Seattle Camera Club

In the mid-1920s a group of immigrant Japanese-American Pictorialist photographers in Seattle came together to form the Seattle Camera Club in order to share their love of photography. While the club only lasted from 1924-1929, it was amazingly successful. Members exhibited their work all over the world and their photographs were widely published and won many awards. Sadly, most of their work was lost over time for various reasons, including the internment of the Japanese during WWII.



http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/collections/past-displays/the-seattle-camera-club

Vintage View: 1920s Pacific Northwest In Color

When Johnson and Ellen Sheriff Curtis moved their family from Minnesota to Seattle in 1887, two of their teenage sons developed a burgeoning interest in photography.

One of them, Edward Curtis, would go on to become famous for his photographs of Native Americans. But his brother, Asahel Curtis, who worked to less acclaim as a commercial photographer in Seattle, also left behind a remarkable body of work.

Read the full NPR article, which mentions the University of Washington Digital Collections, at http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/02/04/146282350/vintage-view-1920s-pacific-northwest-in-color.

Newsfilm of Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925-1933

Newsfilm of Grays Harbor County, ca. 1925-1933 is a collection of short clips taken from original 35mm nitrate film that may have been made by Anderson Photo Art and Commercial Photography of Aberdeen, Washington. The films were probably made to supplement national newsreels that were shown in local theatres, bringing the community activities of Grays Harbor County to life on the big screen.

Topics in the films include the wreck of the S. S. Halco, the opening of the Aberdeen-Willapa Highway, the annual training cruise of the U.S. Naval Reserve, and community events such as football games, parades, log rolling contests, speeches by local dignitaries, ice cream socials and picnics providing a rare view into life in Grays Harbor County, in the 1920s.

Dream, Design, Build

Dream, Design, Build: The UW Architecture Student Drawing Collection, 1914-1947

Approximately 1100 drawings dating from 1914-1947, and some from the 1950s were transferred from the Department of Architecture to the Libraries' Special Collections. This exhibit is an opportunity to appreciate examples from the Architecture Student Drawing Collection and the teaching and design legacy they represent.

Pop-ups, Movables & Toy Books

| Photo by Mary Levin

UW Libraries Special Collections explores the colorful world of pop-up, movable and toy books in a new exhibit called "Merry Company" that will run through March 12, 2012. This is from the 1932 book, "The Pop-up Pinnocchio: Being the Life and Adventures of a Wooden Puppet Who Truly Became a Real Boy."

Read more in the UW Today article "Paper poetry: The colorful world of vintage pop-up, movable and toy books (with slide show)" by Peter Kelly.

NEW - Ruth & Louis Kirk Moving Image Collection

The Ruth and Louis Kirk Moving Image Collection is a substantial body of regionally important work directly related to the history, the landscape, and the people of the Pacific Northwest.

The films document subjects including Native American communities, national parks, environmental issues, historic preservation and archaeological projects in the Northwest, including the Marmes Rockshelter, the Ozette Indian Village and the Manis Mastondon sites.

Visit http://content.lib.washington.edu/filmarchweb/kirks.html

NEW - Labor Archives Digital Resources Portal

The Labor Archives of Washington State has hundreds of photographs and digitized documents showing workers, industrial settings, strikes and union activities, civil rights campaigns, and more. This portal highlights items from those collections.

Office and Professional Workers protest, Seattle, 1946