162 results for: Port of Seattle
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Mohamed Sultan, trade delegate from Djibouti, at the WTO Conference, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.25.26
Date:1999
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Planting trees at Commencement Bay cleanup site, Tacoma, November 9, 2002
In November of 2002 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer completed a six-month investigation into the ecological health of the Puget Sound. They published their findings in a series of articles from November 18-22, outlining the ways in which recent efforts to curtail dumping and pollution had failed to negate decades of human-caused damage to sea life and the marine environment.This image shows…
ID Number:2000.107.20021101.CD01.014
Date:2002
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Campaign posters at Duthie shipyard, Seattle, June 26, 1918
John Frederick Duthie (1876-1945) was born in England and immigrated to the U. S. about 1887 with his parents and siblings. Around 1899 he moved to Seattle with his wife and the following year he opened a small shipyard, J. F. Duthie & Company, on land leased from the Port of Seattle, located on the Duwamish River's East Waterway, just…
ID Number:2001.67.3
Date:1918
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Employees working at Duthie shipyard, Seattle, October 18, 1918
John Frederick Duthie (1876-1945) was born in England and immigrated to the U. S. about 1887 with his parents and siblings. Around 1899 he moved to Seattle with his wife, and the following year he opened a small shipyard, J. F. Duthie & Company, on land leased from the Port of Seattle, located on the Duwamish River's East Waterway, just…
ID Number:2001.67.6
Date:1918
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Signal Corps instructor teaching Civil Air Patrol members, Seattle, July 1944
The Seattle Field Artillery Armory was designed in 1939 by architect and engineer Arrigo M. Young (1884-1954) to house the 146th Field Artillery and its half-ton tanks. During World War II, the armory was remodeled to provide 500 beds for servicemen visiting Seattle. In addition, the Women's Ambulance Corps and civilian medical units trained there during the war, and the…
ID Number:2003.57.2
Date:1944
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Transportation Corps WACs fixing an Army Jeep, Seattle, July 1944
In 1942, the U.S. Department of War recognized the need for a single manager of Army transportation and created a new branch, the Transportation Corps. The Transportation Corps’ primary function is movement control, and during WWII, the Transportation Corps moved over 30 million Soldiers in the United States and 7 million overseas, along with 126 million tons of cargo.In this…
ID Number:2003.57.6
Date:1944
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Soldiers waving from gangplank at Port of Embarkation, Seattle, circa 1944
In 1942, the Seattle Port of Embarkation began operations at Pier A (later Pier 36) in Smith Cove, at the northern end of Elliott Bay. Over the next 14 years, the Port of Embarkation will become one of the United States Army's busiest terminals for moving troops and supplies overseas during both World War II and the Korean War. This…
ID Number:2003.57.26
Date:Circa 1944
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Aerial view of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, March 7, 1959
On March 7, 1942, three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Port of Seattle undertook development of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at the urging of the federal government. A new airport was desperately needed to help relieve pressure on Seattle’s Boeing Field and Tacoma’s McChord Field, which were commandeered for warplane production and military use in World War II. Sea-Tac’s…
ID Number:2009.23.21
Date:1959
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Aerial view of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, May 8, 1959
On March 7, 1942, three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the Port of Seattle undertook development of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at the urging of the federal government. A new airport was desperately needed to help relieve pressure on Seattle’s Boeing Field and Tacoma’s McChord Field, which were commandeered for warplane production and military use in World War II. Sea-Tac’s…
ID Number:2009.23.23
Date:1959
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Elliott Bay Water Taxi poster, Seattle, 1997
West Seattle is Seattle's oldest and biggest neighborhood, situated on a peninsula in Elliott Bay. Early public transportation between West Seattle and Seattle was mostly limited to the irregular and infrequent service provided by “Mosquito Fleet” steamships that traveled from port to port around Puget Sound. In 1888 the West Seattle Land and Improvement Company built a dock and launched…
ID Number:2012.26.65
Date:1997