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Oral history interview with Inez Sauer, February 26, 1985
This interview with Inez Sauer was conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on February 26, 1985. Sauer was born in West Seattle in 1910. She married in 1929 and moved to Akron, Ohio. The family returned to Seattle with three children at the start of World War II. During the war, Inez Sauer…
ID Number:1985.134.21
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Walter Straley, July-August 1985
Walter William Straley (1913-1999) was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and attended school and college in the midwest. In 1933, Straley accepted an entry level position with Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. selling services and collecting overdue bills in the Des Moines office. Straley excelled at public speaking and soon began moving up in the Bell Company. The family relocated every…
ID Number:1985.135.4
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Mike Dederer, July-August 1985
Michael Dederer (1905-1995) built the Seattle Fur Exchange into one of the foremost fur auctions in the country and an international presence in the industry. Born in Canada, Dederer moved with his family to Montana in 1914. Working at a department store while still in high school, Dederer had developed an interest in the fur trade. Shortly after moving to…
ID Number:1985.135.7
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Guendolen Plestcheeff, May 22, 1985
Guendolen Carkeek Plestcheeff (1892 – 1994) was a Seattle preservationist and arts advocate. Plestcheef was the daughter of Morgan and Emily Carkeek, who arrived in Seattle in 1885. The family donated the land for Carkeek park, and Emily Carkeek founded the Seattle Historical Society in 1911. Guendolen started school in Seattle before being sent abroad to a French school in…
ID Number:1985.135.21
Date:1985
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Capeloto brothers unloading fruit at market, Seattle, November 4, 1948
Louis, Joseph, and Salvo Capeloto were three of the nine children of Moisin "Morris" and Behora "Dora" Capeloto. The Jewish family immigrated together from Rhodes to Washington State in 1912, around the time that Italy seized Rhodes from Turkey during the Italo-Turkish War, a significant precursor of the First World War.In this image the three Capeloto brothers pose in the…
ID Number:1986.5.9812.1
Date:1948
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Ruby Chow in the kitchen, probably in Seattle, 1960
Ruby Chow (1920-2008) was a Chinese-American activist and restaurateur who was active in the community for over 50 years. She was born in Seattle and grew up in what was then Chinatown (now the Chinatown International District). In 1948, Ruby and her husband Ping opened Ruby Chow’s Restaurant, which quickly became popular especially with celebrities and dignitaries. Chow became the…
ID Number:1986.5.21497.1
Date:1960
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Mary Gates and son Bill Gates at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, 1959
Mrs. William Gates, Jr. watches as her three and a half year-old son William Gates III examines an old medical kit included in a "Tillicum Box." Mrs. Gates was the Junior League chairman of the project that began in November 1958 with Junior League members visiting fourth grade classes with a box of museum artifacts. The school box program still…
ID Number:1986.5.26003.1
Date:1959
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Suman Gupta with her daughter after receiving permanent residency, Seattle, March 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.4
Date:1966
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Suman Gupta and family in office after she received permanent residency, March, 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.11
Date:1966
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Padmini Vasishth and her husband in their kitchen, January 11, 1955
Padmini Vasishth came to the U.S from India in 1954 to study chemistry as a graduate student at the University of Washington. Vasishth was active in international student relations at the UW, and spoke frequently about the culture and customs of India at events around Seattle. Vasishth was also active in the Foundation for International Understanding through Students, an organization…
ID Number:1986.5.28575.1
Date:1955