444 results for: Military
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Women building tank at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943
The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment.This 1943 photo…
ID Number:1986.5.6759.11
Date:1943
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Workers manufacturing tanks at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943
The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment.This 1943 photo…
ID Number:1986.5.6759.14
Date:1943
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Workers building tanks at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943
The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment. During World…
ID Number:1986.5.6759.15
Date:1943
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Veteran's Hospital dedication ceremony, Seattle, 1948
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Hospitals, Veterans. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 29, 1948.
ID Number:1986.5.9547.4
Date:1948
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Veteran's Administration hospital, Seattle, April 1951
After World War II, a hospital was needed in metropolitan Seattle to serve the many veterans returning to the area. The City of Seattle deeded 44 acres of land, originally part of Jefferson Park in Beacon Hill, to the U.S. government for the project. Constructed from 1949 to 1951, the 325-bed Seattle Division Veterans' Hospital sits high on a hill…
ID Number:1986.5.9555.1
Date:1951
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Troops boarding ship at Port of Embarkation, Seattle, 1945
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, PORT OF EMBARKATION, Troops loading.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 19, 1945.
ID Number:1986.5.10558.1
Date:1945
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Troops boarding ship, Seattle, 1945
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, PORT OF EMBARKATION, Troops loading. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 19, 1945.
ID Number:1986.5.10558.2
Date:1945
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Servicemen and Japanese war brides, Seattle, 1951
During World War II, thousands of G.I.s married local women from countries where they were stationed. When their tour ended, they brought these "war brides" home to a new life in America. The War Bride Act of 1950 allowed spouses and children of military personnel to enter the U.S. This photo shows a large group of American servicemen posing on…
ID Number:1986.5.15492.1
Date:1951
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Eleanor Roosevelt awarding medal to soldier Sam Morris, Seattle, April 3, 1943
The First Lady pins a medal on the jacket of Sam Morris, one of four African American enlisted men honored at a special ceremony in front of Seattle's County-City Building on April 3, 1943. Several months earlier, these soldiers rescued many people after a bomber on a test run crashed into the Frye Packing Plant.Honored soldiers are, left to right:…
ID Number:1986.5.40746.1
Date:1943
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Japanese American boy standing near a soldier with a rifle, possibly in Seattle, 1942
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California…
ID Number:1986.5.41879.1
Date:1942