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Wagon advertising the Circus Berlin, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The Circus Berlin performed every night of the Seattle World's Fair, at the Fair Stadium. Billed as the "world's greatest aerial circus," the performance included 10 acts, such as the flying trapeze and the high wire. Sign in image reads: See Circus Berlin Today, 1pm Stadium 4pm, Bonus Book Attraction, 1.00 Adults .50 ChildrenCaption information source: Seattle Times, 6-29-1962, p.…
ID Number:1965.3598.27.8.10
Date:1962
Music, notated
I'll See You (in 1962)
The Century 21 Exposition, Seattle’s World’s Fair, ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The fair promoted the worlds of space, science, and the future. “I’ll See You (in 1962),” with the Monorail, Space Needle, and the arches of the Science Pavilion on its cover, was one of the songs written to promote the fair. The music and words…
ID Number:1966.3866.26
Date:1962
Music, notated
The Seattle Girl
According to a statement printed on the back cover of the score pictured here, Mrs. M. C. Robinson was inspired to write “The Seattle Girl” when in Seattle from Tacoma to visit sculptor James Wehn. Mr. Wehn had recently completed a statue of his sweetheart (unnamed), whose portrait appears on the front cover of the score. He asked Mrs. Robinson…
ID Number:1968.4425.2
Date:1909
Music, notated
Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me
By 1908, Seattle had seen eleven years of rapid growth and prosperity, beginning in 1897 with the arrival of the first shipment of gold from the Yukon gold fields. "Seattle's Plenty Good Enough for Me" was one of a number of songs written at that time promoting the Pacific Northwest's good climate for business and trade. This marketing and development…
ID Number:1969.4635.6
Date:1908
Ephemera
Rainier Baseball Club scorecard, 1906
The Seattle Rainiers were a Minor League Baseball team that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 to 1906 and 1919 to 1968. Originally named the Seattle Indians and also known as the Seattle Angels, they changed their name after being acquired by the Rainier Brewing Company, which was in turn named for nearby Mount Rainier. This official score…
ID Number:1970.4835.1
Date:1906
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Helene Madison in nurse's uniform seated at desk, circa 1936
Helene Madison started swimming at Green Lake when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records and 56 American awards. When she returned to Seattle, the city presented her with a car, a Navy and Police escort and Seattle's largest…
ID Number:1970.5051.77
Date:Circa 1936
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Portrait of Julia Rochester, Seattle, 1893
Julia Gwynn Smith (1860-1931) was born in Missouri and came to Seattle in 1889 with her husband, George A. C. Rochester (1855-1929), a prominent lawyer, judge, and Librarian of the Seattle Public Library from 1907. An accomplished vocalist, Julia Rochester organized the Capitol Hill Unit of the Music and Art Foundation and represented the Ladies' Musical Club of Seattle at…
ID Number:1973.5625.2
Date:1893
Ephemera
Liberty Theatre souvenir, Seattle, October 27, 1914
Seattle's Liberty Theatre opened at First Avenue and Pike Street in 1914, intending to be "a theatre which for perfection of appointment, convenience and luxuriousness has no equal this side of Chicago." The exterior of the building featured a forty-foot-high Statue of Liberty, illuminated by 1,200 lamps of eight different colors. When it was built, the movie theater's concave screen…
ID Number:1973.5659.1
Date:1914
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Pay Streak at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Visitors to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition crowded to the concessions on the Pay Streak. Here they could enjoy exciting rides, visit a reconstruction of the Streets of Cairo, buy snacks at the Tokio Cafe, and look at Indigenous People of the Philippines in a reconstructed village. The Pay Streak was named after concentrated streaks of gold or other valuable ore. This…
ID Number:1974.5868.144
Date:1909
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Passengers in balloon at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This photos show fair attendees enjoying a balloon ride. Embossed on mount: HarwoodHandwritten on verso: A.Y.P. 1909
ID Number:1974.5868.145
Date:1909