3224 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Employee edging lumber at Barbee Mill Co., Renton, March 9, 1993
The Barbee Mill Co. started around 1930 as a small lumber mill and then a combined lumber mill/shipyard operation. Barbee Marine Yards, Inc., operated in the May Creek section of Renton from 1943-1945, thereafter it closed and the lumber mill expanded. First located at the south end of Lake Washington, Barbee Mill Co. moved in the 1940s to its new…
ID Number:2000.107.19930309.3.07
Date:1993
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Joseph P. Balint Jr. holding Prosorba Column device at IMRE Corp., Seattle, March 22, 1993
The biotechnology company IMRE Corp. was formed in Seattle in 1981 as Immune Response Systems, Inc., by a group of scientific investigators from various institutions across the country. IMRE moved to San Diego in 1996 and changed its name to Cypress Bioscience. In the early 1980s, IMRE Corp. invented a device for filtering a person’s blood to strengthen the immune…
ID Number:2000.107.19930322.5.42
Date:1993
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Mother and son at Chamberlain House, March 25, 1993
Pioneer Human Services in Seattle was founded by Jack Dalton in 1963 as a single transitional house for formerly incarcerated individuals. In the 1970s, Pioneer was selected to manage the state's first community-based work release program in Seattle, and it later expanded to provide housing and services to people recovering from substance abuse and addiction. As of 2021, Pioneer Human…
ID Number:2000.107.19930325.3.21
Date:1993
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Art Pearson and Enas Epperson at job site, April 8, 1993
In 1969, Black construction workers and activists began to protest racially exclusionary hiring practices in Seattle, using direct action protests to shut down construction of several major work sites, and launching a successful lawsuit against five prominent unions in Seattle, requiring them to open membership to Black workers and to create a special apprenticeship program. Initiated and led by local…
ID Number:2000.107.19930408.1.08
Date:1993
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Art Pearson and Enas Epperson at job site, April 8, 1993
In 1969, Black construction workers and activists began to protest racially exclusionary hiring practices in Seattle, using direct action protests to shut down construction of several major work sites, and launching a successful lawsuit against five prominent unions in Seattle, requiring them to open membership to Black workers and to create a special apprenticeship program. Initiated and led by local…
ID Number:2000.107.19930408.1.29
Date:1993
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Yakama Nation group discussing water rights petition, Olympia, April 20, 1993
In April 1993, ten members of the Yakama Nation (then spelled Yakima), some in traditional dress, gathered in the office of Washington governor Mike Lowry and urged him to veto a bill giving the Hell Roaring Irrigation Company access to reservation water. The bill promised the company the ability to file for water access through the state government rather than…
ID Number:2000.107.19930420.12.11
Date:1993
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Yakama Nation group discussing water rights petition, Olympia, April 20, 1993
In April 1993, ten members of the Yakama Nation (then spelled Yakima), some in traditional dress, gathered in the office of Washington governor Mike Lowry and urged him to veto a bill giving the Hell Roaring Irrigation Company access to reservation water. The bill promised the company the ability to file for water access through the state government rather than…
ID Number:2000.107.19930420.12.41
Date:1993
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Ken Griffey, Jr. at press conference announcing Nintendo game, Seattle, May 11, 1993
In May 1993, Nintendo of America and Major League Baseball held a press conference at the Kingdome to announce an agreement between 23-year-old Mariners center fielder Ken Griffey, Jr. and Nintendo to produce the Redmond corporation's first attempt at a game named after a live character. Billed as the most realistic baseball video game ever, the game featured real Major…
ID Number:2000.107.19930511.1.05
Date:1993
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Ken Griffey, Jr. at press conference announcing Nintendo game, Seattle, May 11, 1993
In May 1993, Nintendo of America and Major League Baseball held a press conference at the Kingdome to announce an agreement between 23-year-old Mariners center fielder Ken Griffey, Jr. and Nintendo to produce the Redmond corporation's first attempt at a game named after a live character. Billed as the most realistic baseball video game ever, the game featured real Major…
ID Number:2000.107.19930511.1.08
Date:1993
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Saros Corp. executives at their Bellevue office, May 1993
Bellevue-based Saros Corporation began in 1986, when founders Wayne Carpenter and Mike Kennewick saw the need for a product to manage the masses of unstructured information floating around in corporate computer networks. They brought together software engineers from the PC world and from the world of multiprocessor mainframe computers to develop a solution to the problem of storing, tracking, and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930513.1.39
Date:1993