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Ridler Brothers band performing onstage, February 1993
In the early 1990s, while local grunge bands were achieving mainstream popularity, the genre of country music was expanding in the local music scene. Jeff and Steve Ridler, brothers from Snohomish, Washington, formed their country-rock band, the Ridler Brothers, in the mid-1980s. Inspired by the success of Billy Ray Cyrus’ 1992 hit song and corresponding line dance, “Achy, Breaky Heart,”…
ID Number:2000.107.19930204.11.34
Date:1993
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Ridler Brothers band performing onstage, February 4, 1993
In the early 1990s, while local grunge bands were achieving mainstream popularity, the genre of country music was expanding in the local music scene. Jeff and Steve Ridler, brothers from Snohomish, Washington, formed their country-rock band, the Ridler Brothers, in the mid-1980s. Inspired by the success of Billy Ray Cyrus’ 1992 hit song and corresponding line dance, “Achy, Breaky Heart,”…
ID Number:2000.107.19930204.12.20
Date:1993
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Norm Rice waving from car at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On July 25th, 1993, drill…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.2.13
Date:1993
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UW MEChA group protesting the WTO conference, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991130.29.17
Date:1999
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Sudanese dancers rehearsing for performance at Highline YMCA, Burien, October 20, 2002
Many young people from southern Sudan fled their home country during its second civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the "Lost Boys" and "Lost Girls" of Sudan. About 3800 boys and 90 girls who fled the war were resettled in the United States, with about 100 settling in Western Washington. There, a group of about 12…
ID Number:2000.107.20021020.CD03.01.001
Date:2002
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Mayen Akoon leading Sudanese dancers, October 20, 2002
Many young people from southern Sudan fled their home country during its second civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the "Lost Boys" and "Lost Girls" of Sudan. About 3800 boys and 90 girls who fled the war were resettled in the United States, with about 100 settling in Western Washington. There, a group of about 12…
ID Number:2000.107.20021020.CD03.01.002
Date:2002
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Tony Franz marking creosote-soaked logs on a beach, Whidbey Island, November 10, 2002
In November of 2002 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer completed a six-month investigation into the ecological health of the Puget Sound. They published their findings in a series of articles from November 18-22, outlining the ways in which recent efforts to curtail dumping and pollution had failed to negate decades of human-caused damage to sea life and the marine environment.In this image,…
ID Number:2000.107.20021101.CD01.006
Date:2002
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Fay Jones with her painting "Duets," Seattle, November 2005
Fay Jones (b. 1936) is a Seattle based artist. Born in Boston, Jones attended the Rhode Island School of Design and moved to Seattle in 1960. She had her first painting exhibit in 1970, and in the mid-1980s, she was commissioned to paint a large mural for the Westlake bus tunnel station (now a light rail station). Jones’ work has…
ID Number:2000.107.20051104.CD01.001
Date:2005
Poster
"People's Blockade" poster, Seattle, 1972
During the summer of 1972, the Seattle-based People’s Blockade Coalition organized numerous protests to block U.S. Navy ammunition ships headed to Vietnam. The vessels, sailing from the ammunition depot at Bangor, on the Kitsap Peninsula, had to pass through the Hood Canal Bridge. Sections of this floating bridge had to slide open for boats of all sizes, and protesters used…
ID Number:2002.23.3.61.1.1
Date:1972
Ephemera
Rally for Equal Access to Red Square flier, May 1990
This flier advertises a rally to support building an accessibility ramp between Red Square and Drumheller Fountain on the University of Washington (UW) campus. The rally was held by the Disabled Students Commission (now called the Student Disability Commission) on May 23, 1990, and it involved protesters presenting a petition signed by 2000 students to UW administrators during the short…
ID Number:2002.23.5.25.1
Date:1990