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Marchers in Pride parade, Seattle, June 26, 1994
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle. The slogan of the 1994 pride march was "No Discrimination," in reference to Initiatives 608 and 610, which would deny minority status or civil-rights protection…
ID Number:2000.107.19940624.1.17
Date:1994
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Mayor Norm Rice marching in Pride parade, June 26, 1994
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle. The slogan of the 1994 pride march was "No Discrimination," in reference to Initiatives 608 and 610, which would deny minority status or civil-rights protection…
ID Number:2000.107.19940624.1.18
Date:1994
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William Gray, head of the United Negro College Fund, at Microsoft, October 26, 1995
William H. Gray III (1941-2013) was a community activist, Baptist minister, and politician. Gray's activism started in 1970 when he successfully sued a landlord who refused to rent to him because of his race. In 1972, Gray returned to his hometown of Philadelphia and became the minister at Bright Hope Church, like his father and grandfather before him. Gray was…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.3.19
Date:1995
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Exterior of Cinerama theater, Seattle, March 14, 1997
The Cinerama theater is a single-screen cinema and has had the largest movie theater screen in Seattle since its opening in 1963. It was originally designed (and named) for the Cinerama format involving three simultaneous projectors, but quickly changed most of its showings to more common film formats while maintaining its capability to show Cinerama films The Cinerama's attendance declined…
ID Number:2000.107.19970314.3.14
Date:1997
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Kate Starbird at her signing for the Seattle Reign, April 22, 1997
The Seattle Reign were the first professional women’s basketball team in Seattle, playing from 1996 to 1998 in the American Basketball League (ABL). The ABL was founded in 1996, with Seattle as one of eight founding teams. The league collapsed partway through the 1998 season under the financial pressure of competing with the rival Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.15.29a
Date:1997
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers at Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.001
Date:2003
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Spectators watch Lion Dance performers during Tet festival at Seattle Center, January 25, 2003
Tet, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is celebrated annually at the Seattle Center where festivities begin with a lion dance and continue with cooking demonstrations, music workshops, photo exhibits, martial arts, arts and crafts for kids, and Vietnamese Opera performances. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the first three days of the new year represent what will happen the rest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.20030126.CD02.01.002
Date:2003
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Mark Hallenback using the Mybus program on his phone, January 28, 2003
In the early 2000s, King County Metro, with the University of Washington, launched a program called “Mybus on the Internet” which let people use cellphones and PDAs to check the arrival time of Metro buses. The buses had already been equipped with sensors that count how many times the wheels turn and transmit location information to dispatcher and the MyBus…
ID Number:2000.107.20030128.CD05.001
Date:2003
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Old Man House Park, Suquamish, June 11, 2004
One-acre Old Man House Park is but a fragment of the Kitsap peninsula land occupied by the Suquamish people. The Tribe’s “mother village” had been located here, as was Chief Seattle’s 600-foot-long cedar longhouse, known as Old Man House. After the US military burned the longhouse in 1870, the Tribe rebuilt the village, only to have the US acquire the…
ID Number:2000.107.20040611.CD01.001
Date:2004
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William and Virginia Whiteley with Rob Purser at Old Man House Park, Suquamish, June 11, 2004
One-acre Old Man House Park is but a fragment of the Kitsap peninsula land occupied by the Suquamish people. The Tribe’s “mother village” had been located here, as was Chief Seattle’s 600-foot-long cedar longhouse, known as Old Man House. After the US military burned the longhouse in 1870, the Tribe rebuilt the village, only to have the US acquire the…
ID Number:2000.107.20040611.CD01.002
Date:2004