80 results for: Greater Seattle, Inc.
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Black nativity handbill, 1999
"Black Nativity" is a gospel style retelling of the Nativity story with an entirely African American cast that was first performed in 1961. A mix of Langston Hughes' poetry, gospel songs and the traditional nativity story, the production was performed in Seattle at the Intiman Theatre from 1997-2009. The popular show continues to be produced annually in local venues.This handbill…
ID Number:2017.59.25
Date:1999
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Aqua Follies ticket order form, 1955
Aqua Follies, produced by Greater Seattle, Inc., was an annual summertime production performed at the Aqua Theatre, an open air stadium on the south shore of Green Lake. Debuting in 1950, Aqua Follies was one of the opening attractions of Seafair; sellout crowds came to see water ballet, comedy, dancers, singers, high divers, and a fireworks finale. The decline of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.92
Date:1955
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Goldie Caughlan, February 4, 2004
This 2004 interview is with Goldie Caughlan, Nutrition Education Manager at the Puget Consumers Co-op (now PCC Natural Markets) in Seattle, and was conducted by Julie Kerssen for the Agriculture Oral History Project. Caughlan considers the intersecting stories of her interests in the socio-economic and environmental aspects of hunger, food, and nutrition; the history and evolution of the PCC; and…
ID Number:2019.35.8.4
Date:2004
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Ed Fries, March 13, 2013
Interview with Ed Fries, the former vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, conducted by Julia Swan at the MOHAI Resource Center for the Places of Invention: Gaming in Greater Seattle Oral History Project in March 2013.
ID Number:2019.35.19.1
Date:2013
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Megan Gaiser, April 14, 2013
Interview with Megan Gaiser, chief creative strategy officer at Her Interactive, conducted by Julia Swan at the MOHAI Resource Center in Seattle for the Places of Invention: Gaming in Greater Seattle Oral History Project in April 2013.
ID Number:2019.35.19.2
Date:2013
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Richard Garfield, May 6, 2013
Interview with Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic the Gathering, conducted by Julia Swan at the MOHAI Resource Center for the Places of Invention: Gaming in Greater Seattle Oral History Project in May 2013.
ID Number:2019.35.19.3
Date:2013
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, April 10, 2013
Interview with Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of the comic Penny Arcade. Holkins is the writer and Krahulik is the cartoonist. The interview was conducted by Julia Swan at the MOHAI Resource Center in Seattle for the Places of Invention: Gaming in Greater Seattle Oral History Project in April 2013.
ID Number:2019.35.19.4
Date:2013
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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
Music, notated
Seattle, My Own Home Town
The music and lyrics for "Seattle, My Own Home Town," were written by two women who were born elsewhere but spent their adult lives in the greater Seattle area. A songwriter born in Illinois who enjoyed considerable success in Seattle, Rosetta Adelle (Perry) Gibbon (1904-1988), also wrote "Hail, the Navy," which won a 1933 Chamber of Commerce Fleet Week contest,…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.13
Date:1952
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A Southern Colonial House in Miniature, circa 1948
This booklet describes the creation of the "Hammons House," a Colonial Revival miniature mansion co-designed by Claire Bagley Hammons, her husband Frederick Dent Hammons, and architect Joseph S. Coté. The model house was completed in 1948 and given as a gift to the Seattle Historical Society, now known as the Museum of History & Industry, in 1955. The pamphlet has…
ID Number:MS.COLL.814
Date:Circa 1948