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This is Public Housing 10th Anniversary Report, 1949
This booklet is the combined 1948/1949 report issued by the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, titled "This is Public Housing, 10th Anniversary Report." The booklet commemorates the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Housing Authority and, using photographs and personal stories, illustrates how the Housing Authority came to be and its work. The booklet includes photographs and…
ID Number:2012.58.2
Date:1949
Ephemera
New Washington Hotel stationery folder, circa 1950
In 1908 real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. The 13-story hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style and, as the city's premier hotel for several decades, welcomed many prominent guests,…
ID Number:2013.58.3
Date:Circa 1950
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Palace Fish and Oyster Co. brochure, circa 1935
Nessim D. Alhadeff (1884-1950) was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. He began working in fish markets and by 1907 had set up his own market, Palace Market. Within three years he had helped his six brothers emigrate, and the growing family business was known over time as Palace Fish and…
ID Number:2013.58.15
Date:Circa 1935
Poster
Draft Information Picnic & Benefit poster, Fall City, September 7, 1980
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter reinstated the draft in response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Depending upon their year of birth, men were required to register by a particular week during the summer and fall of 1980.This poster advertises an event to provide information about the draft, sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and The…
ID Number:2013.87.107
Date:1980
Photograph
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
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
Document
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
Photograph
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
Photograph
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
Photograph
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