Pacific Builder and Engineer
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 6, no. 15, Apr. 11, 1908
Page 147 discusses the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Page 148 includes sketch of the Kinnear Apartments.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1908_06_15
Date: 1908-04-11
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 9, no. 7, Feb. 12, 1910
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1910_09_07
Date: 1910-02-12
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 6, no. 3, Jan. 18, 1908
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1908_06_03
Date: 1908-01-18
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 8, no. 44, Oct. 23, 1909
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1909_08_44
Date: 1909-10-23
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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_02
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 5, no. 21, May. 25, 1907
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1907_05_21
Date: 1907-05-25
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 5, no. 10, Mar. 9, 1907
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1907_05_10
Date: 1907-03-09
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 8, no. 40, Sep. 25, 1909
Page 380-382 article discusses railroad stations in Tacoma and Spokane. Page 385 discusses use of the wireless telegraph at the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition.
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1909_08_40
Date: 1909-09-25
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 8, no. 53 (52), Dec. 25, 1909
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1909_08_53
Date: 1909-12-25
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 25, Jun. 23, 1906
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1906_04_25
Date: 1906-06-23
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