University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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roni that day in 1897 when a low-wallow- ing, heavily-laden ship plowed from the Far North to the nearest and best port, cargoed with a ton of gold, Seattle has been the main port for in-and-out Alaska commerce — the Gateway to Alaska. The growth of Seattle began in earnest dur- ing those Gold Rush days from a small town on Puget Sound of «,000 in 1890. to a bus- tling community of 80,000 in 1900, a boom city of 237,000 in 1910, and forty years later the roaring metropolis of half a million — a main channel of trade, commerce and trans- portation of the nation. In this booming city a university had been established. This university was to expand as the city expanded, grow as the trade between the city and the Far North grew. And this 1950 TvKK.with an Alaskan theme, commemorates the growth and development of the Alaskan territory and the ever-strength- ening ties which bind the University of Wasli- ington with the Far North. We of the 1950 staff not only have attempted to publish the fifty-first edition of a yearbook reflecting the many activities of the school year, but also to bind this yearly record with a timely and artistic theme, a .SOO-page thread stretching from cover to cover. Our thread — Alaska.

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