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Watercolor illustration, "The Men Cut Shakes," by Parker McAllister, 1948
Parker McAllister (1903 - 1970) was an artist who was most noted for his illustration work at the Seattle Times and on Lucile McDonald's Washington state history texts. This image appears on page 54 of "Washington's Yesterdays, Before There Was a Territory," published in 1953. He worked primarily in watercolor, but was a photographer as well. McAllister illustrated articles written…
ID Number:2008.63.1
Date:1948
Seattle Times newspaper rack, ca. 2000
The Seattle Times started as the Seattle Press-Times in 1891. Seattle attorney Alden J. Blethen bought the newspaper in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times. Over the next century, the newspaper moved to several locations before landing at the current headquarters on Denny Way in 2011. The Seattle Times main competition was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until the P-I…
ID Number:2009.38.1
Date:Circa 2000
Table-top model Sparton television set, 1948
The Hawkins family, who lived in the Skyway neighborhood of Seattle, purchased this television set at a furniture store on Airport Way across from the Renton Airport. The father worked at Boeing, and their daughter, who donated the TV to MOHAI, was eight when the TV was purchased. It was one of the first televisions in that neighborhood in 1948,…
ID Number:2010.56.1
Date:1948
Picket sign from Seattle newspaper strike, 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. Other groups joined the strike including the Teamsters Local 174 and the members of Local 2001 SPEEA IFPTE (International Federation of Professional and Technical…
ID Number:2011.20.2
Date:2000
T-shirt from the Seattle newspaper strike, 2001
This t-shirt was donated by a 15+ year employee of the Seattle Times who participated in the 49-day newspaper strike from November 2000 to January 2001. The strike was voted on by Pacific Northwest Guild members. The Seattle Union Record, featured on the shirt, was originally a local labor newspaper that ran for thirty years from 1899 to 1928. It…
ID Number:2011.20.3
Date:2001
Life-sized cutout figure from the Seattle Newspaper Guild strike, 2000
In November 2000, the members of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild Local 82 went on strike against the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over issues concerning salaries and the use of a merit-based pay system. This cutout figure was constructed and painted by a striker in response to the Seattle Times hiring Vance International, a known union-busting company used…
ID Number:2011.20.6
Date:2000
Bobblehead doll of Dave Niehaus, Seattle Mariners announcer, ca. 2008
"My, oh my!" was one of the most notable catchphrases heard by Seattle Mariners fans and exclaimed by Dave Niehaus (1935-2010) when he was the team's play-by-play announcer from their inaugural season in 1977 to his death after the 2010 season. In 2008, Niehaus was awarded the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters, the Ford C. Frick, by the National…
ID Number:2011.69.1
Date:2008
Travel coffee mug from PEMCO Insurance, featuring Northwest Profile #76: The Super-Long Coffee Orderer, ca. 2012
Local insurance company, PEMCO, produced an advertising campaign featuring a series of quirky Pacific Northwest people. This one highlights Northwest Profile #76: The Super-Long Coffee Orderer, which pokes fun on a coffee travel cup.
ID Number:2012.75.1
Date:2012
Doll from "Wunda Wunda," a Seattle children's television show starring Ruth Prins, and later from Ms. Prins' Magnolia preschool, ca. 1960s-1970s
This doll was used on the "Wunda Wunda" show, and then was later at a preschool in the Magnolia neighborhood where the donor's daughter was able to take her home with her.
ID Number:2013.19.1
Date:1960-1970
Large model of Seattle for 1985 movie, "Trouble in Mind"
Alan Rudolph directed the film, "Trouble in Mind," and he donated these three sections of a larger model of downtown Seattle. In the movie, Kris Kristofferson's character "makes" these models, but they were also used for filming scenes of Seattle. The camera would move along the streets, filming the buildings up close, to give the perspective of being in the…
ID Number:2013.37.1
Date:1984