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Poster
Philippine Independence Day Celebration, Seattle, June 13-14, 1981
Since the 1950s, the Philippines Council in Seattle has celebrated the anniversary of Philippine independence from Spain in June 1898 with a reception or festival. This poster advertises the 1981 Philippine Independence Day Celebration, sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General and the Filipino-American Intercommunity Council of the Pacific Northwest, with an abstracted sunset behind a silhouette of palm trees. The…
ID Number:2019.3.36
Date:1981
Poster
Festival Sundiata poster, Seattle, September 25-27, 1981
Started in 1981, Festival Sundiata is a festival of Northwest African American visual and performing arts held at the Seattle Center. Since 1997, Festival Sundiata has been part of the Seattle Center's Festal season, which celebrates various ethnic and international communities in the Seattle region.This poster advertises the first Festival Sundiata with a photo of a sculpture by James Washington,…
ID Number:2019.3.37
Date:1981
Poster
Mayor Dore Apologizes poster, Seattle, 1936
Seattle has a long history of labor radicalism dating back into the 19th century. The 1930s saw a new burst of radical labor activism, with large scale strikes and boycotting that strengthened local labor unions representing longshoremen, woodworkers, truck drivers, and machinists. As unions grew in power, so did criticism of many union leaders who utilized heavy-handed methods of recruitment…
ID Number:2019.3.39
Date:1936
Poster
No Recall, No I-83, No More Delay poster, Seattle, 2004
Interest in expanding Seattle’s 1962 monorail line throughout the city gained momentum with signature-gathering petitions in 1994. In 1997, in spite of almost total opposition by the political establishment, city voters approved Initiative 41 for monorail expansion. Three years later voters approved an additional measure for planning money. Over the next few years, design and funding of the first phase…
ID Number:2019.3.41
Date:2004
Program
Ye Ancient Syngers concert program, Seattle, December 9, 1884
Ye Ancient Syngers was a group Seattle musicians that performed from sometime in the 1880s through the early 1910s. While notices of the group are inconsistent, they seemed to have hosted semi-regular events throughout the year, especially at Christmas. By the 1910s, their events are affiliated with Methodists churches in Seattle.This program announces a "Feast of Musick" on the evening…
ID Number:2019.3.42
Date:1884
Cartographic material
Share the Ride Zone Map, Seattle, 1942
In 1942, during World War II, the federal government’s War Production Transport Commission mandated that citizens cut back on the use of gasoline and rubber tires for the war effort. Seattle and other cities developed city-wide carpooling plans. Businesses and neighborhoods formally registered share-the-ride groups, and members were eligible for additional gasoline stamps once rationing began. By the fall of…
ID Number:2019.3.46
Date:1942
Cartographic material
Latona Addition to the City of Seattle, October 28, 1889
George Morris "Morris" Haller (1852-1889) was born in Pennsylvania to U.S. Army Colonel Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897), and his wife, Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910). The family moved frequently around the country during Granville's military service, and upon his retirement in 1882, they moved to Seattle permanently. Morris studied law in Seattle and became a successful attorney and real estate…
ID Number:2019.3.48
Date:1889
Cartographic material
Seattle War Camp Community Service map, circa 1918
Once the United States entered World War I in 1917, numerous military personnel began to pass through Seattle. The Seattle War Camp Community Service group formed to provide support to these visiting servicemen and veterans. Among other things, they published a map of downtown Seattle that promoted the Seattle Soldiers and Sailors Club and the Hospitality Club. It noted their…
ID Number:2019.3.51
Date:1918
Serial
Seattle Times, February 3, 1919
The Seattle General Strike was a work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in Seattle from February 6-11, 1919. The strike began in shipyards when workers were refused pay increases after two years of World War I wage controls. Most of the city's 110 local unions, including members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of…
ID Number:2019.3.55
Date:1919
Cartographic material
Map of Alaska, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia Showing all the Recent Gold Discoveries, 1898
James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) founded Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company in 1882. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers, and binders but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos, and organs. Later they expanded into selling photographic equipment and other supplies to people leaving for the gold fields. The company existed in one form or…
ID Number:2019.3.58
Date:1898