226 results for: Eating and Drinking
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Vietnamese child eating at Camp Murray, Washington, May 21, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.20.02
Date:1975
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Elma Villanueva at the Fremont Public Association Food Bank, August 2, 1989
In the summer of 1989, neighborhood food banks in Seattle experienced a severe shortage of supplies. Food donations usually lessen in the summer, and that year was especially bad because of an 81-day strike by grocery workers that ended on July 30. Grocery stores were less willing to donate, and striking workers began going to food banks themselves, which placed…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.01
Date:1989
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Oenophiles tasting wine at Seattle Center, August 27, 1979
Wine grapes and apples were among the first cultivated fruits in the Pacific Northwest. Initially planted here in 1827, both were cherished by early pioneering settlers, but whereas apples became a lucrative farm commodity early on, Washington-grown grapes and the local wine industry did not achieve widespread recognition until the 1970s. According to the Washington State Wine organization, as of…
ID Number:2000.107.232.03.01
Date:1979
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Kayla Skinner and Harry Wong at Trader Vic's restaurant, June 20, 1991
Trader Vic's was a Polynesian-themed chain restaurant founded in 1934 by Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (1902-1984) in California. The first franchised Trader Vic's opened in Seattle in 1949, and the chain expanded quickly during the Tiki culture fad of the 1950s and 1960s. The Seattle restaurant moved to the Washington Plaza Hotel (now the Westin) in 1969, and closed in…
ID Number:2000.107.232.27.02
Date:1991
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Bob Petersen, Keith Craig, Ben Woo, and Jean Enerson eating Mongolian hot pot at Ruby Chow's, Seattle, April 27, 1969
Asian community leader Benjamin Woo (1923-2008) was born in Seattle and attended Queen Anne High School and the University of Chicago. After military service he returned to Seattle and opened an architectural firm in Madison Park. He directed King County’s Construction and Facilities Management Department and served as president of the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr.…
ID Number:2000.107.232.28.06
Date:1969
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Cooking demonstration at war kitchen, Seattle, July 1918
In this image, demonstrations and advice are given to housewives and cooks on preparing food with the limited wartime rations. The "War Kitchen," as it was referred to, was located at the Central Building in downtown Seattle and supervised by Dorothy Shank, home economics instructor at the University of Washington, Mildred Thronburg, demonstrator, and Mrs. F. G. Stoner, special investigator.…
ID Number:2000.107.233.10.14
Date:1918
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Beatrice LaFramboise outside Providence Regina House food bank, Seattle, November 4, 1986
In this image, Sister Beatrice LaFramboise, director of the Providence Regina House food bank, leans on the fence outside the Seattle facility. The Sisters of Providence have been operating a weekly food and clothing bank out of the South Park Neighborhood Center since 1963. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, November 13, 1989, p. B3.Caption information also derived from captions…
ID Number:2000.107.260.09.01
Date:1986
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Woman shopping at Viet-Wah supermarket, Seattle, January 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.1.10
Date:1993
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Display of durian at Viet-Wah supermarket, Seattle, February 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.2.17
Date:1993
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Malcolm Katz and Gus Mansour at "peace party," Seattle, September 27, 1993
This image shows a "peace party" at Gus Mansour’s Sahara Restaurant, celebrating the recent signing of the Oslo I Accord. Activists from Jewish and Arab communities in Seattle planned the party to build grassroots support for the agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Israel, and people from both sides expressed cautious optimism about the peace process. Here, Jewish activist…
ID Number:2000.107.19930927.1.09
Date:1993