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Correspondence
Letter from Bill Nye to Seattle Seahawks Public Relations, January 22, 1979
Bill Nye is widely known for his television show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” his advocacy for science education, and his books about science for children and adults. Less well-known is Nye’s lifelong passion for the sports of Ultimate (also known as Ultimate Frisbee) and Disc Golf (or Frisbee golf).As a child, Nye threw an early Wham-O disc, the “Pluto…
ID Number:2024.39.45.01
Date:1979
Correspondence
Letter from Seattle Sounders Community Relations to Bill Nye, July 10, 1978
Bill Nye is widely known for his television show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” his advocacy for science education, and his books about science for children and adults. Less well-known is Nye’s lifelong passion for the sports of Ultimate (also known as Ultimate Frisbee) and Disc Golf (or Frisbee golf).As a child, Nye threw an early Wham-O disc, the “Pluto…
ID Number:2024.39.45.02
Date:1978
Manuscript
Manuscript of "Not Idealism - Improvement" about referees in Ultimate Frisbee by Bill Nye, 1980
Bill Nye is widely known for his television show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” his advocacy for science education, and his books about science for children and adults. Less well-known is Nye’s lifelong passion for the sports of Ultimate (also known as Ultimate Frisbee) and Disc Golf (or Frisbee golf).As a child, Nye threw an early Wham-O disc, the “Pluto…
ID Number:2024.39.46.01
Date:1980
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy Show: "Rules", 1993
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.48.01
Date:1993
Ephemera
Bill Nye the Science Guy postcard, circa 1995
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.49.01
Date:Circa 1995
Ephemera
Seasons Greetings card from Bill Nye, circa 1995
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2024.39.50.01
Date:Circa 1995
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Laura Lee Kusaka, August 19, 2024
Interview with Laura Lee Kusaka by the 2024 MOHAI Curator's Fellow Polly Yorioka about Kusaka's mother Massie "Yutani" Tomita, including her life in Seattle’s Japanese American community, the Yutani family’s immigration story, and life in Seattle before incarceration during the second World War. The interview is conducted by Yorioka in order to learn more about the Boys’ and Girls’ Day…
ID Number:2024.52.1
Date:2024
Videorecording
Princess of the Pow-Wow documentary film, 1987
Ella Aquino (1902-1989) was a Lummi, Yakima, and Puyallup activist from Seattle who dedicated her life to advancing the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples living in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1902, Aquino began her education in a boarding school where she was prohibited from embracing her Native heritage. As an adult, she helped create organizations and publications that…
ID Number:2025.9.1
Date:1987
Ephemera
Chong Wa Education Society fundraising dinner flier, Seattle, 2017
The Chong Wa Benevolent Association was founded in the late 1890s by Seattle’s Chinese community to create a federation of its diverse group of Chinese family and district associations, societies, and businesses. Its purpose was to administer Chinatown politics and support Chinese causes in the non-Chinese community. Over the years, the Association has provided its members with a broad spectrum…
ID Number:2025.10.6
Date:2017
Ephemera
Chong Wa Benevolent Association and Education Society brochure, Seattle, circa 2015
The Chong Wa Benevolent Association was founded in the late 1890s by Seattle’s Chinese community to promote social and cultural welfare and support Chinese causes in the greater community. This brochure gives a history of the Association and describes its wide variety of programs and activities. These have included financial and legal assistance, language and citizenship classes, performing arts, and…
ID Number:2025.10.10
Date:Circa 2015