517 results for: Museum of History
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, August 30 - September 2, 1996
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 was designed by Art Chantry and Hank Trotter, illustrated by Mr. Edwin Fotheringham, and printed by Windward Press. Caption information source: "Bumbershoot," by Paul Dorpat, HistoryLink.org Essay 10027.Caption information…
ID Number:2011.49.26
Date:1996
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, September 4-7, 1998
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 was designed by Dorit Ely Design, and features artwork by Ginny Ruffner and photography by Mike Sidel and Chad Brown. It was printed by Heath Printers. Printed on poster:…
ID Number:2011.49.29
Date:1998
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, August 29 - September 1, 1997
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 artwork by Julie Paschkis and was designed by Nancy O'Connell. The poster was printed by Heath Printers. Printed on poster: Poster Art by Julie PaschkisCaption information source: "Bumbershoot,"…
ID Number:2011.49.30
Date:1997
Poster
Pacific Poultryman poster, circa 1914
Paul Wadsworth Harries (1877-1960) was born in Minnesota and moved to Seattle around 1909. He married Sara Powell Bittle (1887-1982) in 1910, and by the following year he was working as the advertising manager for Pacific Poultryman, a monthly magazine about farming and livestock that began in 1895 as Northwest Poultry Journal. Mr. Harries became the editor and publisher of…
ID Number:2011.61.3
Date:Circa 1914
Ephemera
Bendix Computer Division demonstration printout, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair. The exposition's displays and attractions were centered around themes of science and technology, but included showcases for a variety of world cultures. The Computer Division of the Bendix Corporation (a manufacturing and engineering company,…
ID Number:2011.62.8
Date:1962
Document
Deed to City of Seattle for Carkeek Park property, Seattle, August 21, 1918
Seattle’s original Carkeek Park was located on Lake Washington, roughly where Magnuson Park is today. English-born Seattle businessman and contractor Morgan J. Carkeek had come to Seattle in 1875. In 1919, he and his wife gave some 23 acres of land on Lake Washington to the City of Seattle for a park, to be called “Carkeek Park”. On August 21,…
ID Number:2012.3.3
Date:1918
Poster
Elliott Bay Water Taxi poster, Seattle, 1997
West Seattle is Seattle's oldest and biggest neighborhood, situated on a peninsula in Elliott Bay. Early public transportation between West Seattle and Seattle was mostly limited to the irregular and infrequent service provided by “Mosquito Fleet” steamships that traveled from port to port around Puget Sound. In 1888 the West Seattle Land and Improvement Company built a dock and launched…
ID Number:2012.26.65
Date:1997
Poster
Metro water conservation poster, Seattle, 1977
Metro, the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, was founded in 1958 to oversee regional wastewater treatment. In time, supervision of regional transit was added, but after Metro merged with King County in 1994, the water quality and transportation management functions were separated.The poster pictured here was created for Metro’s Community Involvement office and was displayed inside Seattle and King County buses,…
ID Number:2012.34.20
Date:1977
Poster
Metro neighborhood water quality poster, Seattle, 1977
Metro, the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, was founded in 1958 to oversee regional wastewater treatment. In time, supervision of regional transit was added, but after Metro merged with King County in 1994, the water quality and transportation management functions were separated.The poster pictured here was created for Metro’s Community Involvement office and was displayed inside Seattle and King County buses,…
ID Number:2012.34.21
Date:1977
Ephemera
Trianon Ballroom opening booklet, 1927
The Trianon Ballroom, located at Third Avenue and Bell Street, was an important entertainment venue in Seattle's musical history. One of several large dance clubs in the area which drew national Big Band talent, it was founded by hotelier john Edward Savage (1879-1958) and had a 30 x 135-foot dance floor that accommodated more than 5,000 dancers. Operating under Jim…
ID Number:2013.58.14
Date:1927