469 results for: Home and Family
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Benjamin McAdoo in his living room, Seattle, 1981
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black architect to be licensed and establish a practice in Washington state. Born in Pasadena, McAdoo studied architecture at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Graduating in 1946, he was the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from UW. McAdoo launched his new…
ID Number:2000.107.120.27.02
Date:1981
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Benjamin McAdoo's mixed-use home and office building, Seattle, May 1981
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black architect to be licensed and establish a practice in Washington state. Born in Pasadena, McAdoo studied architecture at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Graduating in 1946, he was the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from UW. McAdoo launched his new…
ID Number:2000.107.120.27.03
Date:1981
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Joe Garza and others outside worker housing at Golding Farms, Yakima Valley, May 1989
The Braceros program during World War II brought Mexican workers to the Yakima Valley to ease labor shortages, and even after the program ended in 1948, Mexicans and Mexican Americans continued to provide a substantial part of the Valley’s agricultural workforce. By the 1980s, the Yakima Valley was home to large communities of Mexican immigrant workers, as well as their…
ID Number:2000.107.124.38.10
Date:1989
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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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Baptist missionary Hanh Nguyen with Giu Vo and her family in their apartment, Seattle, March 1982
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere.This image shows a family of refugees in their apartment shortly after arriving in Seattle. Hanh…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.01
Date:1982
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Mau Duc and Cuc Nguyen working at New Saigon Market, Seattle, December 1990
Mau Duc Nguyen and his family were among thousands of people who escaped from Vietnam after the fall of the country to the communists. Having been a South Vietnam naval officer, Mau was sent to a prison camp but managed to escape. After months of planning, he and his wife Cuc and their three children, plus various family members and…
ID Number:2000.107.132.15.01
Date:1990
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Tho Nguyen meeting his family at Sea-Tac airport, Seattle, July 26, 1983
After the 1975 fall of Saigon, Tho Nguyen, a South Vietnamese army veteran, spent a year in a prison camp. Once released, he and his wife Lachanh tried to escape from Vietnam, taking their four children and her mother in an overcrowded boat. One by one, the children and Lachanh’s mother died. The boat was intercepted by a Russian ship…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.06
Date:1983
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Chizuko Omori at home in front of incarceration camp photos, Seattle, August 10, 1988
Chizuko May Omori (b. 1930), a young Nisei girl, was living with her family in Oceanside, California when World War II broke out. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Omori and her family were incarcerated in Poston concentration camp (known officially as the Colorado River Relocation Center) in Yuma County, Arizona. After release from the camp, Omori lived for a…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.01
Date:1988
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Buntha Nhep counseling Taing family at the Asian Resettlement Center, Bellevue, June 14, 1982
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. By 1982, there were 30,000 refugees from Southeast Asia living in Washington. Many spoke little or no English, had very little money, and were unemployed. When they left…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.03
Date:1982
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Norm Rice and others campaigning against Initiative 35 in downtown Seattle, November 6, 1990
Seattle politician Norman Blann Rice (1943-) was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 1978. Rice served eleven years, participating as chairs of the Energy, Finance, and Budget committees, and was Council President for one term. From 1989 to 1997 Rice served two terms as the 49th mayor, becoming Seattle's first African-American mayor. Rice has remained a civic leader…
ID Number:2000.107.152.12.05
Date:1990