382 results for: Clothing and Dress
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Gertrude Peoples wearing formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
Gertrude (Johnson) Peoples, a native of Natchez, Mississippi, moved to Seattle with her family as a teenager where she graduated from Queen Anne High School. She began counseling at-risk high school students in the 1960s. During the racially-turbulent 1970s, she was recruited by the University of Washington to counsel and advocate for black athletes, a role that eventually became UW's…
ID Number:2014.49.006.008.0097
Date:Circa 1953
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Woman wearing formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
An unidentified young black woman wears a formal scoop necked gown, fancy earrings and watch.
ID Number:2014.49.006.012.0035
Date:Circa 1965
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Woman wearing formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
An unidentified black woman wears a formal embroidered outfit with sheer sleeves, as well as a knotted pearl necklace and an elaborate gardenia corsage.
ID Number:2014.49.006.013.0039
Date:Circa 1960
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Portrait of Kaylon Mar wearing a cowboy outfit, Seattle, circa 1953
Kaylon Mar wears a fringed cowboy-style shirt with plaid panels, a style influenced by early children's television shows and popular in the early 1950s.
ID Number:2014.49.006.015.0041
Date:Circa 1960
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Portrait of Kaylon Mar wearing a cowboy outfit, Seattle, circa 1953
Kaylon Mar wears a fringed cowboy-style shirt with plaid panels, a style influenced by early children's television shows and popular in the early 1950s.
ID Number:2014.49.006.015.0042
Date:Circa 1953
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Portrait of Izzie Smith, Seattle, circa 1958
Isabelle (Donaldson) "Izzy" Smith, the photographer's wife, poses wearing a coat and a silk scarf.
ID Number:2014.49.006.019.0100
Date:Circa 1958
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Sonny and Gertrude Peoples posing in formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
John D. "Sonny" and Gertrude (Johnson) Peoples stand together in an unidentified home. Gertrude is wearing a white, ballerina-length, printed dress with a short jacket. John is wearing a tuxedo with white jacket and black pants. Behind them is a cloth-covered table with liquor bottles. Gertrude Peoples is the founder of the country's first academic-support office for college student athletes…
ID Number:2014.49.006.021.0056
Date:Circa 1963
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Charles and Claudine Winston posing in semi-formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
Charles and Claudine (Norris) Winston, wearing semi-formal clothing, stand together in an unidentified home. Claudine wears a strapless, ballerina length cocktail dress, while Charles wears a white dinner jacket with black tie and dark pants. White dinner jackets were generally worn between Memorial Day and Labor Day, so Charles's white jacket suggests that this was a summertime event.
ID Number:2014.49.006.021.0057
Date:Circa 1963
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Delbert Moore posing in semi-formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
Delbert Moore, wearing a semi-formal, ballerina-length cocktail dress with narrow straps and ruffled flowers, stands in an unidentified home. A table with bottles and glasses stands nearby on the flowered carpet.
ID Number:2014.49.006.021.0058
Date:Circa 1963
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Izzie Smith posing in semi-formal attire, Seattle, circa 1953
Isabelle (Donaldson) "Izzy" Smith, the photographer's wife, stands in an unidentified living room wearing a semi-formal, ballerina-length cocktail dress. Shirley (Norris) Phelps sits behind her, at a table with bottles and glasses.
ID Number:2014.49.006.021.0060
Date:Circa 1963