506 results for: Government and Public Services
Photograph
"Target 50" workers delivering voter registration cards, Seattle, July 14, 1972
The City of Seattle launched the Target 50 voter registration drive in June 1972, with the goal of registering 50,000 new voters by the end of August. Funded by Model Cities and the Office of Human Resources Youth Division, the program recruited about 50 people aged 18-21 to spend the summer registering voters across the city. The project met its…
ID Number:2000.107.19720714.3.08
Date:1972
Photograph
Jim Robideau and others at BIA protest, Seattle, November 6, 1972
On November 2nd, 1972, several hundred Indigenous people occupied the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington, DC. They presented 20 demands for better conditions for Indigenous peoples in the United States, including reform of the BIA, enforcement of existing treaties, protection of Indigenous lands, and improved treaty procedures. Over the following days, BIA offices in other…
ID Number:2000.107.19721106.1.24
Date:1972
Photograph
City Light superintendent Gordon Vickery charging an electric car at a parking meter, Seattle, May 3, 1973
Gordon Vickery (1920-1996) was a firefighter and Superintendent of Seattle City Light. He began his career in the Seattle Fire Department in 1946, rising to the rank of Chief in 1963. Vickery hired more women and racial minorities in the department, and helped found the Medic One program to provide improved onsite medical care for heart attack patients. In 1972,…
ID Number:2000.107.19730503.3.13
Date:1973
Photograph
Children playing at day camp at Sand Point, August 1, 1973
In 1973 a free week-long day camp, sponsored by the Seattle Mayor's Youth Division and run by UW students, provided summer recreation for hundreds of economically disadvantaged Seattle children. At the camp, headquartered at the deactivated Sand Point Naval Air Station, the children got lots of active outdoor play, attended classes in drama and art, and went on field trips.…
ID Number:2000.107.19730801.1.14
Date:1973
Photograph
Curtis Robinson checking the power poles of his Metro trolley bus, Seattle, November 1975
In December 1975, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published what it jokingly referred to as a “report on the anthropology and sociology of bus riders.” The research was based on an interview with four-year Metro employee Curtis Robinson, driver of the 19th Avenue trolley bus. Robinson reported on the different communication styles of passengers: the talkers, who sit in front directly across…
ID Number:2000.107.19751100.4.4A
Date:1975
Photograph
Curtis Robinson at wheel of Metro trolley bus, Seattle, November 1975
In December 1975, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published what it jokingly referred to as a “report on the anthropology and sociology of bus riders.” The research was based on an interview with four-year Metro employee Curtis Robinson, driver of the 19th Avenue trolley bus. Robinson reported on the different communication styles of passengers: the talkers, who sit in front directly across…
ID Number:2000.107.19751100.4.12A
Date:1975
Photograph
Jeanette Woldseth, first female career firefighter in Washington State, February 1977
Twenty-three-year-old Jeanette Woldseth badly wanted to be a professional firefighter. Daughter and granddaughter of fire fighters, she volunteered with the Bellevue Fire Department while managing a drive-in theater. Two years of persistence finally paid off, and she graduated from the department’s training course in February 1977, becoming the first full-time female career fire fighter in a major Washington fire department.…
ID Number:2000.107.19770200.11.33
Date:1977
Photograph
Urbano Quijance speaking about Filipino soldiers in WWII, January 17, 1985
Filipino soldiers began serving with the U.S. Army Forces of the Far East in 1941 when President Franklin Roosevelt offered full veterans’ benefits to Filipinos who enlisted. The Philippines at that time was a U.S. commonwealth, and Filipinos were U.S. nationals. 260,000 Filipinos fought alongside American forces during the war and more than 57,000 Filipino troops died. But once the…
ID Number:2000.107.19850117.1.28A
Date:1985
Photograph
Protester at public hearing for Weed and Seed proposal, December 3, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921203.11.33
Date:1992
Photograph
Protesters at public hearing on proposed Weed and Seed prgram, Seattle, December 12, 1992
Weed and Seed was a 1992 Bush administration initiative to provide federal grants to city governments to help “weed” drug-dealing and crime from troubled neighborhoods, and “seed” those areas with social programs. Mayor Norm Rice procured a $1.1 million grant for a Weed and Seed program for Seattle’s Central Area, but approval was delayed for several months over widespread opposition…
ID Number:2000.107.19921203.11.41
Date:1992