538 results for: Clubs and Organizations
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Protesters outside Elks Seattle Lodge, May 1, 1971
This photo shows members of the State Young Democrats Club picketing outside of the Seattle Elks Lodge No. 92 at 2040 Westlake Avenue, protesting the club's discriminatory membership policies. Caption information source: Seattle Times, May 2, 1971, p. 115
ID Number:2000.107.153.15.03
Date:1971
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Kiyo Sakahara, Seattle, March 27, 1974
This image shows Kiyoshi (Kiyo) Sakahara (1920-2013), a leader in Seattle’s Japanese American community. She attended the University of Washington majoring in chemistry, but shortly before graduation her studies were interrupted by the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Sakahara was incarcerated in the Puyallup Assembly Center, then the Minidoka concentration camp. Sakahara and her family obtained early release and she…
ID Number:2000.107.159.13.01
Date:1974
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Toru Sakahara, April 27, 1967
This image shows Toru Sakahara (1916-2008), a leader in Seattle’s Japanese American community. During World War II, Sakahara was incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center and the Minidoka concentration camp. He was one of the first Japanese American students to attend the UW School of Law. He used his legal skills to aid Japanese Americans in reclaiming property after their…
ID Number:2000.107.159.13.02
Date:1967
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Biologist with harbor seal at Seattle Aquarium, July 1985
In this photo, marine mammal biologist C.J. Casson gives a fish to a harbor seal at the Seattle Aquarium. This is part of the training that the aquarium biologists were doing with the seals and sea otters to help them in the handling of the animals. They were being taught to climb onto land, eat out of the biologist's hand,…
ID Number:2000.107.164.26.01
Date:1985
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Do Good Club members discussing event, Seattle, February 11, 1948
The Do Good Club, a club begun by five 11- and 12-year-old girls in Seattle's North Park neighborhood (roughly the area surrounding present-day North Seattle Community College), sponsored events to raise money for local organizations.In this image 12 of the 13 members of the club plan a sale of home-made Valentine's Day candy to benefit the Washington Heart Association. Members…
ID Number:2000.107.170.25.01
Date:1948
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Do Good Club members receiving tickets, Seattle, March 18, 1948
The Do Good Club, a club begun by five 11- and 12-year-old girls in Seattle's North Park neighborhood (roughly the area surrounding present-day North Seattle Community College), sponsored events to raise money for local organizations.In this image Do Good Club parent supervisor Mrs. Anthony C. Tarr hands out tickets to the club members. The club members were to sell tickets…
ID Number:2000.107.170.25.02
Date:1948
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Do Good Club members with donated items, Seattle, November 29, 1948
The Do Good Club, a club begun by five 11- and 12-year-old girls in Seattle's North Park neighborhood (roughly the area surrounding present-day North Seattle Community College), sponsored events to raise money for local organizations.In this image members of the Do Good Club pose with some of the donations they've collected for their bazaar to raise money for wood-wind instruments…
ID Number:2000.107.170.25.03
Date:1948
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Commercial Club officers discussing projects, Seattle, March 5, 1951
The East Madison Commercial Club organized in 1935 in order to improve Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood. In 1959 the club, by then known as the East Union - East Madison Commercial Club, merged with the Central Community Club.In this image the officers of the East Madison Commercial Club talk about upcoming club projects. The individuals are identified from left as…
ID Number:2000.107.170.25.06
Date:1951
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Knights Templar marching in Easter parade, Seattle, March 24, 1940
In this image members of the Seattle Knights Templar wearing full uniform parade from the Masonic Temple on Harvard Avenue and East Pine Street towards First Methodist Church for their annual Easter service. Here they cross Spring Street, heading south on Fifth Avenue. Named after the famed medieval crusaders, in modern times the Knights Templar is the highest of the…
ID Number:2000.107.170.28.03
Date:1940
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Street entrance of Millionair Club, Seattle, May 1, 1925
Seattle's Millionair club was started in 1921 by Martin G. Johanson (1887-1984) as a lunch counter in a Pioneer Square basement, expanding in 1940 into its current location on Western Avenue in Belltown. Johanson retired in 1974, but the club continues to provide bus tokens, a soup kitchen, vision clinic, résumé service, and a shower-and-laundry facility so workers can clean…
ID Number:2000.107.170.29.05
Date:1925