481 results for: Home and Family
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Nguyen Thi Noi in barracks at Camp Murray, Washington, June 6, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.03
Date:1975
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Vu Duc Vinh family at Camp Murray, Washington, June 17, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.04
Date:1975
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Hoi and Nguyen Tran family at sponsor home, Kirkland, June 26, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.05
Date:1975
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Thien Dac Nguyen mopping floor, Seattle, February 18, 1976
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere. In Washington State, hundreds of refugees were temporarily housed at Camp Murray, a National Guard…
ID Number:2000.107.220.21.06
Date:1976
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Amerasian children arriving at Sea-Tac airport, February 1, 1983
On February 1, 1983, sixteen Vietnamese-American children and two adults passed through Sea-Tac airport en route from Ho Chi Minh City to new homes across the U.S., with two of the chldren remaining in the Puget Sound area. This was the third group of Amerasian children to land in Seattle, out of the thousands of children fathered by Americans in…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.01
Date:1983
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Dai Vu and his brother looking at family photo, Seattle, October 14, 1979
Ten-year-old Dai Vu, from Vietnam, arrived in the US in August 1979 with his father and two older siblings after living in a Malaysian refugee camp for 5 months. All of the family's money went into the boat passage for the four, and Dai's mother and younger siblings had to be left behind. In Seattle, Dai attended school at Lake…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.05
Date:1979
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Edward Wang and his family in Redmond, February 1989
Edward Wang was born in Taiwan and moved to the US at age 30 to work as a salesman for Microsoft. Despite his family's urgings to remain home, Wang decided to leave in order to see other countries and advance in the world. This photograph was taken for a Post-Intelligencer special report in 1989 about changes occurring in mainland China,…
ID Number:2000.107.222.03.05
Date:1989
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Wine brokers unloading grapes from train, Seattle, September 25, 1963
Wine grapes and apples were among the first cultivated fruits in the Pacific Northwest. Initially planted here in 1827, both were cherished by early pioneering settlers, but whereas apples became a lucrative farm commodity early on, Washington-grown grapes and the local wine industry did not achieve widespread recognition until the 1970s. According to the Washington State Wine organization, as of…
ID Number:2000.107.232.03.04
Date:1963
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Wine broker unloading grapes from train, Seattle, September 25, 1963
Wine grapes and apples were among the first cultivated fruits in the Pacific Northwest. Initially planted here in 1827, both were cherished by early pioneering settlers, but whereas apples became a lucrative farm commodity early on, Washington-grown grapes and the local wine industry did not achieve widespread recognition until the 1970s. According to the Washington State Wine organization, as of…
ID Number:2000.107.232.03.05
Date:1963
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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