204 results for: Medicine and Health Care
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International Community Health Services exterior, Seattle, March 23, 1978
Seattle's International Community Health Services (ICHS) got its start at a time when low-income Asian immigrants in Seattle’s Chinatown - International District had few options when they needed a doctor who spoke their language. First opened in 1973 as the Asian Community Health Clinic, the main clinic is now located at 720 8th Avenue South, and provides medical services in…
ID Number:2000.107.170.16.14
Date:1978
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Variety Club Telethon stars visiting hospital patient, Seattle, February 10, 1973
The Variety Club (also Variety, the Children's Charity) is an organization founded as a social club for Pittsburgh entertainers in 1927. As the club grew and formed local chapters across the world, the club began raising funds for disadvantaged children, often through local telethons. KIRO-TV in Seattle held an annual Variety Club Telethon from 1969-1989 to benefit Children's Orthopedic Hospital…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.02
Date:1973
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Public sculpture decorated as nurses, Seattle, January 23, 1989
Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.06
Date:1989
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Visitors touring the kitchen of the old Ballard hospital, Seattle, April 20, 1952
In 1952 residents of Seattle's thriving Ballard neighborhood began raising money for a new hospital to replace the aging Ballard Accident and General Hospital, which had opened in 1928 with 21 beds on the third floor of the Ballard Building on Market Street. Ballard General Hospital (later Ballard Community Hospital) opened in 1954 at 5300 Tallman Avenue with 100 beds…
ID Number:2000.107.175.05.02
Date:1952
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Employees in costume raising money for new Ballard Hospital, Seattle, May 7, 1952
In 1952 residents of Seattle's thriving Ballard neighborhood began raising money for a new hospital to replace the aging Ballard Accident and General Hospital, which had opened in 1928 with 21 beds on the third floor of the Ballard Building on Market Street. Ballard General Hospital (later Ballard Community Hospital) opened in 1954 at 5300 Tallman Avenue with 100 beds…
ID Number:2000.107.175.05.03
Date:1952
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Two women at the Aradia Women's Clinic, Seattle, November 16, 1972
The Aradia Women’s Clinic opened on Seattle’s First Hill in February 1972. A feminist women’s clinic, it provided birth control, health care, counseling, and advocacy by women for women. Once the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, it also became one of Seattle’s first abortion clinics and a model for similar operations elsewhere in the country. Aradia…
ID Number:2000.107.19721116.3.14
Date:1972
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Two staff members at the Aradia Women's Clinic, Seattle, November 16, 1972
The Aradia Women’s Clinic opened on Seattle’s First Hill in February 1972. A feminist women’s clinic, it provided birth control, health care, counseling, and advocacy by women for women. Once the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, it also became one of Seattle’s first abortion clinics and a model for similar operations elsewhere in the country. Aradia…
ID Number:2000.107.19721116.3.19
Date:1972
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Chu-Lan Chiong weighing medicinal herbs, Seattle, March 1, 1993
Traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old and is based on the concept of a vital life force in the body called Qi, which may become unbalanced and cause illness. Increasingly, patients in the US opt to use practices from Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, and massage, to supplement or even replace Western medical treatments. This photo…
ID Number:2000.107.19930301.7.30
Date:1993
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Project ACTION member near condom dispenser, Seattle, April 3, 1997
Project ACTION was a publicly- and privately-funded two-year campaign aimed at lowering the rate of HIV infection, sexually transmitted disease, and unwanted pregnancy among youth aged 14 to 20. The campaign was one of the earliest efforts to make low-cost condoms available to this age group with no strings attached. Project ACTION hoped to persuade about 130 youth-oriented businesses, such…
ID Number:2000.107.19970403.5.27
Date:1997
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Governor Gary Locke and health care program supporters, Olympia, April 22, 1997
The Washington state legislature established a pilot program in 1987 to provide health care insurance to low-income working families who didn’t qualify for Medicaid. In 1993, the Basic Health Program was expanded statewide and it grew a bit further in 1995. In 1997, the Republican legislature pushed to freeze the program at 1995 levels and to increase premiums and copayments.…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.10.13
Date:1997