David F. Stern papers, 1945-2005

Papers and scrapbooks related to David Stern's high school and college education, military service, advertising career, and Seattle mayoral campaigns. Includes yearbooks, ephemera, client files, print advertisements, writings and speeches, newspaper columns, and radio and television advertisements and campaign interviews on videocassettes, sound cassettes, and sound tape reels. Also included are materials related to the history of the "Happy Face" logo and political ephemera from local and national political campaigns, including his mother Bernice Stern's King County Council campaigns, Slade Gorton's Attorney General re-election campaign and 1980 Senate campaign, and Liem Tuai's 1973 mayoral campaign.

Some of Stern's advertising clients included William O. McKay Ford dealership, Tape Town, Fox's Gem Shop, the Seattle Supersonics, Marontate-Jones, Pacific Lincoln Nursery, State Mutual Savings Bank, Timberland Federal Savings and Loan Association, University Federal Savings Bank, the University of Washington Bookstore, Talcott Jewelers, John Stern, KIXI, Seattle Beauty School, Benaroya, Tower 801, Dag's, and Ivar's.

Also included are other materials related to Stern's family, including correspondence, clippings, and ephemera related to Bernice Stern's life and political career, as well as articles about and an obituary for Edward F. Stern.