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Image of University of Washington vs. California football game at Husky Stadium, Seattle, 1962
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University of Washington vs. California football game at Husky Stadium, Seattle, 1962

Under Coach Jim Owens, the Huskies won their 1962 homecoming game against Cal 27-0. Handwritten on sleeve: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, (U.W.) Football, 1963. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): 1962.Caption information source: P-I exhibit.
ID Number:1986.5.15977.1
Date:1962
Image of Battery Street Tunnel tenders at manhole, February 2, 1960
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Battery Street Tunnel tenders at manhole, February 2, 1960

Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, are not native to Washington State, so on Groundhog Day in 1960, a reporter for the Seattle PI checked in with a different sort of subterranean creature. Shown here are Seattle Engineering Department employees George Gregory and Bruce Gordon, who briefly emerged from the underground control chamber in the Battery Street tunnel to speak to…
ID Number:1986.5.26496.2
Date:1960
Image of Philip Hayasaka sitting at desk, Seattle, August 30, 1968
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Philip Hayasaka sitting at desk, Seattle, August 30, 1968

Philip Hayasaka was born in 1926 and raised in a Japanese American neighborhood on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. He was incarcerated during World War II. After attending the University of Washington and serving in the Korean War, Hayasaka became active in civil rights in Seattle. He served as President of the multi-racial Jackson Street Community Council and led the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:1986.5.28105.8
Date:1968
Image of Akia Kuniyuki, Philip Hayasaka, and Ruth Chinn at Jackson Street Community Council office, Seattle, 1960
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Akia Kuniyuki, Philip Hayasaka, and Ruth Chinn at Jackson Street Community Council office, Seattle, 1960

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Seattle’s public-school system was growing. Proposition 22, a $5.5 million funding levy, appeared on the November ballot in 1960. While some of the money was for normal operations and maintenance, the Seattle School Board pointed to the system’s needs to cover additional pupils, rising supply costs, teacher salary increases and staffing of new…
ID Number:1986.5.32067.1
Date:1960
Image of United Black Front president Dave Mills, Seattle, July 1969
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United Black Front president Dave Mills, Seattle, July 1969

Throughout 1969, Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central Community College) faced a series of boycotts, demonstrations, and riots, with students demanding a Black studies program and the hiring of Black administrators and faculty. To address protests over the lack of African American representation on the board, in July 1969 Governor Dan Evans appointed Marvin Glass, a Pacific Northwest Bell engineer…
ID Number:1986.5.36019.1
Date:1969
Image of Students protesting outside Western Governors Conference, Seattle, July 31, 1969
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Students protesting outside Western Governors Conference, Seattle, July 31, 1969

In 1969, Seattle Community College (SCC) faced boycotts, demonstrations, and rioting in protest of disparities in funding and academic focus between the College's central campus, located near the city's Black residential area, and the north and south campuses, located in predominantly white neighborhoods. The protests also objected to the lack of African American representation on the Board of Trustees of…
ID Number:1986.5.50972.1
Date:1969
Image of Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 1968
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Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 1968

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:1986.5.50982.1
Date:1968
Image of James Washington Jr. carving sculpture
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James Washington Jr. carving sculpture "Woodchuck and Owl", Seattle, September 1969

James Washington Jr. (1911-2000) was a sculptor and painter who became associated with the Northwest School of artists in Seattle. He grew up in Mississippi and moved to Seattle in 1944 to work for the Navy during World War II. Washington was largely self-taught and he believed this lack of formal training was essential to his artistic success. In the…
ID Number:1986.5.51172.10
Date:1969
Image of Models posing in fashions by Bill Blass, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, March 1970
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Models posing in fashions by Bill Blass, Olympic Hotel, Seattle, March 1970

This image shows two members of the Seattle University Guild modeling fashions by Bill Blass at an event to raise money for Seattle University. The evening event was held at the Olympic Hotel and staged by fashion retailer John Doyle Bishop. Caption information source: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/John-Doyle-Bishop-Irishman-put-Seattle-fashion-4381050.php
ID Number:1986.5.51923.25
Date:1970
Image of Shopping at fashion retailer John Bishop Doyle's shop, Seattle, March, 1970
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Shopping at fashion retailer John Bishop Doyle's shop, Seattle, March, 1970

In this image, two women watch as a model shows off the latest fashions at John Doyle Bishop’s fashion retail store at 5th Avenue and Union Street. Caption information source: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/John-Doyle-Bishop-Irishman-put-Seattle-fashion-4381050.php
ID Number:1986.5.51977.11
Date:1970
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