Jewish Transcript
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. 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.
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Jewish Transcript, v. 25, no. 50, Sep. 13, 1948
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Date: 1948-09-13
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Jewish Transcript, v. 15, no. 47, Jan. 20, 1939
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Date: 1939-01-20
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Jewish Transcript, v. 5, no. 45, Jan. 11, 1929
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_05_45
Date: 1929-01-11
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Jewish Transcript, v. 15, no. 17, Jun. 24, 1938
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Date: 1938-06-24
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Jewish Transcript, v. 14, no. 29, Sep. 17, 1937
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Date: 1937-09-17
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Jewish Transcript v. 1, no. 13, June 3, 1924
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Date: 1924-06-03
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Jewish Transcript, v. 26, no. 12, Dec. 20, 1948
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_26_12
Date: 1948-12-20
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The white spot
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.
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Jewish Transcript, v. 25, no. 12, Dec. 1, 1947
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_24_12
Date: 1947-12-01
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Jewish Transcript, v. 25, no. 18, May 20, 1957
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_25_18_1957
Date: 1957-05-20
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