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Seafair King and Queen in Seattle, 2003
Seafair Royalty have been a part of Seattle's annual summer celebration since the festival's beginnings in 1950. Each year one man is crowned King Neptune and one woman crowned Queen Alcyone, both chosen based on their philanthropic contributions to the Puget Sound region and ability to inspire the communities in which they live. A Miss Seafair is also selected to…
ID Number:2017.59.33
Date:2003
Photograph
Seafair Royalty posing in Seattle, 2003
Seafair Royalty have been a part of Seattle's annual summer celebration since the festival's beginnings in 1950. Each year one man is crowned King Neptune and one woman crowned Queen Alcyone, both chosen based on their philanthropic contributions to the Puget Sound region and ability to inspire the communities in which they live. A Miss Seafair is also selected to…
ID Number:2017.59.48
Date:2003
Photograph
Samuel McKinney and Mark Emmert, Seattle, 2007
In this image taken at an unidentified event, Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney, civil rights activist and Mount Zion Baptist Church pastor emeritus, left, poses with Mark A. Emmert, at the time president of the University of Washington, now president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Caption information source: "McKinney, Samuel Berry (b. 1926)," by Mary T. Henry, HistoryLink.org…
ID Number:2017.59.51
Date:2007
Poster
Phinney Neighborhood Farmers Market poster, Seattle, June 3 - September 30, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.2
Date:2016
Poster
Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets poster, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.6
Date:2016
Poster
Columbia City Farmers Market poster, Seattle, May 2 - October 17, 2007
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.9
Date:2007
Ephemera
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop advertising card, 1915
Ohio-born curio collector Joseph Edward "Daddy" Standley (1854-1940) came to Seattle in 1899 and opened Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on Second Avenue and Pike Street. He moved the shop to the Colman Dock on the waterfront in 1904, and since 1988 the shop has been located at Pier 54. Still a family-run business after five generations, the store attracts about…
ID Number:2018.3.3.1
Date:1915
Ephemera
Hotel Roosevelt brochure, 1929
Downtown Seattle's Roosevelt Hotel, located at Seventh Avenue and Pine Street, opened in 1929, and at 22 stories was the tallest hotel in the city at the time. Designed in the modernistic Art Deco mode by prominent local architect John Graham, Sr. (1873-1955), and constructed by A.W. Quist & Company, the building was owned by Western Hotels, Inc. The new…
ID Number:2018.3.3.2
Date:1929
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
New England hotel souvenir, circa 1905
Seattle’s New England Hotel was located south of Mill Street (now Yesler Way), on the corner of First Avenue South and Main Street. In the city’s early days, this placed it in the red-light district. The hotel was popular with people heading to the gold rush, and it was a hangout for politicians and campaigners. Its manager, James Weir, also…
ID Number:2018.3.3.4
Date:Circa 1905