91 results for: Politics and Politicians
Felt hat, "Peahen of 45" by milliner Jean Hicks, 2017
Jean Hicks is a Seattle-based milliner, felt-maker and educator. Her hats are functional and often theatrical in style. This 2017 hat is meant to represent the First Lady and is a companion to Hicks’ “Year of the Rooster” hat from the same year. It intentionally combines a mix of disparate textiles, including hand-felted Finn wool ("the worst felt I have…
ID Number:2021.12.2
Date:2017
Committee to Save the Market pin, 1971
The Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operated farmers' markets in the US. Local farmers, craftspeople and merchants have travelled to the market and set up shop for over one hundred years. In 1963, Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together…
ID Number:2021.20.5
Date:1971
Pin, "vote yes market," 1971
The Pike Place Market is one of the oldest continuously operated farmers' markets in the US. Local farmers, craftspeople and merchants have travelled to the market and set up shop for over one hundred years. In 1963, Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together…
ID Number:2021.20.6
Date:1971
Anti-Dixy Lee Ray pin, 1970s
Dixy Lee Ray (1914–1994) was Washington's first female governor from 1976 to 1980, but did not win re-election as she lost in the Democratic primary election to Senator Jim McDermott who went on to lose in the general election to Republican John D. Spellman. Prior to being Governor, Ray was appointed by Richard Nixon to chair the US Atomic Energy…
ID Number:2021.20.11
Date:Circa 1970
Joel Pritchard for Lt. Governor pin, 1988
Joel M. Pritchard (1925-1997) served Washington State as an elected official for forty-five years. A moderate Republican closely allied with Dan Evans and Slade Gorton, he was elected State Representative in 1958, State Senator in 1966, US Representative in 1972, and Lieutenant Governor in 1988.
ID Number:2021.20.12
Date:1988
Re-Elect Brock Adams pin, ca. 1980s
Brockman "Brock" Adams (1927-2004) served as a Washington State representative in the US House of Representatives from 1965 to 1977. From 1977 to 1979, he was the US Secretary of Transportation under Jimmy Carter. Adams also served as a US Senator representing Washington State from 1987 to 1993. After multiple women came forward with experiences of sexual harassment and abuse…
ID Number:2021.20.13
Date:Circa 1980
Slade Gorton for United States Senate pin, ca. 1990s
Thomas Slade Gorton III, better known as Slade Gorton (1928-2020), was a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1959-1969, then served as Washington's 14th Attorney General from 1969 to 1981, then represented Washington in the US Senate from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1989 to 2001.
ID Number:2021.20.14
Date:Circa 1990
Campaign button pin for Pramila Jayapal for Congress, 2016
Pramila Jayapal (b. 1965), a member of the Democratic party, successfully ran for the position of US Representative from Washington's 7th congressional district in 2016. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the US House of Representatives and the first Asian American to…
ID Number:2022.8.2
Date:2016
Button, “Old enough to Fight, Old enough to Vote," ca. 1969-1971
The slogan “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote” was born during the Second World War when the draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. At the time the national voting age was 21. Some states passed laws to lower the age for local elections and President Eisenhower supported the idea of lowering the voting age in his…
ID Number:2023.23.50
Date:1969-1971
Voting box from a Lithuanian community in Seattle, ca. 1900-1940s
This marble voting box was used by a Lithuanian-American community in Seattle. It allowed people to vote anonymously, even if they were illiterate, and, according to the donor, demonstrates how immigrant communities valued democratic principles and the ability to vote. The donor's father immigrated from Lithuania to the US during WWII and eventually moved to Seattle in 1961 to work…
ID Number:2023.34.1
Date:Circa 1900-1940