Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. This newspaper covered local news from Seattle’s Jewish community as well as international reporting on events like World War II and the settlement of Israel.
Jewish Transcript, v. 5, no. 15, Jun. 15, 1928
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_05_15
Date: 1928-06-15
View this itemJewish Transcript v. 1, no. 39, Dec. 5, 1924
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_01_39
Date: 1924-12-05
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 5, no. 18, Jul. 6, 1928
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_05_18
Date: 1928-07-06
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 14, no. 35, Oct. 29, 1937
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_14_35
Date: 1937-10-29
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 26, no. 21, Feb. 21, 1949
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_26_21
Date: 1949-02-21
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 5, no. 20, Jul. 20, 1928
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_05_20
Date: 1928-07-20
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 26, no. 6, Nov. 8, 1948
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_26_06
Date: 1948-11-08
View this item[Untitled], ca. 1921
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_09
Date: 1921
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 15, no. 18, Jul. 1, 1938
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_15_18
Date: 1938-01-01
View this itemJewish Transcript, v. 26, no. 21, Aug. 25, 1958
Identifier: spl_jt_3018327_26_21_1958
Date: 1958-08-25
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