120 results for: Crowley, Walt
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Schooner C.S. Holmes at anchor, Seattle, April 15, 1930
The four-masted schooner C.S. Holmes, shown here anchored in Seattle, was a cod ship that operated in the Bering Sea and Alaskan coast. Handwritten on sleeve: Schr. C.S. Holmes at Anchor 4/15/30.Photographer's Reference Number: 135057Caption information source: "Puget Sound's Cod Schooners," by Walt Crowley, HistoryLink.org Essay 3695
ID Number:1983.10.4225
Date:1930
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Rainier Club exterior from 4th Ave. and Marion St., Seattle, circa 1905
The Rainier Club was incorporated as a private "gentleman's club" in1888 by Seattle civic and business leaders. The club's building was designed by Kirtland Cutter (1860-1939) and opened on September 30, 1904, after a fire on March 1, 1904, had delayed construction. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, club membership criteria was expanded to include both women and people of…
ID Number:1983.10.6967
Date:Circa 1905
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March against the Vietnam War, Seattle, October 16, 1965
Seattle's first major anti-war demonstration took place in October 1965, when around 400 people marched through downtown Seattle to protest increasing US involvement in the Vietnam War. Organized by the Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SCEWV) and the University of Washington chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the demonstration marched down 4th Avenue from the…
ID Number:1986.5.11209.2
Date:1965
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Architect Minoru Yamasaki, Seattle, 1960
Minoru Yamasaki was born in Seattle in 1912 to Japanese immigrant parents. He began studying architecture in the 1930s and practiced with firms in New York City. Yamasaki and his family were on the east coast during the Second World War, which spared them from the forced removal imposed on Japanese Americans on the west coast. Yamasaki later became a…
ID Number:1986.5.45157.1
Date:1960
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SLF members working in Georgetown Free Store, December 15, 1970
The Georgetown Free Store was a short-lived warehouse in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood that collected and provided clothing and food to unemployed and poor residents. The store was run by members of the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF), a radical, anti-war organization active in 1970-1971. The Free Store was also one of 18 organizations that presented a list of 16 demands to…
ID Number:1986.5.53485.9
Date:1970
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SLF members outside Georgetown Free Store, December 15, 1970
The Georgetown Free Store was a short-lived warehouse in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood that collected and provided clothing and food to unemployed and poor residents. The store was run by members of the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF), a radical, anti-war organization active in 1970-1971. The Free Store was also one of 18 organizations that presented a list of 16 demands to…
ID Number:1986.5.53485.17
Date:1970
Program
Program for Paul Robeson concert at Seattle Civic Auditorium, May 20, 1952
On May 20, 1952, American actor and singer Paul Robeson overcame blacklisting, a press blackout, and a City Council ban to perform at the Seattle Civic Auditorium in a "Peoples Program" presented by the Seattle Chapter of the National Negro Labor Council.A civil rights activist and anti-fascist sympathetic to communism, Robeson was investigated and blacklisted beginning in the late 1940s.…
ID Number:1998.4.2
Date:1952
Cartographic material
The City of Seattle Harbor Department Map of Central Waterfront District, February 1918
Maritime trade was crucial to the city's economic development, and Seattle continues to be defined and supported by the harbor that has become one of the busiest ports in the U. S. This 1918 map of Elliott Bay depicts wharves and businesses along the waterfront, as well as and water depths (soundings) along piers and in Elliott Bay. Each street,…
ID Number:2000.87.34
Date:1918
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Greg Broad building walkway at Tillicum Village prior to APEC conference, Blake Island, November 5, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.01
Date:1993
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Ye Kuo Rong holding sign protesting China's human rights record prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 19, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.02
Date:1993