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Landscaping at Garden Court building, circa 1929
Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, shown here, was…
ID Number:1997.4.27
Date:Circa 1929
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Malmo & Co. Planting Guide, Seattle, 1922
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.51
Date:1922
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Malmo & Co. catalog, Seattle, 1945
Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.57
Date:1945
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Man living with AIDS at Rosehedge House, Seattle, July 27, 1990
In this image a man with AIDS is standing in front of his residence at Rosehedge House, a nursing facility on Capitol Hill for those in the disease's terminal stages. "He is seemingly resigned to his fate," Post-Intelligencer staff writes, "but would like others to understand that AIDS touches many lives. 'Nobody wants to acknowledge the deaths,' he says." Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.17
Date:1990
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Two men protesting a Seattle Housing Authority decision, Seattle, July 15, 1992
In this image Keith Powe (center), wearing a sign declaring that he is dying of AIDS, and a friend protest a recent Seattle Housing Authority decision allegedly denying him admittance to public housing. Powe, still homeless, died in 1995. Caption information source: "`Forgotten' Remembered In Death -- Characters Of City Streets Memorialized," by Linda Keene, Seattle Times, December 30, 1995.Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.19
Date:1992
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Portrait of Dale Hayes, a man experiencing homelessness in Seattle, November 14, 1979
This image of Dale Hayes, 61, was taken under the Alaskan Way Viaduct, where he had been sleeping. Concerns for Hayes and many others living under the city's bridges and the approaching winter prompted Mayor Charles Royer and others to make promises of aid and calls for the help from the middle class. Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.005.32.01
Date:1979
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Vivian Caver, Seattle, September 9, 1975
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.01
Date:1975
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Vivian Caver at press conference, Seattle, February 1980
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.02
Date:1980
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Ida Daly at Center Park Apartments for the Handicapped, Seattle, September 1979
Ida May Daly, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed muscular dystrophy at age three. While this progressive disease weakened her muscles and confined her to a wheelchair in her thirties, it challenged her to become a tireless advocate for disabled people. In the 1950s, she worked with the Seattle Parks Department to found and run the Handicapped Center, which provided…
ID Number:2000.107.044.037.02
Date:1979
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Low-income housing advocate protesting at McKay Apartments, Seattle, July 1, 1989
In this image Ben Factory leans out of a window at the McKay Apartments, on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Pike Street. A group known as "Operation Homestead" sponsored the occupation of the building, closed by the state in 1987, to protest the steady decline of low-income housing in downtown Seattle. An unidentified police officer stands on the street…
ID Number:2000.107.047.35.01
Date:1989