145 results for: Global Connections
Poster
Goodwill Games Marathon poster, Seattle, July 21-22, 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 other 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…
ID Number:2017.23.3
Date:1990
Program
Luncheon program for Crown Prince Olav's visit, 1939
From May 23-28, 1939, Norway's Crown Prince Olav (1903-1991) and his wife, Princess Martha (1901-1954), visited Washington State during a West Coast tour on the eve of World War II. Among other activities, they spent a day skiing at Paradise on Mount Rainier and attended the dedication of the Stanwood monument honoring the first Norwegian settler on Puget Sound, Zakarias…
ID Number:2018.3.3.97
Date:1939
Program
Event program for Crown Prince Olav's visit, 1939
From May 23-28, 1939, Norway's Crown Prince Olav (1903-1991) and his wife, Princess Martha (1901-1954), visited Washington State during a West Coast tour on the eve of World War II. Among other activities, they spent a day skiing at Paradise on Mount Rainier and attended the dedication of the Stanwood monument honoring the first Norwegian settler on Puget Sound, Zakarias…
ID Number:2018.3.3.98
Date:1939
Ephemera
Admiral Oriental Line Ma-Chiong instruction booklet, March 1, 1923
The Admiral Line (also American Mail Line, and later Admiral Oriental Line) was a steamship company based in Seattle which operated five ocean liners sailing from Seattle to Japan and China. Pictured here is an instruction manual for Ma-Chiong, a game played on the Admiral Line ships which appears to be similar to Mahjong. The booklet was issued to passengers…
ID Number:2018.3.3.118
Date:1923
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