Peter Steinbrueck Pike Place Market Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. 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.
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'Help! Money need for legal fees to save the Market' sign
Orange, yellow and red paper sign created by the Friends of the Market asking for donations to help cover legal fees in the fight to save the Market. The sign includes cutouts at the bottom which were likely created to allow it perch within a jar or other container to collect money.
Identifier: spl_sp_394
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Victor Steinbrueck letter to Councilman Paul Kranbel, June 1, 1983
In his letter to Paul Kranbel of the Seattle City Council, Steinbrueck expresses his concerns over the Pike Place Market Ordinance Proposal drafted by Councilman Michael Hildt. His concerns include the prospect of weakening the Historic District Commission and ensuring enough space is allocated for farmers. He includes a draft of the ordinance with his letter in which he has written notes and proposed changes.
Identifier: 002_VSLetter
Date: 1983-06-01
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Victor Steinbrueck's corrections to Pike Place Market Ordinance, April 11, 1983
Pike Place Market Ordinance annotated with Victor Steinbrueck's suggested corrections.
Identifier: spl_ps_038
Date: 1983-04-11
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Harper's Magazine article 'Up against the system in Seattle,' April 1972
Article describing the fight against the urban renewal plan for Pike Place Market, describing the formation of the Friends of the Market and Alliance for a Living Market groups and their campaign to preserve the market along with the Central Association and Committee to Save the Market and their efforts to promote the renewal plans.
Identifier: spl_ps_009
Date: 1972
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Victor Steinbrueck letter to Councilman Paul Kranbel, June 1, 1983
In his letter to Paul Kranbel of the Seattle City Council, Steinbrueck expresses his concerns over the Pike Place Market Ordinance Proposal drafted by Councilman Michael Hildt. His concerns include the prospect of weakening the Historic District Commission and ensuring enough space is allocated for farmers. He includes a draft of the ordinance with his letter in which he has written notes and proposed changes.
Identifier: spl_ps_036
Date: 1983-06-01
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Paul Peterhans letter to the editor regarding changes at Pike Place Market
Letter form Paul Peterhans, the President of the Market Residents Association (MRA), expressing his concerns over issues he feels were not represented well in ""The Market Mood Turning Mellow"" article appearing in Pacific Magazine. He elaborates on some of these issues, including the pressure to allow larger retailers into the Market and the proposal to open the Market on Sundays, both of which he views to be detrimental to Market residents and retailers.
Identifier: spl_ps_050
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'There is Still a Chance to Save Pike Place Market' broadside, 1970
Broadside created by the Friends of the Market urging Seattle citizens to support them in their fight against the Pike Plaza redevelopment plan and their efforts to protect the Market by reestablishing the recently reduced boundaries of the Pike Place Historic District.
Identifier: spl_ps_054
Date: 1970
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Supplication, ca. 1924
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_38
Date: 1924
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Pike Place Market Redevelopment Project pamphlet, 1971
Booklet produced by the City of Seattle's Department of Community Development describing the benefits of the urban renewal plan. The back of the booklet includes an illustrative site plan outlining the areas that will be affected by the plan.
Identifier: spl_ps_005
Date: 1971
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List of questions on the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
List of questions pertaining to the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA). The questions are addressed to Ken Wiener, an environmental attorney and one of the authors of the act, and Ken Jacobsen, a Washington State Senator. The back of the page includes an architectural sketch in pencil.
Identifier: spl_ps_045
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