141 results for: Global Connections
Poster
Goodwill Games poster, Seattle, 1990
In the summer of 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. In return, the Soviet Union and eastern bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In response, cable broadcasting magnate Ted Turner established the Goodwill Games to bring athletes together outside the Olympic structure. The first…
ID Number:2019.3.24.1
Date:1990
Poster
Goodwill Games poster, Seattle, 1990
In the summer of 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. In return, the Soviet Union and eastern bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In response, cable broadcasting magnate Ted Turner established the Goodwill Games to bring athletes together outside the Olympic structure. The first…
ID Number:2019.3.24.2
Date:1990
Poster
Philippine Independence Day Celebration, Seattle, June 13-14, 1981
Since the 1950s, the Philippines Council in Seattle has celebrated the anniversary of Philippine independence from Spain in June 1898 with a reception or festival. This poster advertises the 1981 Philippine Independence Day Celebration, sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General and the Filipino-American Intercommunity Council of the Pacific Northwest, with an abstracted sunset behind a silhouette of palm trees. The…
ID Number:2019.3.36
Date:1981
Poster
Festival Sundiata poster, Seattle, September 25-27, 1981
Started in 1981, Festival Sundiata is a festival of Northwest African American visual and performing arts held at the Seattle Center. Since 1997, Festival Sundiata has been part of the Seattle Center's Festal season, which celebrates various ethnic and international communities in the Seattle region.This poster advertises the first Festival Sundiata with a photo of a sculpture by James Washington,…
ID Number:2019.3.37
Date:1981
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Farhat Ziadeh, January 18, 2002
This interview with Farhat Ziadeh, the founder of the Jackson School’s Middle East Center and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Washington, was conducted by Margaret Kraushaar for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project on January 18, 2002. He was an eminent scholar of Islamic law, a barrister, an Arabic grammarian, a leading…
ID Number:2019.35.1.72
Date:2002
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Jerry Hanauer and Jeff Alden, July 28, 2003
This interview with Jerry Hanauer and Jeff Alden was conducted by Helen Divjak in Seattle for the Washington Workplace Oral History Project on July 28, 2003. At the time of this 2003 interview, Jerry Hanauer was Chairman of the Board of Pacific Coast Feather Company, a family-owned firm that he had run for several decades. He describes how the company…
ID Number:2019.35.7.8
Date:2003
Videorecording
Visiting Over the Backyard Fence: Spanish Civil War Veterans, Community Television Agency program, May 15, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.13
Date:1989
Videorecording
Vecinos: Mayor of Managua, Nicaragua: Honorable Moises Hassan, Community Television Agency program, July 6, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.18
Date:1989
Photograph
Crew of first Japanese ship to dock in Seattle after World War II, 1948
In the late 1800s, Seattle began regularly shipping routes with East Asia, including China, Japan, and the Philippines. This regular trade would continue through the early 1900s, dipping in World War I, but then halting almost entirely during World War II, as the port shifted to support the U.S. war effort. According to photographer Josef Scaylea, this 1948 photo shows…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.86
Date:1948
Photograph
Japanese training ship Nippon Maru, Seattle, likely July 1957
The Japanese four-masted bark Nippon Maru first returned to Seattle in July of 1957 for Seafair. The ship would make several other visits to Seattle, including for the 1962 World's Fair, but this photo by photographer Josef Scaylea was the first for the officer training boat since World War II. Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.290
Date:1957