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Jack Shawcroft multimedia collection, approximately 1948-1979

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Shawcroft, Jack, 1914-1994
Title
Jack Shawcroft multimedia collection
Dates
approximately 1948-1979 (inclusive)
Quantity
5 film reels (8mm), 2 video cassettes (VHS), 7 slides, 13 photographs
Collection Number
PH1647
Summary
Films, videotapes, slides, and photographs taken by John J. Shawcroft relating to his career at Seattle television stations including KING, and KRSC
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access restricted: For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

John Joseph “Jack” Shawcroft was born to Ada Palmer Shawcroft and John Shawcroft on February 14, 1914, in Vancouver, Canada. His family came to the United States in 1916, settling in Aberdeen, Washington where he graduated with honors from Weatherwax High School in 1931. He later served for three and a half years in the United States Army during World War II. Shawcroft married Lillian Margaret Gregory at Emmanuel Church on Mercer Island, Washington, on June 27, 1942, a marriage which produced four children.

While working at KRSC-TV, (later KING-TV) cameramen John Shawcroft was part an engineering team which made television history with the first TV broadcast in the Puget Sound, capturing the 1948 Thanksgiving Day state football championship between West Seattle and Wenatchee at Seattle’s Civic Field. Shawcroft passed away on March 1, 1994 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 80.

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Content Description

Films, videotapes, slides, and photographs by John J. Shawcroft relating to his career at local television stations including KING, and KRSC.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donor: Kenneth J. Shawcroft, June 26, 2018.

Processing Note

Accessioned as PH2018-037.

Separated Materials

Totem Broadcasters Yearbook, 1927-1928 transferred to book collection.

Booklet belonged to Lillian Shawcroft's mother, Caroline Gregory. Includes October 22, 1927 correspondence to Caroline Gregory in response to a letter she wrote to KOMO and a card from Dorothy Denee Snowden, who directed and acted as "Queen of Storyland" in KOMO's children's radio program "The Royal Court of Storyland." The booklet contains a brief history of radio broadcasting in he Puget Sound area, includig photos of key figures in radio's begining in the area. Contains photos and brief bios of radio staff, actors, musical acts, and announcers. Booklet includes station listings, including handwritten station dial locations.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Reels and Tapes

    • Description: TV Reel 1
      1 reel (10 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      Panoramic city shot.

      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box VC759, Item 1
    • Description: TV Reel 2
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      King-5 converted bread truck, aftermath of Oregon riot, cameramen setting up, hydroplanes, aerial shots, men in hardhats eating fried chicken.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box VC759, Item 2
    • Description: TV Reel 3
      1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      Las Vegas strip, King TV truck, construction for World's Fair, men in lederhosen.

      KTTV, a Los Angeles station, loaned KING a truck and equipment to televise the Lake Mead Cup hydroplane race in Las Vegas on October 20, October 1959.

      Dates: Between October 1959 and 1962
      Container: Box VC759, Item 3
    • Description: King-5 TV
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color and black & white ; 8 mm

      King-5 TV converted bread truck, hydroplanes, equipment setup, filming in the studio, picnic, basketball and baseball games.

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box VC759, Item 4
    • Description: Columbia Tower
      1 reel (75 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      Building construction.

      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box VC759, Item 5
    • Description: Seattle Scenes
      1 reel (150 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      Lillian Shawcroft eats ice cream at a picnic, Goodyear blimp footage, picnic and rowing race footage, parade floats, planes flying in formation, Lillian and children sit in a garden at Volunteer Park Conservatory, family tours Volunteer Park Conservatory.

      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box VC759, Item 6
    • Description: Seattle's World Fair and Football
      1 reel (300 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      Men on open-air observaion deck of the Space Needle, group of children in front of a World's Fair construction site, people riding the monrail, shots of a person on the Monorail as they film the streets below, interior shots of the monorail.

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box VC759, Item 7
    • Description: Seattle's World Fair and Vacation
      1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 8 mm

      House being demolished, a family group visiting the Pacific Science Center, Lillian Shawcroft cooking over an outdoor open fire, visiting Lewis and Clark Trail State Park, views of dam, tents in campground, family picnic, dismantling a tent, dam panoramas.

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box VC759, Item 8
    • Description: King TV History
      sound/color ; VHS tapes

      Group of people sitting around a table discussing the origins of KING TV. Most were originally involved with starting the station, others ask questions. Recorded November 9, 1987.

      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box VC759, Item 9-10
  • Photographs and Slides

    • Description: Tower and platform
      color ; glass slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 11
    • Description: Men by KING-5 truck
      color ; glass slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 12
    • Description: Trucks and boats at docks
      color ; glass slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 13
    • Description: Looking down at dock with KING 5 truck
      color ; slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 14
    • Description: Men standing near and on KING 5 scaffolding platform
      color ; glass slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 15
    • Description: Distant view of KING 5 set up for race
      color ; slide
      Dates: Between 1940 and 1950?
      Container: Folder 1, Item 16
    • Description: KING Building Interior and Exterior
      color ; slides
      Dates: September 1979
      Container: Folder 1, Item 17-33
    • Description: Group with KTTV-11 truck
      bw ; photo

      KTTV, a Los Angeles station, loaned KING a truck and equipment to televise the Lake Mead Cup hydroplane race in Las Vegas on October 20, 1959.

      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 34
    • Description: KTTV truck, press platform, camera rig
      bw ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 35
    • Description: Man sitting on KTTV press barge platform
      bw ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 36
    • Description: KTTV men
      bw ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 37
    • Description: Man seated reading in front of truck
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 38
    • Description: KTTV Press platform and truck
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 39
    • Description: KTTV Press platform and crowd
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 40
    • Description: Group standing and sitting on press barge platforms
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 41
    • Description: Crane equipment
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 42
    • Description: KTTV camera rig
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 43
    • Description: KTTV cameraman with camera rig
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 44
    • Description: Man with binoculars on press barge platform
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 45
    • Description: KTTV platform and water
      color ; photo
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Folder 1, Item 46

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Subject Terms

  • Moving Image Collections (University of Washington)
  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
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