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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
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Suman Gupta with her daughter after receiving permanent residency, Seattle, March 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.4
Date:1966
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Suman Gupta and family in office after she received permanent residency, March, 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.11
Date:1966
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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
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Suzie Ordogh and John Boyd reading her order of parole, Seattle, December 26, 1956
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37960.1
Date:1956
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Suzie Ordogh completing Alien Address report with John Boyd, Seattle, January 4, 1962
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37961.1
Date:1962
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Suzie Ordogh and John Boyd with her permanent residency papers, Seattle, December 24, 1958
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37962.1
Date:1958
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Suzie Ordogh signing naturalization papers inside courthouse, Seattle, April 23, 1962
In October 1956, Soviet forces invaded Hungary in response to a populist uprising. At that time, Hungarian athletes were competing in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia, and 40 of them defected to the United States. Urged by her parents not to return home, freestyle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh, age 16, was among the defectors. She was…
ID Number:1986.5.37963.1
Date:1962
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Rao family at US District Court for naturalization ceremony, August 12, 1963
Dr. Charumati Rao and her husband Dr. Krishna V.S. Rao, originally from Patna, India, became naturalized American citizens on August 12, 1963, at the U.S. District Court in Seattle. The couple, both practicing physicians, are shown here with their two sons, Lakshmi "Dixie" Rao, 11, and Krishna "Chris" Rao, 7, and Krishna V.S. Rao's father, K.S.N. Rao. The two boys,…
ID Number:1986.5.39931.1
Date:1963
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Demonstration for reduction in voting age, Seattle, 1969
Signs in image: We Support the 18-Year-Olds Right to Vote. 18 Year Old Vote. Support Your 18 Yr Old Vote. Handwritten on sleeve: March to promote lowered voting age by 18 year olds. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 10, 1969.
ID Number:1986.5.50631.1
Date:1969