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J.D. 'Dorm' Braman, Edwin T. Pratt, Edwin C. Berry, Benjamin Weeks, 1967
Handwritten on sleeve: Edwin T.; Berry, Edwin C.; Weeks, Benjamin, Urban Leaguers. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 12, 1967.
ID Number:1986.5.19760.1
Date:1967
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Battery Street Tunnel tenders at manhole, February 2, 1960
Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are not native to Washington State, so on Groundhog Day in 1960, a reporter for the Seattle PI checked in with a different sort of subterranean creature. Shown here are Seattle Engineering Department employees George Gregory and Bruce Gordon, who briefly emerged from the underground control chamber in the Battery Street tunnel to speak to…
ID Number:1986.5.26496.2
Date:1960
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Rajanikant “Raj” and Irene Joshi with their daughters and an unidentified man, February 1965
Rajanikant "Raj" Joshi (1932-2018), originally from Gwailor, India, came to the U.S. in the late 1940s with his family. He attended the University of Washington in the mid-1950s, earning his Master's degree in Urban Planning. He met his wife, Irene, at the UW, and the two married on their shared birthday, October 10, in 1958. Joshi worked as an urban…
ID Number:1986.5.30744.1
Date:1965
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Ironworker Ray Lind on the Space Needle, Seattle, October 1961
Hundreds of feet above the site of the Seattle World's Fair grounds, ironworker Ray Lind inspects the work of his construction crew on the Space Needle. He stands on a wood platform attached to the outside of one of the 500-foot high "legs" of the structure. Lind is excited that he and his fellow ironworkers are among a relatively small…
ID Number:1986.5.33157.1
Date:1961
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Sharon Maeda, June 1962
Sharon Maeda (b. 1945) is a longtime Seattle activist for the rights of women and racial minorities. Maeda’s parents were incarcerated at the Minidoka concentration camp during World War II and she was born in Milwaukee after her parents were allowed to leave the camp, but before they were permitted to return to the Pacific Northwest. Maeda taught middle school…
ID Number:1986.5.33992.1
Date:1962
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Wesley Tao in his office, Seattle, July 1965
Wesley Tao (1924-2020) was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from the University of Nanking in China, where he studied economics. From 1949 to 1951, he attended the University of Washington, receiving a BA in Business Administration. Tao worked in the personnel department at Boeing from 1952-1957 before opening Wesley Tao and Associates, an insurance agency in the Chinatown International…
ID Number:1986.5.43204.1
Date:1965
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Native Americans demonstrating at Fort Lawton, Seattle, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:1986.5.51939.1
Date:1970
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Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
Demonstrators march in a successful campaign to "Save the Market" from demolition. Seattle voters showed their support on November 2, 1971 by passing Initiative No. 1 that opposed the City Councils plan to raze the Market and build high-rise offices and apartments with federal urban renewal funds. Signs in image: The Pike Place Market is Seattle's History. Our Children Need…
ID Number:1986.5.53773.1
Date:1971
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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