1189 results for: Black/African American
Poster
Bumbershoot poster, Seattle, August 28-29 and September 4-6, 1976
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 Bumbershoot poster pictured here features artwork by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), a Seattle-based artist known for his paintings portraying African-American life. This painting was commissioned for Bumbershoot through the City of Seattle's 1%…
ID Number:2011.49.6
Date:1976
Photograph
"Afro-Americans" float in Golden Potlatch parade, Seattle, July 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:2011.79.1.104
Date:1911
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Fisher's Yellow Corn Meal Recipes, circa 1920
Fisher Flouring Mills opened in 1911, founded by father and son O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher and O.D. (Oliver David) Fisher. The Fisher family mill was one of the first businesses to operate on Harbor Island. The Fishers founded radio station KOMO in 1926, in part to advertise their flour. One of the company's most famous products was Fisher Scones, introduced…
ID Number:2014.3.2.13
Date:Circa 1920
Book
Fisher's Blend Fun Book with the Story of the Magic Sack, circa 1920
Fisher Flouring Mills opened in 1911, founded by father and son O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher and O.D. (Oliver David) Fisher. The Fisher family mill was one of the first businesses to operate on Harbor Island. The Fishers founded radio station KOMO in 1926, in part to advertise their flour. One of the company's most famous products was Fisher Scones, introduced…
ID Number:2014.3.2.14
Date:Circa 1920
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
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CORE membership poster, 1966
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.3
Date:1966
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Pianist Ruby Bishop celebrating her 90th birthday at the Swedish Club, Seattle, 2011
Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) was a popular jazz singer and pianist in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Thurston County, Ms. Bishop moved to Seattle to attend University of Washington, but left school after a year to pursue a career in music. In addition to performing, she also worked for Boeing during World War II, and as a court reporter,…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC414
Date:2011
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Panelists for program on racial integration of Musicians' Association of Seattle, January 23, 2018
The American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," was founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM Local 76. Local 493 was at the heart of Seattle's vibrant jazz scene, and its E. Jefferson Street "clubhouse," the Blue Note, was a lifeline…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC657
Date:2018
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Overton Berry and Jeff Davies performing at the Swedish Club, Seattle, February 9, 2018
Overton Berry (1936-2020) was a popular Seattle jazz pianist with a long career spanning the late Jackson Street jazz club period in the early 1950s to shortly before his death in 2020. Born in Texas, Berry moved to Seattle with his family in 1945. He studied classical piano as a child and formed his first jazz trio with two of…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC659
Date:2018
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Overton Berry performing at the Swedish Club, Seattle, February 9, 2018
Overton Berry (1936-2020) was a popular Seattle jazz pianist with a long career spanning the late Jackson Street jazz club period in the early 1950s to shortly before his death in 2020. Born in Texas, Berry moved to Seattle with his family in 1945. He studied classical piano as a child and formed his first jazz trio with two of…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC660
Date:2018