185 results for: Webber, Phil H.
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, founders of Daughters of Bilitis, Seattle, April 5, 1973
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were nationally known journalists, authors and activists. In 1955, they founded Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the oldest American lesbian organization. Founded as a social and advocacy group in San Francisco, DOB worked hard to combat harassment and laws that criminalized gay behavior. Martin’s efforts helped lead to the American Psychiatric Association’s late 1973 decision that…
ID Number:2000.107.19730405.1.35A
Date:1973
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City Light superintendent Gordon Vickery charging an electric car at a parking meter, Seattle, May 3, 1973
Gordon Vickery (1920-1996) was a firefighter and Superintendent of Seattle City Light. He began his career in the Seattle Fire Department in 1946, rising to the rank of Chief in 1963. Vickery hired more women and racial minorities in the department, and helped found the Medic One program to provide improved onsite medical care for heart attack patients. In 1972,…
ID Number:2000.107.19730503.3.13
Date:1973
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Mayoral candidate Liem Tuai and his wife Winnie in an antique car, Seattle, November 3, 1973
After the death of City Council Member Paul Alexander, Seattle lawyer Liem Tuai was picked to finish out his term. Tuai was the second Chinese American to serve on the City Council. Son of a Port Townsend WA railroad worker and laundry man, Tuai dropped out of high school to become a machinist at Boeing. He served in Japan with…
ID Number:2000.107.19731103.1.21
Date:1973
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State Patrol officer issuing ticket under new 50 MPH speed limit, Seattle, November 1973
In November 1973, amid an oil price shock, Washington's State Highway Commission lowered speed limits on highways and interstates to 50 miles per hour as part of an effort to conserve fuel. In this image, Sergeant LaVere Klewin of the state troopers cites a motorist for speeding on I-5 through Seattle. Klewin reported that most drivers were complying with the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731116.1.13
Date:1973
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View of King Street businesses, Seattle, December 1973
This image shows storefronts in the West Kong Yick Building, located on South King Street between 7th Avenue South and Canton Alley (seen at far left). The West and East Kong Yick Buildings were constructed in 1910 by the Kong Yick Investment Company, which was made up of 170 investors from Chinese community around Seattle and led by Goon Dip.…
ID Number:2000.107.19731204.1.13
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Poet-composer Jody Aliesan and playwright Gloria Albee, Seattle, January 14, 1974
In January and February 1974, the Women Studies program at the University of Washington presented a seven-part winter series. Some 200–250 local and out-of-state attendees were expected. The weekly series kicked off with a play reading, music, and poetry before moving on to presentations on sociology, anthropology, and other academic topics.The first program featured Jody Aliesan and Gloria Albee. Albee,…
ID Number:2000.107.19740114.1.13
Date:1974
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Peggy Maze, director of Neighbors in Need, announcing run for State Senate, Seattle, June 27, 1974
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Boeing Bust and national economic problems caused severe unemployment and poverty in Seattle and elsewhere. Peggy Maze of Seattle volunteered with an emergency assistance group, Neighbors in Need, and later became its director. NIN grew into a network of 80 food banks in 20 Washington counties. The project was so successful that…
ID Number:2000.107.19740628.1.22A
Date:1974