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State Police and National Guard during the WTO protests, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.16.21
Date:1999
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Children eating dinner at Tulalip Indian School, circa 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.9
Date:Circa 1912
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Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company employees working on the USS Plainview, Seattle, 1964
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.12.1bb.4.3
Date:1964
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Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company employees working on the USS Plainview, Seattle, circa 1964
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.12.1bb.4.4
Date:Circa 1964
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Keel of the USS Plainview at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, 1964
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.12.1bb.7
Date:1964
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Launch of the USS Coronado at the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company shipyard, Seattle, July 1, 1966
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.12.1j.3
Date:1966
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Welder at launch of the USS Coronado at the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company shipyard, Seattle, July 1, 1966
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.12.1j.4
Date:1966
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Building 50 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, circa 1898
Building 50 was built in 1896 and initially served as the Administrative Headquarters for the Puget Sound Naval Station (now the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility). The building is still standing today and has been moved a total of three times throughout its life. It is now owned by the City of Bremerton and is the building…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.43
Date:Circa 1898
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Boeing hydrofoil in Elliott Bay, Seattle, November 1978
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.185
Date:1978
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Naval cadets at store window of the U.S. Naval Training Station, University of Washington, September 1918
In 1917, a committee from the University of Washington offered campus facilities to the United States Navy, which decided to build a temporary Naval Training Station on campus grounds along Portage Bay on Lake Union (near the area now occupied by the UW Health Sciences Center). The station was established on August 1, 1917, largely through the efforts of Navy…
ID Number:Lib1993.35.1.2
Date:1918