Colorized Seattle archive photographs
Historic frames from early Seattle, brought into color so street life reads as lived experience instead of a textbook. Scroll inside the column to see more.
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Beautiful Things pairs the videos you can watch here with actual objects you can stand beside in person — old photographs, mechanical players, everyday domestic artifacts, and paintings (old and new) sharing the same room.
Historic frames from early Seattle, brought into color so street life reads as lived experience instead of a textbook. Scroll inside the column to see more.
Orchestrions, jukeboxes, Wurlitzers, phonographs, radios — the players that filled rooms with sound before recordings did. See most of them in person at the Art Love Salon Mechanical Music Museum.
PlayerPlayerPlayerPlayerPlayerPlayerLamps and clocks, kitchen tins and household pieces — the small everyday things that lived in rooms like these. Scroll inside the column to see more.