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Crowd at victory parade for NBA Champions the Seattle SuperSonics, June 4, 1979
This photograph of the victory parade for the Seattle SuperSonics, taken by staff photographer Bob Miller, appeared on the front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on June 5, 1979.The parade on June 4, 1979, was given in honor of the Sonics victory over the Washington Bullets on June 1, 1979 in game 5 of the NBA Championship. An estimated 300,000…
ID Number:2000.107.240.01.01
Date:1979
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Lenny Wilkens playing in Sonics game against Golden State Warriors, December 10, 1971
Lenny Wilkens (1937-2025) was a professional basketball player and coach who played as point guard for the Seattle SuperSonics from 1968-1972, and served as player-coach from 1969-1972. Wilkens returned to coach the Sonics in 1977 and stayed with the team until 1985. His first season back with the Sonics ended in an NBA Finals appearance, and in 1979 Wilkens led…
ID Number:2000.107.240.01.02
Date:1971
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Sonics victory parade after winning NBA championship, Seattle, June 4, 1979
On June 4, 1979, Seattle honored the SuperSonics victory in the NBA championship with a celebratory 16-block parade from the Kingdome to University Plaza. An estimated 300,000 spectators lined the parade route, with some perched precariously on roofs, window ledges, and street signs to see the cars bearing NBA Hall of Fame coach Lenny Wilkens and the Sonics players, including…
ID Number:2000.107.240.02.01
Date:1979
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Roberta Byrd Barr with Face to Face panel, February 2, 1966
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.243.01.01
Date:1966
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Cesar Chavez speaking at Garfield High School, December 19, 1969
Cesar Estrada Chávez (1927-1993) was a Mexican-American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and civil rights activist. He co-founded, with Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Chavez advocated for the use of direct but nonviolent actions, such as pickets and…
ID Number:2000.107.243.07.01
Date:1969
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Cesar Chavez speaking at press conference, Seattle, December 3, 1985
Cesar Estrada Chávez (1927-1993) was a Mexican-American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and civil rights activist. He co-founded, with Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union. Chavez advocated for the use of direct but nonviolent actions, such as pickets and…
ID Number:2000.107.243.07.02
Date:1985
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Balloon floats parading south on Third Avenue, Seattle, November 20, 1954
In this image, spectators line Third Avenue in downtown Seattle to watch the 6th annual Santa Claus Parade. The parade theme was "1954 Story Book Parade," and featured 30 giant balloon floats. The train balloon in the center of the image was the largest in the parade, at 65 feet long and about 14 feet high. The balloons were escorted…
ID Number:2000.107.244.05.01
Date:1954
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Preston Clark leading his welcome home parade, Seattle, April 11, 1991
In this image young Fanny Boone holds the hand of her cousin, Marine Cpl. Preston Clark, as the gulf war soldier's homecoming parade wends its joyful way east on Yesler Way towards his home. Cpl. Clark is on 20 days leave from his unit, the 3rd Tank Battalion, Alpha Company, which was one of the first units to cross into…
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.01
Date:1991
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Marine Cpl. Preston Clark with family and friends at his homecoming, Seattle, April 11, 1991
In this image, Marine Corporal Preston Clark smiles while surrounded by family and friends on the porch of his home on Yesler Way. Clark was greeted with a surprise parade which accompanied him from 23rd and Yesler to his home The Gulf War soldier was on 20 days leave from his unit, the 3rd Tank Battalion, Alpha Company, which was…
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.02
Date:1991
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Bill Clinton campaigning in Seattle, October 22, 1992
In this image, an estimated 15,000 spectators gather at Victor Steinbrueck Park, on Virginia Street at the north end of Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, to hear Bill Clinton give a presidential campaign speech. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.245.01.03
Date:1992