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Image of Northwest Area Music Awards program, April 1989
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Northwest Area Music Awards program, April 1989

The Northwest Area Music Association, Inc. (NAMA) was founded in Seattle in 1987 to promote national awareness of the Northwest's thriving music scene, and provide a network for industry professionals to advance the music business within the Northwest. For several years, NAMA held an awards ceremony to honor northwest musicians and bands, as well as other music-related industries such as…
ID Number:2013.87.156.1
Date:1989
Image of Northern Pacific Steamship Company S.S. Victoria Christmas menu, 1902
Menu

Northern Pacific Steamship Company S.S. Victoria Christmas menu, 1902

The transatlantic ocean liner S.S. Victoria was built in Scotland in 1870 and was originally known as the S.S. Parthia. It was sold to Tacoma-based Northern Pacific Steamship Company in the early 1900s, and then ended up with the Alaska Steamship Company in 1908. This menu is for a special Christmas dinner aboard the Victoria.
ID Number:2014.3.1.73.1
Date:1902
Image of Let's Keep the Market Initiative 10th Anniversary poster, Seattle, September 18 - November 2, 1981
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Let's Keep the Market Initiative 10th Anniversary poster, Seattle, September 18 - November 2, 1981

On November 2, 1971, Seattle Initiative No. 1 passed to create a seven-acre historic district at Pike Place Market, ending eight years of activism against the plans of the Central Association of Seattle (precursor to the Downtown Seattle Association) to replace the Market with parking, office and hotel space, and some vendor stalls. Begun initially in 1907 as a way…
ID Number:2014.9.7
Date:1981
Image of Taiko drummers performing at Bon Odori festival, Seattle, July 2015
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Taiko drummers performing at Bon Odori festival, Seattle, July 2015

During the summer of 1932, the Seattle Buddhist Church held the city's first Bon Odori festival. Bon Odori is a Japanese dance which is part of the observance of Obon, a Buddhist memorial service. The joyful dance, which celebrates the Buddhist tradition of selfless giving, expresses gratitude to departed family members. Over the years, the festival grew to include flower…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC433
Date:2015
Image of People at home opening gifts, Seattle, circa 1955
Photograph

People at home opening gifts, Seattle, circa 1955

This group is celebrating an occasion with gifts being opened in their comfortable bungalow-style living room. A man stands in front of the fireplace next to a television set, holding up a pair of argyle socks.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder11.001
Date:Circa 1955
Image of Couple at a party, Seattle, circa 1954
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Couple at a party, Seattle, circa 1954

A couple attends a social event at an unknown location, it seems to be a reception or cocktail party. She wears a corsage; he has a boutonniere.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder11.004
Date:Circa 1954
Image of Santa Claus and group of children, circa 1954
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Santa Claus and group of children, circa 1954

A large and racially diverse group of people, most of them children, surround Santa Claus at some kind of a Christmas celebration in front of a Shell service station. In the back row six men, possibly Masons, are wearing fezzes. The people are unidentified.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder16.002
Date:Circa 1954
Image of Children and Santa, circa 1954
Photograph

Children and Santa, circa 1954

Here, a group of unidentified children pose with a sleepy-looking Santa Claus in front of a tall Christmas tree decorated with tinsel.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder16.004
Date:Circa 1954
Image of Group at Roslyn Black Pioneers picnic, 1983
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Group at Roslyn Black Pioneers picnic, 1983

Roslyn is a town in the Cascade Mountains about 80 miles southeast of Seattle. It was founded in 1886 by a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad as a coal mining town. In 1888 the miners went on strike and the company responded by bringing in strikebreakers, including about 300 Black miners, most of whom did not know they were…
ID Number:2014.49.02.100.13
Date:1983
Image of Group at Roslyn Black Pioneers picnic, 1983
Photograph

Group at Roslyn Black Pioneers picnic, 1983

Roslyn is a town in the Cascade Mountains about 80 miles southeast of Seattle. It was founded in 1886 by a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad as a coal mining town. In 1888 the miners went on strike and the company responded by bringing in strikebreakers, including about 300 Black miners, most of whom did not know they were…
ID Number:2014.49.02.100.15
Date:1983
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