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DeVry hand-crank "lunchbox" 35mm movie camera #999, ca. 1920s
This camera was used by Burrill C. Johnson who filmed newsreels for Pathé News and owned several movie theaters in Seattle. The Pathé Film Exchange was located at 2025 3rd Ave on what was considered Seattle's "film row". The durable and portable 35mm DeVry Standard Portable Camera was created in 1925 and nicknamed the “lunchbox.”
ID Number:2016.47.1
Date:Circa 1920
Boom box with Fed Ex sticker, owned and used by Rob Castro (R.B. Cummings), ca. 1990s
Rob Castro has been studio owner and operator of ATB Studios since 1997. He has produced beats for Grayskul, an alternative hip hop group from Seattle, and has performed live with Bakudan and the Stanford Prision Experiment. This boom box was featured in MOHAI's "Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop" exhibit in 2016.
ID Number:2016.50.1
Date:Circa 1990-2010
Boom box with graffiti art, "Solid Analog", ca. 1990s
Rob Castro has been studio owner and operator of ATB Studios since 1997. He has produced beats for Grayskul, an alternative hip hop group from Seattle, and has performed live with Bakudan and the Stanford Prison Experiment.
ID Number:2016.50.2
Date:Circa 1990-2010
Red Seattle Post-Intelligencer jacket, ca. 1986
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer started publishing in 1881. In the late 1940s, the newspaper held a nationwide competition for an architect for a new building on Wall Street. The design included a large, revolving globe with an eagle on top, which stood above the entryway. The PI moved again in 1986 and took the globe along to its new location on…
ID Number:2016.72.1
Date:1980-1989
Orange Seattle Post-Intelligencer sales apron, ca. 1950s-1960s
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was one of Seattle's two long-standing print newspapers since 1863, until it switched to online only format in 2009. It was originally founded as the weekly Seattle Gazette. The name changed to the Post-Intelligencer in 1881 when it was merged with the Seattle Post.
ID Number:2016.72.2
Date:Circa 1950-1970
Goodwill Games volunteer badge and pins for Jill Pemberton, 1990
Jill Pemberton was a volunteer at the Goodwill Games in Seattle in 1990. She was stationed at the Sheraton Hotel where she drove special guests, participants and organizers in Turner Broadcasting fleet cars to various places in the city.
ID Number:2016.82.3
Date:1990
Hard hat worn by Don McGaffin of KOMO-TV4 Seattle, ca. 1980
Donald McGaffin was an investigative reporter for KOMO TV and KING TV from 1968-1983.
ID Number:2016.83.1
Date:Circa 1980
Emmy awarded to Charles Royer and Don McGaffin, Co-Producers of "The Bucks Stop Here," 1976
Charles Royer and Donald McGaffin won this Emmy for their investigative reporting into Washington Senate majority leader August Mardesich and his misdealings. The program was titled, "The Buck Stops Here" and was broadcast on KING TV in 1975.
ID Number:2016.83.2
Date:1976
Put n' Take quiz game cards from KOL radio station in Seattle, ca. 1939
These cards were for playing the Put n' Take radio trivia game that was broadcast on Friday nights on the Seattle radio station KOL, ca. 1939. The game was sponsored by Fahey-Brockman, a men's clothier shop at 3rd and Pike in downtown Seattle.
ID Number:2016.102.1
Date:Circa 1939
Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper rack dispenser, ca. 1990s
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was one of Seattle's two long-standing print newspapers since 1863, until it switched to online only format in 2009. At that time the Seattle Times, which continued in its print form, was seen as "winning" the newspaper wars, although the P-I is still known as a more progressive news voice albeit in online-only format. Print newspapers continue…
ID Number:2017.72.1
Date:Circa 1990