1949 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
Photograph
Navy personnel at station commissary, Seattle, circa 1918
During World War I a temporary Naval Training Station was set up on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. This image of U. S. Navy Training Station…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.3.53
Date:Circa 1918
Music, notated
Meet Me at the A.Y.P.
Seattle held its first world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The fair promoted the region’s growth and prosperity that had begun with the 1897 arrival of the first shipment of Yukon gold. “Meet Me At The A.Y.P” was but one of the songs written at the time to promote the AYPE. Harry G. Robinson wrote the music and…
ID Number:Lib1993.41.343
Date:1909
Photograph
Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees working with sheets of lead at the Seattle plant. Caption information source:…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.6
Date:Circa 1950
Photograph
Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.8
Date:Circa 1950
Photograph
Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.9
Date:Circa 1950
Ephemera
Banquet program for King Harald V's visit, 1995
Norway's King Harald V (b. 1937) and Queen Sonja (b. 1937) came to Seattle in 1995 for a four-day visit that included events around Puget Sound. Harald had visited Seattle twice previously as crown prince, first in January 1964 for an official visit, then in briefly in October 1967 after an official visit to Canada. The Pacific Northwest is home…
ID Number:Lib1996.8.17
Date:1995
Correspondence
Isaac and Isabelle Bechtel letter about Great Seattle Fire, June 24, 1889
In 1882 Isaac Kinsey Bechtel (1848-1890) arrived in the Puget Sound area and bought 129 acres around what is now Main Street in downtown Bellevue. He had left his wife, Isabella (Lind) Bechtel (1852-1938), and their children behind in Waterloo, Ontario, but in 1885 he was able to send money for them to join him. The cabin Mr. Bechtel built…
ID Number:Lib1996.24.3
Date:1889
Music, notated
Seattle, My Own Home Town
The music and lyrics for "Seattle, My Own Home Town," were written by two women who were born elsewhere but spent their adult lives in the greater Seattle area. A songwriter born in Illinois who enjoyed considerable success in Seattle, Rosetta Adelle (Perry) Gibbon (1904-1988), also wrote "Hail, the Navy," which won a 1933 Chamber of Commerce Fleet Week contest,…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.13
Date:1952
Music, notated
There's Something Else Goes With It!
Between 1900 and 1925 Seattle was a thriving music publishing center with at least half a dozen houses printing songs. As many as 10,000 copies of each musical piece would be sold, some of them peddled from door to door. Most songs were written by amateur or professional singers, although many songs were written as "singing commercials" to promote a…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.14
Date:1907
Music, notated
Seattle Town
The popularity of songs about cities prompted the Young Men's Business Club of Seattle to commission local composer Harold Taylor Weeks to write a song for Seattle. Weeks had already gained a national reputation for a number of hits, including his popular 1918 jazz song "Hindustan," which he wrote with Oliver G. Wallace. The Seattle Times reported that the composer…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.16
Date:1923