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Suman Gupta with her daughter after receiving permanent residency, Seattle, March 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.4
Date:1966
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Suman Gupta and family in office after she received permanent residency, March, 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.11
Date:1966
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Padmini Vasishth and her husband in their kitchen, January 11, 1955
Padmini Vasishth came to the U.S from India in 1954 to study chemistry as a graduate student at the University of Washington. Vasishth was active in international student relations at the UW, and spoke frequently about the culture and customs of India at events around Seattle. Vasishth was also active in the Foundation for International Understanding through Students, an organization…
ID Number:1986.5.28575.1
Date:1955
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Edith Thackwell Young, Helen Igoe, and Louise Barnes Gallagher, Seattle, circa 1940
Fashion stylist Helen Igoe (1870-1962) came to Seattle in 1907 to work as a buyer for a department store, and by 1910 had opened her own high fashion store, Helen Igoe Shop for Women. A frequent traveler to New York and Paris, Igoe brought Parisian style to Seattle in the early decades of the 20th century. Upon her retirement in…
ID Number:1986.5.29660.1
Date:Circa 1940
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Martha John demonstrating Native American crafts, Seattle, August 16, 1960
The American Indian Women's Service League (AIWSL) grew out of a 1958 meeting of American Indian women sharing their concerns over living conditions their people faced. The organization became the Seattle Indian Center (SIA) in 1972, which provides services and assistance to all people. Initially opening in the Belltown neighborhood at 2604 First Avenue, the SIA is now located at…
ID Number:1986.5.30279.1
Date:1960
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Portrait of Charles V. Johnson, Seattle, August 22, 1967
Charles Vernon Johnson (b. 1928) was raised in Arkansas and moved to Seattle in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington. Upon graduation, Mr. Johnson went into private practice, and shortly thereafter took on leading roles in both the Seattle Branch of the NAACP and in the Central Area Civil Rights Organization. He was heavily involved in…
ID Number:1986.5.30323.6
Date:1967
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Group of UW students demonstrating stick dance, April 1954
This photo shows a group of five University of Washington international students demonstrating a bamboo stick dance, possibly the Tinikling, a traditional Philippine folk dance. The dance may have been part of an annual traveling show put on by international students at UW and performed at various Washington state locations. The production was broken up into acts from different countries…
ID Number:1986.5.30906.1
Date:1954
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Students and toastmistress at sorority luncheon, January 1959
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority celebrated its 89th anniversary in 1955 with a luncheon at the Georgian Room of the Olympic Hotel, with members and alumnae throughout Washington state attending. The program featured a panel discussion on "Women in Our World Today," with three international students from the University of Washington as speakers: Christine Sander of Sweden, Maria Portsidou of…
ID Number:1986.5.31678.1
Date:1959
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Akia Kuniyuki, Philip Hayasaka, and Ruth Chinn at Jackson Street Community Council office, Seattle, 1960
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Seattle’s public-school system was growing. Proposition 22, a $5.5 million funding levy, appeared on the November ballot in 1960. While some of the money was for normal operations and maintenance, the Seattle School Board pointed to the system’s needs to cover additional pupils, rising supply costs, teacher salary increases and staffing of new…
ID Number:1986.5.32067.1
Date:1960
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United Black Front president Dave Mills, Seattle, July 1969
Throughout 1969, Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central Community College) faced a series of boycotts, demonstrations, and riots, with students demanding a Black studies program and the hiring of Black administrators and faculty. To address protests over the lack of African American representation on the board, in July 1969 Governor Dan Evans appointed Marvin Glass, a Pacific Northwest Bell engineer…
ID Number:1986.5.36019.1
Date:1969