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Image of Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, September 2-5, 1983
Poster

Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, September 2-5, 1983

Begun as "Festival '71" in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot has become one of North America's largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.The poster pictured here features a painting by Lucinda Parker (b. 1943), a Portland-based artist whose painting, "New Waves," was commissioned for Bumbershoot through the City of Seattle 1% for Art Program. Printed…
ID Number:2011.49.13
Date:1983
Image of Souvenir photo folder from the  Black & Tan Club, Seattle, circa 1945
Ephemera

Souvenir photo folder from the Black & Tan Club, Seattle, circa 1945

Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished from World War II up until the early 1960s, when the Civil Rights movement broke down barriers barring African Americans from living and working in the larger community. Seattle-born photographer Albert J. "Al" Smith, Sr. (1916-2008) was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of patrons and friends, then returning the following…
ID Number:2014.49.13.05.01
Date:Circa 1945
Image of Women posing at fashion show, Seattle, circa 1953
Photograph

Women posing at fashion show, Seattle, circa 1953

Here, four well-dressed women pose near the podium at a fashion show. They are identified from left as Claudine Thurman, Anna Mary Knighton Hall, Lorraine Law, and Ola May Parker.
ID Number:2014.49.014.017.0028
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Model at Easter fashion show, Seattle,  circa 1953
Photograph

Model at Easter fashion show, Seattle, circa 1953

Here, a model wearing a floral print dress with a hat, white gloves, and handbag poses near an arched trellis at an Easter fashion show. A woman at right provides commentary. She has been tentatively identified as Ola May Park or Parker.
ID Number:2014.49.014.045.0103
Date:Circa 1953
Image of Jazz musicians in Shanghai, China, circa 1938
Photograph

Jazz musicians in Shanghai, China, circa 1938

Many American jazz musicians traveled to Shanghai during the city's golden age in the 1930s, when "the Paris of the Orient" was the newest horizon on an increasingly international jazz music scene. For Black musicians, who were often excluded from white musicians' unions in the U. S. and subjected to other forms of segregation, Shanghai provided steady, well-paid work, and…
ID Number:2016.84.2.9.1
Date:Circa 1938
Image of Group portrait with A. B. Wilse, Seattle, circa 1895
Photograph

Group portrait with A. B. Wilse, Seattle, circa 1895

Anders Beer Wilse (1865-1949) emigrated from Norway in 1884, arriving in Seattle in 1890 to work for the United States Geological Survey. Photography was an important part of his various jobs as civil engineer, cartographer, and property tax assessor. In 1897, however, he decided to become a full time outdoor photographer. Until his return to Norway in 1900, Wilse took…
ID Number:Lib1985.72.2
Date:Circa 1895
Image of Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 7, 1947
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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 7, 1947

Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers as part of the annual Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. The main address was given by General Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891-1974) and was to be followed by an elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake.This photo shows…
ID Number:PI24528
Date:1947
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