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Totem pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle, circa 1905
This Tlingit totem was carved around 1870 to honor a high-ranking tribal woman named Aanséet. The pole was named Naas-shagee-yéil and it was placed in Aanséet's village on Tongass Island on the Alaska coast. In 1899, a group of leading Seattle businessmen on a goodwill tour of southeastern Alaska stole the totem and brought it back to Pioneer Square. The…
ID Number:1983.10.8056.2
Date:Circa 1905
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Storeroom at Pacific American Fisheries salmon canning factory, 1910
Bellingham Bay's first commercial salmon cannery opened in Fairhaven, Washington in 1895. By 1901, Whatcom County was home to twelve of the nineteen canneries on Puget Sound. That year, the county's 5,500 cannery workers packed 935,000 cases of salmon. At 48 one-pound cans per case, that's 44,880,000 cans.This 1910 photo, taken at the Pacific American Fisheries salmon cannery on Bellingham…
ID Number:1983.10.8341
Date:1910
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Travelers on the Bothell stage, circa 1913
In about 1913, people traveling between Seattle and Bothell took the Bothell stage, an early type of bus. At that time, there were two ways to drive a vehicle to Bothell from Seattle. One route followed the Pacific Highway through Kenmore. The preferred route involved driving to Madison Park, catching the Kirkland ferry, and driving from Kirkland to Bothell.In this…
ID Number:1983.10.9606.1
Date:Circa 1913
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Totem pole at Pioneer Square, 1915
This Tlingit totem was carved around 1790 to honor a tribal woman named Chief-of-All-Women and it was placed in the village of Tongass on the Alaska coast. In 1899, a group of leading Seattle businessmen on a goodwill tour of southeastern Alaska stole the totem and brought it back to Pioneer Square. The businessmen were indicted for the theft, but…
ID Number:1983.10.10030.1
Date:1915
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Three men at Herzl Synagogue before Rosh HaShanah celebrations, Seattle, September 18, 1960
This image shows three men at the Herzl Synagogue, then in the Central Area of Seattle. The man on the right is wearing a kippah (or yarmulke) and pointing to a mezuzah. “Mezuzah” means “door post” in Hebrew and it refers to a small scroll with two passages from the Torah written on it. The scroll is inserted into a…
ID Number:1986.5.4596.2
Date:1960
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Defendants in City Council demonstration case, August 14, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.1
Date:1963
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Defendants in City Council demonstration case at police court, July 26, 1963
In July 1963, demonstrators occupied City Council chambers in Seattle for four days in protest over Mayor Gordon S. Clinton’s nominees for the newly created Human Rights Commission. Protesters objected to the fact that the 12-member commission, charged with writing an open housing ordinance, had only two Black members. On the fourth day of the protest, police removed and arrested…
ID Number:1986.5.5928.2
Date:1963
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Aaron Dixon and Trolice Flavors at court hearing for Franklin High School sit-in, Seattle, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11579.11
Date:1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants leaving prison, Seattle, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.6
Date:1968
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Aaron Dixon with his mother at courthouse, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.13
Date:1968