18 results for: Central American Immigrants
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Grace Chung with customers at Jeff Mart grocery store, Seattle, September 30, 1992
This photo shows the interior of the Jeff Mart convenience/grocery store at 17th and Jefferson in the Central District when it was owned by Korean immigrants Raymond and Grace Chung. Here, Grace Chung works behind the counter, bagging up a purchase while chatting with two male customers. The Chungs bought the store in 1991 from Harry and Mary Shigaya, of…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.02
Date:1992
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Yao Unaf Saeturn farming near Woodinville, July 21, 1982
The Indochinese Farm Project began in 1982 with 18 acres of land along the Sammamish River. Funded in part by King County and the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (Market PDA), the Indochinese Farm project was a joint project of the Washington State Commission on Asian American Affairs and Bethany Presbyterian Church. Through the project, refugees from Laos,…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.04
Date:1982
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Michael Ramos and Rafael at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program, Seattle, February 28, 1985
This photo was taken at the Salvadoran-Guatemalan Refugee Program office in Seattle. The program supported refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala with legal aid, assistance with getting political asylum, and paying bail bonds for refugees who were arrested. If bail was not posted within a specified time period, refugees were sent to camps in California or Arizona. On the occasion…
ID Number:2000.107.151.03.01
Date:1985
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Mekong Rainier Supermarket in Rainier Valley, Seattle, July 12, 1983
In the early 1980s, the demographics of Rainier Valley were changing quickly. The area had been mostly white through the 1960s. However, the Boeing bust in the early 1970s, combined with freeway building projects, began pushing Black residents of the Central Area further south into Rainier Valley where housing was more available and rents were cheaper. New construction and condominiums…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.05
Date:1983
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Dior Seck at Black Community Festival, Seattle, July 30, 1993
In this image Dior Seck of Senegal is surrounded by handmade Senegalese dolls in traditional dress. Seck is the owner of Sahle International Arts and Crafts in the University District and was selling African art, old and new, at the two-day Black Community Festival at Judkins Park in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle. Caption information derived from captions written…
ID Number:2000.107.165.25.01
Date:1993
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Seafair pirate at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On the afternoon of July…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.3.09
Date:1993
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Neighborhood House youth band, 1954
Neighborhood House opened in 1906 as a settlement established by the National Council of Jewish Women to provide services to Jewish immigrants. In 1956, with the help of the Seattle Housing Authority, the agency secured building space in the Yesler Terrace community. Neighborhood House continues to serve the Central District, immigrant communities, and public housing residents of King County.Here, the…
ID Number:2014.49.29.01.10
Date:1954
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Bailey Gatzert School PTA officers, Seattle, 1946
The leaders of the Parent Teacher Association at Bailey Gatzert School reflected the diverse backgrounds of the student body. In the late 1940s, the school children were 10 percent Chinese American, 20 percent African American, 5 percent Filipino American, 27 percent Japanese American, and 35 percent European American, with 3 percent Native American. Caption slip identified officers as Minnie Beach,…
ID Number:PI25782
Date:1946