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Dace Krasts working in lab at Immunex, Seattle, December 13, 1990
Scientists Steven Gillis and Christopher Henney, along with businessman Stephen Duzan, founded Immunex in July 1981. They envisioned the company's mission as developing, producing, and licensing diagnostic and therapeutic immunological products. Its successful drugs included LEUKINE (sargramostin) for patients undergoing bone marrow transplants, NOVANTRONE for multiple sclerosis, and ENBREL (etanercept), an anti-inflammatory used to treat arthritis. By 2001 Immunex was…
ID Number:2000.107.095.22.06
Date:1990
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Randy Johnson and Dave Valle talking at pitcher's mound, May 26, 1993
Randy Johnson (b. 1963) is a retired professional baseball player who pitched for the Seattle Mariners from 1989 to 1998. Standing 6’10", he was the tallest player in Major League Baseball and was nicknamed “the Big Unit.” Johnson’s fastball was known to exceed 100 mph. In 22 seasons, Johnson won the Cy Young Award five times, was named to ten…
ID Number:2000.107.100.15.01
Date:1993
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High school students at Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle, Mountlake Terrace, January 1990
The Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle was founded around 1974. In the late 1980s, the roughly 1,000-member congregation purchased a building in Mountlake Terrace in southern Snohomish County. The church has remained there, serving the spiritual and social needs of Koreans in the greater Seattle area. In late January 1990, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer took this image of three young…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.03
Date:1990
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Korean senior citizens at Lakewood Community Center, January 1990
In the early 1970s, a group of Korean wives of American servicemen at what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord began to gather to share meals, support, and cultural fellowship. By 1979, the group had incorporated as the Tacoma Korean Women’s Association, and in 1990, they became the Korean Women’s Association of Washington State. Over the years, the KWA has run…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.05
Date:1990
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Hua Ok Pak eating lunch at Lakewood Community Center, January 1990
In the early 1970s, a group of Korean wives of American servicemen at what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord began to gather to share meals, support, and cultural fellowship. By 1979, the group had incorporated as the Tacoma Korean Women’s Association, and in 1990, they became the Korean Women’s Association of Washington State. Over the years, the KWA has run…
ID Number:2000.107.107.32.06
Date:1990
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Xow Yang at work in Discovery Park, Seattle, 1982
The Hmong are a people whose historical homeland is in Southeast Asia and southern China. Hmong people came to Washington as refugees after the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War. Many Hmong were recruited by the US to fight in these conflicts and were forced to flee after the North Vietnamese victory in 1975. By 1982, about 8,000 Hmong…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.02
Date:1982
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Edgar Martinez sliding past Matt Nokes, Seattle, July 16, 1991
Edgar Martínez (1963-) is a former Major League Baseball designated hitter and third baseman and, since 2014, is a hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners. He spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball playing career with the Mariners, who retired his number, 11, in 2017. Edgar and his wife Holli created the Martinez Foundation, which works to provide resources, educational…
ID Number:2000.107.119.17.01
Date:1991
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Toni McWashington, October 18, 1991
In 1991, Seattle Police Department (SPD) Lieutenant Toni McWashington, who had developed the department's racial and cultural sensitivity training program, was placed in command of the Internal Investigation Section. The job change came with a promotion in rank, to police captain, making McWashington the highest-ranking minority police officer in Washington state, and the second-highest-ranking woman in the SPD. McWashington, who…
ID Number:2000.107.123.26.01
Date:1991
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Tunnel workers laughing outside The Appointment, Seattle, February 12, 1990
In this image Metro tunnel workers Rogers Stephenson (left) and Richard Hard share a laugh outside The Appointment, a hangout for tunnel workers. Hard, a pile driver supervisor, is quoted in the Seattle P.I. as commenting, "These tunnel guys, I don't know where they come from, they're fearless." The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (also Metro Bus Tunnel), is a 1.3-mile-long…
ID Number:2000.107.124.35.03
Date:1990
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Nancy Lofurno readying Microsoft product shipments, Bothell, December 19, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology. In this photo, Microsoft employee Nancy…
ID Number:2000.107.125.10.02
Date:1991