195 results for: Anderson
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Mark Tobey and Olaf Anderson painting a panel for the Mardi Gras ball, February 1928
Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining 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 theme of Seattle's Fine Arts Society 1928 Mardi Gras Ball was the Year 2000 A.D. -- a mechanical age where angles would…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.02
Date:1928
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Hazel Wolf paddling a kayak, November 4, 1985
Social activist and environmentalist Hazel "Leo" Wolf (1898-2000) was born Hazel Anna Cummings Anderson in Victoria, British Columbia and lived in the Seattle area for most of her life. Wolf's causes ranged from the rights of workers, women, and minorities to the protection of wilderness, wetlands, and wildlife. She became involved in labor issues after moving to Seattle in 1923,…
ID Number:2000.107.232.20.01
Date:1985
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Tony Wong in front of his store at Pike Place Market, Seattle, September 28, 1982
Walter Taylor, owner of Rotary Bakery in the southern part of Pike Place Market, opened Rotary Grocery store in 1945 just off the main arcade of the market near Pike Street. In 1982, Taylor retired and sold the market to Chung Wong and his son Anthony "Tony" Wong. Father and son ran the business, and Tony was active in the…
ID Number:2000.107.232.28.03
Date:1982
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Man shopping for backpack at REI, Seattle, November 12, 1993
REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) is a retail and outdoor recreation services corporation founded in Seattle by Lloyd and Mary Anderson in 1938. It is organized as a consumers' co-operative and sells sporting goods, camping gear, travel equipment, and clothing. This photograph shows Fred Dielensnyder shopping for a backpack at the Capitol Hill REI store in 1993. The Capitol Hill store…
ID Number:2000.107.19931112.2.08
Date:1993
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Ted Williams holding bat during tour of the Kingdome, January 1976
Ted Williams (1918-2002) was one of the most successful hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox, from 1939 to 1960, though he did not play from 1940 to 1943 in order to serve in World War II and missed most of the 1952 and 1953 seasons when he was recalled…
ID Number:2002.46.2178.13
Date:1976
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Ted Williams touring the Kingdome, January 1976
Ted Williams (1918-2002) was one of the most successful hitters in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. He played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox, from 1939 to 1960, though he did not play from 1940 to 1943 in order to serve in World War II and missed most of the 1952 and 1953 seasons when he was recalled…
ID Number:2002.46.2178.19
Date:1976
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Ford employees posed outside at South Lake Union assembly plant, Seattle, 1916
In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company had a number of buildings across the country for local assembly of Model T cars. One assembly plant was located in Seattle, at the southern end of Lake Union, at what is now 700 Fairview Avenue North. The building, which still stands, was occupied by The Craftsman Press for a period and, as…
ID Number:2004.39.1
Date:1916