155 results for: Mass Media
Videorecording
Visiting Over the Backyard Fence: Spot-Lighting Community Video, Community Television Agency program, June 5, 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:2021.84.16
Date:1989
Videorecording
Visiting Over the Backyard Fence: Beginnings of Seattle's Public Access, Community Television Agency program, July 10, 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:2021.84.20
Date:1989
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Bob Young and radio announcer on stage at Trianon, Seattle, circa 1938
The Trianon Ballroom, located at Third Avenue and Bell Street, was an important entertainment venue in Seattle's musical history. One of several large dance clubs in the area which drew national Big Band talent, it was founded in 1927 by hotelier John Edward Savage (1879-1958) and had a 30 x 135-foot dance floor that accommodated more than 5,000 dancers. Operating…
ID Number:Lib1988.27.8
Date:Circa 1938
Serial
Seattle Daily Press, June 8, 1889
The Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in the city's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes. The fire was accidentally started in a paint and woodwork shop at Madison Street and Front Street (now First Avenue) at 2:30 p.m., and over the course of the next 18 hours, swept a southward…
ID Number:Lib1989.19.2
Date:1889
Serial
Seattle Daily Press, June 10, 1889
The Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in the city's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes. The fire was accidentally started in a paint and woodwork shop at Madison Street and Front Street (now First Avenue) at 2:30 p.m., and over the course of the next 18 hours, swept a southward…
ID Number:Lib1989.19.3
Date:1889
Photograph
KVI disc jockey Bob Hardwick, Seattle, 1969
Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hardwick (1931-1992) was a popular disk jockey and personality for Seattle area radio stations, primarily KVI, for more than three decades. This portrait was taken by photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004), who worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.199
Date:1969
Photograph
Seattle Times editor Don Brazier, Seattle, 1976
Don Brazier was an editor for the Seattle Times, who spent almost 42 years at the newspaper. Times photographer Josef Scaylea took this portrait of the editor in 1976.Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.228
Date:1976
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Journalist Emmett Watson, Seattle, 1970
Emmett Watson (1918-2001) was a Seattle journalist who covered sports for the Seattle Star and then wrote as a columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. This portrait was taken by photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004), worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.232
Date:1970
Ephemera
Seattle Newspaper Guild Strike Bulletin No. 1, August 1936
Spurred by "arbitrary" dismissals and assignment changes and other 'efficiency' moves" by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 35 newspaper writers went on strike from August 19 to November 29, 1936. This small group of strikers was able to force P-I owner William Randolph Hearst to recognize the union. Through the strike, the union was able to negotiate a 40-hour work week, originally…
ID Number:MS.COLL.1432
Date:1936
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siastenu and Ed Dalby at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer offices, November 16, 1940
siastenu (1857-1958), also named Ruth Sehome Shelton, was born in 1857 on Guemes Island, in one of the last remaining Samish longhouses. She was descended from the Dungeness Klallam, the Lummi, and the Samish peoples. siastenu spread the oral histories of the Coast Salish peoples and carried knowledge of that history into the 20th century. In 1889, siastenu married Wheakadim…
ID Number:PI23840
Date:1940