186 results for: Haller, Grant M.
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Lê Quốc Thân playing outside with his foster brother, Renton, April 8, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Many found foster families in the greater Seattle area.Some of the children in the program were biracial, with one American parent. This was the case for Lê Quốc Thân, whose Vietnamese mother took him to the Holt…
ID Number:2000.107.220.18.04
Date:1975
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Vietnamese babies being checked in at Sea-Tac airport, April 6, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Over 400 children, mostly under the age of two, were met at Sea-Tac airport by a crowd of adoptive parents. About half of the children were adopted by parents who lived in or traveled to Seattle to…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.03
Date:1975
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Foster parents John and Lana Mitsules with baby Thi Dung Hanh at SeaTac Airport, SeaTac, April 6, 1975
Shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. In early April 1975, over 400 children, most under the age of two, were met at Sea-Tac airport by a crowd of adoptive parents. About half of the children were adopted by parents who lived in or traveled to Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.04
Date:1975
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Lê Quốc Thân leaping off the porch of his foster home, Renton, April 8, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Many found foster families in the greater Seattle area.Some of the children in the program were biracial, with one American parent. This was the case for Lê Quốc Thân, whose Vietnamese mother took him to the Holt…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.05
Date:1975
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Immigration clearance for Vietnamese children at Sea-Tac Airport, April 6, 1975
Shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. In early April 1975, over 400 children, most under the age of two, were met at Sea-Tac airport by a crowd of adoptive parents. About half of the children were adopted by parents who lived in or traveled to Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.06
Date:1975
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Vietnamese infant at Children's Orthopedic Hospital, Seattle, April 6, 1975
Shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. In early April 1975, over 400 children, most under the age of two, were met at Sea-Tac airport by a crowd of adoptive parents. About half of the children were adopted by parents who lived in or traveled to Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.07
Date:1975
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Loan Young of Alderwood Manor with Vietnamese child, Sea-Tac, April 6, 1975
Shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Over 400 children, most under the age of two, were met at Sea-Tac airport by a crowd of adoptive parents. About half of the children were adopted by parents who lived in or traveled to Seattle to meet them, while…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.08
Date:1975
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Lan Van Nguyen working in kitchen at City Loan Pavilion, Seattle, February 19, 1976
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, 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. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.07
Date:1976
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Thui Dinh Bui waiting tables at City Loan Pavilion, February 19, 1976
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, 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. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.08
Date:1976
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Tomás Villanueva speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 29, 1987
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.03
Date:1987