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Men playing "The Watergate Scandal" card game, Seattle, June 13. 1973
Howard Mercer, a Los Angeles disk jockey, visited Seattle to promote his Watergate Scandal card game. He and Chicago friend Joe Sugarman had decided that the Watergate news had reached the point that the country needed a good laugh. The game featured cards representing major positions in the Watergate story, and the object was to convince your playing partners that…
ID Number:2000.107.19730613.1.32
Date:1973
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Children playing at day camp at Sand Point, August 1, 1973
In 1973 a free week-long day camp, sponsored by the Seattle Mayor's Youth Division and run by UW students, provided summer recreation for hundreds of economically disadvantaged Seattle children. At the camp, headquartered at the deactivated Sand Point Naval Air Station, the children got lots of active outdoor play, attended classes in drama and art, and went on field trips.…
ID Number:2000.107.19730801.1.14
Date:1973
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Mayoral candidate Liem Tuai and his wife Winnie in an antique car, Seattle, November 3, 1973
After the death of City Council Member Paul Alexander, Seattle lawyer Liem Tuai was picked to finish out his term. Tuai was the second Chinese American to serve on the City Council. Son of a Port Townsend WA railroad worker and laundry man, Tuai dropped out of high school to become a machinist at Boeing. He served in Japan with…
ID Number:2000.107.19731103.1.21
Date:1973
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State Patrol officer issuing ticket under new 50 MPH speed limit, Seattle, November 1973
In November 1973, amid an oil price shock, Washington's State Highway Commission lowered speed limits on highways and interstates to 50 miles per hour as part of an effort to conserve fuel. In this image, Sergeant LaVere Klewin of the state troopers cites a motorist for speeding on I-5 through Seattle. Klewin reported that most drivers were complying with the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731116.1.13
Date:1973
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View of King Street businesses, Seattle, December 1973
This image shows storefronts in the West Kong Yick Building, located on South King Street between 7th Avenue South and Canton Alley (seen at far left). The West and East Kong Yick Buildings were constructed in 1910 by the Kong Yick Investment Company, which was made up of 170 investors from Chinese community around Seattle and led by Goon Dip.…
ID Number:2000.107.19731204.1.13
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Poet-composer Jody Aliesan and playwright Gloria Albee, Seattle, January 14, 1974
In January and February 1974, the Women Studies program at the University of Washington presented a seven-part winter series. Some 200–250 local and out-of-state attendees were expected. The weekly series kicked off with a play reading, music, and poetry before moving on to presentations on sociology, anthropology, and other academic topics.The first program featured Jody Aliesan and Gloria Albee. Albee,…
ID Number:2000.107.19740114.1.13
Date:1974
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Cleveland High School African Ensemble dancing at Colman Elementary School, Seattle, January 14, 1974
Seattle schools were closed on January 15, 1974, for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but they held commemorations of his achievements and presentations of African culture on the previous day. Here, in one of the 1974 programs, Cleveland High School’s African Ensemble dances for students at Colman Elementary school. Caption information source: “Dr. King Honored; Schools Closed Today”, Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.19740114.3.25A
Date:1974