3224 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Cleaning up campaign signs along Rainier Avenue, Seattle, November 9, 1977
In the aftermath of the November 1977 elections, campaign signs for candidates for mayor, city council, and other local positions were removed from yards, parking strips, and businesses throughout Seattle. In this photo, 35th District State Rep. Gene Lux, top left, and Lloyd Ragan, committee member for precinct 35-97, picked up signs along Rainier Avenue South and trucked them away.…
ID Number:2000.107.247.07.01
Date:1977
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Gubernatorial candidates John O'Connell and Dan Evans debating on KOMO-TV, October 5, 1968
In this image, Washington State gubernatorial candidates Attorney General John J. O'Connell (left) and Governor Dan Evans participate in a televised debate on KOMO-TV during the 1968 campaign. Moderator Art McDonald sits in front of the KOMO-TV panel, from left: Jack Eddy, Bryan Johnson, Don Dixon, Don McGaffin, Fendall Yerxa. At right is floor director Rob Neilson. Caption information derived…
ID Number:2000.107.247.07.02
Date:1968
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Washington House of Representatives candidate debate in front yard, Seattle, July 1, 1984
In this photo, incumbent Bill Burns, standing, speaks during a debate among the candidates for the Washington State House of Representatives District 43, Position 2. The other candidates at the neighborhood event were Jesse Wineberry, seated behind Burns, and Theresa Doherty, seated at left. The candidates debated the issues in the front yard of Allen Blaich at 210 16th Avenue…
ID Number:2000.107.247.07.03
Date:1984
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Garfield High School football team after winning game, November 28, 1957
In this photo, the Garfield High School football team celebrates their victory in the 1957 Turkey Day game at Memorial Stadium. The Bulldogs defeated the favored Clover Park Warriors with a last minute touchdown to win the game 6-0. Here, the Garfield players hoist coach John Boitano, at rear, to celebrate an undefeated season, Boitano's first as Garfield's coach. John…
ID Number:2000.107.251.08.01
Date:1957
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Seattle Bombers hockey team, 1953
The Seattle Bombers were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1952 to 1954, playing at the Civic Ice Arena. The team was founded during World War II as a company team for the Isaacson Steel plant and was called the Seattle Isaacson Iron Workers. In 1944, the team joined the semi-professional Pacific Coast Hockey League and…
ID Number:2000.107.257.09.01
Date:1953
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Seattle Totems team photograph, Seattle, February 1960
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.257.10.01
Date:1960
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Group building Tent City near Kingdome, Seattle, November 21, 1990
This image was taken as people experiencing homelessness construct what became known as "Tent City" in an attempt to alleviate a shortage of emergency shelter in downtown Seattle. By the following week about 50 people were camped at the site near the Kingdome, drawing attention to the loss of emergency shelter space from the previous year and a growing homeless…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.01
Date:1990
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Man removing belongings from Tent City, Seattle, December 10, 1990
This image was taken as Doug Castle, an unemployed fisherman from Dallas, collects some of his belongings from Seattle's Tent City. The site near the Kingdome had provided emergency shelter for some of the homeless population since November 21. Mr. Castle, a leader of the group Share (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort), and the other inhabitants were moving to a…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.02
Date:1990
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Man cleaning camp under Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle, August 21, 1984
In this image Keith Ganyo, a former Marine, tidies up around the shelter that he and eight other people experiencing homelessness created under the Alaska Way Viaduct in downtown Seattle. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.03
Date:1984
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Couple sitting under freeway overpass, Seattle, April 14, 1987
In this image Joe Minish and his companion Jody huddle in blankets in their camp under the Pine Street overpass in downtown Seattle. Keith Roy Ganyo, left, a former Marine, crawls out of a hole under the bridge abutment where the group stores their belongings. This camp was one of about 30 around the city where people experiencing homelessness were…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.04
Date:1987