Seafair (Festival)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Capitol Hill Seafair parade float collection
Collection — Binder 1
Identifier: 1000-038
Abstract
The collection includes scrapbook pages and images documenting the design, construction and exhibition of Seafair parade floats sponsored by the Capitol Hill Commercial Club circa 1959-1961.
Dates:
circa 1959-1961
East Madison-East Union Mardi Gras Parade photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 2022-005
Abstract
Six photographs of the East Madison-East Union Mardi Gras parade in Seattle’s Central District.
Dates:
1952-1957
Kurtzer Flying Service and Seafair visiting beauty queen photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-008
Abstract
The collection includes 105 photographs (and 29 additional duplicates) depicting beauty queens from communities throughout the Pacific Northwest as they prepare for seaplane excursions with Kurtzer Flying Service between 1956 and 1968. The young women visited Seattle to participate in Seafair activities and these photographs were subsequently published in their hometown newspapers. The collection also includes some earlier views of Lana Kurtzer and Kurtzer Flying Services which he founded...
Dates:
circa 1930-1968
Seattle Room Seafair ephemera collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2025-002
Abstract
The collection includes materials related to Seafair events from the 1950s to 2020 including programs, brochures, stickers, pins, postcards, and magazines.
Dates:
circa 1951-2020
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Parades -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 3
- Photographs 3
- Beauty contestants -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 2
- African American women -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Central District (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Chinese American women -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Chinese Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- City and Town Life 1
- Hydroplanes -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- International District (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Japanese Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Social life and customs 1
- Neighborhoods -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Parade floats -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Design and construction 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Seaplanes -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Sports and Recreation 1
- Transportation 1
- Union, Lake (Wash.) 1