3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Solstice '82 benefit event poster, Seattle, June 19, 1982
The poster pictured here advertises an solstice celebration organized by Lambda Productions to benefit three LGBTQ groups-- the Dorian Group, Families and Friends of Gays and Lesbians, Seattle Counseling Service for Sexual Minorities-- and the sexual assualt resource Seattle Rape Relief. The party was hosted by Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), the first gay service member to intentionally out himself to the…
ID Number:2006.42.35
Date:1982
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Tobacco counter at the Merchant's Cafe, Seattle, circa 1916
Claiming to be Seattle’s oldest continuously operating restaurant, Merchant's Café stands at the corner of Yesler and James Streets in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood. Seattle entrepreneur Franz Xavier "F.X." Schreiner opened his establishment around 1898 as Merchant's Exchange Saloon, changing the name to Merchant's Café during Prohibition. Over the years Merchant's has served as a restaurant, brothel, tavern, hotel,…
ID Number:2006.47.2
Date:Circa 1916
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Waseda University baseball game, Dugdale Park, Seattle, July 1911
In 1911, Waseda University, one of the oldest universities in Japan, sent its baseball team to tour the United States and play against American teams at the invitation of the University of Chicago. The Waseda team landed at San Francisco on April 13 and played forty games across the US, traveling as far as New York. They arrived in Seattle…
ID Number:2008.56.1
Date:1911
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Aerial view of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, March 7, 1959
On March 7, 1942, three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Port of Seattle undertook development of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at the urging of the federal government. A new airport was desperately needed to help relieve pressure on Seattle’s Boeing Field and Tacoma’s McChord Field, which were commandeered for warplane production and military use in World War II. Sea-Tac’s…
ID Number:2009.23.21
Date:1959
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Aerial view of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, May 8, 1959
On March 7, 1942, three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Port of Seattle undertook development of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at the urging of the federal government. A new airport was desperately needed to help relieve pressure on Seattle’s Boeing Field and Tacoma’s McChord Field, which were commandeered for warplane production and military use in World War II. Sea-Tac’s…
ID Number:2009.23.23
Date:1959
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Aerial view of Aurora Bridge over Lake Union, Seattle, April 1960
The Aurora Bridge (officially the George Washington Memorial Bridge) is a cantilever and truss bridge that carries State Route 99 (Aurora Avenue North) over the west end of Seattle's Lake Union. Construction on the bridge piers began in 1929, and the bridge was opened to traffic on February 22, 1932, George Washington's 200th birthday. It was listed on the National…
ID Number:2009.23.31
Date:1960
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Aerial view of Freeway Bridge during Interstate 5 construction, Seattle, January 1961
Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, and Seattle's widest freeway. The section of I-5 connecting Kent to Seattle to Everett was built between 1960-1966, including "Freeway Bridge," shown in this aerial photograph taken in 1961. The direction of the photograph is looking south and slightly west over Lake Union towards…
ID Number:2009.23.57
Date:1961
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Aerial view of Interstate 5 construction at Denny Way, looking north, January 1961
Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, and Seattle's and widest freeway. The section of I-5 connecting Kent to Seattle to Everett was built between 1960-1966, including the section shown in this aerial photograph taken in 1961. The direction of the photograph is looking north, Lake Union is on the left…
ID Number:2009.23.64
Date:1961
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Aerial view of Seattle waterfront, showing Polynesian Restaurant on Pier 51, October 13, 1961
This aerial photograph of the Seattle waterfront features the Polynesian Restaurant, built at the end of Pier 51 (third from right in this photo). The restaurant was completed in June 1961, in time for the following year’s infusion of tourists for the Century 21 World’s Fair. The Polynesian was Seattle’s grandest example of Tiki décor, but was torn down in…
ID Number:2009.23.74
Date:1961
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Aerial view of Seattle waterfront, including viaduct construction, October 16, 1961
This aerial photograph of Seattle's waterfront from 1961 features the viaduct nearing completion after what would be 16 years of construction (1950-1966). The Alaskan Way Viaduct was part of a larger effort to develop the remaining two-lane segments of State Route 99, also known as Pacific Highway, into a four-lane roadway from the Oregon border to the Canadian border.The piers…
ID Number:2009.23.77
Date:1961