878 results for: Performing Arts
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Sir Mix-A-Lot recording with PUSA at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.01.10
Date:1999
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Chris Ballew of PUSU recording at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.03.09
Date:1999
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Sir Mix-A-Lot recording with PUSA at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.04.02
Date:1999
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Sir Mix-A-Lot recording with PUSA at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.04.07
Date:1999
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Sir Mix-A-Lot and PUSA at Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.04.28
Date:1999
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Sir Mix-A-Lot and PUSA outside Jupiter Studios, Seattle, July 1999
In the late 1990s, two huge parts of Seattle’s music scene came together in an unexpected way. Famed hip-hop artist Sir Mix-a-Lot and alternative rock band The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) collaborated as Subset between 1998 and 1999. They played several shows in Seattle and worked on recording an album. However, the group disbanded in 2000…
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.03.19990728.01.05.15
Date:1999
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Art Barduhn Trio with Stan Boreson and others, circa 1953
The Art Barduhn Trio of the early 1950s consisted of Art Barduhn (b. 1922) on piano, accordion, vibraphone and other instruments, Russ Phillips on bass and Glenn Thompson on guitar. The trio was often joined by local Seattle musician and humorist Stan Boreson. In the 1950s, the Art Barduhn Trio performed regularly in Seattle and elsewhere, and was also featured…
ID Number:2008.4.37
Date:Circa 1953
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Interior of Bagdad Theatre, Seattle, circa 1927
Seattle's Bagdad Theatre operated from 1927-1947 at one of the Ballard neighborhood's most significant buildings, located on the northwest corner of Market Street and 22nd Avenue NW. The building was designed by local architect Frederick J. Peters as the home of the Ballard chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.), an international non-profit organization founded in 1898 in Seattle.…
ID Number:2008.47.2
Date:Circa 1927
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Television personalities at the Bon Marché, Seattle, circa 1950
The Bon Marché was founded in 1890 by German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine. Originally located in Seattle’s Belltown district at First Avenue and Cedar Street, in 1896 it moved to a more central location downtown at Second Avenue and Pike Street. In this photo, three Seattle television personalities from KING-TV pose inside the store with look-a-like mannequins:…
ID Number:2009.20.193.1
Date:Circa 1950
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Carpet design for renovation of Century 21 Opera House, circa 1961
This hand-painted design for a carpet, with color specifications noted, is titled "Seattle World's Fair" and designed by B. Marcus Priteca and James Chiarelli. As part of the planning for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition), architects Priteca and Chiarelli worked together on the conversion of the existing Civic Auditorium at 225 Mercer Street into the Seattle Opera…
ID Number:2010.3.36
Date:Circa 1961