408 results for: Seattle High School
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Nancy Ramey and Suzie Ordogh racing for coach Ray Daughters at WAC, Seattle December 1956
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. During the games 40 Hungarian athletes defected to the United States after Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. Another…
ID Number:1986.5.39849.1
Date:1956
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Nancy Ramey and Suzie Ordogh exchanging Christmas gifts, December 1956
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. During the games 40 Hungarian athletes defected to the United States after Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. Another…
ID Number:1986.5.39850.1
Date:1956
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Police with Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protestors on Seattle Community College's Summit campus, Seattle, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle's Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:1986.5.50743.3
Date:1969
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Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 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:1986.5.50982.1
Date:1968
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Myrlie Evers-Williams talking with reception attendees, Seattle, April 25, 1970
In this image Myrlie Louise (Beasley) Evers-Williams (1933-), second from left, chats with three unidentified women at a reception in the Mount Zion Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Ms. Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil-rights leader Medgar Evers, was in Seattle for the dedication of the Medgar Evers Pool near Garfield High School in the Central District neighborhood. Caption information source: The…
ID Number:1986.5.52139.1
Date:1970
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New owners serving customers at the Beanery, Seattle, November 1968
The Beanery was a longtime lunch hangout across the street from Franklin High School in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle's Rainier Valley. The restaurant closed for about two months in 1968 following a boycott by Black students protesting white ownership of the restaurant. Earlier in the year the students had led the first sit-in held at a Seattle high…
ID Number:1986.5.52276.1
Date:1968
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University of Washington football coach Enoch Bagshaw golfing in Seattle, March 11, 1929
Enoch Bagshaw played end, halfback, and quarterback between 1903 and 1907 and was one of the first five-year lettermen in University of Washington (UW) history. He served as the head football coach at Everett High School from 1909 until 1920 and took the teams to consecutive national championships in 1919 and 1920. Coaching at UW, Bagshaw took the Huskies to…
ID Number:1986.5G.38
Date:1929
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WWI Diary of Nurse Abbie Ewert, 1917-1919
Kentucky-born Abbie Viola (Ewart) Watkins (1889-1977) moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1910 and from Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing in 1913. After two years of caring for tuberculosis patients at Firland Sanatorium, Abbie Ewart opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle with another nurse. Ewart sold the surgery…
ID Number:1987.60.1
Date:1917-1919
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Abbie Ewart in nurse's rain outfit on the roof of the Irving Hotel, New York, May 1918
Kentucky-born Abbie Ewart (1889-1977) moved to Seattle with her family in 1907. She graduated from Queen Anne High School and then trained as a nurse. After caring for tuberculosis patients for two years at Firland Sanatorium, she and another nurse opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Ewart trained with…
ID Number:1987.60.18
Date:1918
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Army nurse Abbie Ewart in uniform, Germany, 1919
After graduating from Queen Anne High School, Abbie Ewart trained as a nurse at Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. Ewart cared for tuberculosis patients for two years at Firland Sanatorium, then, with another nurse, opened a single-day surgery clinic in Seattle. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, Ewart trained with other nurses at Fort Lewis,…
ID Number:1987.60.19
Date:1919