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Phyllis Lamphere and Bill Earl dancing at Bumbershoot, Seattle, August 16, 1974
Begun in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot is one of North America’s largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.In this image, Seattle councilwoman Phyllis Lamphere, right, dances with Bill Earl of the Renaissance dancers at the IBM Plaza. The Seattle Brass Ensemble, singers, and dancers traveled from downtown to the Seattle Center to officially open…
ID Number:2000.107.168.06.05
Date:1974
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Man with Bumbershoot face paint, Seattle, September 3, 1988
Begun in 1971, Seattle's Bumbershoot is one of North America’s largest urban arts festivals, held annually over Labor Day weekend at the Seattle Center.In this image, Steve Irby shows his support on the opening day of Bumbershoot by painting his face to celebrate the festival. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of…
ID Number:2000.107.168.07.01
Date:1988
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City councilman and boy in cab of bulldozer, Seattle, December 2, 1950
In this photo, Seattle City Councilman Clarence F. Massart and eleven-year-old Jerry Abrams sit in the cab of a bulldozer during the ground-breaking ceremonies for Wallingford's new Boys' Club building at 1310 North 45th Street. The organization still occupies the same site. The Boys Clubs, now Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, was founded in 1943 and continues to…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.07
Date:1950
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Wallingford Commercial Club members with tobacco donation, November 29, 1944
The Wallingford Commercial Club was founded in 1910 to promote the neighborhood's accomplishments and lobby for commercial expansion. In this image officers and members of the Wallingford Commercial Club pose with their Christmas gift of tobacco for U. S. military personnel serving in the Aleutian Islands. The individuals are identified, from left, as Clarence McReynolds, vice president, Alvin Comer, J.…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.08
Date:1944
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Young man dancing at Folklife Festival, Seattle Center, May 26, 1989
In this image Louis Didier of Montreal, Canada, dances to a steel drum band during Seattle's annual Northwest Folklife Festival. The festival has been held each Memorial Day weekend since 1972 at Seattle Center as a free celebration of folk and ethnic music, dance, and arts. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back…
ID Number:2000.107.172.37.05
Date:1989
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Student painting mural in Fremont, May 15, 1991
In this image Susan Spong of Seattle helps paint the Medieval Adventures of Reynard the Fox on the walls of the Fremont Fine Arts Foundry. The art student is part of a crew that is working on the mural designed by Richard Beyer (1925-2012), who also created "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of public…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.08
Date:1991
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Children playing at Green Lake Swimming Beach, Seattle, circa 1950
One of Seattle's most beloved parks, Green Lake's expanse of water and green space in the center of a dense urban neighborhood draws thousands of people daily from all over the city. The lake was included in the Olmsted Brothers' comprehensive parks plan of 1903, and was given to the City by the State of Washington in 1905. Extensive dredging…
ID Number:2000.107.173.11.01
Date:Circa 1950
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center under construction, Seattle, August 15, 1991
Seattle's world-renowned research facility, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was named for baseball great and hometown hero Frederick Charles "Hutch" Hutchinson (1919-1964). Begun as the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation in 1956 by Dr. William B. "Bill" Hutchinson (1909–1997), Hutch's brother, the Foundation was dedicated to the study of heart surgery, cancer, and diseases of the endocrine system. The center…
ID Number:2000.107.175.09.01
Date:1991
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Bernie Whitebear and Pete Schnurman at Daybreak Star construction site, Seattle, June 9, 1976
In 1970, a group of activists led by Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), Sin-Aikst, or Sinixt (now one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), began a protest which culminated in approval for the development of both a cultural center for Indigenous peoples and a municipal park on decommissioned surplus land at Seattle's Fort Lawton site. After several years spent raising…
ID Number:2000.107.178.13.01
Date:1976
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Cecilia and George White welcoming visitors at Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle, March 8, 1985
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.178.14.01
Date:1985