65 results for: AIDS
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Covered sculpture in downtown Seattle on "Day Without Art," December 1, 1989
"Day Without Art," a project of the arts organization Visual AIDS, launched on December 1, 1989 as "a day of action and mourning" in which thousands of arts institutions and organizations around the world joined together to demonstrate the power of art to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic. In this image Luis Clark, groundskeeper for the 1001 Building…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.11
Date:1989
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Chicken Soup Brigade staff making a video, Seattle, February 5, 1990
Chicken Soup Brigade is a project of Lifelong, an organization with a mission to empower people living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS or other chronic conditions to lead healthier lives. In this image, local independent producer Barbara Leischner tapes the staff of Chicken Soup Brigade making a video Valentine for the AIDS support group's 350 volunteers. Pictured here are…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.12
Date:1990
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AIDS hospice advocates at ACT UP demonstration, Seattle, March 20, 1990
In this image AIDS hospice advocates demonstrate their support of a planned project for an AIDS hospice at East Madison Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The event was staged by the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in front of the old SeaFirst building on Fourth Avenue, where Roger Leeds, the lawyer for the…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.13
Date:1990
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Demonstrators lying on ground at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, June 26, 1990
In this image a demonstration is being staged by the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) at the intersection of E Roy Street and Broadway E. Businesses in image: Whitney's Hallmark; Siam on Broadway Thai CuisineCaption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.14
Date:1990
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Police and picketers at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, May 21, 1990
In this image, demonstrators with the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP/Seattle (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) rally over the lack of federally funded research on treatments for HIV. They are picketing in front of a Seattle Police van brought to the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) at 11th Avenue and Cherry Street to carry off demonstrators occupying the building. One…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.15
Date:1990
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ACT-UP activists in Mayor's office, Seattle, June 28, 1990
In this image Ann Levinson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Norman B. Rice, attempts to respond to the demands of a group of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) activists who occupied the mayor's office for several hours. The organization was upset about a city drug-loitering ordinance. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.16
Date:1990
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Man living with AIDS at Rosehedge House, Seattle, July 27, 1990
In this image a man with AIDS is standing in front of his residence at Rosehedge House, a nursing facility on Capitol Hill for those in the disease's terminal stages. "He is seemingly resigned to his fate," Post-Intelligencer staff writes, "but would like others to understand that AIDS touches many lives. 'Nobody wants to acknowledge the deaths,' he says." Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.17
Date:1990
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Northwest AIDS Walk in Myrtle Edwards Park, Seattle, September 22, 1991
In this photo Eiric Ovrid, a member of the gay pride group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, offers vitamin C tablets to participants in Myrtle Edwards Park during the 10-kilometer Northwest AIDS Walk. An estimated 13,000 walkers and runners participated, raising $1.1 million for 30 AIDS service and education organizations in the state. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.18
Date:1991
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Two men protesting a Seattle Housing Authority decision, Seattle, July 15, 1992
In this image Keith Powe (center), wearing a sign declaring that he is dying of AIDS, and a friend protest a recent Seattle Housing Authority decision allegedly denying him admittance to public housing. Powe, still homeless, died in 1995. Caption information source: "`Forgotten' Remembered In Death -- Characters Of City Streets Memorialized," by Linda Keene, Seattle Times, December 30, 1995.Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.19
Date:1992
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Cal Anderson, October 2, 1987
Calvin “Cal” Anderson (1948-1995) was a progressive politician in Washington. Born in Seattle, he became involved in politics early, working for political campaigns beginning in middle school. After high school, he served as a court reporter for the US Army in Vietnam and received two Bronze Stars. After returning to Seattle, Anderson became more involved in politics, working as an…
ID Number:2000.107.007.19.04
Date:1987