145 results for: Global Connections
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APEC conference attendees standing together at Tillicum Village, Blake Island, November 20, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.19931120.6.05
Date:1993
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US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and others speaking at WTO conference, November 29, 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.CD02.002
Date:1999
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Delegates and others waiting to enter WTO conference, Seattle, November 29, 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.CD02.003
Date:1999
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Nelson Mandela speaking at global health forum, Seattle, December 9, 1999
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) became South Africa’s first Black president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic election. His election came after a long struggle against the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa, in which Mandela played a key role and during which he was imprisoned for 27 years.In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça…
ID Number:2000.107.19991209.2.23
Date:1999
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Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates shaking hands at global health forum, Seattle, December 9, 1999
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) became South Africa’s first Black president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic election. His election came after a long struggle against the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa, in which Mandela played a key role and during which he was imprisoned for 27 years.In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça…
ID Number:2000.107.19991209.3.32
Date:1999
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Zimbabwe Medical Drive dinner and speaker flier, Seattle, November 30, 1979
In November 1979, Seattle’s Rainier Community Center hosted Kumbarai Kangai, from the newly independent country of Zimbabwe. Kangai was a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union, had been active in the independence movement against white minority rule and served as a representative to the United Nations. The event, complete with an African dinner and Zimbabwean mbira music, raised money…
ID Number:2002.23.1.54.2
Date:1979
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The Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes newsletter, Seattle, August 3, 1981
Filipino American labor activists Silme Domingo (1952-1981) and Gene Allen Viernes (1951-1981) were murdered in Seattle on June 1, 1981, while attempting to reform the Local 37 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and organizing against Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos.At first, authorities thought the murder was an isolated incident and concluded with the…
ID Number:2002.23.4.37.1
Date:1981
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Crescent Manufacturing Company Chinese trademark certificate, Seattle, January 27, 1931
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle in 1883 by Albert C. Larsen as Larsen Extract Company. In 1886, the company was sold and re-named the Crescent Manufacturing Company. Crescent was most famous for "Mapleine," an imitation maple flavoring, and the other imitation extracts they manufactured, but they also milled and sold a variety of imported spices, coffee, and…
ID Number:2005.24.91
Date:1931
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Canadian Pacific brochure for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909
Seattle held its first world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The fair promoted the region’s growth and prosperity that had begun with the 1897 arrival of the first shipment of Yukon gold. The Canadian Pacific Railway promoted both the railroad and the AYPE with this souvenir shaped like a sheaf of wheat. Inside are images and descriptions of…
ID Number:2006.3.20
Date:1909
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Ralph J. Bunche at an award ceremony, July 7, 1949
This photograph shows Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (left) at the speaker's table at the Chamber of Commerce with an unidentified man. His autograph on the print reads: 'To Al, in appreciation of excellent photography, Ralph J. Bunche.' Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a United Nations mediator in Palestine during the 1948 conflict between the…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder02.001
Date:1949