1829 results for: Seattle Times
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
Music, notated
Gloria Washington
The words and music for "Gloria Washington," the official march of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, were written by Frederick Neil Innes (1854-1926), a musician and conductor from Chicago who served as the Fair's director of music. The score was copyrighted by F. B. Innes and published by Clegg Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. The AYPE was a world's fair held…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.17
Date:1909
Program
Program for the United Nations Victory Festival, Seattle, December1945
The Seventh Annual United Nations Christmas Festival, known in 1945 as the Victory Festival, was held at Seattle's Civic Auditorium, with costumed representatives from fourteen countries participating in the "Pageant of the Nations Going Home," a celebration of courage and hope after the devastations of war. United Nations representatives from twenty nations attended, and the entertainment also included performances by…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.22
Date:1945
Manuscript
Morgan Carkeek's recollection of 1886 anti-Chinese riots, Seattle, circa 1900
A stone mason originally from England, Morgan James Carkeek (1847-1931) arrived in Seattle in 1870 and began building a construction and real estate empire. Mr. Carkeek and his wife, Emily (Gaskill) Carkeek (1852-1926), donated the land for Seattle's Carkeek Park. Deeply interested in conservation and the study of Seattle-area history, in 1911 the Carkeeks founded the Seattle Historical Society, which…
ID Number:MS.COLL.41
Date:Circa 1900
Document
Woman's Century Club membership certificate, 1924
The Woman's Century Club was founded in 1891 by ten Seattle women, including noted suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947). Noting their times as a "Woman's Century," the founders intended the club to be both social and educational, with gatherings and lectures on a variety of topics. One noted member in the 1920s was Bertha Knight Landes (1868-1943), Seattle's first woman…
ID Number:MS.COLL.111
Date:1924
Program
Swimming carnival program, 1924
On August 9, 1924, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer hosted a swimming carnival at Madrona Bathing Beach, a popular recreation area on the Lake Washington waterfront. Various competitions were held among the 382 children who had participated in summertime swimming lessons at eight local beaches.This program has two names, Mary and Roseanne, handwritten next to the events in which they competed and…
ID Number:MS.COLL.244
Date:1924
Program
Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters Banquet and Auction program, 1940
The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters (now The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists) was founded in 1928 and continues to support visual artists through scholarship, education, fellowship, and historic preservation. The oldest professional arts organization in the Pacific Northwest, it was founded by Eustace Ziegler (1881-), who wanted the group to be self-supporting, to award scholarships to deserving…
ID Number:MS.COLL.311.2
Date:1949
Ephemera
Seattle's Automobile Show advertisement, April 1916
In 1916 the third annual Seattle Automobile Show was held downtown, hosted by the Seattle Auditorium Company, and featured thirty-three passenger models of twenty different makes, and eight motor trucks produced by six different manufacturers. Some of the standouts included a white six-cylinder Paige, a maroon eight-cylinder Oakland, and a Marmon with an aluminum engine. Also on display were the…
ID Number:MS.COLL.872
Date:1916
Ephemera
Seattle Railroad School course schedule, circa 1950
The Seattle Railroad School was a branch of the Spokane Telegraph School that taught the Morse telegraphy that was used by railroads in the U. S. and Canada. The school advertised in The Seattle Times at least from 1949-1955, offering training in stenography, teletype operating, telephone operating, Gregg shorthand, and typewriting.This brochure for the school lists the classes offered in…
ID Number:MS.COLL.1048a
Date:Circa 1950
Photograph
Decorating Ballard Bridge for reopening celebration, Seattle, May 1940
The Ballard Bridge, also known as the 15th Avenue Bridge, is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Seattle which connects Ballard to the Magnolia and Queen Anne neighborhoods. Opened in 1917 and spanning the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the Bridge originally had wooden approaches intended to last only ten years. The bridge was closed for repairs in 1939 and the approaches…
ID Number:PI20464
Date:1940