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Bob Santos, Seattle, 1971
Bob Santos was a Filipino American community activist who helped start many organizations and programs in the Chinatown International District. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Santos as the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary's representative for the Northwest-Alaska area. Handwritten on sleeve: Robert Santos.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ…
ID Number:1986.5.54102.1
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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Benefit rock concert at Seward Park for Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
In 1963 Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together in organizations to "Save the Market." Fundraisers included concerts, selling shopping bags, cookbooks and buttons. After an eight year battle the Market was saved by Initiative No. 1 on November 2, 1971. Handwritten on sleeve:…
ID Number:1986.5.54480.1
Date:1971
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Japanese dancers performing at the Northwest bandshell at Festival 71, Seattle Center, August 1971
Held in August 1971, Festival 71 was the first event after the 1961 Seattle World's Fair to utilize the entire Seattle Center campus. The event was repeated as Festival 72 the following year, becoming Bumbershoot in 1973. Bumbershoot continues as North America's largest urban arts festival, taking place annually at Seattle Center over the Labor Day weekend.In this photo, dancers…
ID Number:1986.5.54911.1
Date:1971
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Bernie Whitebear, Seattle, 1971
Bernie Whitebear was born in the town of Nespelem on the Colville Reservation in 1937. After growing up in poverty on the reservation, he moved to Western Washington in 1955 and shortly became a fisherman on the Puyallup River. In the late 1950s, Bernie Whitebear joined a campaign of activism to protect Native fishing rights, which had been guaranteed by…
ID Number:1986.5.55140.1
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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Indigenous men at work picking hops, circa 1890
From the late 1860s to the early 1890s, hop farming was an important activity in the valleys of the Puget Sound region, including Puyallup, White River, and Snoqualmie. Indigenous workers came from throughout the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska (but especially from regional tribes like the Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Duwamish, Sammamish, Lummi, and Nisqually) as a seasonal labor force to…
ID Number:1991.79.36
Date:Circa 1890
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Cheholtz family in front of fishing shack, near Castle Rock, Washington, circa 1885
The Cowlitz People are a Coast Salish group whose historic lands are along the Cowlitz and Lewis Rivers, in what is now southwestern Washington. Traditionally, the annual cycle of resource gathering determined where the Cowlitz People traveled and at what time of year – from river fishing in the spring, gathering roots and berries in summer and fall, and making…
ID Number:1991.79.49
Date:Circa 1885
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Group of Nooksacks near Lynden, Washington, circa 1900
The Nooksack are a Coast Salish people whose historic lands centered on the Nooksack River drainage basin, from the shore to around Mount Baker in the east. They have their own language, also named Nooksack. On the edges of Nooksack land and in offshore waters, resources were shared with neighboring peoples, to whom the Nooksack were linked by shared descent…
ID Number:1991.79.72
Date:Circa 1900
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Jim Yellakanim, Nooksack chief, circa 1898
The Nooksack are a Coast Salish people whose historic lands centered on the Nooksack River drainage basin, from the shore to around Mount Baker in the east. They have their own language, also named Nooksack. On the edges of Nooksack land and in offshore waters, resources were shared with neighboring peoples, to whom the Nooksack were linked by shared descent…
ID Number:1991.79.82
Date:Circa 1898