3378 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Bill Gates in his office at Microsoft, January 1984
Bill Gates and Paul Allen began working on microcomputers while still at Seattle’s Lakeside School. They founded Microsoft in 1975, and nearly a decade later, the company was recognized as the world's most powerful producer of microcomputer software. In 1984, the company was in the process of developing the Windows operating system and other applications to make PCs easier for…
ID Number:2000.107.073.18.01
Date:1984
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Bill Gates at a meeting of financial analysts at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, July 25, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology.In 1991, Microsoft and technology company IBM…
ID Number:2000.107.073.18.03
Date:1991
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Paul Allen in his office, Bellevue, circa 1990
Paul Allen was born in Seattle in 1953 to Ken and Faye Allen, a librarian and a teacher, respectivelly. In 1975, Allen and his high school friend Bill Gates started Microsoft. In 1983, Paul Allen left Microsoft after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. After he completed treatment, he opened his software company Asymetrix in 1985, and a year later he…
ID Number:2000.107.073.26.01
Date:Circa 1990
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Tim Paterson, original author of MS-DOS, Tukwila, February 10, 1986
While an employee at Seattle Computer Products in Tukwila, Tim Paterson developed a disk operating system, 86-DOS, to run the company’s newly developed computer. Microsoft purchased the rights to 86-DOS, did some further development, and renamed it MS-DOS. Microsoft made a quick deal with IBM, which used MS-DOS to operate its first personal computer. This image shows Tim Paterson pointing…
ID Number:2000.107.073.28.01
Date:1986
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Freddie Mae Gautier, September 10, 1990
Freddie Mae Gautier (1930-2001) was an influential civil rights and community activist in Seattle from the 1960s through the 1990s. Gautier's early activism in the civil rights movement introduced her to movement leaders such as Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the late 1950s-early 1960s, she marched alongside King and other leaders of…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.01
Date:1990
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Francis J. Gaudette and Mike Maples announcing shipment of Windows 3.1 at Sea-Tac Airport, March 18, 1992
In the early 1990s, Microsoft was engaged in fierce competition with IBM for dominance in the software market. The two companies had collaborated on the OS/2 operating system in the 1980s before Microsoft broke ties and focused on its own operating system, called Windows. Microsoft began shipping copies of Windows 3.1 in March 1992, about two weeks before IBM began…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.02
Date:1992
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Gay Liberation Front members demonstrating against police chief, Seattle, May 5, 1973
In this image, members of Seattle's chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) picket in front of Police Chief George Tielsch's condominium on Sand Point Way. The man in the center is holding a picket sign reading, "Are Homosexuals Revolting? You bet your sweet ass we are!" The group peacefully paraded for about four hours, drawing attention to Chief Tielsch's…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.01
Date:1973
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Gay Liberation Front members demonstrating against police chief, Seattle, May 5, 1973
In this image unidentified members of Seattle's chapter of the Gay Liberation Front picket in front of Police Chief George Tielsch's condominium on Sand Point Way. Some of the demonstrators carry signs, reading "Gay For Good," "Now is Our Time, Gay is Good," "War Over A Word: Gay," "I Have a Right to Love My Way," and "Stop Harassment of…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.02
Date:1973
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Immoral Minority members protesting fundamentalist rally, Olympia, May 18, 1981
In this image, gay rights activists declare themselves part of the "Immoral Minority" at the Washington State capitol in Olympia, protesting Rev. Jerry Falwell (1933-2007) during one of his "Moral Majority" crusade speeches. The individuals in the image are identified from left as Greg Call, his spouse, Jim Call, and David Buttars, who is holding a sign reading, "A Free…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.03
Date:1981
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Freedom marcher holding sign, Seattle, June 27, 1981
In this image, activist Kathy Wright holds a sign reading "Gay and Proud" while waiting for the start of the "Stonewall Rebellion 1981 Lesbian/Gay Freedom March" outside the federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. About 1,500 demonstrators participated in the event, criticizing leaders of the country's "Moral Majority" for their conservatism, which marchers said strikes as such fundamentals as jobs, pay,…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.04
Date:1981