Seattle Jazz Archive
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.
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Space Needle worker and view west with helicopter, ca. November 27, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73540004
Date: 1961-11-27
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Workers installing screening on Space Needle roof, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_019
Date: 1961-12-28
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Nevada Falls in Yosemite, ca. 1897-1900
No caption is provided for the photograph but it appears to show Nevada Falls in Yosemite. Pillsbury had a lifelong interest in the park and established his own photograph studio there in 1897.
Identifier: spl_ap_00196
Date: 1897; 1900
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Scaffolding at Space Needle base, ca. August 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68910006
Date: 1961-08
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Worker balances on cable inside Space Needle, ca. November 19, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_72700015
Date: 1961-11-19
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Workers applying concrete on Space Needle pagoda, ca. early January 1965
Identifier: spl_gg_76240022
Date: 1962-01
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Fair buildings under construction and Space Needle, 1962
Identifier: spl_gg_76460010
Date: 1962
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Workers guiding Space Needle leg into place, ca. September 13, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69680006
Date: 1961-09-13
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Workers install Space Needle decking, ca. November 29, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73560003
Date: 1961-11-29
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Hotel Perry, 1909
Located at Madison Street and Boren Avenue, the Perry Hotel, also known as the Perry Apartments, was built in 1907. In 1916, the building was renovated to become the Columbus Sanitarium and renamed once again to Cabrini Hospital in the 1960s. The building was demolished in 1996. Transcribed from postcard: "Hotel Perry, Madison Street at Boren Avenue Seattle, European Plan, Rooms with Bath $2.00 per Day, B.H. Brobst Manager, 1909"
Identifier: spl_pc_00807
Date: 1909