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Image of Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, April 16, 1987
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Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, April 16, 1987

In this image, Robert McCloud Menzemer sits looking out from his new "home" in a hedge near Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle. Earlier in the week the state Department of Transportation had evicted Mr. Menzemer and others from their makeshift shelters underneath freeway overpasses. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.06
Date:1987
Image of Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, Renton, March 9, 1993
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Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, 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 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…
ID Number:2000.107.19930309.2.03
Date:1993
Image of Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, Renton, March 9, 1993
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Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, 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:2000.107.19930309.2.22
Date:1993
Image of Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, Renton, March 9, 1993
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Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, 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:2000.107.19930309.2.25
Date:1993
Image of Employee at Barbee Mill Co., Renton, March 9, 1993
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Employee 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:2000.107.19930309.2.40
Date:1993
Image of Employee edging lumber at Barbee Mill Co., Renton, March 9, 1993
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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
Image of Mother and son at Chamberlain House, March 25, 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
Image of Protesters sitting on sidewalk in defiance of new law, Seattle, November 8, 1993
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Protesters sitting on sidewalk in defiance of new law, Seattle, November 8, 1993

On November 8, 1994, about 100 unhoused people and their advocates sat on the sidewalks in Pioneer Square in protest of a new Seattle city ordinance banning sitting or lying on sidewalks. Advocates claimed the law violated the civil rights of unhoused people. Although the law was challenged in court, both state and federal appeals courts ruled it did not…
ID Number:2000.107.19931108.1.32
Date:1993
Image of In-fill housing construction in Holly Park, Seattle, December 1996
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In-fill housing construction in Holly Park, Seattle, December 1996

In the 1990s, many property developers around Seattle were focused on in-fill housing - building new homes on empty lots within existing neighborhoods rather than constructing entire new neighborhoods. In-fill housing lots were often smaller than others and posed challenges with parking trucks and construction equipment in an existing neighborhood, as well as high permitting costs. However, they were also…
ID Number:2000.107.19961219.13.29
Date:1996
Image of John Fox at Holly Park redevelopment site, Seattle, February 12, 1997
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John Fox at Holly Park redevelopment site, Seattle, February 12, 1997

The Holly Park development, in southeast Seattle, was built in 1941 to house defense workers at Boeing. Its simple, wood-frame houses later became home to low-income residents. By the late 1990s, however, the structures had fallen into such severe disrepair that they were slated to be razed and replaced using local, state and federal funds. In the proposed mixed-income development…
ID Number:2000.107.19970212.3.03
Date:1997
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