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The "Favorite Archival Object" series is a monthly installment featuring archivists from Seattle Municipal Archives' highlighting some of our favorite items from the collections.

In this installment, Seattle Municipal Archives' Interim City Archivist Sarah Shipley shares social media posts related to ARTS at King Street Station from inception to its inaugural exhibition as captured through the City’s social media archives. 

SMA MATERIAL CITATIONS
Social Media
— Canned search "arts at king street station" on SMA's Archive Social

Photographs
— Fourth Avenue south. South of Jackson street paving center strip, January 10, 1944, Item 40311, Record Series 2613-07: Engineering Department Negatives
— King Street Station Clock [Renovation], July 30, 2009, Item 180190, Record Series 8100-01: Department of Transportation Administration and Communication Division Digital Photographs
— King Street Station Clock [Renovation], Item 180196, Record Series 8100-01: Department of Transportation Administration and Communication Division Digital Photographs
— King Street Station, September 1, 2009, Item 173739, Record Series 5200-03: Mayor's Office Digital Photographs

Video
— Item 12716, Record Series 3902-01: Seattle Channel Moving Images
— Item 425, Record Series 2613-09: Engineering Department Moving Images
— Mounting the yəhaw̓ Exhibition, 2019, Office of Arts & Culture
— Art Zone with Nancy Guppy: Live at King Street Station, Original# gVITQk386pg, Seattle Channel
— [Arts Aboard Community Meeting Annoucement], 2018, Office of Arts & Culture
— yəhaw̓ Exhibition at King Street Station, 2019, Original# king_7021907HDV, Seattle Channel
— King Street Station Construction Tour, 2010, Original# 9438c0effe, Seattle Department of Transportation

Documents
— King Street Station Community Feedback Report, January 2018, Original# q6_R38gGScI, Office of Arts & Culture

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
— Italy. Venice. St. Mark's Square and Cathedral, bell tower. 1860s. Carlo Naya photograph albums of Venice, 1860s-1870s, print RL-11356-0048. Duke University Libraries Digital Collections. Public Domain. 
— The New Grand Central Station, New York, Bradford L. Gilbert, Architect: 1. Bird's-eye view of the remodeled Grand Central Station, from the balcony of the Manhattan Hotel. 1900. Rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Illus. in AP2.H32 1900.

All of the videos from the "Favorite Archival Object" series feature the following: – Footage in introduction titles: Seattle Channel, Item cs_112119_3071924V – Music: "The Plan's Working" by Cooper Cannellis from YouTube's Audio Library (Creative Commons)