188 results for: Webber, Phil H.
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Construction on new ZymoGenetics headquarters, Seattle, July 27, 1993
ZymoGenetics was established in Seattle in 1981 by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, along with University of British Columbia professor Michael Smith. One of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., ZymoGenetics was involved in the development of therapeutic proteins. The company was acquired by Novo Nordisk in 1988, and was spun off as a public…
ID Number:2000.107.19930727.1.31
Date:1993
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Jimi and Frank Dorsey making sausages at The Incredible Link, Seattle, October 5, 1993
This image shows cousins Jimi (left) and Frank (right) Dorsey making sausages at their shop, The Incredible Link, in Pike Place Market. Jimi, Frank, and several of their relatives ran The Incredible Link together and made gourmet sausages based on family recipes. In addition to more standard varieties,The Incredible Link served smoked salmon sausage, crab-shrimp-scallop sausage, English-style bangers, and a…
ID Number:2000.107.19931005.1.30
Date:1993
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Lummi carvers Verne Johnson Jr. (Tsow-sum) and Ken Cooper working on totem pole, October 21, 1993
This image shows Lummi carver Verne Johnson, Jr. (1952-1994), named Tsow-sum in the Lummi language, working on an 8-foot totem pole. Ken Cooper, also a Lummi carver, stands behind him. The pole was a gift from the city of Ferndale, Washington (near the Lummi reservation) to its sister city of Miyoshi-mura in Japan. Johnson was a graduate of the Lummi…
ID Number:2000.107.19931021.1.23
Date:1993
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Day of the Dead altar at Mexican consulate, Seattle, November 1, 1993
The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a holiday traditionally celebrated by people of Mexican heritage. As with the related Christian holiday of All Souls Day, family and friends remember and pay respect to loved ones who have died. The Mexican holiday is joyful rather than solemn, with celebrations that often take a humorous tone. This photo…
ID Number:2000.107.19931101.1.29
Date:1993
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Protesters sitting on sidewalk in defiance of new law, Seattle, November 8, 1993
On November 8, 1994, about 100 unhoused people and their advocates sat on the sidewalks in Pioneer Square in protest of a new Seattle city ordinance banning sitting or lying on sidewalks. Advocates claimed the law violated the civil rights of unhoused people. Although the law was challenged in court, both state and federal appeals courts ruled it did not…
ID Number:2000.107.19931108.1.32
Date:1993
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Charlene Curtiss and Debbie Gilbert dancing, November 17, 1993
This image shows Charlene Curtiss (left) and Debbie Gilbert (right) dancing at Chinook Middle School. Curtiss and Gilbert were members of the Whistlestop Dance Company, which used dance to teach children and to advocate for people with disabilities. After her spine was injured in a gymnastics accident, Curtiss developed the field of wheelchair dance, establishing the Light Motion Dance Company…
ID Number:2000.107.19931117.1.25
Date:1993
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Marchers in Pride parade, Seattle, June 26, 1994
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle. The slogan of the 1994 pride march was "No Discrimination," in reference to Initiatives 608 and 610, which would deny minority status or civil-rights protection…
ID Number:2000.107.19940624.1.17
Date:1994
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Mayor Norm Rice marching in Pride parade, June 26, 1994
The first Pride Week was celebrated by Seattle's gay and lesbian community in June 1974. Now called Seattle Pride, this series of events is held annually in late June to celebrate LGBTQ pride in Seattle. The slogan of the 1994 pride march was "No Discrimination," in reference to Initiatives 608 and 610, which would deny minority status or civil-rights protection…
ID Number:2000.107.19940624.1.18
Date:1994
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David Cole of Microsoft with pickup truck, Redmond, February 15, 1995
Microsoft scheduled the release of Windows 95 for August 1995. With the huge growth of the personal computer software market, the company had to make sure that the complex new release was as trouble-free as possible. David Cole, Microsoft’s general manager for the testing and debugging effort, was quoted as saying that the new software is supposed to make PCs…
ID Number:2000.107.19950215.1.13
Date:1995
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William Gray, head of the United Negro College Fund, at Microsoft, October 26, 1995
William H. Gray III (1941-2013) was a community activist, Baptist minister, and politician. Gray's activism started in 1970 when he successfully sued a landlord who refused to rent to him because of his race. In 1972, Gray returned to his hometown of Philadelphia and became the minister at Bright Hope Church, like his father and grandfather before him. Gray was…
ID Number:2000.107.19951026.3.19
Date:1995