3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Parking enforcement officer sitting in vehicle, Seattle, Seattle, January 22, 1958
Here, in 1958, an employee of the Seattle Police Department Parking Enforcement division inspects an illegally parked Pontiac sedan in downtown Seattle. A comment on the back of the photo points out that the Parking Checker's vehicle lacks a license plate. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.02
Date:1958
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New parking meters on Third Avenue, Seattle, February 5, 1942
Starting in 1935, controversy raged in Seattle over whether people should have to pay to park on downtown streets. New parking meters finally went into operation at 9 AM on February 5th, 1942. The fee was five cents per hour. Nine citations were issued on the first day.This image shows the new parking meters installed on February 3, 1942 on…
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.03
Date:1942
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City employees collecting money from parking meters, Seattle, February 7, 1942
Stating in 1935, controversy raged in Seattle over whether people should have to pay to park on downtown streets. The first parking meters went into operation on February 5, 1942. The fee was five cents per hour.Here, Seattle Police Department Parking Enforcement division employees Ed Lorentzen and Einar Larson make the first collection from the 77 new meters. They replaced…
ID Number:2000.107.178.06.04
Date:1942
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Mariana Matthews writing a parking ticket, Seattle, May 7, 1991
In the spring of 1991, the city of Seattle's Parking Enforcement Unit ran a 2-week experiment to see whether foot patrols might be more efficent than the usual three-wheeled gas-powered carts. Officer Mariana Matthews, shown here on foot patrol writing an overtime parking citation near Pike Place Market, reports that while she is no fan of the scooters, she does…
ID Number:2000.107.178.07.01
Date:1991
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Bernie Whitebear and Pete Schnurman at Daybreak Star construction site, Seattle, June 9, 1976
In 1970, a group of activists led by Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), Sin-Aikst, or Sinixt (now one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), began a protest which culminated in approval for the development of both a cultural center for Indigenous peoples and a municipal park on decommissioned surplus land at Seattle's Fort Lawton site. After several years spent raising…
ID Number:2000.107.178.13.01
Date:1976
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
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:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985
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Alex Williams carving mask at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, April 13, 1978
Here, Nez-Perce carver Alex Williams shapes a piece of alder wood into a totem mask during a workshop at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Discovery Park. Indigenous artists taught painting, carving, and drawing at the Center to anyone who was interested, free of charge. Native Americans from throughout the Northwest were welcomed as participating artists at the center. The…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.02
Date:1978
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Crowd gathered after bank robbery at Pike Place Market, Seattle, November 6, 1964
In November 1964 the Pike Place Market branch of the National Bank of Commerce was robbed of $870 by a man carrying a small pistol. Six days later Seattle Police officers investigating Charles Walter Endicott (b. 1938) for illegal possession of narcotics arrested him for the robbery as well. Endicott, who identified himself as an unemployed salesman, later plead guilty…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.02
Date:1964
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Anne Focke reviewing Pike Place Market piggy bank designs, Seattle, August 28, 1986
During the summer of 1985 the Pike Place Market Foundation held a competition in which local artists submitted designs for a piggy-bank sculpture that would collect spare change from Pike Place Market visitors to help support the market's food bank, child-care center, clinic, and senior center.In this image, Anna Focke, a Pike Place Market Foundation board member and one of…
ID Number:2000.107.179.19.03
Date:1986
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Spectators watching Pike Place Soap Box Derby, Seattle, March 26, 1972
The idea for Seattle's All-American Pike Place Soap Box Derby came from Bill King, an artist selected Mayor of Pike Place Market by leaders within the market vendor community. Federally funded and sponsored by the Seattle Arts Commission, the event started in 1970 as part of the annual Pike Place Market Street Fair and was intended to encourage the making…
ID Number:2000.107.179.21.02
Date:1972