3503 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Ruby Bishop working in cabinet-making class, Seattle, January 19, 1972
Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) was born in Thurston County and was a well-known Seattle jazz singer and pianist for decades. Ms. Bishop was an active member of the American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM…
ID Number:2000.107.022.17.02
Date:1972
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Portrait of Ruby Bishop, Seattle, January 1983
Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) was born in Thurston County and was a well-known Seattle jazz singer and pianist for decades. Ms. Bishop was an active member of the American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM…
ID Number:2000.107.022.17.03
Date:1983
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Black Panther lieutenant Cranston Owens at Rainier Beach school, September 6, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.01
Date:1968
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Black Panthers protesting on steps of Capitol building, Olympia, February 28, 1969
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.02
Date:1969
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Sandbag fortification at Black Panther headquarters, Seattle, 1971
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.03
Date:1971
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Former Black Panther Party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.04
Date:1973
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Notice on former Black Panther party headquarters house, Seattle, 1973
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:2000.107.022.21.05
Date:1973
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Juan Boanegra speaking at immigration rally on UW campus, Seattle, March 17, 1974
Juan Jose Bocanegra (b. 1949) was born in Mexico and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He moved to Seattle in 1971 to earn a graduate degree in social work from the University of Washington (UW), where he helped lead a successful campaign to diversify the UW School of Social work and create its multi-ethnic practice program. Mr. Bocanegra then began…
ID Number:2000.107.023.19.01
Date:1974
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Juan Bocanegra speaking at 34th District Democrats meeting, Seattle, July 12, 1989
Juan Jose Bocanegra (b. 1949) was born in Mexico and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. He moved to Seattle in 1971 to earn a graduate degree in social work from the University of Washington (UW), where he helped lead a successful campaign to diversify the UW School of Social work and create its multi-ethnic practice program. Mr. Bocanegra then began…
ID Number:2000.107.023.19.02
Date:1989
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Patti Bown posing at piano at the New Orleans Restaurant, Seattle, March 23, 1989
Patricia Anne "Patti" Bown (1931-2008) was born in Seattle to a musically-talented family, and grew up during a musically rich period in the city. During her youth and education at Seattle University and Cornish School of Fine Arts, Ms. Bown was an active member of AFM Local 493, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," founded in 1918 as Local…
ID Number:2000.107.025.15.01
Date:1989