141 results for: Global Connections
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Terri Mast speaking at memorial service for Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, Seattle, June 1982
Terri Mast is an activist and labor leader from Seattle. She was involved in antiwar and women’s rights movements, and was an important figure in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP). She helped start the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV) and led the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 37. As of 2022, Mast is secretary-treasurer of…
ID Number:2000.107.119.32.02
Date:1982
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Michael Ramos and Rafael at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program, Seattle, February 28, 1985
This photo was taken at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program office in Seattle. The program supported refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala with legal aid, assistance with getting political asylum, and paying bail bonds for refugees who were arrested. If bail was not posted within a specified time period, refugees were sent to camps in California or Arizona. On the occasion…
ID Number:2000.107.151.03.01
Date:1985
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March against admitting the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Seattle, September 21, 1971
When the U.N. General Assembly opened its 1971 session in September 1971, a proposal was made to replace the Republic of China (Taiwan) with the People’s Republic of China (Mainland China). In Seattle, some two dozen Chinese people and allies protested the proposal by marching down Third Avenue from Virginia Street to Yesler Way. They called Mainland China an aggressor…
ID Number:2000.107.153.14.02
Date:1971
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Security guard near Chinese figure at Seattle Art Museum, October 1, 1991
The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) opened in its new downtown building, designed by Robert Venturi, on December 5, 1991. This photo shows a guard keeping an eye on a Chinese figure in the main arcade, shortly before the museum opened to the public.
ID Number:2000.107.164.36.01
Date:1991
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King Olav V unveiling plaque at Bergen Place, Seattle, October 19, 1975
Bergen Place in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood is a park honoring Bergen, Norway, one of Seattle's International Sister Cities. The park is located on the triangular site between Leary Avenue, 22nd Avenue NW, and Market Street. In this image Eilert Eilertsen (1918-2014), left, Lord Mayor of Bergen, an unidentified man, and Wesley C. Uhlman (1935-), Mayor of Seattle, look on as…
ID Number:2000.107.165.09.01
Date:1975
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Students reading Variety Club's "World's Longest Letter," Seattle, March 15, 1985
In this image, students visiting Seattle's Seafirst Building look over the thousands of letters that make up the "World's Longest Letter." The completed 1,858 foot letter was part of Operation Peace Letter sponsored by the Variety Club of the Pacific Northwest, and was to be presented to the state congressional delegation in Washington, D. C. and then sent to the…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.04
Date:1985
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Students contributing to "World's Longest Letter," Seattle, March 5, 1985
In this image 12-year-old Autumn Holmes signs her letter, the first to be entered into the computer by Steve Fleichmann as part of the thousands of letters that made up the "World's Longest Letter." The completed 1,858 foot letter was part of Operation Peace Letter sponsored by the Variety Club of the Pacific Northwest, and was to be presented to…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.05
Date:1985
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Student reading contribution to "World's Longest Letter," Seattle, March 5, 1985
In this image 12-year-old Autumn Holmes reads her letter to Secretary of State George Shultz and Ambassador Andrei Gromyko at Seattle's Seafirst building. Autumn's letter was the first of thousands of letters that made up the "World's Longest Letter." The completed 1,858 foot letter was part of Operation Peace Letter sponsored by the Variety Club of the Pacific Northwest, and…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.10
Date:1985
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Danish Pavilion, Skyride, and Space Needle at the World's Fair, Seattle, 1962
Many countries sponsored pavilions at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21). Here, the Danish Pavilion can be seen from the Skyride balcony. The Space Needle stands tall in the background.
ID Number:2000.107.172.14.02
Date:1962
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Aerial view of Foreign Trade Zone, Seattle, September 21, 1949
Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) are duty-free, quota-free, secured areas in a designated customs “port of entry,” considered outside U. S. Customs territory and exempt from customs tariffs. The FTZ program was established in 1934 to stimulate economic growth and development in the United States by lowering the cost of international trade.This image shows two ships docked at Seattle's FTZ: the French…
ID Number:2000.107.173.01.03
Date:1949