1312 results for: Seattle Center
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Spectators at Fiesta Filipina at Seattle Center, June 13, 1981
Fiesta Filipina (also Philippine Festival) began as an annual event commemorating the anniversary of Philippine Independence. The event was held at Seward Park and became part of Seafair, Seattle's ten-week-long summer festival. In 1987 the event was moved to the Seattle Center, where by 1997 it had been renamed Pagdiriwang and become one of the five ethnic and cultural festivals…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.08
Date:1981
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Princessa Drill Team performing at Seattle Center, circa 1965
In 1957, Dorothy (Laigo) Cordova (b. 1932) and Frederic Pilar “Fred” Cordova (1931-2013), both second-generation Filipino Americans, founded Filipino Youth Activities of Seattle (FYA) to engage young people in activities that instilled cultural awareness, such as sports, dance, drama, language, and job placement. Two years later FYA began a new drill team they hoped would participate in local parades and…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.10
Date:Circa 1965
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Seattle Seahawks at team practice, Kirkland, September 1976
The Seattle Seahawks joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1976. The team's first headquarters and practice facility were located at what is now Carillon Point, at the site of the old Lake Washington Shipyards in Kirkland. The Seahawks spent ten years headquartered there before moving to the campus of Northwest College in 1986, then their current facilities at Virginia…
ID Number:2000.107.067.17.01
Date:1976
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Freddie Mae Gautier, September 10, 1990
Freddie Mae Gautier (1930-2001) was an influential civil rights and community activist in Seattle from the 1960s through the 1990s. Gautier's early activism in the civil rights movement introduced her to movement leaders such as Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the late 1950s-early 1960s, she marched alongside King and other leaders of…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.01
Date:1990
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Gay Liberation Front members demonstrating against police chief, Seattle, May 5, 1973
In this image, members of Seattle's chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) picket in front of Police Chief George Tielsch's condominium on Sand Point Way. The man in the center is holding a picket sign reading, "Are Homosexuals Revolting? You bet your sweet ass we are!" The group peacefully paraded for about four hours, drawing attention to Chief Tielsch's…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.01
Date:1973
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Women working at Genetic Systems lab, Redmond, July 15, 1991
In 1980, New York stockbroker David Blech and his brother Isaac partnered with Dr. Robert Nowinski of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle to start Genetic Systems, focused on producing antibodies to diagnose diseases. The Blech brothers raised $40 million in start-up costs, and the company went public in 1981. Bristol-Myers Squibb acquired the company, Seattle's first major…
ID Number:2000.107.073.47.01
Date:1991
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Larry Gossett and Roberto Maestas at City Council meeting, Seattle, November 10, 1972
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young black radicals. In 1967 he was active in the Seattle chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett served as executive director of CAMP,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.01
Date:1972
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Sam Smith and Tim Hill unveiling "Make Life Accessible" campaign billboard, April 14, 1986
This image shows Seattle City Council president Sam Smith (right) with King County Executive Tim Hill at the unveiling of the Make Life Accessible campaign. Smith used a wheelchair beginning in 1985, after losing a leg to diabetes. The Make Life Accessible campaign was run by Seattle's Resource Center for the Handicapped, and aimed to help people with disabilities find…
ID Number:2000.107.082.13.06
Date:1986
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Randy Hayes in front of his mural "Pool" at Seattle Center, February 1985
A Mississippi native, artist Randy Hayes moved to Seattle in 1976. For the first few years, he operated a bookstore which included a small gallery for exhibiting photography. Hayes' own artwork uses photographs as both source material for paintings, and as a substrate to be painted upon. Around 1990, he developed a technique of painting on top of a grid…
ID Number:2000.107.085.13.02
Date:1985
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Seattle Totems and Soviet hockey teams shaking hands, December 25, 1972
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.089.26.02
Date:1972