3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Marion Diedricks demonstrating for Seattle Police Department motorcycle corps, Seattle, March 17, 1941
On March 17, 1941, the Seattle Police Department received eight new motorcycles for traffic and parking enforcement. The new motorcycles were rated for up to 105 mph, but were unable to sustain this speed until reaching 2,000 miles on their odometers. The new bikes joined five others already in use by the department. In this image, Marion Diedricks skids on…
ID Number:1986.5.10539.2
Date:1941
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Troops boarding ship at Port of Embarkation, Seattle, 1945
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, PORT OF EMBARKATION, Troops loading.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 19, 1945.
ID Number:1986.5.10558.1
Date:1945
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Troops boarding ship, Seattle, 1945
Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, PORT OF EMBARKATION, Troops loading. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 19, 1945.
ID Number:1986.5.10558.2
Date:1945
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Motorcyclists posing with children for charity race promotion, Seattle, 1962
The Christmas Scramble was put on by the Jody Rogers Motorcycle Club track in Federal Way at South 216th Street. The event was to benefit The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Christmas Fund, and featured sixty racers. In this promotional photo, riders Jim Bachand (left) and Bruce Johnson are flanked by children Robin (left) and Gregory Powell. Robin and Gregory's parents, Mr. and…
ID Number:1986.5.10775.1
Date:1962
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March against the Vietnam War, Seattle, October 16, 1965
Seattle's first major anti-war demonstration took place in October 1965, when around 400 people marched through downtown Seattle to protest increasing US involvement in the Vietnam War. Organized by the Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam (SCEWV) and the University of Washington chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the demonstration marched down 4th Avenue from the…
ID Number:1986.5.11209.2
Date:1965
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Aerial of Seattle Public Library under construction from northeast, Seattle, 1959
Since 1906 Seattle Public Library's central branch has been located at 1000 Fourth Avenue. The original Carnegie building was demolished after 50 years of service to make way for the second Central Library. This southwest view over Fifth Avenue shows the early construction stages of the new library that opened in 1960. Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, New, construction.Date…
ID Number:1986.5.11240.1
Date:1959
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Boys participating in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.1
Date:1947
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Gordon Bradbury in pie eating contest, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.2
Date:1947
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Winners of pie eating contest with judges, Seattle, August 3, 1947
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11290.3
Date:1947
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Pageant queen inviting mayor to Pow Wow, Seattle, July 21, 1948
The Rainier District Pow Wow began in the midst of the Great Depression as a day-long community picnic at Seward Park. Between 1934 and 1992, when it ended, pow wow events paralleled what was going on in the rest of the country, celebrating neighborhood commerce in the 1930s, patriotism during World War II, the Baby Boom of the late 1940s…
ID Number:1986.5.11294.1
Date:1948