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Flier for march and rally to stop inflation, Seattle, November 16, 1974
The United States went through a recession in the 1970s, with job loss and double-digit inflation. The Coalition to Stop Inflation called for a march on November 16th from the U.S. Courthouse at Fifth Avenue and Madison Street to a rally at Westlake Mall. This was to be but one of many such demonstrations held across the United States on…
ID Number:2002.23.1.25.3
Date:1974
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Lesbian and Gay Democrats of Greater Seattle newsletter, January 1986
This 1986 newsletter of the Lesbian and Gay Democrats of Seattle includes an announcement of their January 13 meeting at the Off Ramp Cafe, featuring newly-elected King County Councilman Ron Sims discussing the new King County Fair Employment Ordinance. The newsletter also includes notes of thanks to various individuals, from organization President Don Moreland, for their support of lesbian and…
ID Number:2002.23.7.58.1
Date:1/1986
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No Plutonium poster, July 15, 1986
The 1986 anti-nuclear rally advertised on this poster was organized in response to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposal to use the Hanford facility in Washington state as the nation’s nuclear waste repository. In the wake of the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and recent news that Hanford was a finalist for housing America’s nuclear waste, public distrust of the DOE…
ID Number:2002.23.8.3.3
Date:1986
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Unveiling of James Washington Jr. sculpture "Virgins' Lamps with Fish" at Bothell Library, January 11, 1970
James Washington Jr. (1911-2000) was a sculptor and painter who became associated with the Northwest School of artists in Seattle. He grew up in Mississippi and moved to Seattle in 1944 to work for the Navy during World War II. Washington was largely self-taught and he believed this lack of formal training was essential to his artistic success. In the…
ID Number:2002.68.140.05
Date:1970
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A Guide to Seattle's Monorail, June 2004
The Seattle Monorail Project began in 1997 with a proposed five-line monorail system to be constructed in Seattle as an extension of the existing Seattle Center Monorail. The plan was debated for several years and in November 2005, following the fifth voter initiative on the monorail in eight years, the monorail authority agreed to dissolve itself after having spent $124.7…
ID Number:2005.63.13.1
Date:2004
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Building the Monorail Green Line, 2005
The Seattle Monorail Project began in 1997 with a proposed five-line monorail system to be constructed in Seattle as an extension of the existing Seattle Center Monorail. The plan was debated for several years and in November 2005, following the fifth voter initiative on the monorail in eight years, the monorail authority agreed to dissolve itself after having spent $124.7…
ID Number:2005.63.13.2
Date:2005
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Seattle City Light employees with vehicles in front of warehouse, Seattle, circa 1928
The image pictured here features Seattle City Light's shops and warehouse building at Fourth Avenue South and Spokane Street, a location now referred to as the South Service Center. The building was opened in 1926, and features a sign reading CITY LIGHT in nine-foot high letters, illuminated at night by about 400 light bulbs. There are 21 men posing with…
ID Number:2007.3.2
Date:Circa 1928
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Union Station grand reopening poster, Seattle, November 8-10, 1999
Seattle's Union Station was built in 1911 as the Oregon & Washington Railroad Station to serve the Union Pacific Railroad and Milwaukee Road. Located at the corner of South Jackson Street and Fourth Avenue South, just east of King Street Station in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, the grand Beaux Arts style building was designed by Daniel J. Patterson. The interior…
ID Number:2007.25.29
Date:1999
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Program for the dedication of Colman Pool, Seattle, July 4, 1941
A salt-water pool dug at Lincoln Park in 1926 had mud sides and bottom, and proved to be very popular, so swimming enthusiasts called for constructing a more permanent swimming pool. In 1941, Kenneth Colman and his family, long-time residents of Fauntleroy, donated funds to the city for an outdoor salt-water pool and bathhouse to honor his father, Laurence Colman…
ID Number:2007.39.114.1
Date:1914
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Morgan J. Carkeek posting park rules, Carkeek Park, Seattle, circa 1918
Beginning in about 1918, the Seattle Park Board hosted annual picnics at the "original" Carkeek Park (1918-1926) on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington, later the site of the Sand Point Naval Station and now Magnuson Park. These annual luncheon picnics were attended by donors to the park and their friends on the anniversary of the donation of the park by…
ID Number:2008.3.1.46.9
Date:Circa 1918