34 results for: Eagan, Timothy
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Protestors at Boeing, Seattle, 1970
Sign in image: Build Transit at Boeing - End Layoffs. Handwritten on sleeve: Protest March on Boeing. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 5, 1970.
ID Number:1986.5.53184.1
Date:1970
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Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
Demonstrators march in a successful campaign to "Save the Market" from demolition. Seattle voters showed their support on November 2, 1971 by passing Initiative No. 1 that opposed the City Councils plan to raze the Market and build high-rise offices and apartments with federal urban renewal funds. Signs in image: The Pike Place Market is Seattle's History. Our Children Need…
ID Number:1986.5.53773.1
Date:1971
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Roberta Byrd Barr speaking at school levy rally, May 3, 1971
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.014.25.06
Date:1971
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Property tax protesters in rotunda of Washington State Capitol, April 3, 1971
In April 1971, about 500 property owners jammed the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia to protest spiraling property taxes. Many of the protesters were elderly people from North Seattle, where property taxes had risen more than 100 percent over the previous year. This photo shows protestors seated on the steps in the Rotunda waiting to hear from State legislators, several…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.11
Date:1971
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Property tax protesters in rotunda of Washington State Capitol, April 3, 1971
In April 1971, about 500 property owners jammed the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia to protest spiraling property taxes. Many of the protesters were elderly people from North Seattle, where property taxes had risen more than 100 percent over the previous year. This photo shows protestors seated on the steps in the Rotunda, perhaps listening to one of the several…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.12
Date:1971
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Variety Club Telethon volunteers answering phones, Seattle, February 7, 1971
The Variety Club (also Variety, the Children's Charity) is an organization founded as a social club for Pittsburgh entertainers in 1927. As the club grew and formed local chapters across the world, the club began raising funds for disadvantaged children, often through local telethons. KIRO-TV in Seattle held an annual Variety Club Telethon from 1969-1989 to benefit Children's Orthopedic Hospital…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.03
Date:1971
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Employees operating Pier 86 grain terminal control panel, Seattle, October 28, 1970
In 1970 the Port of Seattle spent millions of dollars finishing and upgrading container terminals, airport projects, and new property acquisitions to support what is a major contributor to regional economic growth. Seattle's grain exports were moved at the time to the $15 million Pier 86 Grain Facility in the Interbay neighborhood. This property replaced the Port’s Hanford Street Grain…
ID Number:2000.107.171.37.02
Date:1970
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Audience at the Beatles concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
Seattle was the third stop on the Beatles first official world tour. On August 21, 1964, the Fab Four played to a crowd of over 14,000 in the Coliseum at Seattle Center. The local paper reported that girls outnumbered boys by at least 20 to 1, and that most of these were young teenagers. As seen in this photograph, some…
ID Number:2014.14.108
Date:1964
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The Beatles onstage at the Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
Teenage photographer Timothy Eagan managed to obtain a press pass from a family friend when the Beatles came to his hometown in August 1964. On the third stop of their first official world tour, the Beatles played to a sellout crowd at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Four bands--the Bill Black Combo, the Exciters, the Righteous Brothers and Jackie DeShannon--warmed up…
ID Number:2014.14.111
Date:1964
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Paul McCartney and George Harrison singing during the Beatles concert, Seattle Center Coliseum, August 21, 1964
Nineteen-year-old Timothy Eagan shot this photograph of Paul McCartney and George Harrison early in the band's 29-minute set. They may be singing background vocals on the first song of the set, a cover of Phil Medley and Bert Berns' "Twist and Shout," on which John Lennon sang lead vocals. A young police officer in the right foreground plugs his ears…
ID Number:2014.14.115
Date:1964