Municipal News
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. The Municipal News, a civics publication dating back to 1911, offers information about the social, political and economic history of King County.
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Municipal News, v. 53, no. 3, Feb. 11, 1963
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_03
Date: 1963-02-11
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Letter from Clarence T. Arai and Gin Kunishige to Willard Young discussing donation, 1961
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_58
Date: 1961-08-28
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Municipal News, v. 53, no. 4, Feb. 25, 1963
Report on Candidates for the Seattle School Board and King County Board of Education, March 12 Election.
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_04
Date: 1963-02-25
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Municipal News, v. 53, no. 2, Jan. 28, 1963
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_02
Date: 1963-01-28
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 8, Apr. 26, 1965
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_08
Date: 1965-04-26
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Municipal News, v. 54, no. 9, May. 11, 1964
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_54_09
Date: 1964-05-11
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Municipal News, v. 53, no. 16, Sep. 23, 1963
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_16
Date: 1963-09-23
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 16, Sep. 27, 1965
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_16
Date: 1965-09-27
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Municipal News, v. 54, no. 11, Jun. 8, 1964
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_54_11
Date: 1964-06-08
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 2, Jan. 25, 1965
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_02
Date: 1965-01-25
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