73 results for: Disabilities
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Football player Brice Taylor, Seattle, circa 1923
Brice Taylor attended Franklin High School in Seattle in the early 1920s. From 1924 to 1926 he played guard for the University of Southern California's football team. Taylor, an outstanding African-American athlete, was only 5'9" and 185 pounds. In 1925, he became the first football All-American at the University of Southern California, despite being born without a left hand.This portrait…
ID Number:1974.5923.194
Date:Circa 1923
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Workers at the Lighthouse Broom Company, circa 1925
The Lighthouse for the Blind was one of Seattle's early community service organizations. It provided work for people with impaired vision so they could support themselves and their families. Employees made brooms, wove rags into rugs, and cane fiber into chair seats. In this photo, a woman weighs a finished broom. Bunches of broom straw sit on the floor in…
ID Number:1983.10.433.1
Date:Circa 1925
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T.T. Minor School, circa 1925
Construction began on T.T. Minor School in 1889, the year Washington became a state. The Seattle school was named for Thomas T. Minor, former mayor and head of the school board. The original eight room school building opened in 1890 with more than 200 students. Starting in 1921, the city's program for deaf students was housed at T.T. Minor.This photo…
ID Number:1983.10.PA23.77
Date:Circa 1925
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Student in a wheelchair and his classmates working at their desks, Federal Way, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.257
Date:1983
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Student in wheelchair using lift on school bus, Federal Way, September 23, 1983
In 1983, the National Press Photographers Association sponsored a documentary project called "Day in the Life of Washington: September 23, 1983." Photographers from the NPAA, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, and freelancers participated in the 24-hour "Dayshoot," recording the ordinary occurrences of everyday life that might take on larger significance in a historical perspective. One hundred twenty of the…
ID Number:1984.118.261
Date:1983
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Anne Gould Hauberg, April 24, 1985
Anne Gould Hauberg (1917 – 2016) was a Seattle civic activist, philanthropist, and patron of the arts.Anne and her husband John Hauberg emerged as patrons of the arts in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s. They collected art works, and provided support for emerging Northwest artists. By the 1960s, Anne Hauberg particularly focused on supporting the crafts through…
ID Number:1985.135.11
Date:1985
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Lucille Engdahl working with deaf children, University of Washington Speech Clinic, Seattle, 1939
Using new techniques, the hard-of-hearing section of the University of Washington speech clinic began training three deaf children how to talk. Instructors speak into an amplification device placed against the patient's ear to convey that sound exists and has meaning. Graduate student Lucille Engdahl also showed the children how to shape their mouths and by touching their throats how to…
ID Number:1986.5.2055.1
Date:1939
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Worker with a disability operating a router at Occupational Rehabilitation, Inc., Seattle, November 1966
For many years, people living with emotional, mental, and physical disabilities found it nearly impossible to support themselves. In the early 1960s, a grant from Washington State funded the beginnings of Occupational Rehabilitation, Inc. (ORI), a pioneering program that trained people with disabilities for industry. By 1966, the Seattle non-profit employed over 100 people in its machine shop. They had…
ID Number:1986.5.6305.1
Date:1966
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Worker with a disability operating machinery at Occupational Rehabilitation, Inc., Seattle, November 1966
For many years, people living with emotional, mental, and physical disabilities found it nearly impossible to support themselves. In the early 1960s, a grant from Washington State funded the beginnings of Occupational Rehabilitation, Inc. (ORI), a pioneering program that trained people with disabilities for industry. By 1966, the Seattle non-profit employed over 100 people in its machine shop. They had…
ID Number:1986.5.6305.2
Date:1966
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Sternwheelers club members square dancing, Seattle, August 12, 1955
In this image the Sternwheelers, members of the Seattle Indoor Sports Club, present their wheelchair square dance to an enthusiastic crowd during the American Legion's Cavalcade of Music and Drill at Memorial Stadium as part of the Legion's state convention. The Legion invited the Sternwheelers to perform after a performance scheduled at the Seafair Fiesta of Floats was canceled on…
ID Number:1986.5.8531.1
Date:1955