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Image of Swift Packing Company employees, September 19, 1956
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Swift Packing Company employees, September 19, 1956

In 1855, 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts, and in 1875, the successful Swift and Company meatpacking business was incorporated in Chicago. In 2007, Swift & Co. was purchased by JBS USA Holdings, Inc. and continues as of 2019 as the Swift Trade Group of JBS.Around 1910, Swift & Co. built a branch meat-processing plant…
ID Number:2013.108.3
Date:1956
Image of The Igloo menu, circa 1950
Menu

The Igloo menu, circa 1950

The Igloo was located at the southeast corner of 6th Ave. and Denny Way in Seattle. Its vernacular roadside architecture consisted of two igloos with an ice tunnel door between them. When it opened in 1940, motorists used Denny Way to enter onto Aurora Avenue, the city's main north to south highway. The Igloo closed in the mid-1950s after the…
ID Number:2014.3.1.12
Date:Circa 1950
Image of Sweet Treats by Foremost Washington Cooks, circa 1952
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Sweet Treats by Foremost Washington Cooks, circa 1952

U and I (Utah-Idaho) Sugar Company maintained several sugar plants in Washington State during the 20th century. By the late 1970s, the U & I brand would disappear, with the last Washington plant, in Moses Lake, closing in 1978. This U and I recipe booklet contains recipes for sweets, submitted by regional home economics editors and food specialists at local…
ID Number:2014.3.2.18
Date:Circa 1952
Image of John Lennon on guitar at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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John Lennon on guitar at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

Seattle was the third stop on the Beatles first official world tour in 1964. On the evening of August 21, the Fab Four played to a crowd of more than 14,000 enthusiastic fans in the Coliseum at Seattle Center. Young freelance photographer and Seattle native Timothy Eagan had managed to get a press pass from family friend Ed Donohoe, editor…
ID Number:2014.14.123
Date:1964
Image of John Lennon performing at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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John Lennon performing at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

Nineteen-year-old Seattle native Timothy Eagan was right up near the stage when he shot this photograph of John Lennon playing his Rickenbacker 325 guitar during the Beatles concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum. The lucky teenager had gotten a press pass from family friend Ed Donohoe, editor of the Washington Teamster newspaper, giving him an amazing opportunity to practice the…
ID Number:2014.14.236
Date:1964
Image of John Lennon performing during the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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John Lennon performing during the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

When the Beatles performed at the Seattle Center Coliseum in August 1964, nineteen-year-old photographer Timothy Eagan had an enviable view of the group from the edge of the stage. This vantage point gave Eagan the opportunity to photograph the four lads at relatively close range, as in this shot of Beatles founding member John Lennon. Eagan shot three rolls of…
ID Number:2014.14.241
Date:1964
Image of Ringo Starr performing at the Beatles concert in Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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Ringo Starr performing at the Beatles concert in Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

On August 21, 1964, the Beatles gave their first concert in Washington State, to more than 14,000 screaming fans at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Nineteen-year-old photographer and Seattle native Timothy Eagan found himself near the edge of the stage, thanks to a press pass from a family friend. The young photographer shot three rolls of film of the concert that…
ID Number:2014.14.250
Date:1964
Image of Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing at the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing at the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

When the Beatles performed in Seattle on the third stop of their first official world tour, nineteen-year-old Timothy Eagan pushed his way to the edge of the stage to get photos of the band, such as this classic shot of Paul McCartney and John Lennon singing together at one microphone. Eagan, who grew up in the Queen Anne neighborhood of…
ID Number:2014.14.253
Date:1964
Image of Ringo Starr performing at the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
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Ringo Starr performing at the Beatles concert at Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

When the Beatles came to Seattle on the third stop of their first official world tour, teenager Timothy Eagan made good use of the press pass given to him by a family friend. Eagan shot three rolls of film from his position at the edge of the stage, including a number of individual portraits of each musician, such as this…
ID Number:2014.14.362
Date:1964
Image of John Lennon performing at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
Photograph

John Lennon performing at the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964

When the Beatles performed at the Seattle Center Coliseum in August 1964, nineteen-year-old freelance photographer Timothy Eagan had an enviable view of the "Fab Four" from the edge of the stage. Eagan, who grew up in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, went on to work for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before pursuing a professional photography career in New York City.…
ID Number:2014.14.363
Date:1964
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