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. 54, no. 8, Apr. 27, 1964
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_54_08
Date: 1964-04-27
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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_22
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Municipal News, v. 54, no. 19, Dec. 14, 1964
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_54_19
Date: 1964-12-14
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 15, Sep. 13, 1965
Includes Report on Candidates for Seattle School Board and Port of Seattle Commission. Primary Election, Tuesday, September 21, 1965.
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_15
Date: 1965-09-13
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Municipal News, v. 53, no. 15, Sep. 9, 1963
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_15
Date: 1963-09-09
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Municipal News v. 55, no. 5, Mar. 8, 1965
Article on page 37 discusses areas of the city where landfills were used to fill in formerly unusable land.
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_05
Date: 1965-03-08
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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. 7, Apr. 8, 1963
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_53_07
Date: 1963-04-08
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Quimper on Vancouver Island
Parker McAllister, born in 1903 in Massachusetts, was a Seattle Times artist from 1924 to 1965. McAllister started his career as an illustrator at 14 for a Spokane publication; he joined the art staff at the Seattle Times in 1920. His first Sunday magazine cover was a poster-type illustration celebrating the University of Washington crew races in spring 1924. During McAllister's career, he created illustrations depicting “local color” events and situations now routinely handled by photographers. As the technology improved, he expanded his repertoire - he illustrated articles, drew covers for special sections and the weekly Seattle Sunday Times Magazine, and drew diagrams, comics, cartoons, and portraits for the Times’ editorial page. In 1956, an exhibition of his watercolor and oil paintings of Pacific Northwest scenes and historical incidents - including some paintings from the “Discovery of the Pacific Northwest” series - were exhibited at the Washington State Historical Society Museum in Tacoma. He was also a member of the Puget Sound Group of Men Painters. McAllister retired from the Seattle Times in 1965; he passed away in Arizona in 1970.
Identifier: spl_art_291985_16.151
Date: 1955
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'Last Chance to Save the Pike Place Market' broadside
Broadside created by the Friends of the Market inciting citizens of Seattle and King County to attend the Seattle City Council Public Hearing or write to their council members to express their opposition to the urban renewal plans threatening the market.
Identifier: spl_ps_055
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