832 results for: Puget Sound
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Ben Woo with mushroom display at Pacific Science Center, Seattle, October 14, 1978
Asian community leader Benjamin Woo (1923-2008) was born in Seattle and attended Queen Anne High School and the University of Chicago. After military service he returned to Seattle and opened an architectural firm in Madison Park. He directed King County’s Construction and Facilities Management Department and served as president of the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Mr.…
ID Number:2000.107.232.28.07
Date:1978
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Service men lined up on training ships, Seattle, 1918
In 1918 the U. S. government chartered the steamships Chippewa and Iroquois for service in World War I as school ships to be based at the Seattle Yacht Club buildings (recently purchased by the U. S. government) in West Seattle. William Jacob Grambs (1862-1943), previously an engineer at the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Company, was appointed supervisor of…
ID Number:2000.107.233.10.07
Date:1918
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Servicemen posing at naval training station, West Seattle, circa 1919
In 1918, the U. S. government chartered the steamships Chippewa and Iroquois for service in World War I as school ships to be based at the Seattle Yacht Club buildings in West Seattle. The yacht club had recently been purchased by the U. S. government for $3,000. William Jacob Grambs (1862-1943), previously an engineer at the Puget Sound Traction, Light…
ID Number:2000.107.233.10.09
Date:Circa 1919
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, taking a sample for testing at the Monsanto plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.22
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Woman shopping at Viet-Wah supermarket, Seattle, January 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.1.10
Date:1993
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Theresa Vu preparing bowls of pho at Phở Bắc restaurant, Seattle, January 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.2.04
Date:1993
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Display of durian at Viet-Wah supermarket, Seattle, February 14, 1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.2.17
Date:1993
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Counterman with banh mi sandwich at Vietnamese deli, Seattle, January 14,1993
The Little Saigon neighborhood of Seattle is centered around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at the eastern edge of the Chinatown - International District. The area has grown from a few businesses opened by Vietnamese immigrants in the late 1970s to become the social and economic hub of the Vietnamese-American community in the Puget Sound region.In 1993, the…
ID Number:2000.107.19930114.3.23
Date:1993