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Photograph
Group of men on Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway line, 1887
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway extended from the waterfront along the northern shore of Lake Union and then to the north side of Lake Washington, eventually reaching Snoqualmie Falls. In this photo, a group of investors inspect the progress of the line on the way to Woodinville. Colonel A. B. Rogers stands in the center foreground with white…
ID Number:2016.81.10
Date:1887
Photograph
Bowling teammates posing together at tournament, Seattle, 1954
In 1954, Seattle hosted the country's then-largest sporting event, the 51st Annual American Bowling Congress Open Tournament, at the Seattle Field Artillery Armory, a building now known as the Seattle Center Armory. The tournament opened on March 20 and consisted of 95,000 games played over 45 days on 32 alleys. Over 3,000 teams made up of 16,000 players competed for…
ID Number:2016.82.6
Date:1954
Photograph
Jimmy Adams Band, Portland, Oregon, December 1934
Brothers James E. “Jimmy” Adams, Jr. (1909-1937) and Robert W. “Wayne” Adams (1912-1986) grew up in Seattle’s Central District. The Adams brothers started playing music as children, with Jimmy on trumpet and Wayne on saxophone. They attended Garfield High School, and both were already accomplished musicians before graduation. Jimmy’s 1927 yearbook entry lists “music” and “Leader of the Band” as…
ID Number:2016.84.2.7.2
Date:1934
Photograph
Earl Whaley's Orchestra photo collage, circa 1937
Many American jazz musicians traveled to Shanghai during the city's golden age in the 1930s, when "the Paris of the Orient" was the newest horizon on an increasingly international jazz music scene. For Black musicians, who were often excluded from white musicians' unions in the U. S. and subjected to other forms of segregation, Shanghai provided steady, well-paid work, and…
ID Number:2016.84.2.10.2
Date:Circa 1937
Program
Seattle Totems program, 1967
The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise in the Pacific Coast Hockey League (later Western Hockey League or WHL) from 1944-1974 and in the Central Hockey League for the 1974-1975 season. The Totems won three WHL Lester Patrick Cup championships: 1959, 1967, and 1968.The appropriation of Indigenous names for professional sports teams has been popular since the 19th…
ID Number:2017.19.1
Date:1967
Poster
Seattle Reign poster with autographs, 1998-1999
The American Basketball League (ABL), the first women's professional basketball league, started in 1996 with the Seattle Reign as one of its charter member teams. Midway through its third season on December 22, 1998, the ABL suspended operations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, due to poor attendance, lack of sponsorship, and competition from the Women's National Basketball Association…
ID Number:2017.23.4
Date:1998
Poster
Phinney Neighborhood Farmers Market poster, Seattle, June 3 - September 30, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.2
Date:2016
Poster
Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets poster, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.6
Date:2016
Poster
Columbia City Farmers Market poster, Seattle, May 2 - October 17, 2007
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.9
Date:2007
Cartographic material
Operation Northwest Passage, Seattle Civil Defense Corps, July 10, 1951
World War II, which ended with the atomic bombing of Japan, was followed by the period known as the Cold War, a rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Fearing the spread of communism and the possibility of Russian nuclear attack, the U. S. organized and promoted an active nationwide civil defense program. The Seattle Civilian Defense Corps created…
ID Number:2018.3.1
Date:1951