1950 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
Ephemera
CORE membership poster, 1966
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.3
Date:1966
Poster
Let's Keep the Market Initiative 10th Anniversary poster, Seattle, September 18 - November 2, 1981
On November 2, 1971, Seattle Initiative No. 1 passed to create a seven-acre historic district at Pike Place Market, ending eight years of activism against the plans of the Central Association of Seattle (precursor to the Downtown Seattle Association) to replace the Market with parking, office and hotel space, and some vendor stalls. Begun initially in 1907 as a way…
ID Number:2014.9.7
Date:1981
Photograph
Exterior of Yarbrough family home, Kirkland, circa 1955
Letcher and Arlene Yarorough lived in Kirkland, on Lake Washington. Letcher Yarbrough was president of the Seattle branch of the NAACP in the mid-1940s and later state president. With others, he helped pass the Washington State Fair Employment Practices Act of 1949. This photo shows a view of the Yarbrough's home among tall conifers across Lake Washington.
ID Number:2014.49.006.026.0108
Date:Circa 1955
Photograph
Dick Wilson with the Andy Kirk band at the Senator Ballroom, Seattle, February 17, 1941
Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure wherever jazz was played. On this occasion he photographed the Andy Kirk big band, also called the Clouds of Joy, when they played Seattle’s Senator Ballroom in downtown Seattle in early 1941. The band included tenor saxophone player Dick Wilson, who plays here wearing sunglasses. The Kansas City group had played at…
ID Number:2014.49.14.006.05
Date:1941
Photograph
Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. employees outside factory, Seattle, 1918
Initially founded in 1899 to compete against the National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco), the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company was a conglomerate of baking companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The company, also known as Pacific Coast, was made up of seven companies that together controlled most of the commercial biscuit and cracker business west of the Rocky Mountains. One of those…
ID Number:2014.50.1
Date:1918
Photograph
Nile Temple Band in front of King Street Station, Seattle, June 3, 1919
In this image Nile Temple of Seattle musicians pose with their instruments in front of King Street Station. The band was part of a delegation from Seattle headed to Indianapolis for the 45th annual session of the Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, which was held from June 10-12, 1919. Handwritten on image: Nile Temple…
ID Number:2014.66.2
Date:1919
Photograph
Exterior of KIRO Radio Station building on Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle, circa 1968
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University; this photo shows the exterior of the fifth location, at 1530 Queen Avenue North. As of 2025,…
ID Number:2014.67.5
Date:Circa 1968
Photograph
KIRO studio engineer James Upthegrove and engineer John Dubuque with radio equipment, Seattle, circa 1955
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.11
Date:Circa 1955
Photograph
Exterior of KIRO Radio Station at Federal Old Line Insurance Building, Seattle, circa 1957
KIRO was founded by Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Biscuit Company and began broadcasting on April 27, 1927 as the 100-watt station KPCB 650. Over the years, the Seattle KIRO broadcast station moved several times. The first location was at Fourth and University. As of 2025, the KIRO station studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood, with a transmitting tower…
ID Number:2014.67.14
Date:Circa 1957
Ephemera
KIRO Radio poster, Seattle, 1941
Seattle radio station KIRO began broadcasting as KPCB in 1927. By 1937, the station had become KIRO, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had increased its power from 100 to 1000 watts. Around that time, KIRO became Seattle’s official CBS affiliate. In 1941, with the completion of its new 50,000-watt transmitter on Maury Island, KIRO had become one of the…
ID Number:2014.67.132.2
Date:1941