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Governor Gary Locke and health care program supporters, Olympia, April 22, 1997
The Washington state legislature established a pilot program in 1987 to provide health care insurance to low-income working families who didn’t qualify for Medicaid. In 1993, the Basic Health Program was expanded statewide and it grew a bit further in 1995. In 1997, the Republican legislature pushed to freeze the program at 1995 levels and to increase premiums and copayments.…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.10.13
Date:1997
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US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and others speaking at WTO conference, November 29, 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:2000.107.19991129.CD02.002
Date:1999
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Delegates and others waiting to enter WTO conference, Seattle, November 29, 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:2000.107.19991129.CD02.003
Date:1999
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Bomb squad with dog at King County Courthouse, Seattle, September 11, 2001
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, people across the country and around the world reacted with shock and grief, while authorities in the U.S. acted swiftly to secure public buildings and landmarks seen as potential targets, in case another incident was yet to come.In Seattle, authorities evacuated downtown skyscrapers and closed federal buildings. Traffic…
ID Number:2000.107.20010911.17.01
Date:2001
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Swearing in of new US citizens at Seattle Center, July 4, 2002
On July 4, 2002, 311 migrants from 65 countries were sworn in as new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Seattle Center. Some chose to become citizens to secure their place in the US in the wake of immigration law changes after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, while others wanted citizenship in order to be able to work for…
ID Number:2000.107.20020704.CD01.01.001
Date:2002
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Ying Shen Winkle after being sworn in as a new citizen at Seattle Center, July 4, 2002
On July 4, 2002, 311 migrants originating from 65 counries were sworn in as new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Seattle Center. Some chose to become citizens to secure their place in the US in the wake of immigration law changes after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, while others wanted citizenship in order to work for the government…
ID Number:2000.107.20020704.CD01.01.002
Date:2002
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Election voter using touch screen at Martha Lake school, Lynnwood, September 18, 2002
Various voting methods and machines have been used in U.S. elections, such as hand-counted paper, mechanical lever machines, punch-card machines, scanned paper ballots, and direct-recording electronic devices. Forays into electronic voting machines have been stymied by unfounded conspiracy theories about the safety of voting machines, and despite the use of electronic technology by election officials, the system continues to be…
ID Number:2000.107.20020917.CD02.04.001
Date:2002
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Troy Stockwell riding on a Segway, Seattle, October 7, 2002
In August 2002, the city of Seattle bought 10 Segways, planning to spend 2 years testing the devices in a variety of situations, such as with paramedics at big events, workers in parks to clean up litter, and for zookeepers so they can zip between the animals.In this image, Troy Stockwell, a meter reader for the city of Seattle, tries…
ID Number:2000.107.20021007.CD03.03.001
Date:2002
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Jim Brennan with shiner surf perch at Golden Gardens, November 10, 2002
In November of 2002 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer completed a six-month investigation into the ecological health of the Puget Sound. They published their findings in a series of articles from November 18-22, outlining the ways in which recent efforts to curtail dumping and pollution had failed to negate decades of human-caused damage to sea life and the marine environment.In this image,…
ID Number:2000.107.20021101.CD01.001
Date:2002
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Mark Hallenback using the Mybus program on his phone, January 28, 2003
In the early 2000s, King County Metro, with the University of Washington, launched a program called “Mybus on the Internet” which let people use cellphones and PDAs to check the arrival time of Metro buses. The buses had already been equipped with sensors that count how many times the wheels turn and transmit location information to dispatcher and the MyBus…
ID Number:2000.107.20030128.CD05.001
Date:2003