398 results for: James
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Jules James, July 11, 2007
Interview with Jules James about his activism, including his work with Lake Union. The interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Memories of Lake Union Oral History Project in July 2007.
ID Number:2019.35.12.10
Date:2007
Videorecording
Oral history interview with James S. (Jim) Perry, April 29, 2009
Interview with James S. (Jim) Perry about his memories of the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, conducted by Charlie Anderson with Joe Bisignano for the Horizon House Century 21 Oral History Project in April 2009. Topics discussed include bussing people in for the fair, Seattle at the time of the fair, and his connection to an earlier fair.
ID Number:2019.35.13.14
Date:2009
Photograph
Charlie James in front of Colman School building, Seattle, December 5, 1985
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2020.42.1.16.01.30
Date:1985
Photograph
"African American Museum" sign on door of Colman School, Seattle, November 25, 1985
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2020.42.1.16.02.44
Date:1985
Videorecording
You Have the Right to Know: Civil Rights in the '80s, Community Television Agency program, January 24, 1989
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.02
Date:1989
Ephemera
26 Ways to Keep Husbands Happy: Mapleine Dishes Men "Go For", circa 1936
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle in 1883 and sold spices and seasonings. In 1905, a Crescent chemist invented an artificial maple flavoring which, under the name Mapleine, became Crescent’s most successful product. Mapleine could be used to flavor a variety of sweet and savory dishes and, mixed with water and sugar, made a economical substitute for true…
ID Number:2023.14.7
Date:Circa 1936
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Softball team, 1943
The Seattle Division of Todd Shipyard Corporation originated in 1916, when the William H. Todd Corporation purchased the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company (formerly Moran Brothers Shipyard). Originally located on the Seattle waterfront, the shipyard built cargo vessels for the U.S. Shipping Board during World War I. Todd moved the operation to a new plant on Harbor Island in…
ID Number:2023.36.81
Date:1943
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy Show: "Rules", 1993
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.48.01
Date:1993
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy postcard, circa 1995
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.49.01
Date:Circa 1995
Ephemera
Seasons Greetings card from Bill Nye, circa 1995
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.50.01
Date:Circa 1995