Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Explore oral histories of important members of Seattle’s rich jazz community. The collection includes interviews with Seattle musicians, singers and community members who performed and experienced the city’s jazz scene.
Worker guiding steel plate into place on Space Needle, ca. November 8, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70070020
Date: 1961-11-08
View this itemWorkers on Space Needle Restaurant level, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76210019
Date: 1961-12-28
View this itemChild on rock at unidentified coastal beach, ca. August 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68840028
Date: 1961-08
View this itemWorkers pour concrete at 100' Space Needle observation deck, ca. November 27, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73550018
Date: 1961-11-27
View this itemView north from 1st Ave. and Cherry, 1870
Transcribed from front of photograph: "Streets. Front Street [1st Ave.]. 1870. Looking North from Cherry Street. 1. Intelligencer building. 2. L. A. Treen shoe store. 3. S. L. Benjamin book store." Transcribed from back of photo: "F. W. Wald, hardware. Reinig store (agent for Singer sewing machines). Over Reinig's, Puget Sound Business College. Left side: Intelligencer building. Treen & Co. shoe store. S.L. Benjamin book store."
Identifier: spl_shp_5174
Date: 1870
View this itemWorkers on Space Needle construction float, ca. late September 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69690004
Date: 1961-09
View this itemWorkers painting Space Needle roof, ca. late January 1962
Identifier: spl_gg_064
Date: 1962-01
View this itemWorkers atop Space Needle, ca. early December 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73670002
Date: 1961-12
View this itemCrane operator close-up at Space Needle, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68830027
Date: 1961-07
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