107 results for: Seattle Chamber of Commerce
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Oral history interview with Holt W. Webster, 1985
Holt Webster (1919-1992) was a pioneer in the freight industry, and one of the founders of Airborne Express, where he also served as chairman and chief executive officer. During World War II, Webster was a captain in the military Air Transport Command from 1942 through 1946. After the war, he worked for Northwest Airlines in Seattle from 1946 to 1951…
ID Number:1985.135.28
Date:1985
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Don Chin in his car, Seattle, July 1965
Dun "Don" Hing Chin (d. 1987) was the owner of the Sun May import shop at 672 S. King Street, the oldest Chinese gift shop in Seattle's Chinatown International District neighborhood. The family business was started by this father, Shong Chin in 1911 under the name Bow Wah, and Don Chin took over the business in 1962, renaming it Sun…
ID Number:1986.5.21457.1
Date:1965
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Wesley Tao in his office, Seattle, July 1965
Wesley Tao (1924-2020) was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from the University of Nanking in China, where he studied economics. From 1949 to 1951, he attended the University of Washington, receiving a BA in Business Administration. Tao worked in the personnel department at Boeing from 1952-1957 before opening Wesley Tao and Associates, an insurance agency in the Chinatown International…
ID Number:1986.5.43204.1
Date:1965
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Tek Wong at Gim Ling Restaurant, Seattle, July 1965
Tek Hong Wong (1921-2016) was born in China and emigrated at 17 to Seattle, first working with his father at a laundry business, and later at neighborhood market. In 1944-1945, Wong served in the U.S. Army, earning a Purple Heart. Afterwards, he attended the University of Washington on the GI Bill. After college, Wong became a partner in a grocery…
ID Number:1986.5.45000.1
Date:1965
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Tommy Quan with Chinese New Year dinner tickets, Seattle, January 1970
In 1970, the Year of the Dog was ushered in with a four-day celebration in Seattle's Chinatown neighborhood (now the Chinatown-International District). The festivities for the Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, were planned by the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and included tours of Chinatown and two gala 10-course Chinese dinners. Held at Gum Long's Prestaurant at 516 7th…
ID Number:2000.107.036.10.06
Date:1970
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Eddie Rye, Jr., Seattle, February 3, 1970
In 1969, Eddie Rye, Jr., personnel officer for the Seattle-King County Economic Opportunity Board, was named Director of the Central Area Motivation Program’s (C.A.M.P.) Education Talent Search Project (E.S.T.P.). E.S.T.P.’s mission was to find promising minority scholars and arrange financial aid for them to attend college. Continuing a life of community activism and advocacy, Rye served as chair of the…
ID Number:2000.107.158.38.01
Date:1970
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DeCharlene Williams in her beauty salon, August 6, 1993
DeCharlene Williams (1943-2018) came to Seattle with her first husband in 1958. Williams graduated from Seattle Central College, then attended Edward's Beauty School in Seattle, graduating in 1961. After divorcing in 1965, she worked at a beauty salon and other jobs, saving money to buy her own building. As a single woman of color, she was denied loans by numerous…
ID Number:2000.107.230.38.03
Date:1993
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Herman McKinney in downtown Seattle, May 1993
Herman McKinney (1938-2014) was a community leader in Seattle who spent decades advocating for equal opportunity in corporate hiring, and for diversity in graduate education. McKinney left a career in banking to pursue social work, receiving a MSW degree from University of Washington in 1968. He the joined the staff at UW, serving as Assistant Dean of the Minority Division…
ID Number:2000.107.19930520.5.04
Date:1993
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Three people at Juneteenth celebration at Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 19, 1994
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebratiing the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Also know as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, the holiday is celebrated on the June 19th anniversary of the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Galveston to announce the end of the Civil War and freedom from…
ID Number:2000.107.19940619.9.02
Date:1994
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Three people at Juneteenth celebration at Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 19, 1994
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebratiing the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Also know as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, the holiday is celebrated on the June 19th anniversary of the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Galveston to announce the end of the Civil War and freedom from…
ID Number:2000.107.19940619.9.06
Date:1994