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Poster
Northwest Folklife Festival poster, Seattle, May 27-30, 1983
Seattle's annual Northwest Folklife Festival has been held each Memorial Day weekend since 1972 at Seattle Center as a free celebration of folk and ethnic music, dance, and arts. This poster from the 12th annual festival in 1983 features a fiddle player in glasses and a hat as the central illustration. Credit on poster: Poster by Art Chantry Design; Printed…
ID Number:2007.25.50
Date:1983
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
Seattle International Film Festival poster, May 11-31, 1978
In 1975, Seattle's historic Moore Theatre was renovated and rebranded as The Moore Egyptian Theatre by Dan Ireland (d. 2016) and Darryl MacDonald, who then showed a mix of classic Hollywood revivals and foreign films. By spring of 1976 the two had founded Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), which ran from May 14-31, and featured films from several countries. The…
ID Number:2007.25.55
Date:1978
Poster
Prom You Never Went To poster, Seattle, April 27, 1996
The nonprofit Tacky Tourist Clubs of America was founded in Seattle in the early 1980s, and incorporated in 1988. The organization sponsored annual parties and events to raise money for other nonprofits, mostly those benefiting the local LGBTQ community. "The Prom You Never Went To" was first held in 1983 and became an institution in the local gay and lesbian…
ID Number:2007.25.58
Date:1996
Poster
Prom You Never Went To poster, Seattle, May 13, 1995
The nonprofit Tacky Tourist Clubs of America was founded in Seattle in the early 1980s, and incorporated in 1988. The organization sponsored annual parties and events to raise money for other nonprofits, mostly those benefiting the local LGBTQ community. "The Prom You Never Went To" was first held in 1983 and became an institution in the local gay and lesbian…
ID Number:2007.25.63
Date:1995
Photograph
Exterior of Anthony's book bindery, Seattle, circa 1945
Ferdinand Anthony (1836-1919), immigrated to the U. S. from Munich, Bavaria (now part of Germany), in 1862, and came to Seattle in 1882. In Seattle he established the city's first book bindery. The first location of the shop was in the Frye Opera House at First Avenue and Marion Street in downtown Seattle, but the building burned in the 1889…
ID Number:2007.31.3
Date:Circa 1945
Ephemera
Aqua Follies program, August 1-13, 1956
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:2007.64.1
Date:1956
Photograph
Morgan and Emily Carkeek and others at Carkeek Park annual luncheon, Seattle, 1923
Beginning in about 1918, the Seattle Park Board hosted annual picnics at the "original" Carkeek Park (1918-1926) on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington, later the site of the Sand Point Naval Station and now Magnuson Park. These annual luncheon picnics were attended by donors to the park and their friends on the anniversary of the donation of the park by…
ID Number:2008.3.1.46.19
Date:1923
Photograph
Vivian Carkeek and others at Carkeek Park annual luncheon, Seattle, August 28, 1924
Beginning in about 1918, the Seattle Park Board hosted annual picnics at the "original" Carkeek Park (1918-1926) on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington, later the site of the Sand Point Naval Station and now Magnuson Park. These annual luncheon picnics were attended by donors to the park and their friends on the anniversary of the donation of the park by…
ID Number:2008.3.1.46.22
Date:1924
Ephemera
Knights Templar 36th Triennial Conclave, "Telephone Home," 1925
The Knights Templar, a Masonic order modeled after Medieval Christian Crusaders, held their 36th triennial conclave in Seattle on July 28-30, 1925. More than 10,000 participants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana flooded into Seattle. The city was decorated with over 150 illuminated Christian crosses, the order's symbol, including a 40-foot lighted cross placed on top of the Olympic Hotel,…
ID Number:2008.14.3
Date:1925