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Election voter using touch screen at Martha Lake school, Lynnwood, September 18, 2002
Various voting methods and machines have been used in U.S. elections, such as hand-counted paper, mechanical lever machines, punch-card machines, scanned paper ballots, and direct-recording electronic devices. Forays into electronic voting machines have been stymied by unfounded conspiracy theories about the safety of voting machines, and despite the use of electronic technology by election officials, the system continues to be…
ID Number:2000.107.20020917.CD02.04.001
Date:2002
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Chef Wayne Johnson with a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Seattle, January 29, 2007
Chef Wayne Johnson (d. 2024) began his Seattle career working at high-end restaurants, including Ray’s Boathouse and Andaluca. In his spare time, he volunteered at FareStart, a culinary nonprofit organization that provides restaurant industry job training to people experiencing poverty, homelessness, and other disadvantages. FareStart gradually became his full-time job, and he rose through the ranks to become FareStart's executive…
ID Number:2000.107.20070129.CD01.01.001
Date:2007
Ephemera
Smoke-In poster, Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 10, 1979
From the late 1960s into the 1980s, marijuana "smoke-ins" were held by legalization advocates, antiwar protesters, and others in big cities nationwide. The Youth International Party (Yippies) organized an early smoke-in attended by 25,000 in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 1970, a anti-war counter to the nearby "Honor America Day" festivities with Billy Graham and Bob Hope. The annual July…
ID Number:2002.23.8.15.1
Date:1979
Poster
November 12th Coalition March poster, November 12, 1983
During the Reagan administration in the 1980s, U.S. foreign policy was rooted in winning the Cold War and dispelling communism. U.S support was given to right-wing governments in Central America and the Caribbean in an effort to dispel Soviet influence and leftist regimes. In 1983, the November 12 Coalition organized a day of protest to bring attention to the violations…
ID Number:2002.23.11.11
Date:1983
Cartographic material
Trend of population growth in Seattle, November 15, 1926
This 1926 map of Seattle is divided into neighborhoods, bounded on the North End by Ballard, and on the South by Rainier Valley and South Park. Each neighborhood is notated with the percentages of city population for that neighborhood for each of five years: 1916, 1920, 1922, 1924 and 1926. The map notes that "the percentages shown are of the…
ID Number:2003.9.48
Date:1926
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Signal Corps instructor teaching Civil Air Patrol members, Seattle, July 1944
The Seattle Field Artillery Armory was designed in 1939 by architect and engineer Arrigo M. Young (1884-1954) to house the 146th Field Artillery and its half-ton tanks. During World War II, the armory was remodeled to provide 500 beds for servicemen visiting Seattle. In addition, the Women's Ambulance Corps and civilian medical units trained there during the war, and the…
ID Number:2003.57.2
Date:1944
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Ford employees posed outside at South Lake Union assembly plant, Seattle, 1916
In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company had a number of buildings across the country for local assembly of Model T cars. One assembly plant was located in Seattle, at the southern end of Lake Union, at what is now 700 Fairview Avenue North. The building, which still stands, was occupied by The Craftsman Press for a period and, as…
ID Number:2004.39.1
Date:1916
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Employees at work in the spice packing department at Crescent Manufacturing Company, Seattle, circa 1923
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early 20th century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.Pictured here are female employees at work…
ID Number:2005.24.13
Date:Circa 1923
Cartographic material
Seattle and Environs, Eighteen Months after the Great Fire, 1891
Seattle in the early 1890s was a rapidly growing city. The Seattle City Census of 1888 records population at 19,116, and although 1889's Great Fire leveled 116 acres in the heart of the city's business district, by 1890 the city's population actually grew to 40,000 inhabitants from the influx of people helping to recreate the city. This color map of…
ID Number:2005.25.1
Date:1891
Poster
"Protest Marcos' State Visit" poster, September 1982
This flier advertises a rally on Saturday, September 18th, 1982, to protest against an ongoing state visit from Ferdinand Marcos, the authoritarian leader of the Philippines. The rally began at the Federal Courthouse and proceeded to the Philippine Consulate. The flier condemns US support for repressive governments around the world and lists names and faces of international human rights violators…
ID Number:2006.42.19
Date:1982