Jack Large Photo Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. This collection of nearly 1,200 photograph slides documents the adventures and counterculture lifestyle of photographer Jack Large and his artist friends through the late sixties in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
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Worker guiding Space Needle cross-tie into place, ca. August 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68880017
Date: 1961-08
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Espagnole
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_54
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Trees and rocks, Olympic National Park, September 1967
Olympic National Park
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Date: 1967-09
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Three carved Tlingit figures under tree, Klukwan, Alaska, ca. 1899
Klukwan is a Tlingit village that was located on the Dalton Trail, a route used by prospectors during the gold rush.
Identifier: spl_ap_00102
Date: 1899?
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The Town Crier, v.7, no.20, May 18, 1912
Identifier: spl_tc_915126_1912_07_20
Date: 1912-05-18
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Mural Amphitheater, December 1966
Seattle Center ceramic mural
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Date: 1966-12
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Stream near our campsite, Deer Lake, Olympic National Park, September 1967
Stream near our Deer Lake campsite
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Date: 1967-09
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The Town Crier, v.7, no.40, Oct. 5, 1912
Identifier: spl_tc_915126_1912_07_40
Date: 1912-10-05
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View to waterfront on Union St. near 2nd Ave., June 1974
Seattle; View S.W. on Union Str. Building on left erected 1900 also faces 2nd Av. Former Rhodes Department Store beyond - Late afternoon view
Identifier: spl_wl_str_00009
Date: 1974-06
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Trolley canyon downtown, from 3rd Ave. looking east on Pike St., June 1967
Trolley canyon downtown
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Date: 1967-06
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