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View materials from SPL and the Museum of History and Industry in this collection. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/arthur-c-pillsbury-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Arthur C. Pillsbury Collection "> Arthur C. Pillsbury Collection </a> </span> See photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush, California, Oregon and Washington taken by Arthur C. Pillsbury (1870-1946) between about 1896 and 1900. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/black-culture-and-history-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Black Culture and History Collection"> Black Culture and History Collection </a> </span> The collection includes materials relating primarily to Black culture and history in the Puget Sound area, including local and regional newspapers and newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, brochures and other ephemera. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/bungalow-magazine" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Bungalow Magazine"> Bungalow Magazine </a> </span> This early 20th century magazine celebrated Seattle’s popular bungalow houses with photographs and architectural plans of selected homes. Use our map to see featured bungalows that still exist today. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/century-21-digital-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Century 21 Digital Collection"> Century 21 Digital Collection </a> </span> Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair showcased Seattle as a space-age city. See photos, brochures, postcards and other items related to Seattle’s 1960s vision of the future. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/covid-19-community-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="COVID-19 Community Collection"> COVID-19 Community Collection </a> </span> Find photos, videos, songs, podcasts, artwork, stories and other materials chronicling life in the Seattle area during the pandemic. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/donald-schmechel-oral-history-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection"> Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection </a> </span> Watch oral histories with prominent figures in the Pacific Northwest including artists Jacob Lawrence and Kenneth Callahan; Governors Albert Rosellini and Dixy Lee Ray and Reverends David Colwell and Samuel McKinney. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/earshot-jazz-digital-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Earshot Jazz Digital Collection"> Earshot Jazz Digital Collection </a> </span> Explore Seattle's Jazz scene, past and present, through the lens of this local Seattle jazz magazine. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/edward-s-curtis-digital-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Edward S. Curtis Digital Collection"> Edward S. Curtis Digital Collection </a> </span> Photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted two decades to making “The North American Indian,” an early 20th century photography and text project studying Western tribes. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/frank-a-kunishige-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Frank A. Kunishige Collection"> Frank A. Kunishige Collection </a> </span> Study the 56 images by internationally recognized Seattle Camera Club member Frank Kunishige, whose artistic work includes images of flowers, landscapes, cityscapes and nudes. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/george-gulacsik-space-needle-photograph-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="George Gulacsik Space Needle Photograph Collection"> George Gulacsik Space Needle Photograph Collection </a> </span> The Space Needle’s construction during the early 1960s was an epic feat of architecture and design. George Gulacsik chronicled the project with over 2000 photos. Browse through our timeline to see the Needle’s construction milestones. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/helix" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Helix"> Helix </a> </span> Explore Seattle's first underground newspaper, which was published from March 1967 to June 1970. The paper was founded by Paul Dorpat, with contents representative of the late 1960s counterculture. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/jack-large-photo-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Jack Large Photo Collection"> Jack Large Photo Collection </a> </span> This collection of nearly 1,200 photograph slides documents the adventures and counterculture lifestyle of photographer Jack Large and his artist friends through the late sixties in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/jewish-transcript" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Jewish Transcript"> Jewish Transcript </a> </span> This newspaper covered local news from Seattle’s Jewish community as well as international reporting on events like World War II and the settlement of Israel. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/lu-jacobson-collection-of-latimer-and-denny-family-material" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Lu Jacobson Collection of Latimer and Denny Family Material"> Lu Jacobson Collection of Latimer and Denny Family Material </a> </span> See letters, photographs and other ephemera from two of Seattle's early families. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/maps-and-atlases-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Maps and Atlases Collection"> Maps and Atlases Collection </a> </span> See maps and atlases depicting the changing landscape of Seattle and other areas in the Pacific Northwest. Take a look at our historic map resources page to browse maps by location. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/marine-digest" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Marine Digest"> Marine Digest </a> </span> See issues of Marine Digest, which was was founded in 1922 by Jackson B. Corbet as a local source for maritime industry news. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/municipal-news" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Municipal News"> Municipal News </a> </span> The Municipal News, a civics publication dating back to 1911, offers information about the social, political and economic history of King County. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/northwest-art-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Northwest Art Collection"> Northwest Art Collection </a> </span> Prints, drawings and paintings by artists Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Helmi Juvonen, Robert Cranston Lee and others celebrate the Northwest. Many pieces hail from the 1934 Public Works of Art Project. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/northwest-asian-weekly" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Northwest Asian Weekly"> Northwest Asian Weekly </a> </span> Read issues of Northwest Asian Weekly, a rich source of information about the Northwest Asian American community from 1983 through 2023. Its pages include news of local and national interest. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/northwest-photo-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Northwest Photo Collection"> Northwest Photo Collection </a> </span> See historic photographs from Washington State locales such as the Olympic Peninsula, Mount Rainier, Deception Pass, Bellingham and Eastern Washington. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/northwest-subject-index" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Northwest Subject Index"> Northwest Subject Index </a> </span> Browse the index to find citations for books, newspaper and magazine articles related to local topics such as Pioneer Square and the Lake Washington Ship Canal. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/pacific-builder-and-engineer" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Pacific Builder and Engineer"> Pacific Builder and Engineer </a> </span> Read digital editions of this weekly Northwest construction and engineering publication from 1906-1910. Issues document notable construction news in the Pacific Northwest. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/parker-mcallister-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Parker McAllister Collection"> Parker McAllister Collection </a> </span> Seattle Times staff artist Parker McAllister’s vibrant watercolors dating from the 1950s celebrate settlement of the Northwest, with images of ships, tribes and historic events like the search for the Northwest Passage. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/paul-dorpat-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Paul Dorpat Collection"> Paul Dorpat Collection </a> </span> Browse photographs from the Paul Dorpat Collection which documents the history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. At this time, a small sampling of images has been digitized while the collection is actively being processed. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/peter-steinbrueck-pike-place-market-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Peter Steinbrueck Pike Place Market Collection"> Peter Steinbrueck Pike Place Market Collection </a> </span> Seattle’s Pike Place Market became a historic district in 1971, the result of grassroots organizers led by Victor Steinbrueck. This collection features blueprints, posters, articles and papers related to the market. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-and-king-county-buildings-history" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle and King County Buildings History"> Seattle and King County Buildings History </a> </span> Architecture buffs can find tools to research the history of homes, commercial buildings, parks and gardens, roads, bridges and other buildings in this guide. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-city-directories" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle City Directories"> Seattle City Directories </a> </span> Genealogy and history researchers can search this collection to find information about Seattle residents, businesses and organizations. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-genealogical-society-bulletin" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Genealogical Society Bulletin "> Seattle Genealogical Society Bulletin </a> </span> Dig into five decades of the Seattle Genealogical Society Bulletin for information about local families. This collection is available via partnership with the Seattle Genealogical Society. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-historic-postcard-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Historic Postcard Collection "> Seattle Historic Postcard Collection </a> </span> Highlights of early 20th century Seattle, as depicted through our historic postcards. Cards include images of buildings, attractions and events from the 1900s to the 1960s along with messages between friends and family. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-historical-photograph-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Historical Photograph Collection "> Seattle Historical Photograph Collection </a> </span> More than 2,000 images reveal Seattle’s evolution. Early photos capture Seattle’s pioneers, the Great Fire of 1889 and the Denny Regrade along with historical buildings, streets and landmarks. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-jazz-archive" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Jazz Archive"> Seattle Jazz Archive </a> </span> Explore oral histories of important members of Seattle’s rich jazz community. The collection includes interviews with Seattle musicians, singers and community members who performed and experienced the city’s jazz scene. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-mail-and-herald" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Mail and Herald"> Seattle Mail and Herald </a> </span> This early 20th century newspaper reported on topics such as the Alaskan Gold Rush, the Lake Washington Ship Canal and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and included with portraits of notable Seattleites. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-neighborhood-history-project" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Neighborhood History Project"> Seattle Neighborhood History Project </a> </span> Use our research portal to view items related to your neighborhood’s history available at the library and other archives. Photos, historical articles and documents tell tales from the past. </li> <li class="text-icon-list__item "> <img src="/Seattle-Public-Library/images/icons/online-resources/icons_115x115_1-18_seattle-culture.png" alt="" /> <span class="text-icon-list__heading"> <a href="/online-resources/seattle-room-digital-collections/seattle-regrade-photograph-collection" class="text-icon-list__link" title="Seattle Regrade Photograph Collection"> Seattle Regrade Photograph Collection </a> </span> Seattle’s massive effort to regrade and flatten much of the city’s hilly landscape is documented in this 1905-1908 photo album. 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