Arthur C. Pillsbury Collection | The Seattle Public Library
  • Merchants Cafe building, June 14, 1974

    Merchants Cafe building, June 14, 1974

    Dorpat, Paul

    Identifier: spl_dor_00031

    Date: 1974-06-14

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  • Pike Place Market

    Pike Place Market

    Lee, Robert Cranston

    Identifier: spl_art_L510Pi

    Date: 1945

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  • The Black Ball

    The Black Ball

    Kunishige, Frank A.

    Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.

    Identifier: spl_art_367924_16

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  • Clowns

    Clowns

    Caskey, Julia

    Identifier: spl_art_C269Cl

    Date: 1947

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  • Chart of the World shewing the tracks of the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

    Chart of the World shewing the tracks of the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

    Wilkes, Charles

    This map shows the tracks of the vessels of the Exploring Squadron, combined, and acting separately: the direction of the winds; the currents, their direction and velocity; the isothermal lines for every five degrees of temperature, from the point of perpetual congelation to the Torrid Zone.

    Identifier: spl_maps_367358_01

    Date: 1844

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  • Untitled (brittle surface)

    Untitled (brittle surface)

    Goldberg, Joseph, 1947-

    Identifier: spl_art_G564Un

    Date: 1971

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  • Plat of West Seattle Land and Improvement Company's Platted Lands, 1890

    Plat of West Seattle Land and Improvement Company's Platted Lands, 1890

    Unknown

    Map showing land parcels in West Seattle.

    Identifier: spl_maps_2449573

    Date: 1890

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  • Illustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (7 of 7)

    Illustrations for lecture, Feb 26 1948 (7 of 7)

    Tobey, Mark

    Mark Tobey was born in Centerville, WI in 1890. Beginning his career as an illustrator, Mark Tobey was a deeply religious man, converting to the universalist Baha'i faith in 1918, which would in some way influence all of his works. After extensive traveling, including a period of time at a Zen monastery in Japan, Tobey taught art and philosophy at Dartington Hall in England until 1937. He then developed his "white writing" technique, painting white cursive writing on dark canvas, a technique which he (and many other Northwest artists) would use extensively until his death. He was one of the four painters LIFE magazine described as "Northwest Mystics". The others were Guy Anderson, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan. He died in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland.

    Identifier: spl_art_T552il7

    Date: 1948

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  • Logs at Circle City waterfront, Alaska, ca. 1899

    Logs at Circle City waterfront, Alaska, ca. 1899

    Pillsbury, Arthur C. (Arthur Clarence)

    Identifier: spl_ap_00174

    Date: 1899?

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  • Municipal News v. 55, no. 18, Oct. 25, 1965

    Municipal News v. 55, no. 18, Oct. 25, 1965

    Includes League's Report on Candidates and Issues. General Election, Tuesday, November 2, 1965.

    Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_18

    Date: 1965-10-25

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