538 results for: Clubs and Organizations
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Discrimination Response System poster, circa 1985
This poster advertises a service in Seattle called the Discrimination Response System which addressed discrimination "within the GBLTQ community such as carding Blacks and Drag Queens in some gay bars, etc." The program was supported by the local chapter of Black and White Men Together (BWMT) a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization founded in 1983. Caption information source: http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews34_25/page7.cfmCaption information source:…
ID Number:2002.23.8.6.3
Date:Circa 1985
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Greater Seattle Bicycle Expo poster, February 22-23, 1991
In 1987, the Cascade Bicycle Club, an organization started by brothers Mike and Rick Quam in 1970 to discuss bicycling in the Puget Sound region, began its annual trade show, the Seattle Bicycle Expo. The expo would continue until 2015, when the Cascade Bicycle Club dropped the event due to declining attendance. Cascadia Events took it over as the Seattle…
ID Number:2007.25.11
Date:1991
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Women's Commercial Club of Seattle in automobiles at Volunteer Park, Seattle, circa 1914
The Women's Commercial Club of Seattle, founded in 1910, was an organization of over 100 Seattle women in business and professions. Professions included architect, dentist, surgeon, editor, printers, florist, and proprietor of a livery barn. Club activities appear to have included both social functions and business-related meetings. The club disappears from the Seattle City directory after 1915. Caption on image:…
ID Number:2007.30.21
Date:Circa 1914
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Arctic Club parade float, 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:2010.22.1
Date:1912
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Pilgrim Girls' Club Annual Magazine, 1928
A societal and educational group for young women that flourished from 1921-1935, the Plymouth Girls' Club was once the largest women's organization in Seattle. Hosted by the Plymouth Congregational Church, located since 1911 at Sixth Avenue and University Street, the club held weekly dinners followed by classes in everything from current events and golf to parliamentary law and hooked-rug making.…
ID Number:2011.86.2
Date:1928
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CORE membership poster, 1966
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.3
Date:1966
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King and queen of the seas pageant: Polka dot seas program, 1995
The Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & The Olympic and Rainier Empire is a member of the International Court System (ICS), the second largest LGBTQ organization in the world, and aims to provide funds and services to other non-profits within the local gay and lesbian community. One of the Seattle court's biggest events of the year is the King and…
ID Number:2014.21.2
Date:1995
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Pianist Ruby Bishop celebrating her 90th birthday at the Swedish Club, Seattle, 2011
Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) was a popular jazz singer and pianist in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Thurston County, Ms. Bishop moved to Seattle to attend University of Washington, but left school after a year to pursue a career in music. In addition to performing, she also worked for Boeing during World War II, and as a court reporter,…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC414
Date:2011
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Overton Berry and Jeff Davies performing at the Swedish Club, Seattle, February 9, 2018
Overton Berry (1936-2020) was a popular Seattle jazz pianist with a long career spanning the late Jackson Street jazz club period in the early 1950s to shortly before his death in 2020. Born in Texas, Berry moved to Seattle with his family in 1945. He studied classical piano as a child and formed his first jazz trio with two of…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC659
Date:2018
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Overton Berry performing at the Swedish Club, Seattle, February 9, 2018
Overton Berry (1936-2020) was a popular Seattle jazz pianist with a long career spanning the late Jackson Street jazz club period in the early 1950s to shortly before his death in 2020. Born in Texas, Berry moved to Seattle with his family in 1945. He studied classical piano as a child and formed his first jazz trio with two of…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC660
Date:2018