Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. The Space Needle’s construction during the early 1960s was an epic feat of architecture and design. George Gulacsik chronicled the project with over 2000 photos. Browse through our timeline to see the Needle’s construction milestones.
Space Needle construction with Howard S. Wright sign, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68830031
Date: 1961-07
View this itemWorkers securing Space Needle ring girder, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70080024
Date: 1961-11-11
View this itemWorker laying cement on Space Needle roof, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76220021
Date: 1961-12-28
View this itemWorkers at top of Space Needle and view SE, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70090023
Date: 1961-11-11
View this itemWelders working on Space Needle leg, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68830022
Date: 1961-07
View this itemWalpi Architecture
In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The twelfth volume, featuring the Hopi tribe, was published in 1922.
Identifier: spl_nai_12_421
Date: 1921
View this itemWorker guiding Space Needle ring girder into place, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70080015
Date: 1961-11-11
View this itemWorkers preparing to raise steel plates at Space Needle, ca. late September 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69700010
Date: 1961-09
View this itemView of Space Needle and downtown from Queen Anne, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76220012
Date: 1961-12-28
View this itemWorkers smooth concrete floor inside Space Needle, ca. December 4-7, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73680021
Date: 1961-12-04
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