1892 results for: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, September 4-7, 1998
Begun as "Festival '71" in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot has become one of North America's largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.The poster pictured here was designed by David Lemley Design. Printed on poster: Poster by David Lemley DesignCaption information source: "Bumbershoot," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 4, 1998, p. 21.Caption information source: "Bumbershoot," by Paul…
ID Number:2011.49.28
Date:1998
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, September 4-7, 1998
Begun as "Festival '71" in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot has become one of North America's largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.The poster pictured here was designed by Dorit Ely Design, and features artwork by Ginny Ruffner and photography by Mike Sidel and Chad Brown. It was printed by Heath Printers. Printed on poster:…
ID Number:2011.49.29
Date:1998
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, August 29 - September 1, 1997
Begun as "Festival '71" in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot has become one of North America's largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.The poster pictured here features artwork by Julie Paschkis and was designed by Nancy O'Connell. The poster was printed by Heath Printers. Printed on poster: Poster Art by Julie PaschkisCaption information source: "Bumbershoot,"…
ID Number:2011.49.30
Date:1997
Ephemera
Ford Motor Company open house ad, Seattle, March 1924
In February 1914, the Ford Motor Company opened a West Coast assembly plant in Seattle to build Model T vehicles. A decade later, from March 3rd to 8th, 1924, the company held a daily open house with tours to show the public how Ford cars and trucks were built. This newspaper insert for the open house explains what visitors will…
ID Number:2011.61.1
Date:1924
Poster
Pacific Poultryman poster, circa 1914
Paul Wadsworth Harries (1877-1960) was born in Minnesota and moved to Seattle around 1909. He married Sara Powell Bittle (1887-1982) in 1910, and by the following year he was working as the advertising manager for Pacific Poultryman, a monthly magazine about farming and livestock that began in 1895 as Northwest Poultry Journal. Mr. Harries became the editor and publisher of…
ID Number:2011.61.3
Date:Circa 1914
Photograph
San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaska cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.1
Date:Circa 1935
Photograph
San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaskan cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.2
Date:Circa 1935
Program
The Wayfarer program, 1925
"The Wayfarer" is a religious work combining drama, opera, pageant, and oratorio written by Reverend James Edwin Crowther (1874-1970), a minister from Seattle. The "Passion-Pageant," as it was known, combined previously existing songs and arias by various composers with tableaus of historic and religious subjects using a massive supporting cast. Local music teacher Montgomery Lynch (1879-1948) adapted and directed the…
ID Number:2011.86.1
Date:1925
Ephemera
Pilgrim Girls' Club Annual Magazine, 1928
A societal and educational group for young women that flourished from 1921-1935, the Plymouth Girls' Club was once the largest women's organization in Seattle. Hosted by the Plymouth Congregational Church, located since 1911 at Sixth Avenue and University Street, the club held weekly dinners followed by classes in everything from current events and golf to parliamentary law and hooked-rug making.…
ID Number:2011.86.2
Date:1928
Ephemera
Favorite Programs On Your Dial radio schedule, 1949
This "Radio Log" contains a four month listing of programs to be aired on several Seattle radio stations: KIRO, KJR, KOMO, KVI, and KING. There is also a weekly schedule of programming for KING-TV and ads for many local businesses.
ID Number:2011.86.3
Date:1949