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Music, notated
My Washington
The music and lyrics for "My Washington" were written by Harry Lauriston Stone (b. 1881) a well-known songwriter and music publisher from Spokane who was briefly married to Evelyn Comiskey, daughter of Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey. The song was published by Benson and Stone, and a history of Seattle is printed on the verso of the title page.…
ID Number:2018.3.2.4
Date:1923
Music, notated
On the Shores of Puget Sound
The lyrics for "On the Shores of Puget Sound" were written by Edward Livingston Greenwood (1876-1957) and the music was written by Patrick William Guyheen (1881-1958). Both men were Washingtonians (also Washingtonian movement, Washingtonian Temperance Society, or Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society) and the song was written for their local chapter. The piece was published by G. & G. Publishing Company…
ID Number:2018.3.2.5
Date:1934
Music, notated
Mother Did from The Alaskan
Seattle landmark The Moore Theatre, the city's oldest still-active theater, opened on December 28, 1907, to a crowd of nearly 3,000. The first show, "The Alaskan," was a comic opera about prospecting during the Klondike Gold Rush, and featured falling snow, sled dogs, and 13 singing totem poles. This song "Mother Did" was one of several in the opera.Joseph Blethen,…
ID Number:2018.3.2.7
Date:1907
Music, notated
Ho, the Navy! Hail, the Navy!
In July 1933, a fleet of Navy ships paid its annual visit to Seattle. The city celebrated with Fleet Frolic Week, a celebration of dances, parades, games, and a carnival. In 1932, the city held a Fleet Week song-writing contest for Seattle composers. Rosetta Perry Gibbon (1904-1988), wife of a Seattle Times editorial writer, was the winner, but time was…
ID Number:2018.3.2.9
Date:1933
Serial
Free U Summer Registration, Seattle, circa 1968
On October 10, 1966, the Free University of Seattle (FUS) began offering off-campus uncredited courses for University of Washington students in a variety of counterculture topics and other subjects not traditionally offered in universities. Founded during the turbulent campus atmosphere of the mid-1960s, FUS was the largest free university in the country during its first year, serving about 400 students…
ID Number:2018.3.6.53
Date:1968
Ephemera
AYPE monthly pass in a handmade holder, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds were located on the campus of the University of Washington (UW) and were open from June 1, 1909, to October 16, 1909. Several of the buildings and the landscaping survive, continuing to shape the layout of the campus.The monthly…
ID Number:2018.35.1
Date:1909
Poster
Advertisement for "The New Gulliver," December 10, 1936
"The New Gulliver" was one of the world's first feature-length film to combine stop-motion animation with live-action footage. Soviet director Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (1900-1973) and his animation crew spent almost three years building 3,000 different puppets and filming the movie. The story, a Communist re-telling of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, was released in 1935 to widespread acclaim. The success…
ID Number:2018.38.10
Date:1936
Poster
Thunderpussy poster with autographs, Seattle, June 2, 2018
Thunderpussy is a Seattle rock band begun in 2013 by Molly Sides and Whitney Petty. The band's breakthrough came after meeting Mike McCready, lead guitarist for Pearl Jam, who then contributed a guitar solo to Thunderpussy's first single, "Velvet Noose." The band later signed with McCready's label, Stardog Records. In 2015 the band gained notoriety when the petition to trademark…
ID Number:2018.47.1
Date:2018
Photograph
Fremont Baptist Church, Seattle, circa 1915
The Fremont Baptist Church was established in 1892 when a small group of local Baptists and the Rev. E.G. Wheeler began to meet in the chapel car "Evangel," provided by the American Baptist Publication Society and parked between the Fremont Fire Station and the small railroad depot at the corner of Fremont Avenue and Ewing Street (now N. 34th Street).…
ID Number:2018.48.12
Date:Circa 1915
Photograph
Flower Vigil at the International Fountain, Seattle Center, September 15, 2001
Many gatherings and vigils took place in Seattle after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center. The September 15 Flower Vigil at the Seattle Center was one of the largest. People were invited to bring cut flowers to the International Fountain, and by the end of the following day, the fountain had been filled with flowers…
ID Number:2018.64.12
Date:2001