Projects & Presentations
We know where the stories are buried
Clients
Invisible Histories is part of the Mouth of Duwamish Facilities program consultant team for King County Wastewater Treatment Division, providing research and recommendations for public historical engagement. King County's Mouth of Duwamish Wet Weather Facilities will reduce overflows from 5 combined sewer outfalls where the Duwamish River meets Elliott Bay. In 2024, Invisible Histories developed a research plan, contacted archives, cultural and heritage organizations, and produced a research dossier of photos, documents and themes to implement during future phases of the project.
Below is a section of the research report and presentation. Additional work samples are available upon request.
Potter's Field Reports and Presentations
Click here to see the 2025 MOHAI History Cafe event (January 15, 2025)
Researchers Elke and Cari share how they uncovered the mysteries surrounding the Duwamish Cemetery aka The Potter's Field. The presentation shares the Potter's Field history and a few stories of some of those buried in the Potter's Field, most notably Ingo Singh (1868-1908), possibly one of the first of the Sikh religion in Seattle, and Thomas Blanck (1870-1895), the "Jesse James of the Pacific NW."
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Elke Hautala and Cari Simson led archival research, historic newspapers, and other documents to uncover the truth about what happened to the Duwamish Cemetery, aka the "lost" Potter's Field. They presented at the 2023 Pacific Northwest Historians Guild in September 2023 - you can watch the video of their presentation here, and learn about the Guild here.
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Contact us for a link to our report (2023): "The Duwamish Cemetery: Georgetown's Potter's Field."​
Performance and Audiovisual
Click here to see the 2025 MOHAI History Cafe event (January 15, 2025)
Researchers Elke and Cari share how they uncovered the mysteries surrounding the Duwamish Cemetery aka The Potter's Field.
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Click here to view the "Potter's Field Seance" filmed during the 2023 Georgetown Haunted History Tour. Madame Victoria (played by creator Elke Hautala) invites you into her 1916 parlor to commune with the spirits from Seattle's "lost" Potter's Field.
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Click here to check out our "Walking Tour Glimpse" video, available on Foghi's Youtube channel. This idea will be developed in 2024 - stay tuned!​
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Click here to watch Elke Hautala's short video from 2022, "3,260 Souls," about the Duwamish Cemetery or "Potter's Field." How does one feel and experience what has been "lost" to history? This is an audiovisual exploration of visibility, marginalization and the damage wrought by industrialization at any cost.
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Media
Click here to see the video of the Divine Deconstruction event from February 4, 2025. Recorded by Clay Eals
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Click here to read the HistoryLink essay, "Duwamish Cemetery (1876-1912)," published on May 17, 2024, about the Potter's Field, by Phil Dougherty.
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Click here to read the March 7, 2024 South Seattle Emerald article, "Invisible Histories Podcast Unearths Forgotten Histories of South Seattle."
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Click here to read the February 12, 2024 Georgetown Gazette article, "Seattle-based podcast highlights lost stories of Georgetown"
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Click here to read the October 26, 2023 Seattle Met article, "The Toxic Legacy of Seattle's Lost Cemetery"
Click here to watch the King5 Evening segment February 23, 2023, "What Happened to the Remains of 3,260 People?"