162 results for: Port of Seattle
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
Photograph
Three men at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1984
The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.010.10
Date:1984
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Ship pulling away from pier, Seattle, circa 1953
An Alaskan Steamship vessel leaves the Port of Seattle, while unidentified passengers line the rails, bidding farewell to a crowd gathered on the pier.
ID Number:2014.49.014.054.0150
Date:Circa 1953
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Police Force of Seattle, Washington Territory, circa 1888
In 1869 the Seattle City Charter created a Marshall position, and by 1875 Ordinance 66 established day and night police. An amendment to the city charter in 1883 changed the Marshall to the Chief of Police. This D. R. Judkins photograph, taken during J. C. Mitchell's term as chief in 1888-1889, shows 17 men in police uniforms in two rows.…
ID Number:2015.17.1
Date:Circa 1888
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View of old South Park Bridge, Seattle, 2008
The 14th Avenue South Bridge, later renamed the South Park Bridge, connected Seattle with the nearby South Park neighborhood. Spanning the Duwamish River, it was a double-leaf bascule bridge, meaning that the two halves of the road deck opened from the middle. The bridge, shown here, opened in 1931, and by 2009 carried some 20,000 vehicles per day. It was…
ID Number:2017.14.1
Date:2008
Cartographic material
Operation Northwest Passage, Seattle Civil Defense Corps, July 10, 1951
World War II, which ended with the atomic bombing of Japan, was followed by the period known as the Cold War, a rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Fearing the spread of communism and the possibility of Russian nuclear attack, the U. S. organized and promoted an active nationwide civil defense program. The Seattle Civilian Defense Corps created…
ID Number:2018.3.1
Date:1951
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Keep the ball rolling for Cotterill campaign advertisement, circa 1910
George Fletcher Cotterill (1865-1958), born in Oxford, England, was an American civil servant and politician. He came to Seattle in 1883 and found work as a civil engineer, and later ran for various city and state offices. He served as a state senator from 1906 to1910, as mayor of Seattle from 1912 to 1914, as chief engineer of the State…
ID Number:2018.3.3.18
Date:Circa 1910
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Ballard-Ludlow Ferry Co. ferry schedule, 1939
The Ballard - Ludlow Ferry Co. was one of several auto and passenger ferry and steamer lines operating on Puget Sound. A subsidiary of Kitsap County Transportation Company, the company operated ferries between Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and Port Ludlow, at the time a logging and sawmill community on the Olympic Peninsula.
ID Number:2018.3.3.29
Date:1939
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Black Ball Line ferry schedule, 1933
The Black Ball Line began operating ferries on Puget Sound in 1928. In 1933, when this schedule was published, the company ran ferries between downtown Seattle's Colman Dock and both Bremerton and Port Orchard, and between Seabeck and Brinnon. The company still operates the M.V. Coho, a car and passenger ferry, between Port Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia. Caption information…
ID Number:2018.3.3.30
Date:1933
Program
Chief Seattle Day program, 1915
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In 1912 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Potlatch celebration (an early version of Seafair) and financed the statue of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.32
Date:1915