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<span>From the Burke Museum</span></p><p style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 9px 0pt 3px; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px;"><span>Posted:</span> 15 Dec 2010 09:46 AM PST</p>


Today
 marks the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Washington State 
Museum (later to become the Burke Museum). This picture shows the 
original museum in 1885, home to the museum's founders, the Young 
Naturalists Society. At that time, the University of Washington was 
still located in downtown Seattle:<br><br><a href="http://burkemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/12/burke-museum-is-125-years-old-today.html" target="_blank">http://burkemuseum.blogspot.com/2010/12/burke-museum-is-125-years-old-today.html</a><br clear="all">

<br>Happy Birthday to us!<br>

Posted by: Julia Swan, Communications
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