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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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Customers on the first day of the new Inner City Farmer's Market, Seattle, August 2, 1975
In August 1975, the Inner City Farmers’ Market opened at 18th Avenue and Cherry Street in Seattle’s Squire Park neighborhood. During the harvest season, farmers from Yakima, Renton, and elsewhere drove in to provide fresh produce to Central Area residents. Here, Renton farmer Joe Torlai weighs zucchini for a customer as others look on. Caption information source: “A New Market…
ID Number:2000.107.19750802.2.17
Date:1975
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Customers on the first day of the new Inner City Farmer's Market, Seattle, August 2, 1975
In August 1975, the Inner City Farmers’ Market opened at 18th Avenue and Cherry Street in Seattle’s Squire Park neighborhood. During the harvest season, farmers from Yakima, Renton, and elsewhere drove in to provide fresh produce to Central Area residents. Here, Renton farmer Joe Torlai holds a head of romaine lettuce while he waits for payment. Caption information source: “A…
ID Number:2000.107.19750802.2.22
Date:1975
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Cat with six kittens in a foreman's desk drawer at Stetson-Ross Machine Co., November 1975
In November 1975, the feline mascot of the Stetson Ross Machine Company's production room gave birth to six kttens in foreman Earl Lee's desk drawer. Stetson Ross welders Phil Aamont and Larry Bucks had been taking care of the cat since it moved into the company's assembly shop about six months prior. Here, Ross and Bucks admire the new family…
ID Number:2000.107.19751100.1.20
Date:1975
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Bill Gates at Microsoft Campus, Redmond, January 22, 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.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (William H. Gates…
ID Number:2000.107.19910122.2.02
Date:1991
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Microsoft campus, March 10, 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 1986, Microsoft moved its headquarters from…
ID Number:2000.107.19910310.1.04
Date:1991
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Wayne Hamilton at Nintendo Distribution Center, North Bend, 1992
In this image, Wayne Hamilton shows off two of the four “automated guided vehicles” that run Nintendo of America’s distribution center in North Bend, Washington. Hamilton was Nintendo’s director of distribution. The vehicles automatically move pallets of game cartridges through the facility using electronic paths embedded in the floor and carry them to the automated storage and retrieval shelves (visible…
ID Number:2000.107.19921222.5.31
Date:1992
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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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Saros Corp. executives at their Bellevue office, May 1993
Bellevue-based Saros Corporation began in 1986, when founders Wayne Carpenter and Mike Kennewick saw the need for a product to manage the masses of unstructured information floating around in corporate computer networks. They brought together software engineers from the PC world and from the world of multiprocessor mainframe computers to develop a solution to the problem of storing, tracking, and…
ID Number:2000.107.19930513.1.39
Date:1993
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Herman McKinney in downtown Seattle, May 1993
Herman McKinney (1938-2014) was a community leader in Seattle who spent decades advocating for equal opportunity in corporate hiring, and for diversity in graduate education. McKinney left a career in banking to pursue social work, receiving a MSW degree from University of Washington in 1968. He the joined the staff at UW, serving as Assistant Dean of the Minority Division…
ID Number:2000.107.19930520.5.04
Date:1993