The Seattle Public Library Closed On Memorial Day
All locations of The Seattle Public Library and Book Returns at the Central Library will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30.
Browse items from the Seattle Room through our Special Collections Online. Explore the history of the city through postcards, photographs, periodicals, maps, menus and more.
The Frank Kunishige Collection showcases the Library's set of Kunishige's artistic textura tissue photographs. Kunishige was a skilled photographer and one of the founding members of the internationally recognized Seattle Camera Club. Born in Japan in 1878, Kunishige came to Seattle via San Francisco in 1917. He was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. Frank and his wife Gin Kunishige were forced to leave Seattle in 1942 when the United States’ began their Japanese internment policy. They were interned at the Minidoka camp in Idaho. Gin Kunishige donated the collection to the Library in 1961, a year after Frank's passing.
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