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Worker attaching welcome banner to post prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.03
Date:1993
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Duane Glaesman being stopped by police officer during protest, November 18, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.04
Date:1993
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View of King Street businesses, Seattle, December 1973
This image shows storefronts in the West Kong Yick Building, located on South King Street between 7th Avenue South and Canton Alley (seen at far left). The West and East Kong Yick Buildings were constructed in 1910 by the Kong Yick Investment Company, which was made up of 170 investors from Chinese community around Seattle and led by Goon Dip.…
ID Number:2000.107.19731204.1.13
Date:1973
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Demonstrators with signs outside Westin Hotel prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 19, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.19931119.1.09
Date:1993
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Spring Apartment Hotel brochure, circa 1925
The Spring Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1922 for William H. Hainsworth, a representative of the Spring Apartment Hotel Co. The eleven-story building was designed by John Graham, Sr., and built by general contractor Hans Petersen for $500,000. There were no retail storefronts and the building was entirely devoted to residential hotel purposes and remained so for three decades.This brochure…
ID Number:2003.9.13
Date:Circa 1925
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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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Notepaper from Hotel Seattle, circa 1905
Located in Pioneer Square at the intersection of Yesler Way, James Street, and First Avenue, the Hotel Seattle (also Seattle Hotel) was constructed in 1890, replacing the Occidental Hotel, which burned down in the fire of 1889. In 1891, the building served as home to the Seattle Public Library. Around the time of the construction of the nearby Smith Tower…
ID Number:2013.58.19
Date:Circa 1905
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The Olympic Hotel's Olympic Grill menu, 1951
The Olympic Grill was located inside the Olympic Hotel at 411 University Street. The Olympic Hotel, built in 1925, was home to several dining areas including the Marine Room, Terrace Room, Georgian Room, and the Spanish Ballroom.
ID Number:2014.3.1.20
Date:1951
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The Olympic Hotel's Marine Room menu, circa 1945
The Marine Room was located inside the Olympic Hotel at 411 University Street. This "Cocktail Compass" structure, which is known as a volvelle, rotates to reveal recipes for cocktails, like the "Olympic Special." The two color design resembles the face of a compass and reveals a short message with each recipe. The Gin Rickey says: "For That 'Low Tide' Feeling."…
ID Number:2014.3.1.23
Date:Circa 1945
Menu
Vance Hotel Grill menu, 1942
The Vance Grill was located in the Vance Hotel (now Hotel Max). The walls of the restaurant were decorated with murals painted by Franz Zallinger. The cover of this menu shows one of the murals, titled "Topping the Tree." The hotel was designed for Joseph Vance, the owner of the Vance Lumber Company and one of Seattle's major real estate…
ID Number:2014.3.1.42
Date:1942