124 results for: Popular Culture
Poster
Rainier is Beerish on America poster, Seattle, 1976
The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was founded in 1893 by the merging of three Georgetown neighborhood breweries, the oldest of which had been founded in 1883 by Andrew Hemrich (1856-1910) and John Kopp (1853-1935). The company's Rainier Beer and the brewery itself, with it’s trademark red neon "R" that sat atop the building, were popular throughout the Pacific Northwest.…
ID Number:1999.64.106
Date:1976
Poster
A Brew Apart poster, Seattle, circa 1985
The Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was founded in 1893 by the merging of three Georgetown neighborhood breweries, the oldest of which had been founded in 1883 by Andrew Hemrich (1856-1910) and John Kopp (1853-1935). The company's Rainier Beer and the brewery itself, with it’s trademark red neon "R" that sat atop the building, were popular throughout the Pacific Northwest.…
ID Number:1999.64.110
Date:Circa 1985
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Students modeling preppy high school fashion, Mercer Island, December 4, 1980
"The Official Preppy Handbook" (1980, ed. Lisa Birnbach) listed Mercer Island as a preppy suburb. Here, two students at Mercer Island HIgh School, Mary Wade, left, and Holly Haglund, right, wear their versions of prep: skirts, Shetland sweaters layered over turtlenecks, and cable patterned pantyhose. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, December 7, 1980, page 124Caption information also derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.060.25.01
Date:1980
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Fashion model in preppy college style, Seattle, December 4, 1980
The preppy look for the college years as described in "The Official Preppy Handbook" (1980, ed. Lisa Birnbach) is worn by local student Moira Delaney, dressed in Eddie Bauer fashions and sitting on a Volvo. Delaney grew up in Seattle and was studying at the University of Washington at the time. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, December 7, 1980,…
ID Number:2000.107.060.25.02
Date:1980
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College students modeling New Wave fashion, Renton, May 28, 1981
In this image Renton Vocational-Technical Institute (now Renton Technical College) students Melanie La Voie, left, and Isha Johnson, right, model New Wave Fashions at the school's fourth annual fashion show of the fashion retailing and promotion class, held at the Carco Theater in Renton. Clothes were provided by local fashion shops. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, May 20, 1981,…
ID Number:2000.107.060.26.01
Date:1981
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Paul Allen in his office, Bellevue, circa 1990
Paul Allen was born in Seattle in 1953 to Ken and Faye Allen, a librarian and a teacher, respectivelly. In 1975, Allen and his high school friend Bill Gates started Microsoft. In 1983, Paul Allen left Microsoft after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. After he completed treatment, he opened his software company Asymetrix in 1985, and a year later he…
ID Number:2000.107.073.26.01
Date:Circa 1990
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Frank Herbert, September 27, 1982
Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel "Dune" and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and university lecturer. Herbert was a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1969 to 1972.
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.01
Date:1982
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Beverly and Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) and his wife Beverly sit in the living room of their home. Mounted on the wall between the paintings (original works by John Schoenherr for a "Dune" calendar) is a control panel for the home's solar heating system. An avid alternative energy experimenter, Herbert created his own solar collector, wind plant, and…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.02
Date:1979
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Frank Herbert working in his home office, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) sits at his desk in a loft above the kitchen of his Port Townsend home. Though Herbert became famous for writing science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and university lecturer. Herbert was a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1969 to 1972.…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.03
Date:1979
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Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) points to fir trees that may need to be topped to allow more sunlight to reach his homemade roof-top solar collectors. He had recently installed a solar heating system that used halved beer cans as collectors. Herbert was the first science fiction author to popularize ideas about ecology and systems thinking, stressing…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.04
Date:1979