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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Weed and Seed protester at City Council meeting, Seattle, December 14, 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:2000.107.19921214.5.04
Date:1992
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Weed and Seed protester at City Council meeting, Seattle, December 14, 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:2000.107.19921214.5.22
Date:1992
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Yakama Nation group discussing water rights petition, Olympia, April 20, 1993
In April 1993, ten members of the Yakama Nation (then spelled Yakima), some in traditional dress, gathered in the office of Washington governor Mike Lowry and urged him to veto a bill giving the Hell Roaring Irrigation Company access to reservation water. The bill promised the company the ability to file for water access through the state government rather than…
ID Number:2000.107.19930420.12.11
Date:1993
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Yakama Nation group discussing water rights petition, Olympia, April 20, 1993
In April 1993, ten members of the Yakama Nation (then spelled Yakima), some in traditional dress, gathered in the office of Washington governor Mike Lowry and urged him to veto a bill giving the Hell Roaring Irrigation Company access to reservation water. The bill promised the company the ability to file for water access through the state government rather than…
ID Number:2000.107.19930420.12.41
Date:1993