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English: Bertha K. Landes, former member of the Soroptimist Club of Seattle, ca. 1920s   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: McBride and Anderson
Title
English: Bertha K. Landes, former member of the Soroptimist Club of Seattle, ca. 1920s
Description
English: Bertha Knight Landes was the first female mayor of Seattle. She was born in Ware, Massachusetts. She attended Indiana University and moved to Seattle with her husband Henry Landes in 1895. Landes was prominent in civil activism, she served as president of the Washington State chapter of the League of Women Voters and organized the Women's City Club in 1922. That same year Landes was elected to Seattle City Council, and in 1926 she was elected mayor. She was a charter member of the Seattle Soroptimist Club and was the second president of the Soroptimist Federation of the Americas [now Soroptimist International] in 1930. Landes died in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

PH Coll 1037.2-3

  • Subjects (LCSH): Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943; Women--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits; Mayors--Washington (State)--Seattle--Portraits
Depicted place Seattle
Date circa 1925
date QS:P571,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1279
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English: Portraits Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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POR1274

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