Favorite Archival Object: Save the Showbox Posters & Flyers, 2018

Looking back: Sawant leads preservation push to protect Showbox Theater

5/28/20243:47

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' Digital Asset Manager Sarah Shipley takes a look at the "Save the Showbox" posters and flyers from Councilmember Kshama Sawant's records. To view all the graphics, posters and flyers in Sawant's collection, please visit here.

SMA MATERIAL CITATIONS
– Save the Showbox graphics flyers and posters, Items 4679_07_002, 4679_07_041, 4679_07_042, 4679_07_043, 4679_07_044, 4679_07_045, 4679_07_046, 4679_07_048, 4679_07_047, 4679_07_049, 4679_07_050, 4679_07_051, 4679_07_052, Record Series 4679-07: Kshama Sawant Posters
– [Sassy Black performs at Save the Showbox rally at City Hall], September 19, 2018, Item 207521, Record Series 4679-02: Sawant Subject Files
– Save the Showbox rally [with Councilmember Kshama Sawant], August 1, 2018, Item 194283, Record Series 4600-11: Legislative Department Digital Photographs – Public Hearing, September 19, 2018, Record Series 3902-01 Seattle Channel Moving Images
– Public Hearing, August 1, 2018, Record Series 3902-01 Seattle Channel Moving Images
– Councilmember Kshama Sawant social media, @cmkshama, #savetheshowbox

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)

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