133 results for: Tolman Cary W.
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Interior of Matzoh Momma's deli on Capitol Hill, Seattle, July 5, 1977
Matzoh Momma’s was a delicatessen and restaurant at 509 15th Avenue E. on Capitol Hill that from 1975 served matzoh soup, blintzes, latkes, and other traditional Jewish fare. The restaurant closed in 1995, but continued as a catering service. In this image customers enjoy food at Matzoh Momma’s while others order at the counter. Caption information source: http://www.callihan.com/seattle/deaddiners.htmCaption information also…
ID Number:2000.107.185.22.01
Date:1977
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Exterior of Jolly Roger restaurant, Seattle, March 11, 1979
A speak-easy during Prohibition called the China Castle, Seattle's last-surviving roadhouse was built in 1929 with a lookout tower and a secret tunnel. After the repeal of Prohibition it was renamed the Jolly Roger, a dining and dancing club with a skull-and-crossbones flag and neon anchor sign as beacons. Declining after WWII, the building later housed a coffee shop, an…
ID Number:2000.107.185.22.02
Date:1979
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Staff serving lunch at the Market Café, Seattle, January 27, 1982
In addition to welcoming more than 10 million visitors a year, Seattle's Pike Place Market is also a thriving neighborhood home to more than 400 residents, many of whom are low-income seniors. The Pike Place Market Foundation supports social services within the Market and greater downtown Seattle community, including the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank, Pike Market Childcare…
ID Number:2000.107.185.22.03
Date:1982
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Parents protest mandatory busing at Seattle School Board meeting, October 14, 1970
In the 1960s, after decades of discrimination in housing had created an increasingly segregated school system in Seattle, civil rights activists wanted the School Board to promote integration and, with it, intercultural empathy and understanding. After various attempts to promote voluntary integration, and faced with the threat of legal action from advocates of integration, in 1972 the School District launched…
ID Number:2000.107.185.36.01
Date:1970
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Sam Smith handing woman flier on school levy, April 4, 1977
Sam Smith was the first African-American person to be elected to the Seattle City Council in 1968 and was on the Council until 1991, chairing many committees and serving as Council President from 1974-1979 and 1986-1989. Smith also served in the Washington State Legislature for five terms, beginning with his election from the 37th district in 1958. He was born…
ID Number:2000.107.200.12.06
Date:1977
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Woodland Sizzlers girls soccer team practice with coaches, Seattle, November 20, 1976
The Woodland Sizzlers were one of a growing number of Seattle-area girls soccer teams in 1976. The team was organized and coached by two mothers with no soccer experience who wanted their daughters to have a chance to play. The 8- and 9-year-old girls practiced twice a week after school and won two games in their first season. Here, Sizzlers…
ID Number:2000.107.201.32.04
Date:1976
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Mark Peterson of the Seattle Sounders celebrates one of his two goals in a game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Seattle, July 1, 1983
The Seattle Sounders were the first professional soccer team in Seattle, playing in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1974 to 1983. Here, Sounders player Mark Peterson celebrates after scoring one of his two goals during a game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, leaving Tampa Bay goalie Jurgen Stars, at right, looking dejected. In November 1983, Tacoma native Peterson…
ID Number:2000.107.202.03.02
Date:1983
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Terry Tafoya teaching a dance to students at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, March 2, 1983
In this photo, Terry Tafoya of the Northwest Institute for Indian Education (NINE) leads a traditional dance with 5th grade students at an overnight camp at the Pacific Science Center. Tafoya was one of three educators with NINE who taught Native history to teachers and students at schools, workshops, and camps. Caption information source: "Kids learn about Indians from Indians"…
ID Number:2000.107.210.01.01
Date:1983
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Grace Thorpe making sign for protest at courthouse, Seattle, March 16, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.212.01.01
Date:1970
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Bettylou Valentine at site for new Central Youth and Family Services building, Seattle, June 16, 1992
Bettylou (Burleigh) Valentine (1937-2014) came to Seattle in 1959 to attend graduate school at the University of Washington. She was an early leader of Seattle CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), serving as secretary in 1964. She helped organize the campus Civil Rights Action Group (CRAG) after the university administration refused to allow an NAACP chapter on campus. She left Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.218.33.03
Date:1992