3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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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:2000.107.090.30.03
Date:1980
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Dorothy Hollingsworth sitting in her office, Seattle, March 1986
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:2000.107.090.30.04
Date:1986
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Bill Holm with mask by Willie Seaweed, Seattle, September 10, 1983
Bill Holm (1925-2020) was a art history professor at the University of Washington and curator of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum of Nature History and Cultur. Holm was known for his teaching and advocacy of Northwest Coast Indigenous art, and he spent several years working on a retrospective of the work of Willie Seaweed that opened at…
ID Number:2000.107.090.33.01
Date:1983
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Paul Horiuchi at the Century 21 mural site, Seattle, March 26, 1962
Painter and collagist Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999) was one of the artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.In 1961, Horiuchi received a commission to create a mosaic mural for Century 21, Seattle's World's Fair. Here, Horiuchi stands at the…
ID Number:2000.107.091.28.01
Date:1962
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Paul Horiuchi with Japanese scroll, Seattle, March 18, 1983
Painter and collagist Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999) was one of the artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.In this image, Horiuchi, then in his late seventies, sits next to a scroll which he painted in Japan at age 13,…
ID Number:2000.107.091.28.02
Date:1983
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Paul Horiuchi in his studio, Seattle, March 16, 1983
Painter and collagist Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999) was one of the artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.Here, in his late 70s, the artist sits in his studio near a large painting. Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.091.28.03
Date:1983
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Paul Horiuchi at home, Seattle, August 12, 1967
Painter and collagist Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999) was one of the artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.The Horiuchi family's Rainier Beach home, designed by T. Gregory Saito, was filled with natural light and provided ample space to hang…
ID Number:2000.107.091.28.04
Date:1967
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Paul Horiuchi and his painted collage, "Monolithic Impasse", Seattle, August 7, 1990
Painter and collagist Paul Horiuchi (1906-1999) was one of the artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.Here, Horiuchi stands next to his 1964 work "Monolithic Impasse," in the Seattle Art Museum's 1990 exhibition "Views and Visions in the…
ID Number:2000.107.091.28.05
Date:1990
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Dr. William Hutchinson at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, March 1982
Dr. William Hutchinson (1909-1997) was a cancer surgeon and the founder of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Hutchinson believed that research rather than surgery would ultimately provide the answer to fighting cancer, and he fought to establish a cancer research center in Seattle. In 1956, he helped found the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, which studied cancer, heart…
ID Number:2000.107.095.02.01
Date:1982
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Huynh family waiting to greet family from Vietnam at Sea-Tac Airport, March 25, 1985
In April 1975, Phuoc Huynh and his wife Minh Chanh were among the thousands of Vietnamese people who fled the country at the end of the Vietnam War. Huynh had worked for the US Embassy in Saigon and feared persecution for his association with the South Vietnamese government and the US. Huynh and Chanh escaped to the US, but were…
ID Number:2000.107.095.05.01
Date:1985