80 results for: Greater Seattle, Inc.
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Rev. Robert Jeffrey speaking during Eddie Bascomb's funeral at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, February 24, 1987
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.02
Date:1988
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Rev. Robert Jeffrey speaking at Martin Luther King Jr. day march, January 17, 1994
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.03
Date:1994
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New Hope Baptist Church pastors at local dry cleaner, October 8, 1992
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.04
Date:1992
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High school students at Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle, Mountlake Terrace, January 1990
The Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle was founded around 1974. In the late 1980s, the roughly 1,000-member congregation purchased a building in Mountlake Terrace in southern Snohomish County. The church has remained there, serving the spiritual and social needs of Koreans in the greater Seattle area. In late January 1990, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer took this image of three young…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.03
Date:1990
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Bill Russell courtside at Seattle SuperSonics game, 1977
William F. "Bill" Russell (1934-2022) was a basketball player and a civil rights activist. Bill Russell played for the Boston Celtics for 13 seasons from 1956 to 1969 and is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in history. In his last two seasons with the Celtics Russell was both a player and the head coach, making him the…
ID Number:2000.107.158.20.01
Date:1977
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Public sculpture with snowman, Seattle, January 6, 1982
Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.05
Date:1982
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Public sculpture decorated as nurses, Seattle, January 23, 1989
Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.06
Date:1989
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Staff serving lunch at the Market Café, Seattle, January 27, 1982
In addition to welcoming more than 10 million visitors a year, Seattle's Pike Place Market is also a thriving neighborhood home to more than 400 residents, many of whom are low-income seniors. The Pike Place Market Foundation supports social services within the Market and greater downtown Seattle community, including the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank, Pike Market Childcare…
ID Number:2000.107.185.22.03
Date:1982
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Sam Smith, Edwin Pratt, and others at press conference, January 24, 1969
Sam Smith was the first African-American person to be elected to the Seattle City Council in 1968 and was on the Council until 1991, chairing many committees and serving as Council President from 1974-1979 and 1986-1989. Smith also served in the Washington State Legislature for five terms, beginning with his election from the 37th district in 1958.In January 1969, Councilman…
ID Number:2000.107.200.11.01
Date:1969
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Lê Quốc Thân playing outside with his foster brother, Renton, April 8, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Many found foster families in the greater Seattle area.Some of the children in the program were biracial, with one American parent. This was the case for Lê Quốc Thân, whose Vietnamese mother took him to the Holt…
ID Number:2000.107.220.18.04
Date:1975