316 results for: Recreation
Photograph
Seattle Photo-Engravers Union picnic, August 3, 1941
On August 3, 1941, members of the Seattle Photo-Engravers Union and their families gathered at an unidentified park for their annual picnic. Seattle photographer Joseph J. Kneisle took this panoramic informal photo of the group. The men, women, and children show a variety of ages, clothing styles, and moods. Handwritten on negative: Annual Picnic * Seattle Photo-Engravers * August 3d,…
ID Number:1997.18.100
Date:1941
Document
REI catalog, 1963
In 1938 outdoorspeople Lloyd and Mary Anderson, unable to find high-quality, inexpensive climbing gear, formed a co-op in Seattle through which climbers could pool their resources and buy gear in bulk from Europe and other places. With the help of a lawyer friend, the Andersons and 21 others officially formed a co-op, each paying a $1 lifetime membership fee. The…
ID Number:1998.60.13.1
Date:1963
Poster
Ski R poster, Seattle, circa 1980
The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was founded in 1893 by the merging of three Georgetown neighborhood breweries, the oldest of which had been founded in 1883 by Andrew Hemrich (1856-1910) and John Kopp (1853-1935). The company's Rainier Beer and the brewery itself, with it’s trademark red neon "R" that sat atop the building, were popular throughout the Pacific Northwest.…
ID Number:1999.64.108
Date:Circa 1980
Photograph
Lloyd Anderson resting on Howser Spire, British Columbia, 1941
In this image Lloyd Anderson rests after climbing Howser Spire in the Purcell range in British Columbia. During the 1930s and 1940s, Anderson logged many first ascents in the Cascades in Washington and the Bugaboos in Canada. In his lifetime, he scaled 400 peaks, subsequently writing about those experiences in his "Climbing Notebook," published in 1980.Avid outdoorspeople Lloyd Alva Anderson…
ID Number:2000.107.008.02.01
Date:1941
Photograph
Lloyd and Mary Anderson pose in climbing gear, December 15, 1946
Avid outdoorspeople Lloyd Alva Anderson (1902-2000) and his wife Mary Gaiser Anderson (1910-2017) learned climbing techniques through a Mountaineers class taught by Wolf Bauer (1912-2016). The inability to find high-quality, inexpensive climbing gear led them and 21 mountaineering friends to found the retail cooperative Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) in 1938, enabling them to buy gear in bulk from Europe and…
ID Number:2000.107.008.02.02
Date:1946
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Greg Broad building walkway at Tillicum Village prior to APEC conference, Blake Island, November 5, 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:2000.107.009.35.01
Date:1993
Photograph
Swedish Hospital nurses touring Bailey-Boushay House, April 28, 1992
Bailey-Boushay House in Seattle was named after Thatcher Bailey and his partner Frank Boushay, who died of AIDS in 1989. The facility was established in 1992 as a place where people with AIDS could find compassionate care and a way to live their last days with dignity. Today, Bailey-Boushay continues to serve AIDS/HIV patients as well as those with other…
ID Number:2000.107.012.24.01
Date:1992
Photograph
Family riding on Bicycle Sunday, Seattle, May 28, 1972
From April through September, Lake Washington Boulevard has often been closed to cars for Bicycle Sundays. The route ran from Mount Baker to Seward Park. The weather for the May 1972 event was sunny and warm, and many cyclists took part.Here, a man pedals his bicycle along the boulevard, carrying one toddler in a framed backpack and another on a…
ID Number:2000.107.021.23.02
Date:1972
Photograph
Opening day on the Lake Sammamish Loop Trail, Bellevue, July 16, 1971
Pedestrians and student cyclists commonly used the shoulder of the road between Vasa Park and Sunset Elementary School in Bellevue. They abandoned it as growing traffic made it more dangerous. Urged by the Sunset PTA, the State Highway Department paved the shoulder in 1971, and it became part of a planned 25-mile Lake Sammamish Loop Trail. The official Phase I…
ID Number:2000.107.021.24.01
Date:1971
Photograph
Father teaching his daughter to ride a bicycle, Seattle, June 18, 1989
From April through September, Seattle’s Lake Washington Boulevard has often been closed to cars for Bicycle Sundays. In 1989, the event took place on Father’s Day. Here, Mike Boze, and his daughter Elizabeth, take advantage of the closed boulevard for a bike lesson. At four-and-a-half, Elizabeth is steadied by her father’s hand and the bike’s training wheels. Caption information source:…
ID Number:2000.107.021.25.01
Date:1989