869 results for: Performing Arts and Music
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University of Washington theatrical performance, Seattle, circa 1915
Handwritten on sleeve: U of W Theatrical.Webster & Stevens number: 47289
ID Number:1983.10.10207
Date:Circa 1915
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Women's chorus at the University of Washington, circa 1916
In the 1910s, a number of small and large singing groups were active at the University of Washington. Both men's and women's glee clubs and the coed University Chorus gave regular concerts on campus and around the state. The students also put on operas and musical comedies.This photo, taken around 1916, shows six members of a chorus dressed for a…
ID Number:1983.10.10360.1
Date:Circa 1916
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Elks Club Band, Seattle, 1917
Banner reads: Instituted June 10th 1888 - Seattle Lodge No. 92 - B.P.O.E.Signs in image: Queen City Transfer Co. - Storage. O.K. Harness Shop. Pacific Furniture Co. - Sale - Closing Out Used Furniture - Linoleum. Hotel Kasota. The Bell Tailors - Dye Works - The Cleaners & Tailors - Suits Sponged & Pressed 50 cents - Cleaning & Repairing…
ID Number:1983.10.10523
Date:1917
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Mrs. Leary's party harpist, 1917
Some of Seattle's elegant parties featured live music. In this photo, taken around 1917 at a party given by Mrs. Leary, a young harpist stands on the lawn with her Clark Irish Harp. Webster & Stevens number: 59645
ID Number:1983.10.10615
Date:1917
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Seattle Theatre, Seattle, circa 1913
The Seattle Theatre was located at 700 Third Avenue, at the northeast corner of Third and Cherry. The first film shown in Seattle was projected in this theater. It was torn down in 1915 for the construction of the Arctic Building, which still occupies the site. A later Seattle Theatre became the Paramount. Signs in image: Seattle Theatre. Y.W.C.A. Cooking…
ID Number:1983.10.10795
Date:Circa 1913
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Knights Templar parading on Second Avenue, Seattle, July 1925
The Knights Templar, a Masonic order modeled after Medieval Christian Crusaders, held their 36th triennial conclave in Seattle on July 28-30, 1925. More than 10,000 participants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana flooded into Seattle. The city was decorated with over 150 illuminated Christian crosses, the order's symbol, including a 40-foot lighted cross placed on top of the Olympic Hotel,…
ID Number:1983.10.12017
Date:1925
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Music Hall Theatre, April 5, 1939
When Seattle's Music Hall Theatre opened in 1929, it was called the Mayflower Theatre. It had 2,600 seats and elaborate decor, and it presented movies, lectures, concerts, plays, and vaudeville shows. Business began to fall off in the 1960s, with the start of television and the growth of the suburbs. Even Broadway musicals, ice shows, dinner theater, and Las Vegas…
ID Number:1983.10.13291.1
Date:1939
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Egyptian Theatre, Seattle, November 11, 1940
The Egyptian Theater at 4543 University Way N.E. opened on Christmas Day of 1925. Built by T.E. Murphy, it seated 1300 people and claimed to be one of the largest and finest suburban movie houses in the Northwest. The building was later altered and used for retail stores. Signs in image: [...] [Miller?] Men's Shop. [Ode O'Day?]. Avenue Bakery. Horluck.…
ID Number:1983.10.13438
Date:1940
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Exterior of Venetian Theater, Seattle, 1946
Seattle's Venetian Theater opened in 1926 at 1427 E. Pine Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood during a boom of theaters built to accommodate motion pictures. One of Seattle’s largest and most impressive neighborhood movie houses at the time, the Venetian was a second-run movie theater, playing movies that had already proved popular at the city’s larger downtown theaters. The…
ID Number:1983.10.16609.1
Date:1946
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Art Barduhn and Stan Boreson performing in KING television studio, Seattle, 1950
Webster & Stevens number: 50-027
ID Number:1983.10.17019
Date:1950