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"What to Wear at Gay Games III," instructions for Team Seattle athletes, 1990
The Gay Games are an international sporting competition intended to provide a place for LGBTQ+ athletes to participate without discrimination. Participation in the Games is open to anyone, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, or physical disability. The Gay Games were launched in 1982 in San Francisco and have been held every four years since. Gay Games III was held…
ID Number:2016.10.21.2
Date:1990
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Hotel Sorrento New Year's Dinner menu, 1923
The Hotel Sorrento, one of the city's first "boutique" hotels, opened in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1909. Among the hotel's first customers were some of the millions of visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair highlighting the development of the Pacific Northwest.This 1923 New Year's day dinner menu at the Sorrento offered a $2.00 prix fixe meal,…
ID Number:2016.36.6
Date:1923
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Hotel Sorrento Thanksgiving Dinner menu, 1923
The Hotel Sorrento, one of the city's first "boutique" hotels, opened in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1909. Among the hotel's first customers were some of the millions of visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair highlighting the development of the Pacific Northwest. The Hotel Sorrento continues in business at its original location on the corner of Madison…
ID Number:2016.36.7
Date:1923
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Hotel Sorrento Christmas Dinner menu, 1923
The Hotel Sorrento, one of the city's first "boutique" hotels, opened in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood in 1909. Among the hotel's first customers were some of the millions of visitors to the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world's fair highlighting the development of the Pacific Northwest. The Hotel Sorrento continues in business at its original location on the corner of Madison…
ID Number:2016.36.8
Date:1923
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Traffic Flow map, Seattle, 1931
Seattle's Department of Streets and Sewers operated from 1875 through 1936. The Department was responsible for the planning, construction, repair, and cleaning of the city's sewers, streets, and sidewalks. James W. A. Bollong (1885-1968) served as Seattle's first Traffic Engineer in this department during the 1930s.Drawn by Maurice Donald Van Arsdol (1896-1962), Traffic Engineer under Mr. Bollong, this map highlights…
ID Number:2016.44.1
Date:1931
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Strom & Olsen Hardwood Floors, 12th Ave., Seattle, circa 1920
This image shows two men in front of the Strom & Olsen hardwood flooring business on 12th Avenue between E Olive Street and E Pine Street. A delivery truck for Strom & Olsen is at right.Edwin Conrad Strom (1881-1965) was born in Sweden, and immigrated to the U. S. in 1907. His advertisement in the 1920 Polk's Seattle City Directory…
ID Number:2016.59.51
Date:Circa 1920
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Jazz musicians in Shanghai, China, circa 1938
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:2016.84.2.9.1
Date:Circa 1938
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Band leaders in Shanghai, China, September 7, 1938
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:2016.84.2.9.2
Date:1938
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Musicians from Earl Whaley's band in China, September 7, 1938
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:2016.84.2.9.3
Date:1938
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Earl Whaley's band on stage in Shanghai, China, December 20, 1934
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:2016.84.2.10.1
Date:1934