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Gay Pride march, Seattle, June 25, 1977
Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The celebrations included potluck dinners, the opening of a gay community center, and a sing-in and rollerblading at the top of the Volunteer Park water tower. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park,…
ID Number:2002.46.2379.7
Date:1977
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People marching in Gay Pride Parade, Seattle, June 25, 1977
Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The celebrations included potluck dinners, the opening of a gay community center, and a sing-in and rollerblading at the top of the Volunteer Park water tower. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park,…
ID Number:2002.46.2415.1
Date:1977
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Couple embracing at Gay Pride march, Seattle, June 25, 1977
Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The celebrations included potluck dinners, the opening of a gay community center, and a sing-in and rollerblading at the top of the Volunteer Park water tower. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park,…
ID Number:2002.46.2415.2
Date:1977
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People at Gay Pride march, Seattle, June 25, 1977
Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The celebrations included potluck dinners, the opening of a gay community center, and a sing-in and rollerblading at the top of the Volunteer Park water tower. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park,…
ID Number:2002.46.2415.4
Date:1977
Menu
Firland Sanatorium Christmas dinner menu, 1938
Firland Sanatorium was Seattle's municipal tuberculosis hospital. It opened in 1911 to help combat what was at the time Seattle's leading cause of death. Firland was located on 34 acres in the Richmond Highlands area, 12 miles north of the then-border of Seattle.This Christmas dinner menu is printed in three colors and features red and green holiday themed illustrations.
ID Number:2003.9.74
Date:1938
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Treat family in car decorated for Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, 1912
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:2005.19.1
Date:1912
Ephemera
Seattle Storm championship celebration flier, 2004
This flier was created to advertise a city-wide celebration after the Seattle Storm won the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Championship on Tuesday, October 12, 2004, at KeyArena. The celebration was held on October 15, 2004, in downtown Seattle at Westlake Center. Founded before the 2000 season began, the Storm qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in twelve of its first…
ID Number:2006.54.2
Date:2004
Poster
Fratelli's Fireworks Festival over Lake Union poster, Seattle, July 4, 1988
On July 4th, 1988, Seattleites were treated to two fireworks shows: an older show at Elliott Bay, sponsored by restaurateur Ivar Haglund, and a new one at Lake Union, put on by Fratelli’s Ice Cream. The Fratelli festival featured the music of Uncle Bonsai and a two-hour program by the Seattle Symphony. The symphony program was simulcast on KING-FM, the…
ID Number:2007.25.2
Date:1988
Poster
AT&T July 4th fireworks poster, Seattle, circa 1997
Seattle’s fireworks shows at Lake Union began in 1988. AT&T was the title sponsor from 1995 until 2001. This AT&T poster for Lake Union fireworks is an explanatory “field guide” for different kinds of Japanese firework displays. Caption information source: The Seattle Times: August 18, 1998; and July 10, 2009.
ID Number:2007.25.4
Date:Circa 1997
Poster
Seattle's Greatest Show, 27th Annual Fourth of Jul-Ivars poster, July 4, 1991
Seattle restaurateur Ivar Haglund began sponsoring 4th of July fireworks over Elliott Bay in the early 1960s, and the event grew over the years. In 1991, his 27th Annual Fourth of Jul-Ivar’s celebration at Myrtle Edwards Park had multiple co-sponsors, and featured not only the end of a car race, but also the top-name entertainers the Mamas and Papas, and…
ID Number:2007.25.6
Date:1991