3246 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Men loading boxcar at pier, circa 1935
Since the later part of the 19th century, Seattle has been a transshipment point for goods traveling between the United States and other Pacific Ocean ports. At the docks, longshoremen transferred the cargo between ships and the railroad. In the 1930s, the men did most of this work by hand; by the 1990s, many dockworkers had been replaced by machinery.In…
ID Number:PI24031
Date:Circa 1935
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Tear gas in Tacoma during the 1935 mill strike, June 24, 1935
In May 1935, a strike against the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company idled some 40,000 sawmill and timber workers. The workers demanded better pay and shorter working hours. The mill's owners tried to keep the mill open and called in state police and the National Guard to keep order. On June 24, the police and guardsmen used tear gas…
ID Number:PI24070
Date:1935
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Labor dispute at Pier 6, Seattle, 1938
Signs in image: [Milwaukee] Pier No. 6. Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad. Arlington Dock Co.Handwritten on negative: Seamen picket I.L.A.Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - docks - Pier six.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 22, 1938.
ID Number:PI24098
Date:Filed 4/22/38
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INS detainees playing mah jong at Immigration Station, Seattle, November 15, 1938
The United States Immigration Station and Assay Office was built for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1932, and served as the entry and exit point for immigrants arriving in Seattle. The bulk of the operation was dedicated to enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which placed a moratorium on labor immigration for people of Chinese ethnicity. As such,…
ID Number:PI24516
Date:1938
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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 4, 1939
Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers as part of a Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. John S. Robinson, associate justice of the State Supreme Court, gave the main address; a parade and elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake were also part of…
ID Number:PI24518
Date:1939
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Woman receiving citizenship at Woodland Park ceremony, Seattle, July 4, 1939
Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers in a Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. John S. Robinson, associate justices of the State Supreme Court gave the main address; a parade and elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake were also part of the "Americanization"…
ID Number:PI24519
Date:1939
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Group taking oath of citizenship, Seattle, September 23, 1940
On September 23, 1940, 207 individuals took their citizenship oaths in one of the largest naturalization classes that year. Oaths had not been administered for several weeks due to a law prohibiting immigrants from becoming citizens within 30 days of an election.In this image, a large group of people raise their right hands as the clerk of the court administers…
ID Number:PI24523
Date:1940
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Group taking oath of citizenship, Seattle, July 31, 1944
On July 31, 1944, 61 people took the oath of citizenship before Judge Lloyd L. Black at the U.S. District Court building in Seattle.This photo shows the naturalization ceremony in the courtroom, with the court clerk administering the oath as the new citizens raise their right hands. Handwritten on negative: Naturalization group 1944Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:PI24525
Date:1944
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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 4, 1946
In this photo, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle are administered the oath of citizenship in front of a large crowd in a naturalization ceremony at Woodland park, a part of the city's annual Fourth of July celebration. The program's main address was given by U. S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959), who earlier in…
ID Number:PI24526
Date:1946
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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 7, 1947
Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers as part of the annual Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. The main address was given by General Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891-1974) and was to be followed by an elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake.This photo shows…
ID Number:PI24528
Date:1947