1312 results for: Seattle Center
Cartographic material
Business District of Seattle, circa 1940
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910, Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.13
Date:Circa 1940
Cartographic material
Open Space Proposed Zoning Map, Seattle, December 1985
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the City of Seattle showed interest in purposefully growing the city. In 1903 the city contracted the Olmsted Brothers to create a comprehensive Seattle park and boulevard system, and in 1910 hired Virgil G. Bogue to prepare a strategic plan. The Seattle Zoning Commission was created in 1920 to divide the city into…
ID Number:2019.3.19
Date:1985
Cartographic material
Condemnation of Lane Street et al Establishing Grades map, Seattle, July 1916
Starting in 1897 and continuing through 1930, the topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades. An estimated 50 tons of earth removed from the city's hills were moved into the tide flats and other low areas, and into Elliott Bay.In June 1916, a bill was passed for the condemnation of property for changing and establishing…
ID Number:2019.3.21
Date:1916
Poster
Philippine Independence Day Celebration, Seattle, June 13-14, 1981
Since the 1950s, the Philippines Council in Seattle has celebrated the anniversary of Philippine independence from Spain in June 1898 with a reception or festival. This poster advertises the 1981 Philippine Independence Day Celebration, sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General and the Filipino-American Intercommunity Council of the Pacific Northwest, with an abstracted sunset behind a silhouette of palm trees. The…
ID Number:2019.3.36
Date:1981
Poster
Festival Sundiata poster, Seattle, September 25-27, 1981
Started in 1981, Festival Sundiata is a festival of Northwest African American visual and performing arts held at the Seattle Center. Since 1997, Festival Sundiata has been part of the Seattle Center's Festal season, which celebrates various ethnic and international communities in the Seattle region.This poster advertises the first Festival Sundiata with a photo of a sculpture by James Washington,…
ID Number:2019.3.37
Date:1981
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Farhat Ziadeh, January 18, 2002
This interview with Farhat Ziadeh, the founder of the Jackson School’s Middle East Center and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Washington, was conducted by Margaret Kraushaar for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project on January 18, 2002. He was an eminent scholar of Islamic law, a barrister, an Arabic grammarian, a leading…
ID Number:2019.35.1.72
Date:2002
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Jon Kertzer, July 31, 2002
Interview with Jon Kertzer with Jessah Foulk for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project on July 31, 2002. Kertzer was the Director of Smithsonian Global Sound with the Smithsonian Center for Folk Life and Cultural Heritage at the time of this interview. He explains his work on Microsoft’s pioneering Encarta and similar encyclopedia projects, which combined audio…
ID Number:2019.35.6.10
Date:2002
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Dawn Trudeau, July 29, 2002
Interview with Dawn Trudeau by Jessah Foulk on July 29, 2002 for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project. Trudeau was a retired information technology executive at the time of this interview. She was an early employee of Microsoft, where she worked from 1984 to 1988. She is now a co-owner of the WNBA's Seattle Storm and chairs…
ID Number:2019.35.6.13
Date:2002
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Steve Greaves, July 1, 2007
Interview with Steve Greaves about his experiences at Lake Union, conducted by Shelly Leavens at the Center for Wooden Boats Festival for the Memories of Lake Union Oral History Project in July 2007. Copyright Agreement: YesDigitized: YesTranscript: Yes, .pdf and .doc files on server (final), plus hard copy in admin file
ID Number:2019.35.12.7
Date:2007
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Dan Grinstead, July 1, 2007
Interview with Dan Grinstead about his experiences at Lake Union, conducted by Shelly Leavens at the Center for Wooden Boats Festival for the Memories of Lake Union Oral History Project in July 2007. Copyright Agreement: YesDigitized: YesTranscript: Yes, .pdf and .doc files on server (final), plus hard copy in admin file
ID Number:2019.35.12.8
Date:2007