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Demonstration of punch-card voting machine, Seattle, March 25, 1969
On March 29, 1969 over 4,500 Seattle residents went to the polls to elect the 16-member Central Area School Council. This was the first community council elected to help the Seattle School Board run an attendance area’s schools. It was also the city’s first computer-assisted election, and it used IBM Votomatic machines, on loan from Clark County, WA. After the…
ID Number:2000.107.220.41.01
Date:1969
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Voters at Madrona Middle School, Seattle, January 5, 1974
A $55.9 million special school levy for general education went before Seattle voters on February 5, 1974. The levy figure was an all-time high, influenced by a decrease in federal school funding and changes in state funding formulas. Here, late in the day of the election, a family arrives while citizens vote at the Madrona Middle School polling place. The…
ID Number:2000.107.221.02.01
Date:1974
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Crowd watching swimmer jump into Lake Washington at "Ramps to Nowhere," Seattle, June 1, 1975
In the 1960s the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) began construction of the R.H. Thomson Expressway, a 15-mile freeway from the Duwamish River in Seattle to Bothell. Several freeway ramps were built on the western shore of Lake Washington, intended to connect Highway 520 to the R. H. Thomson Expressway. The plan would have cut through wide swaths through…
ID Number:2000.107.223.22.01
Date:1975
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Edwin Wea showing flash card to girl at Black Family Center, Seattle, October 8, 1991
The Holly Park neighborhood of Seattle was built in the 1940s to house defense workers and veterans, but in the 1950s, it was converted into public housing under the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA). During its first few decades, Holly Park housed mostly Whites and some African Americans. By the early 1990s, 33% of Holly Park was African American and 49%…
ID Number:2000.107.228.06.01
Date:1991
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Harold Whitehead at Seattle Veterans Action Center, March 25, 1991
The Seattle Veterans Action Center (or Sea-VAC) was founded by Joseph Garcia in 1971 to provide readjustment assistance to veterans, especially minority, disadvantaged and disabled Vietnam war veterans. Services included family counseling, job-placement help, post-traumatic-stress-disorder therapy, substance-abuse counseling and housing aid, among others. In April 1991, Harold Whitehead, director of the Seattle Veterans Action Center, nine staff members, and heads…
ID Number:2000.107.230.07.02
Date:1991
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DeCharlene Williams in her beauty salon, August 6, 1993
DeCharlene Williams (1943-2018) came to Seattle with her first husband in 1958. Williams graduated from Seattle Central College, then attended Edward's Beauty School in Seattle, graduating in 1961. After divorcing in 1965, she worked at a beauty salon and other jobs, saving money to buy her own building. As a single woman of color, she was denied loans by numerous…
ID Number:2000.107.230.38.03
Date:1993
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August Wilson, Seattle, September 24, 1990
In this image American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) discusses his upcoming talk on American history from an African-American perspective, "The Testimony of the Witness," at the Seattle Arts and Lectures series. Wilson had just recently moved to Seattle, where he developed a relationship with Seattle Repertory Theatre, the only theater in the country to produce his entire 10-play series, "The…
ID Number:2000.107.231.21.01
Date:1990
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Emile Wilson and police officer at Seattle University protest, May 21, 1970
On May 21, 1970, during a rally of about 300 students called by the S.U. Student Afro-American Movement for Equality (formerly the Black Student Union) on the campus of Seattle University, several demonstrators broke windows and damaged equipment in the Student Union building. Five students were suspended, and 6 later arrested, including former Black Student Union president Emile Wilson, pictured…
ID Number:2000.107.231.25.01
Date:1970
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Wine brokers unloading grapes from train, Seattle, September 25, 1963
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:2000.107.232.03.04
Date:1963
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Wine broker unloading grapes from train, Seattle, September 25, 1963
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:2000.107.232.03.05
Date:1963