3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges were…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.05
Date:1970
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges were…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.06
Date:1970
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
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:2000.107.176.33.01
Date:Circa 1931
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
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:2000.107.176.33.02
Date:Circa 1931
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Fruit supplier tending to imported bananas, Seattle, July 24, 1950
In this image Harry Martindale trims a stalk of ripened bananas at Rogge Commission Company, 1013 Western Avenue. At the time there was concern that disruption in shipping by the Korean War (1950-1953) would cause tropical fruit shortages in the Pacific Northwest. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photo.
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.01
Date:1950
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Food merchants receiving goods, Seattle, July 28, 1950
In this image trucks are backed up to the sidewalk on Western Avenue on a typical weekday morning to load and unload fresh produce, canned goods, and meats on Seattle's "produce row." Signs in image: M. L. Davies Co.; Washington Co-Op Farmer's Association; Sacco Bros. Garden Fresh Fruits Vegetables; Coca-Cola; Harry's Cafe Tavern; P. K. Fruit Co.Caption information derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.02
Date:1950
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Cove Mid-City Market, Seattle, March 27, 1931
This image of the new Cove Mid-City Market shows its convenient location on the corner of Elliott Avenue West and West Galer Street, at the east approach to the recently constructed Garfield Street Bridge (now the Magnolia Bridge) to Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. Signs in image: Piggly Wiggly; Cove Mid-City Market; Wells Butcher's Supply Co.Caption information derived from captions written by…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.03
Date:1931
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Motor Inn Drive-In Market, Seattle, December 12, 1935
This image shows the Motor Inn Drive-In Market at Queen Anne Avenue North and Republican Street, in Seattle's Lower Queen Anne neighborhood. Anchored by G.O. Guy Drugs, the market also housed a grocery, bakery, and delicatessen; fish and produce stands; a Shell gas station; and ample off-street parking. Signs in image: Uptown Toggery; G. O. Guy Drugs; Benjamin Franklin Thrift…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.04
Date:1935
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Joe Torlai selling produce at Inner City Market, Seattle, August 2, 1975
In this image Joe Torlai, a second-generation Renton farmer, weighs some of his produce for sale at the new Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. This same year Mr. Torlai was honored as the youngest farmer at the Pike Place Market in conjunction with the market's 68th birthday. Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.05
Date:1975
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Produce stand at Inner City Market, Seattle, July 31, 1976
In this image, young Ray Daniels weighs produce grown on his grandfather's farm as he serves a customer at the Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. The Immaculate Conception Church, visible in the background, hosted the market from June through October. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.06
Date:1976