Robert Bridges scrapbooks volume three
Just a brief reminder to get your ballot in and a preview of sorts of coming attractions.
By coincidence (or is it?) some recently cataloged scrapbooks from the Pacific Northwest Collection have provided a window into the frequently rough and tumble world of early twentieth century Seattle politics.
Stay tuned for some of these stories, the possible appearance of yet another new blogger, as well as the return of a familiar voice.
Seattle Archives Fair 2009
PNW Blog paid a flying visit last Friday to the Archives Fair, which was held for the first time in the dramatic setting provided by SPL’s Central Library. By all accounts, the event was even better attended than usual this year and deemed a real success. Kudos to the organizers and all participants! And come back soon, Hannah!
As previously mentioned, the annual Seattle Archives Fair, sponsored by the Seattle Area Archivists, will take place this Friday, October 30th, 2009, on level 10 of the Seattle Public Library’s Central Branch. Archivists from a wide range of local repositories will available to answer your questions and share information about the holdings of their institutions.
Representing the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division at this year’s event will be Hannah Palin, who will focus on our archival moving image collections. The fair runs from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Directions and additional information is available on the SPL Web site.
Movie night at Camp Gerome, circa 1941.
Tomorrow is Home Movie Day in Seattle, with events taking place in the University of Washington Libraries. From the press release:
The University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day at the Allen Library Auditorium, located on the ground level of the Allen Library, on the UW Campus, Saturday, October 17, 2:00pm – 5:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at numerous local venues worldwide, providing the opportunity for individuals and families to discover how best to care for their films and get a rare chance to view examples of home movies.
Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist, will conduct a Film Preservation Clinic from 2:00pm-3:00pm which will be an opportunity for the public to get film preservation information, view examples of vintage film equipment, magazines and ephemera provided by Philip Borgnes of Media Bay Productions, and to bring in films for identification and preservation advice. There will be a Home Movie Screening featuring selected films from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections and from Philip Borgnes’ orphan film collection from 3:00pm-5:00pm.
Poster for Wisconsin Archives Month 2009
Since it’s almost midway through the month already, we thought it was about time to give a random shout-out to that other state that begins with the letter W. If you have been following their blog, you are probably well aware that the theme for Archives Month 2009 in Wisconsin is “Scrapbook: Wisconsin” and that repositories from all across the state have been contributing a blog post highlighting a scrapbook or other unique item from their collections. But if you haven’t, we just thought we would let you know about this great initiative.
Look for some more posts about scrapbooks from the Pacific Northwest collection in the somewhat near future.
Former AYPE Forestry building being demolished, 1930.
This evening marks your last chance for a free tour of The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by exhibit curator, Carla Rickerson. No RSVP or pre-registration is necessary for this one-hour event. Just show up at 6:00 pm in the Suzzallo Library Exhibition Room 102 (just inside the main entrance to the building).
A culminating Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition centennial symposium to be held at the University of Washington Libraries poses the following question:
How did the AYP reflect, reproduce, and perhaps challenge prevailing notions of race and empire?
The Race and Empire at the Fair Symposium, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and the University of Washington Libraries, will take place on October 16, 2009 (the day on which the exposition officially closed), 1:30-4:30 pm. The symposium will feature a variety of speakers on two distinct panels, “Indigenous roles and representations” and “Local and transpacific imperial roots and routes.” This event is open to the public, but requires an e-mail rsvp. For full details and schedule, click here.
Igorrote men and women engaged in ceremonial dance, Igorrote Village, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909.
Front cover of final edition of the AYP Official Daily Program (Oct. 16, 1909)
Not around here, I think.
Amidst a final flurry of activity accompanying the winding down of Seattle’s celebrations of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition centennial, an announcement for a documentary to be shown on KCTS 9 definitely caught our eye:
In collaboration with local historical gems such as the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), The Burke Museum, Chinese in NW American Research Committee, the University of Washington and combined with thousands of historical images, rare archival footage, contemporary interviews and narration by Tom Skerritt, Seattle’s Forgotten World’s Fair, will take the viewer on an hour-long magical journey into a nearly forgotten chapter of the burgeoning city’s history.
The perfect nightcap to Home Movie Day 2009? But more about that later. If you can’t watch it on October 17th, check the KCTS schedule for other showings of this documentary.
Image credit: University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections ID# PAM0192.
How are you celebrating the American record? Evidently here in Washington State, the answer is “playfully.”
Yesterday marked the start of what has now become known as “American Archives Month,” an annual national event, which started off on a more modest scale in New York City some twenty years ago. You can find out more about this year’s Washington State’s Archives Month celebrations on a special Web site. Activities taking place in the Seattle area include an archives fair to be held at the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library on October 30th, from 11:00 AM-3:00 PM.
Play on!
Movie title screen for Film Originals production credits
Although not quite here, October promises to be a very busy month. Herewith the first in a series of announcements of some special events with Pacific Northwest history interest.
On October 5, 2009, films from the UW Special Collection Division’s Moving Image Collection will be shown as a part of this year’s Local Sightings film festival at the Northwest Film Forum on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. This special program, “Film Originals, the Work of George and Helen Smith,” will take place at 7:00 pm and Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, will be on hand to discuss the films.
According to the press release:
George and Helen Smith made films together for over thirty years. George worked behind the camera as cinematographer and editor, while Helen wrote scripts for the nearly 40 titles they produced under the name Film Originals. Their films focused on a variety of topics including the rise of aeronautics in American transportation, the Northwest timber industry, Idaho’s Basque community, smoke jumping, and environmental conservation. Films from the George and Helen Smith Collection to be screened at Local Sightings include Last of the Log Drives (1970), Flying Businessman (1953), Those Were the Days (1971) and Telephone Creek (1950).
George Smith
Since everyone here at PNW Blog loves scrapbooks, we’re particularly intrigued by Those Were the Days: A Motion Picture Scrapbook, 1910-1950 (1972), a compilation of clips from earlier Film Originals titles. The creators’ description sums it up nicely: “This film makes no pretensions, has no serious message to pass on to the world. If it says anything, it is this: Don’t sell the past short, we all share in it sooner or later.”
So set your DVR for Dancing with the Stars next week and have a night out instead!
Image credits: From the George and Helen Smith Collection, Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries via Hannah Palin.
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