3220 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Nine inmates at graduation ceremony at McNeil Island Penitentiary, June 1967
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:1986.5.5490.1
Date:1967
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Man hanging noodles on drying rack at Mission Macaroni Co., Seattle, January 1952
Guido P. Merlino (1903-1991) founded the Mission Macaroni Mfg. Company during the economically challenging times of the Great Depression in 1932. Originally from Taranta Peligna, Italy, Merlino immigrated to the United States in 1920 at age 17, settling near his brother in Fresno, California. He later joined his cousins in Seattle as an owner of Pacific Coast Macaroni Co., producing…
ID Number:1986.5.5659.1
Date:1952
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Woman packaging pasta at Mission Macaroni Co., Seattle, January 1952
Guido P. Merlino (1903-1991) founded the Mission Macaroni Mfg. Company during the economically challenging times of the Great Depression in 1932. Originally from Taranta Peligna, Italy, Merlino immigrated to the United States in 1920 at age 17, settling near his brother in Fresno, California. He later joined his cousins in Seattle as an owner of Pacific Coast Macaroni Co., producing…
ID Number:1986.5.5659.2
Date:1952
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Man riding Indian motorcycle, 1934
Motorcycle hillclimbing was a popular sport even as long ago as the 1930s. The object of the competition was to see who could get to the hilltop first without falling off his bike. This rider wears a football helmet and rides an Indian motorcycle. The Indian Motorcycle Company was the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer before World War I. Handwritten on…
ID Number:1986.5.5727.1
Date:1934
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Motorcycle race, December 2, 1962
This photo was likely from the Christmas Scramble, put on by the Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club track in Federal Way at South 216th Street. The event was to benefit The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Christmas Fund, and featured sixty racers. According to the account in the P-I, the race in 1962 was particularly muddy due to rain. Handwritten on sleeve: MOTORCYCLE, Races,…
ID Number:1986.5.5732.1
Date:1962
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Mount Rainier from downtown Seattle, July 1960
This photo was taken with infrared film.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 18, 1960
ID Number:1986.5.5747.1
Date:1960
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The Kingsmen loading instruments into trailer, Seattle, 1964
Handwritten on sleeve: MUSIC, Seattle, The Kings' Men [sic] load instruments into trailer after recording date here. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 23, 1964.
ID Number:1986.5.5882.1
Date:1964
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Rev. Samuel McKinney, Mayor Gordon Clinton, and Rev. Mance Jackson at anti-segregation march, Seattle, 1963
Reverend Samuel B. McKinney speaks through a megaphone at a segregation protest meeting in front of the Seattle Municipal Building. Listening are Mayor Gordon S. Clinton (left), Reverend Mance Jackson (right) and an unidentified boy. In response to calls for action on open housing and other issues, the mayor announced plans to fund a civil rights unit. Handwritten on sleeve:…
ID Number:1986.5.5923.4
Date:1963
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Police removing demonstrators at City Hall, Seattle, July 25, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5924.1
Date:1963
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Civil Rights Sit-in at Municipal Building, Seattle, July 25,1963
A group of teenagers and young adults held a week-long sit-in beginning Monday, July 22, 1963 to protest Mayor Gordon S. Clinton's lack of Black appointees to the Municipal Human Rights Commission. The sit-ins spent each day in the Council Chambers, moving to the foyer in the evenings once Chambers were closed. Although the police made several attempts to reason…
ID Number:1986.5.5925.1
Date:1963