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Beverly and Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) and his wife Beverly sit in the living room of their home. Mounted on the wall between the paintings (original works by John Schoenherr for a "Dune" calendar) is a control panel for the home's solar heating system. An avid alternative energy experimenter, Herbert created his own solar collector, wind plant, and…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.02
Date:1979
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Frank Herbert working in his home office, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) sits at his desk in a loft above the kitchen of his Port Townsend home. Though Herbert became famous for writing science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and university lecturer. Herbert was a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1969 to 1972.…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.03
Date:1979
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Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) points to fir trees that may need to be topped to allow more sunlight to reach his homemade roof-top solar collectors. He had recently installed a solar heating system that used halved beer cans as collectors. Herbert was the first science fiction author to popularize ideas about ecology and systems thinking, stressing…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.04
Date:1979
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Portrait of Gordon K. Hirabayashi, Seattle, July 1, 1944
Gordon Hirabayashi (1918-2012) was a sociologist and religious pacifist best known for his principled resistance to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Supreme Court case that resulted from his conviction for defying curfew, Hirabayashi v. United States.Gordon Hirabayashi was born in Seattle, attended high school in Auburn, and then the University of Washington. In 1942,…
ID Number:2000.107.089.13.01
Date:1944
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Hoang Xuan Thuy and family at Sea-Tac Airport, January 17, 1990
South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975. After ten years of negotiation between the Communist regime and the US government, the US agreed to accept some of the former South Vietnamese officials and military personnel who had spent years in North Vietnamese “reeducation” camps. Their families were allowed to come with them.Hoang Xuan Thu, a South…
ID Number:2000.107.089.21.01
Date:1990
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Seattle Ironmen hockey team group photo, April 1950
The Seattle Ironmen were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1943 to 1952, playing at the Civic Ice Arena. The team was founded during World War II as a company team for the Isaacson Steel plant and was called the Seattle Isaacson Iron Workers. In 1944, the team joined the semi-professional Pacific Coast Hockey League and…
ID Number:2000.107.089.33.01
Date:1950
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Victor Kuzkin carrying Annette Daggett before Totems-USSR hockey game, December 25, 1972
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.090.03.02
Date:1972
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Ida and Leonard Capp in Seattle Totems sweaters at game, Seattle, December 1965
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.090.05.01
Date:1965
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Dorothy Hollingsworth in Model Cities office, Seattle, August 1972
Dorothy Hollingsworth (1920-2022) was a civic leader and lifelong advocate for education, particularly for children of color, in Seattle. She was the first African American woman to manage a major city agency when she served as director of the Seattle School District Head Start Program from 1965-1969, and the first Black women to serve on a school board in Washington…
ID Number:2000.107.090.30.01
Date:1972
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Dorothy Hollingsworth speaking at Seattle School Board meeting, January 1980
Dorothy Hollingsworth (1920-2022) was a civic leader and lifelong advocate for education, particularly for children of color, in Seattle. She was the first African American woman to manage a major city agency when she served as director of the Seattle School District Head Start Program from 1965-1969, and the first Black women to serve on a school board in Washington…
ID Number:2000.107.090.30.02
Date:1977