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Employees posing in front of Gold Medal Milk Co., Seattle, circa 1935
The Gold Medal Milk Company (also known as Gold Medal Dairies, Inc. and Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery), a dairy distributer, was located first in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood at 269 Florentia Street, and later in Ballard at 5500 14th Avenue NW. This image was likely taken at the Ballard location, and the man standing in the center of the group,…
ID Number:1999.17.1
Date:Circa 1935
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"Resist the WTO" poster, 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:2000.12.REF.8
Date:1999
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Wayne Blakely working on an AIDS quilt, November 29, 1991
In November 1991, the Washington Trade and Convention Center in Seattle hosted a display of a portion of the NAMES project AIDS quilt. Begun in San Francisco in 1987, the quilt had grown from 3,400 to 14,000 panels since it had last visited Seattle in 1988. A number of new panels, created locally, were to be dedicated at the closing…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.01
Date:1991
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Visitors viewing the NAMES Project Quilt, Seattle, July 25, 1988
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt came to the Seattle Center Arena as part of a 20-city tour in 1988. In this image, Craig Koball and Celia Cavalli embrace during their visit to the quilt. Washington residents added 50 more 3 x 6 foot panels during the exhibit's closing ceremonies. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.10
Date:1988
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Two men protesting a Seattle Housing Authority decision, Seattle, July 15, 1992
In this image Keith Powe (center), wearing a sign declaring that he is dying of AIDS, and a friend protest a recent Seattle Housing Authority decision allegedly denying him admittance to public housing. Powe, still homeless, died in 1995. Caption information source: "`Forgotten' Remembered In Death -- Characters Of City Streets Memorialized," by Linda Keene, Seattle Times, December 30, 1995.Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.19
Date:1992
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Ralph Abernathy talks with local pastors, Seattle, January 16, 1977
In this image Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy, Sr. (1926-1990), center, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) talks with Reverend Samuel B. McKinney, left, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, and Reverend John McKenna, right, president of Black United Clergy for Action and pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Abernathy had just arrived at Sea-Tac International Airport and called…
ID Number:2000.107.001.12.01
Date:1977
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Supporters of abortion reform boarding buses during Referendum 20 campaign, Seattle, March 28, 1970
The period leading up to the 1970 passing of hotly-debated Referendum 20 saw many pro- and anti-abortion demonstrations in Washington State. Three years before the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that abortion was a constitutional right, Ref. 20 established a limited right to seek an abortion, and Washington became one of only a handful of states to permit…
ID Number:2000.107.001.15.01
Date:1970
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Carolyn Sundseth speaking at anti-abortion rally at U. S. Courthouse, Seattle, May 30, 1985
On May 30, 1985, a coalition of Seattle religious groups walked from the Seattle Center to the Federal Courthouse in a "Memorial March for the Unborn.'' This image shows Carolyn Sundseth, President Reagan's associate director of public liaison, addressing the crowd in front of the Courthouse with a strongly anti-abortion message. Caption information source: "Anti-abortion march dedicated to unborn," by…
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.03
Date:1985
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Pro-choice supporters outside the Crisis Pregency Center, Seattle, January 22, 1988
In this image, pro-choice supporters express their views in front of the Crisis Pregency Center at 3229 NE 125th Street in Lake City. The demonstrators accused the clinic of scaring women away from having abortions. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.08
Date:1988
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Anti-abortion demonstration on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, May 30, 1985
On May 30, 1985, a coalition of Seattle religious groups walked from the Seattle Center to the Federal Courthouse in a "Memorial March for the Unborn.'' In this image, anti-abortion demonstrators march down Fifth Avenue towards the Federal Courthouse. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.10
Date:1985