1580 results for: City of Seattle
Ephemera
Daily pedestrian traffic map, Seattle, April 1921
The map shown here, created by the Engineers Department, City of Seattle, illustrates average daily pedestrian traffic in the Seattle Downtown Business District for April 1921. The map extends from Blanchard Street to King Street and Railroad Avenue to 8th Street, with a scale running from 2,000 people to 50,000 people taken between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm. Handwritten on…
ID Number:2018.3.8.3
Date:1921
Cartographic material
Map of Seattle with illustrations, 1936
Henry Broderick was a highly respected Seattle civic leader and longtime president of the real estate firm, Henry Broderick, Inc., which he founded in 1908. For many years Broderick's firm was the largest real estate firm in Seattle, and there were few parcels of downtown land that were not at some point bought or sold by Henry Broderick, Inc. In…
ID Number:2018.3.8.5
Date:1936
Cartographic material
Sea Gull's View of Seattle map, 1927
Clara P. Reynolds (1875-1961) created this colorful pictorial map to be distributed by the National Education Association, with quotations on each border of the map stressing the importance of art education in schools. Clara P. Reynolds was an art educator in the Seattle Public Schools after arriving in Seattle in 1905, via New York and Europe. She taught at Franklin…
ID Number:2018.3.8.6
Date:1927
Music, notated
Mother Did from The Alaskan
Seattle landmark The Moore Theatre, the city's oldest still-active theater, opened on December 28, 1907, to a crowd of nearly 3,000. The first show, "The Alaskan," was a comic opera about prospecting during the Klondike Gold Rush, and featured falling snow, sled dogs, and 13 singing totem poles. This song "Mother Did" was one of several in the opera.Joseph Blethen,…
ID Number:2018.3.2.7
Date:1907
Music, notated
Ho, the Navy! Hail, the Navy!
In July 1933, a fleet of Navy ships paid its annual visit to Seattle. The city celebrated with Fleet Frolic Week, a celebration of dances, parades, games, and a carnival. In 1932, the city held a Fleet Week song-writing contest for Seattle composers. Rosetta Perry Gibbon (1904-1988), wife of a Seattle Times editorial writer, was the winner, but time was…
ID Number:2018.3.2.9
Date:1933
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
Serial
Helix, vol. 2, no. 2, cover, Seattle, September 29, 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:2018.3.6.13
Date:1967
Serial
Helix, vol. 4, no. 5, cover, Seattle, circa August 22, 1968
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:2018.3.6.36
Date:1968
Serial
Helix, vol. 4, no. 9, Seattle, circa October 3, 1968
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 (1938-2026) and Walt Crowley (1947-2007), the large and eclectic staff covered underground politics, drug culture, bulletins from the Liberation News Service, and rock…
ID Number:2018.3.6.40
Date:1968
Serial
Helix, vol. 5, no. 5, cover, Seattle, November 14, 1968
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:2018.3.6.46
Date:1968