Friends of the Market scrapbooks, 1911-1976 (bulk 1962-1976).

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Friends of the Market scrapbooks, 1911-1976 (bulk 1962-1976).

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The Friends of the Market scrapbooks contain material created and collected by this historic preservation advocacy group which documents its pivotal role in the civic battles over efforts to save Seattle's Pike Place Market from demolition as part of various urban renewal projects proposed during the 1960s. Although the collection includes clippings from 1911 and 1956, the bulk of materials date from 1962-1976 and comprehensively document the Friends of the Market's formation and early activities. Although most of the scrapbooks represent a single year of the group's activities, four scrapbooks (Volumes 7-10) cover the year 1971, during which time the Friends of the Market participated in a successful campaign to place an initiative to save the Market on the ballot; these volumes also document the passage of the initiative, its aftermath, and funding for the Market's subsequent renovations. Other subjects treated in some detail in the scrapbooks include urban planning and renewal, historic preservation, farmers' markets, farmers and vendors at the Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, and city politics. The scrapbooks mainly contain newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, correspondence, and photographs, but also include some unusual individual items, such as a poem about the Market, "Conundrum at Pike Place Market," by Sonia Gernes (Volume 7).

14 v. ; 37 centimeters.

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