Suzanne Hittman Collection of the Pike Place Market
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Explore the early history of the Pike Place Market through letters, receipts, plans, rental agreements and other documents related to the market’s business.
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Clipping on construction of new Bon Marche building, 1927
Seattle Post Intelligencer clipping discussing the start of construction on the new Bon Marché building.
Identifier: spl_sh_00024
Date: 1927-08-07
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Dancers at Klukwan Potlatch ceremony, Alaska, October 14, 1898
Identifier: spl_ap_00109
Date: 1898-10-14
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Agreement between the City of Seattle and Pike Place Public Markets, Inc., November 1927
Agreement allowing the City of Seattle to use certain spaces within the Market owned by Pike Place Public Markets, Inc. for the construction of public sidewalks. In addition it allows Pike Place Public Markets, Inc. to use certain stalls within the Municipal Market Building which are owned by the City.
Identifier: spl_sh_00034
Date: 1927-11
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Letter from Arthur Goodwin to J.M. Johnson asking him for support in a dispute regarding Pike Place Market, August 19, 1926
Letter from Arthur Goodin to J.M. Johnson, Manager of the Liberty Theater, asking him for his support in a dispute with George Vanderveer and other disgruntled farmers at Pike Place Market. According Goodwin, Vandermeer and his associates are trying to interfere with the agreement that Pike Place Market has with the city to operate a farmers stalls on the sidewalk.
Identifier: spl_sh_00100
Date: 1926-08-19
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Maiden and wine jug
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_50
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Nude
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_12
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Invitation from the Hill Testimonial Committee to the unveiling of the James J. Hill statue on the University of Washington campus, August 3, 1909
Printed invitation including names of "distinguished men" who would be present at the ceremony including Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Governor Hay of Washington and Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir of British Columbia.
Identifier: mohai_ayp_2006.3.46.6
Date: 1909-08-03
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'Who will save the market' script from KOMO TV broadcast, October 27, 1971
KOMO-TV Script for a special news segment documenting varying opinions on the Pike Place Market Urban Renewal plans and the Save the Market Initiative. The report contains interviews with Paul Kirk, the architect in charge of the urban renewal plans; William B. Ferguson, chairman of The Central Park Plaza Corporation-an organization with interests in developing the area; Mike MacEwan, the man in charge of the urban renewal public relations campaign; Pike Place Market merchants; James Braman, Director of Community Development for Seattle; Jerry Thon, Vice President of the Friends of the Market; Victor Steinbrueck, an architect and one of the Friends of the Market Founders; Ibsen Nelson and Fred Basetti, Seattle architects opposing the plans drafted by John Morse; Tim Manring, Co-Chair of the Alliance for a Living Market; and Lloyd LeBlanc, a member of the city's economic consulting firm.
Identifier: spl_ps_007
Date: 1971-10-27
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Letter from Arthur Goodwin to H.E. Carlson regarding improvements to the space near the Central Printing Company, November 28, 1927
Letter from Arthur Goodwin to H.E. Carlson responding to his concerns over the unfavorable surroundings for his Central Printing Company on Western Avenue. Goodwin notes that they are working on making improvements to the alley outside the business and offers a reduction in rent.
Identifier: spl_sh_00133
Date: 1927-11-28
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