Author: Eastern Washington Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Spokane County Washington Marriage Licenses, 1891-1903
Author: Eastern Washington Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Marriage Records "B", Spokane County, Washington Territory, May 23, 1888 to Nov. 9, 1891
Author: Marriage Records "B" Spokane County, Washington Territory, May 23, 1888-Nov. 9, 1891
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages :
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Show Town
Author: Holly GeorgePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the more genteel among them worried about its “Wild West” atmosphere. In Show Town, historian Holly George correlates the clash of tastes and sensibilities among Spokane’s theater patrons with a larger shift in values occurring throughout the Inland West—and the nation—during a period of rapid social change. George begins this multifaceted story in 1890, when two Spokane developers built the lavish Auditorium Theater as a kind of advertisement for the young city. The new venue catered to a class of people made wealthy by speculation, railroads, and mining. Yet the refined entertainment the Auditorium offered conflicted with the rollicking shows that played in the town’s variety theaters, designed to draw in the migratory workers—primarily single men—who provided labor for the same industries that made the fortunes of Spokane’s elite. As well-to-do Spokanites attempted to clamp down on the variety theaters, performances at even the city’s more respectable, “legitimate” playhouses began to reflect a movement away from Victorian sensibilities to a more modern desire for self-fulfillment—particularly among women. Theaters joined the debate over modern femininity by presenting plays on issues ranging from woman’s suffrage to shifting marital expectations. At the same time, national theater monopolies transmitted to the people of Spokane new styles and tastes that mirrored larger cultural trends. Lucidly written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of cultural history. By examining one city’s theatrical scene in all its complex dimensions, this book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped the urban American West.
Early Marriages of Spokane County, Washington Territory, 1880-1891
Author: Lorena WildmanSpokane County Marriage Index, 1880-1906
Author: Charles HansenPublisher:
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Guide to Public Vital Statistics Records in Washington
Author: Historical Records Survey (Wash.)Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Spokane County, Washington, Early Birth Records
Author: Vonda Doane DeMerrittPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Spokane County, Washington Early Birth Records
Author: Eastern Washington Genealogcal SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Birth certificates
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Early Wills of Spokane County, Washington, July 7, 1891 to January 1, 1900
Author: Mary SheldonPublisher:
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Category : Spokane County (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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