58 results for: Bainter, Mike
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Cheryl Chow speaking at 34th District Democrats meeting, Seattle, July 12, 1989
Cheryl Chow (1946-2013) was a Seattle educator, politician, and advocate for children. Chow was the daughter of Ruby Chow, a restaurant owner and King County Councilwoman, and Ping Chow, an opera singer, US Army veteran, and chef. Born in Seattle, Cheryl Chow attended Franklin High School and Western Washington University. Early in her career, she taught physical education at Hamilton…
ID Number:2000.107.036.20.02
Date:1989
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Demonstrators protesting inquest verdict on Robert Baldwin's death, Seattle, July 12, 1984
On March 27, 1984, Robert Baldwin killed King County Police Officer Michael Raeburn with a sword when he was being served a notice evicting him from a Yesler Terrace apartment. After a 17-hour standoff, the emergency-response team stormed the unit. Baldwin died of 21 bullet wounds in his back. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, the jury found the police…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.03
Date:1984
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Anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting at South African consulate, Seattle, December 25, 1984
In this image, Jewish demonstrators carry signs written in English and Hebrew at the South African consulate in Madison Park. The group picketed the consulate on Christmas day to allow the Christian groups who regularly held demonstrations there to stay home to celebrate Christmas. The anti-Apartheid protesters demanded the release of all political prisoners, the shutting down of the consulate…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.01
Date:1984
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Police escorting minority leaders from South African consulate, Seattle, February 3, 1985
Beginning in October 1984, a series of demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Madison Park to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid.In February 1985, ten Seattle minority organization leaders climbed the stairs to the consulate and tried unsuccessfully to meet with the consul. They were arrested when…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.06
Date:1985
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Central Area NAACP protest, September 7, 1986
Attorney Ross Baker, right, shouts his support for efforts to stop drug trafficking and prostitution in Seattle's Central Area. Baker was one of about 250 people who marched to Judkins Park for a rally sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Caption information source: The Seattle Times, September 8, 1986, page B4Caption information also derived…
ID Number:2000.107.047.35.02
Date:1986
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Philip Ripley with aluminum foil statue at Renton Park Elementary School, Renton, April 14, 1992
In honor of Earth Day, students from the Puget Sound region were asked to collect as much aluminum foil as possible in an effort to promote recycling. The school with the overall biggest ball of foil was to win $1,000. In this image Philip Ripley, 10, a student at Hamlin-Robinson School in Seattle, walks by the 239-pound aluminum foil statue…
ID Number:2000.107.053.19.02
Date:1992
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Voter registration table in front of University Bookstore, Seattle, October 3, 1984
Democrats, Republicans, and a host of other organizations pushed to increase voter registration as the 1984 national election drew closer. In the election, to be held November 6, incumbent Ronald Reagan (Republican) was running against Walter Mondale (Democrat).Here, Valerie Jean Fisher, from the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) sits outside the University Bookstore and registers University of Washington students…
ID Number:2000.107.055.27.03
Date:1984
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Mark Eppley of Traveling Software, December 21, 1990
Mark Eppley founded Traveling Software in Bothell in 1983 to create products to help people work remotely, mainly to move files between laptops and office desktops. Rebranded as LapLink.com in 1999, after its most notable product at the time, later software like PCmover would keep the company profitable and growing. As of 2019, the company is still in business as…
ID Number:2000.107.057.01.01
Date:1990
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Francis J. Gaudette and Mike Maples announcing shipment of Windows 3.1 at Sea-Tac Airport, March 18, 1992
In the early 1990s, Microsoft was engaged in fierce competition with IBM for dominance in the software market. The two companies had collaborated on the OS/2 operating system in the 1980s before Microsoft broke ties and focused on its own operating system, called Windows. Microsoft began shipping copies of Windows 3.1 in March 1992, about two weeks before IBM began…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.02
Date:1992
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Sam Smith and Tim Hill unveiling "Make Life Accessible" campaign billboard, April 14, 1986
This image shows Seattle City Council president Sam Smith (right) with King County Executive Tim Hill at the unveiling of the Make Life Accessible campaign. Smith used a wheelchair beginning in 1985, after losing a leg to diabetes. The Make Life Accessible campaign was run by Seattle's Resource Center for the Handicapped, and aimed to help people with disabilities find…
ID Number:2000.107.082.13.06
Date:1986