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The Museum of History & Industry sits at 860 Terry Avenue North, in Lake Union Park in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Its store, the MOHAI Mercantile, now carries Washington Wide. The Mercantile sells gifts, books, toys, jewelry and souvenirs from more than 100 local authors and artists. The MOHAI Mercantile Manager, Stacie Ford-Bonnelle, took the book in.
The museum grew out of the Seattle Historical Society, incorporated on January 8, 1914. The society itself came from a Founder’s Day ball that Morgan and Emily Carkeek hosted on November 13, 1911. The museum opened in February 1952 in Montlake, near the Washington Park Arboretum. It moved to its current home in December 2012.
That home is the former Naval Reserve Armory, built in 1941 and 1942 and designed by B. Marcus Priteca with William R. Grant. It was an advanced training school for the Naval Reserve until 1998. The collection is built largely on photographs. It includes most of the roughly 300,000 images the Seattle Post-Intelligencer donated, along with maps, manuscripts and a Boeing B-1 floatplane.
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover of panoramic film photographs from 30+ years across Washington State, shot on Fuji Velvia 50. Randy Lewis, a Colville elder and storyteller, wrote the foreword. It is $59.99 at washingtonwide.com, with free shipping in the contiguous US.