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Steve Sakuma with portrait of his grandparents and their children, Burlington, Washington, June 27, 2002
Building on a long tradition of Indigenous berry picking in the Puget Sound region, European Americans brought their preferred varieties of berries to the area as they settled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the first decades of the twentieth century, Japanese Americans were setting up family farms, based on practices in fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation…
ID Number:2000.107.20020627.CD02.01.003
Date:2002
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James Kiona speaking about fishing on the Columbia River, July 26, 2002
In 1989, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began studying health risks for four Indigenous tribes living in the Columbia River basin - the Yakama Nation in Washington, the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs in…
ID Number:2000.107.20020726.CD01.03.001
Date:2002
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Anti-war protesters marching on Broadway, Seattle, January 17, 2003
In early 2003, the U.S. intensified its military presence in the Persian Gulf in preparation for a potential invasion of Iraq. Throughout the weekend prior to the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial holiday, many communities around the nation planned memorials and peace marches to recognize both events.About 2,500 peace proponents in Seattle participated in a candlelight procession along Broadway in…
ID Number:2000.107.20030117.CD02.001
Date:2003
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Anti-war protesters marching on Broadway, Seattle, January 17, 2003
In early 2003, the U.S. intensified its military presence in the Persian Gulf in preparation for a potential invasion of Iraq. Throughout the weekend prior to the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial holiday, many communities around the nation planned memorials and peace marches to recognize both events.About 2,500 peace proponents in Seattle participated in a candlelight procession along Broadway in…
ID Number:2000.107.20030117.CD02.002
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.002
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with MarsDial mockup near UW Astronomy building, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.003
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.004
Date:2003
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Bill Nye and Woody Sullivan with EarthDial, Seattle, December 22, 2003
Bill Nye moved to Seattle in 1977 to work as an engineer at Boeing and later for Sundstrand Data Control. In the early 1980s he began to do stand-up comedy and eventually was hired as a writer and performer on the Seattle TV comedy show Almost Live! It was there that he built the Bill Nye the Science Guy character,…
ID Number:2000.107.20031222.CD01.005
Date:2003
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Committee for Corrective Action march flier, Seattle, February 3, 1975
The Kingdome construction project broke ground on November 2, 1972, in spite of concerns from residents of the nearby Chinatown - International District (CID) regarding the impact on their neighborhood. From the protests and march at the groundbreaking, and on into the 1970s, the Asian American movement advocated for more affordable housing in the district, for services such as a…
ID Number:2002.23.7.83.1
Date:1975
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Poster for anti-war march and rally at University of Washington, Seattle, 1972
After large protests against the Vietnam War in 1970, University of Washington students and other activists continued smaller protests over the next several years as the war became increasingly entrenched. This poster identifies a May 1 march and rally, beginning at the University of Washington Husky Union Building. The event was "to support the Vietnamese people" and the poster features…
ID Number:2002.23.8.12.4
Date:1972