3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Victor Steinbrueck at press conference about saving Pike Place Market, Seattle, March 5, 1969
In 1964 the Seattle city government, in cooperation with a consortium of downtown business leaders, proposed the redevelopment and “urban renewal” of Pike Place Market. However, many Seattle residents feared that redevelopment would destroy not only the historic buildings but also the atmosphere of the market. They banded together and founded the Friends of the Market to oppose redevelopment plans.…
ID Number:2000.107.205.03.01
Date:1969
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Carl Stork with Microsoft demonstration disk, Redmond, February 1987
In the 1980s, Microsoft was helping with research and development of a new technology to store and access computer files – the CD-ROM. Standing for “compact disk, read-only memory,” the CD-ROM could store about 1,500 times more data than the then-standard floppy disk. In order to increase interest in CD-ROMs, in 1987 Microsoft created an electronic encyclopedia as a demonstration…
ID Number:2000.107.206.15.01
Date:1987
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Terry Tafoya teaching a dance to students at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, March 2, 1983
In this photo, Terry Tafoya of the Northwest Institute for Indian Education (NINE) leads a traditional dance with 5th grade students at an overnight camp at the Pacific Science Center. Tafoya was one of three educators with NINE who taught Native history to teachers and students at schools, workshops, and camps. Caption information source: "Kids learn about Indians from Indians"…
ID Number:2000.107.210.01.01
Date:1983
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Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show off the completed Earth Mound, a mosaic of the Earth viewed from the…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.01
Date:1988
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Seattle delegates meeting with Mayor Vahid Kazimov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, April 14, 1983
In August 1971 three Soviet mayors, from Tashkent, Irkutsk and Sochi, visited Seattle on a promotional tour organized by Alaska Airlines. The mayors met with Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman, who later proposed that Seattle and Tashkent establish the first United States-USSR sister city relationship. Seattle and Tashkent already had strong ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.02
Date:1983
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Jakob Schapiro, Leon Admov, and Matthew Phillips painting tiles, Seattle, February 29, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image taken at Orca-Day Elementary School, artist Jakob Schapiro and architect Leon Admov of Tashkent join fifth-grader Matthew…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.03
Date:1988
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Helen Taverniti with her piano student, Seattle, March 28, 1984
Helen Elizabeth (Stewart) Taverniti Morse (1921-2005) was a musician, composer, and music teacher in Seattle. Born in Iowa, Taverniti attended Seattle Public Schools and University of Washington, and studied piano beginning at age 4. She wrote two musicals for the Seattle Civic Repertory Playhouse, and had a career as a performer for over 50 years. Taverniti was well-known as a…
ID Number:2000.107.210.21.01
Date:1984
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Cast members at look-alike contest at Twin Peaks Festival, Snoqualmie, August 1992
The first Twin Peaks Festival was held August 14-16, 1992 to celebrate the cult TV show "Twin Peaks." The show was set in Washington and partially filmed in Snoqualmie, where the festival was held. In addition to opportunities to meet cast members, visitors could enjoy "mystery dinner theater" events, character look-alike contests, an auction of Dale Cooper's car used in…
ID Number:2000.107.211.03.01
Date:1992
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Twin Peaks cast signing autographs at festival, Snoqualmie, August 1992
The first Twin Peaks Festival was held August 14-16, 1992 to celebrate the cult TV show "Twin Peaks." The show was set in Washington and partially filmed in Snoqualmie, where the festival was held. In addition to opportunities to meet cast members, visitors could enjoy "mystery dinner theater" events, character look-alike contests, an auction of Dale Cooper's car used in…
ID Number:2000.107.211.03.02
Date:1992
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Grace Thorpe making sign for protest at courthouse, Seattle, March 16, 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:2000.107.212.01.01
Date:1970