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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Market Radio Broadcast transcript
Broadcast transcript for K.Z.C., the Market Radio Broadcasting Station. The transcript includes radio operator instructions and a summary of the information provided in the radio program: 'We will transmit music, talks on topics pertaining to foodstuffs, various methods of their preparation for the table, timely hints for canning and preserving, good values, eating for health, and such subjects. We will also broadcast the latest low retail prices of farm produce, meats, groceries, poultry, butter, eggs, etc.' This particular transcript includes a discussion on 'Candy as Food' advertising the benefits of sweets and advertisements for Pike Place Market businesses and attractions such as the sugar stalls in the new Municipal Market, the Economy Fish Market, and a new branch of the Seattle Public Library within the market.
Identifier: spl_sh_00049
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Jakk Corsaw, Highway Department Dave, and woman on bench, Pike Place Market courtyard, May 1967
Corsaw on courtyard bench with Highway Department Dave and wife, girlfriend
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Date: 1967-05
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Pacific Science Center from Denny Way, December 1966
Seattle Center from Denny Way
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Date: 1966-12
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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_33
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Jack Large takes a phone call, ca. 1967
Jack Large takes a call
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Date: 1967?
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Beth Barkes in Jack Large studio, Pike Place Market, July 1967
Beth Barkes in Jack Large studio
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Date: 1967-07
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Northgate mall parking near the Tsutukawa Fountain, February 1968
Northgate streetscape
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Date: 1968-02
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Aerial view of the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair).
Identifier: spl_wl_exp_00008
Date: 1962-09-30
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Judy Whalen, sailing day on Elliott Bay, January 1968
Judy Whalen, sailing day on Elliott Bay
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Date: 1968-01
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Francisco ""Cisco"" Gaffney, the Junkman's Carnation milk crates, 1400 Western Ave., May 1967
Cisco's milk crates
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Date: 1967-05
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