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About half of the winners of theStranger Genius Awards lack articles, and several of the articles we do have are short. Also, most lack photos. Winners are mostly individuals, although about 20% are organizations. Among the 50+ award winners over the course of a decade are:
Sherman Alexie, semi-decent article as of 2012, but has potential for a very major article
Lori Goldston, cellist, Stranger Genius Award winner, played with Nirvana; looks like as of 2018 someone has done a decent job on this one
Jeffry Mitchell, artist. Stranger Genius Award winner, major 2012 show at the Henry.
Susan Robb, artist, one of the first Stranger Genius Award winners.
Very few of the local artists in the recent Frye Art Museum exhibitMw Moment Magnitude have articles; some are among the people listed below, some aren't. There is a good bit of overlap with the Stranger Genius Awards.
Ralph Anderson (Seattle architect), a key figure in the revival of Pioneer Square. We now have a good starter article; could definitely use some images of private houses he designed.
Powell Barnett: musician, athlete, activist, has a Seattle park named after him.
Ross Palmer Beecher, artist; work has hung in places ranging from the Seattle Art Museum to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, with permanent installations at (among others) Safeco Field and Seattle Tacoma International Airport.Documentary film of Beecher; basically an interview, possibly good for quotations, should certainly be linked once we have an article.
Buddy Foley: musician, "ladybug guy," all-around character. Most known just as a highly visible figure on the Seattle scene for the last half-century or so. Should be plenty of third-party documentation.
Thomas J. Humes, mayor for 6 years during the "open city" Yukon Gold Rush era
Indigo Blue, probably the city's most prominent present-day burlesque performer
Bertha Knight Landes, first woman to be mayor of a major American city, we have a stub
Erika Langley, photographer, memoirist ("The Lusty Lady").
Ed Leimbacher - writer and producer of classic Rainier Beer TV ads of 1970s to 1990s. SeeHIS BLOG for general background getting started.
Gary Little, judge, suicide over accusations of child abuse
Kelly Lyles (artist): might be a marginal call for notability, but certainly quite a Seattle character, and I suspect that with a bit of work notability could be established. -Jmabel |Talk02:07, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
J. A. Moore: Moore Theatre, main developer of Capitol Hill and University Heights. Also, promoter in 1906 of a less ambitious scheme for a lock at Ballard that stimulated the one that was ultimately built.
Mark A. Matthews, Presbyterian minister, prominent Prohibitionist
Charles Mudede: article is a bit stubby as of November 2012, and citation apparatus is a mess.
Abe Osheroff, Spanish Civil War vet and activistextraordinaire (died April 6, 2008). We have a bit more than a stub.http://abeosheroff.org/ has numerous links to articles that would be a basis to expand this.
Margaret Tompkins, artist. Why is it not surprising that of the many artists whose works are cast in concrete at theBetty Bowen Viewpoint, the only one who doesn't have a Wikipedia article as of December 2012 is the one woman?
Many other major U.S. cities have articles about their major streets. There are almost none of these for Seattle as of November 2012. SeeCategory:Streets in Seattle, Washington.
Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair (originally Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair). OK, it's not quite in Seattle, but it was pretty much the prototype of the whole arts-oriented street fair thing in the region.
Chong Wa Benevolent Association: right now article has possibly inaccurate one-liner about Seattle. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Municipal Ownership Party, a merger circa 1905 of the earlier Municipal Ownership League and Workingmen's Party.
Northwest Releasing booked shows, prominently affected arts scene 1952 onwards. Went national circa 1970. At one time, the nation's largest talent booking agency.
Seattle Commercial Club: for about 20 years in the early 20th century a rival to the Chamber of Commerce, with which it eventually merged. Was more focused on specifically local business interests (vs., for example, the railroads)
Seattle Fine Arts Society - Seattle's first significant visual arts organization, as far as I know. Absorbed the shorter-lived and less successful Washington State Art Association in 1917; once the article exists, that should be a redirect. Material on this in Richard C. Berner,Seattle 1900-1920 (1991; p. 94–97). -Jmabel |Talk07:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Stone & Webster: not Seattle-specific, but once owned trolleys here. A very historically important company; we have a stub. - 02:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
TheTown Crier, early 20th century, voice of the right-wing elite
TheUnion Record, labor newspaper, early 20th century
Several late 19th century African American newspapers (all mentioned in Esther Hall MumfordSeattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901, p. 85–92):
Most notablyThe Seattle Republican (1894-1917), edited byHorace R. Cayton (usually referred to as H. R. Cayton). It is the only one of these 19th century African American newspapers for which entire issues survive.
Probably the rest of these (and a mention of theRepublican) should be lumped into one article, along with any other early Seattle African American newspapers; Mumford is certainly the best source on these, because she tracked down places where most were quoted in other newspapers.
TheStandard (at least 1891-1893, possibly into 1894)
TheAmusement Herald (extant 1895)
The Northwest Illuminator (1897-1898 or later)
Several publications edited by Daniel Webster Griffin, all short-lived: TheWestern Sun (founded 1898) theNegro World (founded 1899), theBee (founded 1900)
TheWashington Exponent (founded 1900, soon moved to Tacoma)
There must have been Asian papers before the present era; does anyone know some names?
Seattle Hempfest is not much of an article for such a prominent event. Also, its executive directorVivian McPeak, who has written a book about Hempfest, may well deserve an article in his own right.
We have a near stub on the2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree. We do not have much biographical information on the victims (even though at least two were rather well-known musicians) nor on theCafé Racer (Seattle) even though it is a pretty prominent music venue, and it would be easy to find third-party articles about the music scene centered there. -Jmabel |Talk02:04, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
SeeCategory:Wikipedia requested photographs in Seattle for the main list of articles needing photos. Free images, of course. For some of these, we have fair use images, but those aren't really a good solution.
Does anyone have a picture of the previous downtown library (the Paul Thiry building that was there between the Carnegie Library and the present Rem Koolhaus building)?
How about the Jewish Chapel that used to stand at 12th & Spruce
We have some relevant pictures, but we could use some that are more to the purpose. Especially it would be good to have pictures showing multi-modal transportation: park-and-ride lots; cars, bikes, and motorcycles on a ferry; bikes on the front of a bus.
Surrounding area: We have a reasonable number of Seattle images (though of course there are many specific ones still to be added) but barely a handful of images of most nearby communities.
The government archives ofWashington state, all the way back to the first election inWashington Territory, have been put online(news article). The website ishttp://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/. Surely there's information here we can slide in to our 'pedia, at the very least, election and office holder records, perhaps even detailed census information. (Mentioned byGolbez 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) onWikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) He doesn't say anything about whether some of this might not be public domain; a note on that would be useful.)
HistoryLink is an excellent self-described Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. The materials are copyrighted, so have respect for that, but the information is uniformly excellent and there are usually numerous useful references on most articles.
Seattle has an uncommonly good archives department, part of the City Clerk's office. Among other things, Seattle hasscanned the entire Kroll 1920 city atlas; search for Kroll 1920.
The first two of the three volumes of Clarence B. Bagley,History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (Chicago:1916) are nowonline through Google Books. Good source, among other things, for photos of prominent early Seattleites (though not if they are Asian or Black).
A very early Seattle history, Frederic James Grant,History of Seattle, Washington with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891, is alsoonline at Google Books although a few pages are poorly scanned. p. 362et. seq. looks like a pretty good account of early Seattle newspapers.
Department of Neighborhoods Historic PreservationContext Statements. A ton of first-rate material, little of which has been mined for Wikipedia, and which usually does not show up high in Google searches.
Professor James N. Gregory'sPacific Northwest Labor History Projects provide comprehensive online histories of the 1919 General Strike in Seattle, the Communist Party in Washington State, the labor press in Washington, the history of waterfront workers in the Puget Sound, the history of farmworkers in Washington state, workers and unions at the University of Washington, and a history of the World Trade Organization protests in 1999.
Also, on just plain library resources: the Seattle Public Library has an excellent collection; the particularly good non-circulating collection in the Seattle Room on the 10th floor of the downtown library includes Polk's Directories for Seattle clear back to the 19th century, and the periodicals collection is also quite thorough. Both the Everett and Burien public libraries also have excellent Northwest collections.
Rob Ketcherside has published a list of historicstreet renamings in South Seattle. Many of these relate to annexations of extensions to the city.
A wide variety of local newspaper archives are available online with the use of a local library card. Most systems in Washington state are able to give reciprocal cards to members of other Washington state library systems.
The Seattle Times (1895 to present), viaSeattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from then onwards. Online versions of articles are available up to 1990, but sparse until 2001 or so.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1901 to 2009 print, online 2009 to present), via Seattle Public Library: Full images up to 1984, text only from the onward.
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