538 results for: Clubs and Organizations
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Nancy Ramey receiving trophy at WAC swim meet, Seattle, March 1957
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. In this image Ramey (wearing WAC sweatshirt) receives trophies with two other swimmers after a competition at Seattle's Washington Athletic Club (WAC). Ramey…
ID Number:1986.5.39851.1
Date:1957
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Nancy Ramey leaving building with travel bag, Seattle, October 1956
In 1956 Nancy Jane Ramey, a 16-year-old swimmer who grew up in the Mercer Island neighborhood of Seattle, competed in the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly event. In this image Ramey exits what appears to be Seattle's Washington Athletic Club (WAC) after a training session. Ramey was set to leave…
ID Number:1986.5.39852.1
Date:1956
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Elsa Schiaparelli in Seattle, November 1940
Italian fashion designer Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli (1890-1973) is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Having left her couture house in Paris before the Nazi occupation, Schiaparelli spent most of the WWII years on a lecture tour throughout the U. S. She returned to Paris after the war but found that…
ID Number:1986.5.41397.1
Date:1940
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Tip Toppers beauty queens posing with boys, Seattle, April 8, 1961
Begun as the Seattle Timberliners around 1947, the Seattle Tip Toppers' Club, a non-profit social organization for tall persons, has been part of Tall Clubs International (TCI) since 1954. Minimum height requirements for membership in the club are 5’10” for women and 6’2” for men.In this image the newly crowned "Queen of Height," Maureen Sims, center, stands with her two…
ID Number:1986.5.42073.1
Date:1961
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Frank White Eagle and Pearl Warren examining Native American art, Seattle, January 1962
The American Indian Women's Service League (AIWSL) grew out of a 1958 meeting of American Indian women sharing their concerns over living conditions their people faced. The organization became the Seattle Indian Center (SIA) in 1972, which provides services and assistance to all people. Initially opening in the Belltown neighborhood at 2604 First Avenue, the SIA is now located at…
ID Number:1986.5.44299.1
Date:1962
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AIWSL President Pearl Warren displaying Native American art, Seattle, January 1962
The American Indian Women's Service League (AIWSL) grew out of a 1958 meeting of American Indian women sharing their concerns over living conditions their people faced. The organization became the Seattle Indian Center (SIA) in 1972, which provides services and assistance to all people. Initially opening in the Belltown neighborhood at 2604 First Avenue, the SIA is now located at…
ID Number:1986.5.44300.3
Date:1962
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Leaders of Negro Voter's League, Seattle, August 6, 1968
Seattle's African-American population increased dramatically between 1940 and 1960, making the community the city's largest minority group, overtaking the Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino residents, which together had historically formed Seattle's largest minority population. All of the city's minority groups experienced some form of discrimination, including geographic segregation, employment inequity, and housing discrimination. This image shows three leaders of the Negro…
ID Number:1986.5.50024.1
Date:1968
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Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:1986.5.50982.1
Date:1968
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Boys Club members and men with map, Seattle, August 11, 1970
In this image three Seattle University Boy's Club members, from left, Carl Lindsey, 11, Dennis Lindsey, 12, and Charles Black, 13, point to a map showing the 13 Seattle-King County Boys' Clubs. The Clubs were to be the beneficiaries of the annual "World's Biggest Rummage Sale," sponsored by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and local radio station KJR and held at Sick's…
ID Number:1986.5.52582.1
Date:1970
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Boys Club members and instructor building shelving, Seattle, August 11, 1970
In this image Vocational Director at Rotary and Rainier Boys' Clubs Isaac Slade, right, shows Carl Ervin, 12, left and Marvin Williams, 15, how to operate a drill being used to construct display racks for the "World's Biggest Rummage Sale." The annual event, sponsored by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and local radio station KJR and held at Sick's Stadium August 22-23,…
ID Number:1986.5.52590.1
Date:1970