1868 results for: Seattle Times
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B.F. Middleton Groceries cart, Seattle, circa 1900
B.F. Middleton moved to Seattle after the 1889 Great Fire and settled in South Park in the Duwamish Valley in 1893. He ran a large grocery business and general store at 8207 Dallas Avenue in South Park’s business district. This image shows the store’s horse-drawn delivery wagon. Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times: November 11, 1956, p. 57.
ID Number:2019.92.11
Date:1900
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Charlie James in front of Colman School building, Seattle, December 5, 1985
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2020.42.1.16.01.30
Date:1985
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Bob's Java Jive, Tacoma, 1985
Bob’s Java Jive was built 1927 at the Port of Tacoma by veterinarian Otis G. Button and was then transported to 2120 South Tacoma Way (Pacific Highway/US 99). Opening as a coffee shop, it was but one of many eye-catching structures being built along the nation’s growing highway system. During Prohibition, the Java Jive purportedly served as a speakeasy and…
ID Number:2020.42.1.20.01.05
Date:1985
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Total Experience Choir performing at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, February 22, 1987
The Total Experiece Gosel Choir was founded in 1973 and led by Pastor Patrinell Wright. Though based in Seattle, the choir toured extensively and performed around the world. Wright formed a choir at Franklin High School as an alternative activity for African-American students in 1970, but when a school-funding levy failed in 1973, her position was cut and she began…
ID Number:2020.42.2.04.01.08
Date:1987
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Amelia Garza, Grandview City Councillor, February 13, 1992
Amelia Garza (1937-2003) was an advocate for migrant workers in the Yakima Valley. She sat on the Grandview City Council for 13 years and was the first Latina to serve on the council. Garza also founded many community organizations in the Valley to assist residents with health services, education, and literacy. She focused her activism on the needs of people…
ID Number:2020.42.3.19.01.10
Date:1992
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Fumiko Hayashida at her home, Seattle, March 16, 2001
Fumiko Hayashida (1911-2014), was one of the first Japanese Americans to be incarcerated during World War II. Her parents were berry farmers on Bainbridge Island, and she married another berry farmer, Saburo Hayashida. On March 30, 1942, 227 Bainbridge Island residents of Japanese descent, including Hayashida, her husband, and their two children, were forcibly removed from their homes. Hayashida and…
ID Number:2020.42.4.46.01.24
Date:2001
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Protesters marching against police brutality, Seattle, October 22, 2001
On October 22, 2001 about 100 demonstrators marched through Seattle to protest against police brutality, especially the killing of Black people by police. The march in Seattle was part of the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, one of dozens of protests against police violence held across the United States. It came five months after Seattle Police Department (SPD)…
ID Number:2020.42.5.07.03.23
Date:2001
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Lillian Gideon at dedication of Heritage Garden, Seattle, October 16, 2001
Lillian Morris Gideon (1907-2006) was widely known in Seattle as a volunteer and philanthropist in Seattle's African-American community and other groups. Born in Mobile, AL and educated at Boston College, Gideon served in the American Red Cross during both World Wars, and moved to Seattle in the 1950s with her husband Russell, working as a social worker at the VA…
ID Number:2020.42.5.08.01.11
Date:2001
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Seattle Commons Draft Plan poster, 1992
In 1991 Seattle architect Fred Bassetti and Seattle Times columnist John Hinterberger first proposed the idea for a 61-acre park stretching from downtown Seattle to Lake Union, envisioning a vast civic lawn framed by high-tech laboratories, condos, restaurants, and urban amenities. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donated $20 million to buy property for the Seattle Commons, but the plan eventually failed…
ID Number:2020.51.2.1
Date:1992
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Motivation in the Central Area: Good News for Black Children, Community Television Agency program, December 21, 1988
Started in 1976 by Virginia Brookbush, CTA produced up to seven half-hour public access television shows a week in the late 1970s and 1980s. Designed to let anyone use public air time to talk about local issues, CTA produced regular shows like "You Have the Right to Know," "Community Bulletin Board," "Visiting Over the Backyard Fence," "This Town's Talent," and…
ID Number:2021.84.01
Date:1988