365 results for: Homes and Housing
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Sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office, Seattle, July 1963
On July 1, 1963, after a demonstration of about 400 people on the City Hall plaza, 35 individuals from the Central District Youth Club began a sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office to protest Clinton's lack of action on an open housing ordinance. This photo shows some of the group of young women and men in the reception area of…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.15
Date:1963
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Crowd at City Hall for housing ordinance hearing, October 25, 1963
The Seattle Human Rights Commission drafted an open housing ordinance in 1963 and presented it to the City Council for approval. The Council held public hearings on the ordinance, but declined to pass it outright as the Commission recommended. Instead, the issue was put on the ballot in March 1964, where it was turned down by voters.In this photo, a…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.17
Date:1963
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Wilson family with Better Yards Roundup trophy, September 13, 1967
The Seattle Housing Authority's Better Yards Roundup contest awarded prizes each September for the most attractive yards in its four public housing communities. This photo shows the winners of the 13th annual Better Yards Roundup in 1967, the Walter Wilson family. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their four children, Reginald, Cynthia, Patricia, and Lionel, receive a trophy from Dick Barney,…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.04
Date:1967
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House at center of debate in Open Housing Campaign, Seattle, May 2, 1959
Seattle's African American population increased dramatically between 1940 and 1960, making the community the city's largest minority group. Like other minorities, African Americans experienced discrimination in many ways, including in housing. The enforcement of restrictive covenants in specific developments or subdivisions, realtors agreeing not to show houses to people of color, and red-lining, where banks denied credit to minorities, largely…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.02
Date:1959
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Tom Robbins near his trailer, La Conner, July 13, 1971
Author Tom Robbins (1932-2025) was known for his novels, articles, essays, and support for progressive causes. In this image Robbins stands outside the trailer he uses as a writing studio in La Conner, Washington. At the time, 37 other landowners in La Conner petitioned the town council to have the trailer removed. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.153.38.03
Date:1971
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View of Atlantic Street neighborhood, Seattle, 1983
Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of Seattle's oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle,…
ID Number:2000.107.165.05.01
Date:1983
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Renovation of the Ballard Mansion, Seattle, September 11, 1986
Martin Ballard arrived in Seattle in 1882. By 1885, he had founded the Seattle Hardware Company and helped found the National Bank of Commerce. In 1900, following the lead of other prominent Seattleites, Ballard built a large home on the south side of Queen Anne Hill, overlooking the city and bay. After Ballard's death in 1907, the home went through…
ID Number:2000.107.165.10.03
Date:1986
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Block party protesting development, Seattle, August 28, 1977
In this image, spectators and dancers enjoy music provided by the Maraire Marimba Ensemble at a block party on 13th Avenue East between E. Republican Street and E. Mercer Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The house behind the band at 516 13th Avenue E. is one of the older housing units that developers wanted to tear down and replace…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.01
Date:1977
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Volunteers cleaning vacant houses on Capitol Hill, Seattle, June 14, 1975
In this image, volunteers removed weeds, brush, and grass from nine houses on the 1200 block of 15th Avenue East on Capitol Hill which had been vacant for eight years. Plans by Parkridge Development to tear the houses down and build a 50-unit apartment building at the site had been delayed by a zoning dispute and the properties had become…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.02
Date:1975
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Car passing vacant houses on Capitol Hill, Seattle, April 13, 1982
This image of the exterior of turn-of-the-century houses on the 1200 block of 15th Avenue East on Captiol Hill shows their derelict state. Nine houses across from Volunteer Park were purchased by Parkridge Development eight years prior with the intention of tearing them down and building a 50-unit apartment building at the site. The plans were delayed by a zoning…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.03
Date:1982