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| Title | Entrance to North East branch of Seattle Public Library at night, ca. 1954 |
| Photographer | Hupy, Art
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| Date | ca. 1954 |
| Historical Background | The North East branch of the Seattle Public Library was designed by architect Paul Thiry and constructed in 1953.
Paul Thiry (1904-93) is known in the Seattle area for introducing the architecture of the European Modernists to the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1930s, for his work on the Seattle Planning Commission in the late 1950s, and for his role as principal architect of the Century 21 Exhibition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) in 1962. His international reputation, however, rests mainly on his modern houses and churches, designed in a regional variant of Modernism, and on his contribution to the planning and preservation of the United States Capitol, as a member of the National Capital Planning Commission and the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue from 1963-1975. [Source: Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, ed. (1998) Seattle, London: University of Washington Press.] |
| Notes | Caption on negative sleeve: Paul Thiry's Library, N.E. Library
PH Coll 458.4214-18 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Public libraries--Washington (State)--Seattle
Doors & doorways--Washington (State)--Seattle
Night photographs
Architectural photographs
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle Public Library. North East Branch
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Modern Photographers Collection
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| Order Number | MPH106 |
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| Negative Number | Hupy 4214-18 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Art Hupy Photograph Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | b&w ; 8 x 10 inches |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
