after 1880, they are very colorful and they “show” rather than “tell” the history of Washington from a unique perspective. Lorraine will also brief us on her current research, concerning desertion from the Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy, on the Pacific Coast, 1850–1865―including one of the founders of Bothell!
Speaker Bio:
Lorraine McConaghy earned her doctorate in U.S. history at the University of Washington, and has spent her career developing exhibits and programs at museums from Seattle’s MOHAI to the Lemelson Center for Innovation, in Washington, DC. She has published numerous articles in scholarly and popular journals, and also published with Sasquatch Press, Washington State University Press, and the University of Washington Press. She is currently teaching a class in historical research…