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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
Correspondence
Letter from Francis Clowers about donating to the War & Community Chest campaign, Seattle, October 25, 1945
Seattle & King County’s 1945 War & Community Chest campaign kicked off on October 11th. In an equivalent to today’s United Way, volunteers and businesses solicited funds from area residents to support military service clubs, overseas war victims, and a number of local agencies. Fundraising was slow, and the campaign was extended into early November. In late October, as part…
ID Number:2018.64.23
Date:1945
Poster
The New Subterraneans concert poster, circa 1987
The poster pictured here advertises a concert by The New Subterraneans. This could be a local band, as listings in the Seattle Times show a band by that name performing at venues around Seattle in 1983-1984. The local band could have performed on Saturday, August 3, 1985. Alternatively, the band could have been the British group, The New Subterraneans, playing…
ID Number:2018.86.4
Date:Circa 1987
Poster
Napalm Beach and Baba Yaga concert poster, July 26, 1985
In July 1985, punk band Napalm Beach and the band Baba Yaga played Le Club Hit in Seattle. Napalm Beach had formed in Longview, Washington in 1980, but moved to Portland, Oregon. Members over the years included Sam Henry on drums, Chris Newman on guitar, and Dave Dellinger on bass. Napalm Beach is sometimes credited being an early innovator of…
ID Number:2018.86.23
Date:1985