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Native American student demonstration against Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, 1971
On February 16, 1971, one hundred Native students at the University of Washington marched from the university's main campus to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Eastlake, in support of the United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupation of Fort Lawton. The protest at the 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood…
ID Number:1986.5.53853.1
Date:1971
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Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
Supporters to "Save the Market" march in front of the Seattle Municipal Building. Organizations such as Friends of the Market led by University of Washington architecture professor Victor Steinbrueck, seen here in the front of the line, opposed the demolition of the Pike Place Market to make way for high-rise offices and apartments as part of a proposed urban renewal…
ID Number:1986.5.54096.1
Date:1971
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Kingdome site looking north, Seattle, 1971
Handwritten on sleeve: Domed stadium site, King Street Station.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 27, 1971.
ID Number:1986.5.54113.1
Date:1971
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Mosquito Creek Falls, site of Stampede Tunnel, circa 1886
In February 1886, workers from the Northern Pacific Railroad set up camp near Martin, Washington and began work on the east portal of the Stampede Tunnel. Nearby Mosquito Creek Falls provided water for the camp, and its rock face was an ideal site for the tunnel entrance. Before the construction workers could start digging the tunnel, they had to divert…
ID Number:1986.17.11
Date:Circa 1886
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.6
Date:1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.8
Date:1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen in the foreground, and the Washington Hotel is on the hill in the top left of the frame.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer…
ID Number:1995.38.33.9
Date:1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904,…
ID Number:1995.38.37.255
Date:1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.37.264
Date:1909
Correspondence
Letterhead from Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., 1915
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, including the construction of Harbor Island at the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle. Lockheed Shipbuilding continued to build ships ranging…
ID Number:1999.31.3
Date:1915