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KIRO studio engineer James Upthegrove and engineer John Dubuque with radio equipment, Seattle, circa 1955
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.11
Date:Circa 1955
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Exterior of KIRO Radio Station at Federal Old Line Insurance Building, Seattle, circa 1957
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.14
Date:Circa 1957
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KIRO mobile news station wagon parked on mountain road, circa 1942
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.15
Date:Circa 1942
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KIRO engineers Jim Hatfield and Jim Upthegrove working near Lake Washington, 1938
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.17
Date:1938
Ephemera
KIRO Radio poster, Seattle, 1941
Seattle radio station KIRO began broadcasting as KPCB in 1927. By 1937, the station had become KIRO, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had increased its power from 100 to 1000 watts. Around that time, KIRO became Seattle’s official CBS affiliate. In 1941, with the completion of its new 50,000-watt transmitter on Maury Island, KIRO had become one of the…
ID Number:2014.67.132.2
Date:1941
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KIRO Gold Shield Coffee orchestra in studio, circa 1940
Gold Shield Coffee Hour sponsored a number of music programs on KIRO Radio during the 1940s. A 1941 ad in the Seattle Times advertised Gold Shield Coffee "30 minutes of music" with Max Dolin Sunday nights at 9:30, and Max Dolin's Gold Shield Coffee "Good Night" Fridays at 10:45. Dozens of entertainment programs such as the Gold Shield Coffee shows…
ID Number:2014.67.132.4
Date:Circa 1940
Poster
Community Access Cable Television Festival poster, Seattle, November 12-16, 1979
The poster pictured here advertises the Community Access Cable Television Festival, an event held in Seattle by the City of Seattle's Office of Cable Communications. Local viewers were invited to sample programming on and about local access networks. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, November 11, 1979, p. 206.
ID Number:2016.88.1
Date:1979
Kit
Seattle Post-Intelligencer needle book, circa 1905
One type of advertising often distributed by newspapers and other companies during the 20th century was the needle book. Needle books kept the name of the company in full view during mending projects. This Seattle Post-Intelligencer needle book contains a variety of sizes of needles as well as hooks and eyes. The pink section in the center once held straight…
ID Number:2018.3.3.3
Date:Circa 1905
Ephemera
Subscription receipt for Weekly Intelligencer, January 30, 1873
Seattle's oldest newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was founded in 1863 as The Weekly Intelligencer (also known as Seattle Gazette), when the city of Seattle was little more than a sawmill, a few dozen buildings, and a couple of hundred people. In 1881, The Intelligencer merged with The Seattle Post and moved into the newly completed Post building, on the northeast…
ID Number:2018.3.3.94
Date:1973
Serial
Helix, vol. 1, no. 5, centerfold, Seattle, June 6, 1967
Seattle’s first underground newspaper, “Helix,” was published in March 1967. Inspired by similar papers in New York City, San Francisco, and Berkeley, the paper published some 125 issues before folding in June 1970. Led by Paul Dorpat (b. 1938) and Walt Crowley (1947-2007), the large and eclectic staff covered underground politics, drug culture, bulletins from the Liberation News Service, and…
ID Number:2018.3.6.6
Date:1967