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Image of Ferry commuters arriving in Seattle, September 23, 1983
Photograph

Ferry commuters arriving in Seattle, September 23, 1983

In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.001
Date:1983
Image of Yesler Way at sunset, Seattle, September 23, 1983
Photograph

Yesler Way at sunset, Seattle, September 23, 1983

In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.035
Date:1983
Image of Student in wheelchair using lift on school bus, Federal Way, September 23, 1983
Photograph

Student in wheelchair using lift on school bus, Federal Way, September 23, 1983

In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.261
Date:1983
Image of Ted De Coster cleaning windshield, Seattle, September 23, 1983
Photograph

Ted De Coster cleaning windshield, Seattle, September 23, 1983

In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.387
Date:1983
Image of Woman on bike, September 23, 1983
Photograph

Woman on bike, September 23, 1983

In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.398
Date:1983
Image of Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Seattle, Plate 12, 1908
Cartographic material

Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Seattle, Plate 12, 1908

The G. William Baist Company of Philadelphia produced real estate and insurance maps of over twenty different cities across the United States between the 1880s and 1967. The company published atlases in Seattle in 1905, 1908, and 1912, illustrating property ownership, building materials and improvements, and transportation routes.This map, labeled Plate 12, was separated from the atlas, and shows the…
ID Number:1985.4.13
Date:1908
Image of Promotional leaflet for the Ford Seattle-ite XXI, Seattle World’s Fair, 1962
Ephemera

Promotional leaflet for the Ford Seattle-ite XXI, Seattle World’s Fair, 1962

Leaflet includes artist’s illustrations and descriptions of the many features of the Seattle-ite XXI, such as fingertip steering, jalousie windows with variable density glass, a detachable front end, and “a viewing screen which would show engine performance characteristics, road and weather conditions, position of the vehicle in relation to an automatically rolling road map, and estimated time of arrival at…
ID Number:1985.26.1
Date:1962
Audio recording

Oral history interview with Wilfred Miller, Nels Nelson, and Roy St. Clair, January 17, 1985

Interview with Wilfred Miller, Nels Nelson, and Roy St. Clair about their employment at the Lake Washington Shipyards. Topics discussed include the production changes brought by war, the shortage of Navy inspectors, worker wages, working conditions, safety standards, women welders, union activity, and a worker strike prior to Pearl Harbor.The interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the…
ID Number:1985.134.15
Date:1985
Image of Swanson and Fahlin SF-2 aircraft known as the “SE-AS-KA,” 1936
Photograph

Swanson and Fahlin SF-2 aircraft known as the “SE-AS-KA,” 1936

Backed by a civic group called the Seattle Washingtonians, pilot Russell Owen attempted to fly his SF-2 “everyman” aircraft, equipped with a Plymouth automobile engine, non-stop from Anchorage to Seattle in the summer of 1936. The stunt was in an effort to draw attention to the fact that Alaska had no air mail service. Fog forced Owen to return to…
ID Number:1986.5.275.1
Date:1936
Image of Aerial view,  looking northeast, of the construction of Interstate 5, Lakeview Boulevard section, Seattle, circa 1958
Photograph

Aerial view, looking northeast, of the construction of Interstate 5, Lakeview Boulevard section, Seattle, circa 1958

The 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act kicked off the Interstate construction program. Completed in the 1960s, Interstate-5 (I-5), of which the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett Freeway forms a part, is the only Interstate highway running from Canada to Mexico. Written on sleeve: HIGHWAYS, Freeway, Seattle, right-of-way, Lakeview BLVD. section, airview Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date…
ID Number:1986.5.3992.1
Date:Circa 1958
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