100 results for: Rites and Ceremonies
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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 7, 1947
Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers as part of the annual Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. The main address was given by General Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891-1974) and was to be followed by an elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake.This photo shows…
ID Number:PI24528
Date:1947
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Betty Morrison and Thomas Morrison holding their naturalization papers, December 22, 1947
In this image Betty Lorraine Morrison (b. 1931) and Thomas Lyle Morrison (b. 1930), two new American citizens, pose holding their naturalization papers. The siblings were born in Vancouver, B. C., and were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrison of Seattle. Along with about 40 other foreign-born residents, the Morrison children took their oaths of office in a ceremony…
ID Number:PI24530
Date:1947
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Reception for new citizens at Seattle P-I building, April 29, 1949
On April 29, 1949, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer held a reception for newly naturalized citizens at the P-I building at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street. This photo shows the large group of new citizens standing, holding their right hands over their hearts, as a woman walks down the aisle carrying an American flag. Handwritten on negative: New citizen reception PI 4/29/49Handwritten…
ID Number:PI24535
Date:1949
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Whittier School students at flag raising, Seattle, June 14, 1940
The first Whittier School building opened in 1908, and a second building was constructed in 1928 to hold the more than 700 students from north Ballard. In this photo, Whittier elementary school students salute a flag being raised by one of the older students in the school yard on Flag Day in 1940.
ID Number:PI25765
Date:1940
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Kameno and Shinichi Seike at Nisei memorial dinner, Seattle, December 13, 1946
Nearly 1000 veterans, family members, and friends attended a Nisei veterans' testimonial banquet at Seattle's Civic Auditorium on December 13, 1946. The event, sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), featured speakers paying tribute to Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) soldiers who lost their lives during World War II.Close relatives of those who died sat at special tables like…
ID Number:PI28185
Date:1946
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Funeral service for Japanese American serviceman, June 1948
Japanese Americans in the coastal areas of the western United States were removed from their homes in 1942, when the United States entered World War II. In spite of this, Japanese Americans served in the United States armed forces with distinction. Veterans of the war were buried with military honors.In this June 1948 photo, Japanese American veterans honor a unit…
ID Number:PI28191
Date:1948
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Funeral for Nisei servicemen, Washelli Cemetery, Seattle, June 19, 1948
This image shows a funeral for eight Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) soldiers who died in World War II. They were members of the 442nd Regiment, which was composed entirely of Japanese Americans. The 442nd is the most decorated unit in US Army history for its size and length of service. Five of the soldiers died in action in France…
ID Number:PI28192
Date:1948
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Funeral for Japanese American serviceman in Seattle Buddhist Church, Seattle, December 11, 1948
Japanese Americans in the coastal areas of the western United States were removed from their homes in 1942, when the United States entered World War II. In spite of this, Japanese Americans served in the United States armed forces with distinction. Veterans of the war were buried with military honors.In this December 1948 photo, Japanese American veterans act as pallbearers…
ID Number:PI28194
Date:1948
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Inauguration of Governor Elisha Peyre Ferry, Olympia, November 11, 1889
Elisha Peyre Ferry (1825-1895) was the first governor of Washington State. Ferry was a Republican lawyer who had twice been Governor of Washington Territory, the only one to serve two terms. On Washington's admission as a state on November 11, 1889, he became its inaugural governor. In his first summer, he had to supervise the rebuilding of three major cities…
ID Number:SHS174
Date:1889
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Group of Chilkat people in traditional dance costumes, Klukwan, Alaska, circa 1895
The Chilkat are a Tlingit tribe who have lived in and around their village of Klukwan on the Chilkat River, in southeastern Alaska since time immemorial. They lived on foods available on their lands as well as trading with other tribes on the Pacific coast and inland. Settlers came to Chilkat lands in large numbers in the early 20th century,…
ID Number:SHS1785
Date:Circa 1895