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  • Woman's mask with labret

    Woman's mask with labret

    Juvonen, Helmi, 1903-1985

    Helmi Juvonen was born in Butte, Montana on January 17, 1903. She worked in many media including printmaking, painting and paper-craft. She attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she met artist Mark Tobey with whom she was famously obsessed. Although she was diagnosed as a manic-depressive in 1930, she gained wide appreciation in the Northwest for her linocut prints depicting Northwest Indian people and tribal ceremonies. She worked with a number of artists on the Public Works of Art Project including Fay Chong and Morris Graves. Over the years, her mental health deteriorated and in 1960 she was declared a ward of the state and was committed to Oakhurst Convalescent Center. She was much beloved and had many friends and benefactors (including Wes Wehr) and was able to have exhibitions despite the confinement. She died in 1985.

    Identifier: spl_art_J989Wo

    Date: 1958?

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  • Seal hunting

    Seal hunting

    Omedhuan, Phillip

    Identifier: spl_art_Om2Se

    Date: 1960?

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  • Totem pole

    Totem pole

    Ziegler, Eustace Paul, 1881-1969

    Born in 1881 in Detroit, Michigan, Eustace Ziegler was a painter of the Alaskan School who painted mainly landscapes, portraits and figure drawing of Northwest Indians. He was trained at Yale University. He taught private art lessons in Seattle in the 1920’s and 30’s and was highly influential to many Northwest artists. One of his pupils was Guy Anderson. Ziegler died in 1969.

    Identifier: spl_art_Z624To

    Date: 1934

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  • Christmas on Vancouver Island

    Christmas on Vancouver Island

    McAllister, Parker S. (1903-1970)

    Parker McAllister, born in 1903 in Massachusetts, was a Seattle Times artist from 1924 to 1965. McAllister started his career as an illustrator at 14 for a Spokane publication; he joined the art staff at the Seattle Times in 1920. His first Sunday magazine cover was a poster-type illustration celebrating the University of Washington crew races in spring 1924. During McAllister's career, he created illustrations depicting “local color” events and situations now routinely handled by photographers. As the technology improved, he expanded his repertoire - he illustrated articles, drew covers for special sections and the weekly Seattle Sunday Times Magazine, and drew diagrams, comics, cartoons, and portraits for the Times’ editorial page. In 1956, an exhibition of his watercolor and oil paintings of Pacific Northwest scenes and historical incidents - including some paintings from the “Discovery of the Pacific Northwest” series - were exhibited at the Washington State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma. He was also a member of the Puget Sound Group of Men Painters. McAllister retired from the Seattle Times in 1965; he passed away in Arizona in 1970.

    Identifier: spl_art_291985_16.157

    Date: 1956

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  • Municipal News v. 55, no. 5, Mar. 8, 1965

    Municipal News v. 55, no. 5, Mar. 8, 1965

    Article on page 37 discusses areas of the city where landfills were used to fill in formerly unusable land.

    Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_05

    Date: 1965-03-08

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  • Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 11, Mar. 17, 1906

    Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 11, Mar. 17, 1906

    Page 13 includes advertisement for "White City" amusement park in Madison Park.

    Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1906_04_11

    Date: 1906-03-17

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  • White-Henry-Stuart Building being demolished, November 14, 1975

    White-Henry-Stuart Building being demolished, November 14, 1975

    Dorpat, Paul

    View from University St. looking north on 4th Ave. The White-Henry-Stuart Building appears on the right covered with scaffolding.

    Identifier: spl_dor_00020

    Date: 1975-11-14

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  • Jewish Transcript v. 1, no. 8, Apr. 29, 1924

    Jewish Transcript v. 1, no. 8, Apr. 29, 1924

    Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_01_08

    Date: 1924-04-29

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  • Jewish Transcript v. 1, no. 18, Jul. 8, 1924

    Jewish Transcript v. 1, no. 18, Jul. 8, 1924

    Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_01_18

    Date: 1924-07-08

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  • Municipal Plans Commission of the City of Seattle map showing Harbor Island and Duwamish Waterway Districts, 1911

    Municipal Plans Commission of the City of Seattle map showing Harbor Island and Duwamish Waterway Districts, 1911

    Bogue, Virgil B.

    Map showing proposed city improvements under the Plan of Seattle, commonly known as the Bogue Plan. Designed by Virgil Bogue, Seattle's municipal plans director, the Bogue Plan proposed a series of improvements aimed at beautifying the city and making it making it more cohesive after years of rapid growth and industrialization. The plan worked in tandem with the Olmsted Brothers new system of parks, begun in 1903, and proposed new government buildings, an improved city center and an interurban road connecting the city together. The plan was rejected by voters in 1912.

    Identifier: spl_maps_2465533_7

    Date: 1911

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