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Poster
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
Poster
Seattle Center Fiddle Contest poster, October 6, 1984
Seattle Center, an area north of downtown Seattle, was developed for the 1962 World's Fair as a specific cultural and entertainment area that the city has continued to use for arts, sports, and community events. In the 1980s, this included several music and cultural events, such as the annual fiddle contest held at the Center House.This poster advertises the 1984…
ID Number:2007.25.54
Date:1984
Poster
Greater Northwest International Rodeo poster, August 11-13, 1995
The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) was founded in 1985 when five smaller regional gay rodeo associations joined together. As of 2019, the IGRA supports over 5000 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members in 25 local associations throughout the United States and Canada. The Northwest Gay Rodeo Association (NWGRA) was founded in 1990, originally representing Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and…
ID Number:2007.25.61
Date:1995
Ephemera
Ben Paris fishing derby rules, 1936
Benjamin M. Paris (1884-1950) was an American sportsman, entrepreneur, and conservationist. His namesake store, the Ben Paris, was a combination restaurant, lounge, pool hall, pull-tab parlor, barber shop, sporting goods establishment, and was a Seattle institution for many years. Mr. Paris founded the first local fishing derby in 1931, the Seattle Ben Paris Salmon Derby.The flier pictured here lists the…
ID Number:2008.45.39
Date:1936
Postcard
Waseda University baseball game, Dugdale Park, Seattle, July 1911
In 1911, Waseda University, one of the oldest universities in Japan, sent its baseball team to tour the United States and play against American teams at the invitation of the University of Chicago. The Waseda team landed at San Francisco on April 13 and played forty games across the US, traveling as far as New York. They arrived in Seattle…
ID Number:2008.56.1
Date:1911
Photograph
Aerial view of Harbor Island, Seattle, July 20, 1964
Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of Seattle, Washington's, Duwamish River where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Harbor Island was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres. Harbor Island was made from 24 million yd³ of earth removed in the…
ID Number:2009.23.145
Date:1964
Photograph
Memorial Stadium refurbishment for the Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, circa 1962
This photograph was taken circa 1962, during the refurbishment of Memorial Stadium for the Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair). The stadium was the venue for much of the opening ceremonies for the Fair, which was attended by nearly 10 million people and ran from April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962. This site, previously known…
ID Number:2009.23.610
Date:Circa 1962
Photograph
Ski school students and instructor at Snoqualmie Summit, circa 1961
In the winter of 1934, Seattle made national news by opening one of the first municipal ski areas in the country at Snoqualmie summit, championed by Mayor John F. Dore, a skier who envisioned the project as one that could lift his city's spirits during the midst of the Great Depression. The Ski Park grew, installing a rope tow in…
ID Number:2009.23.910
Date:Circa 1961
Photograph
Ski school student at Snoqualmie Summit, circa 1961
In the winter of 1934, Seattle made national news by opening one of the first municipal ski areas in the country at Snoqualmie summit, championed by Mayor John F. Dore, a skier who envisioned the project as one that could lift his city's spirits during the midst of the Great Depression. The Ski Park grew, installing a rope tow in…
ID Number:2009.23.911
Date:Circa 1961
Photograph
Skier at Snoqualmie Summit, circa 1961
In the winter of 1934, Seattle made national news by opening one of the first municipal ski areas in the country at Snoqualmie summit, championed by Mayor John F. Dore, a skier who envisioned the project as one that could lift his city's spirits during the midst of the Great Depression. The Ski Park grew, installing a rope tow in…
ID Number:2009.23.912
Date:Circa 1961