497 results for: Women's Rights
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Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968
Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968
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Don't Steal Our Thunder poster, 2006
In 2006, a group from Oklahoma City bought the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team. The new owners attempted to gain support for building a new stadium in Seattle for the team but when these efforts failed, they decided to move the Sonics to Oklahoma despite strong resistance in Seattle. This poster was produced by Save Our Sonics and Save Our Storm,…
ID Number:2024.48.58
Date:2006
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"We Got Game 2000" souvenir WNBA card, 2000
The Seattle Storm is a professional basketball team in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Seattle lost its first women’s basketball team, the Seattle Reign, when the American Basketball League (ABL) folded in 1998, then in 1999 was awarded a WNBA franchise to begin in the 2000 season. As of 2024, the Seattle Storm has qualified for the WNBA Playoffs…
ID Number:2024.48.12.1
Date:2000
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Seattle Storm promotional card, 2010
The Seattle Storm is a professional basketball team in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Seattle lost its first women’s basketball team, the Seattle Reign, when the American Basketball League (ABL) folded in 1998, then in 1999 was awarded a WNBA franchise to begin in the 2000 season. As of 2024, the Seattle Storm has qualified for the WNBA Playoffs…
ID Number:2024.48.34.1
Date:2010
Program
Seattle Reign official matchday program, May 25, 2014
The Seattle Reign FC is a professional women's soccer team based in the Seattle area. The team was established in 2012, as one of eight inaugural members of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). From 2020 to 2023, the team was called OL Reign, before returning as Reign FC for the 2024 season.This program for the Seattle Reign FC vs…
ID Number:2024.48.47.1
Date:2014
Videorecording
Princess of the Pow-Wow documentary film, 1987
Ella Aquino (1902-1989) was a Lummi, Yakima, and Puyallup activist from Seattle who dedicated her life to advancing the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples living in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1902, Aquino began her education in a boarding school where she was prohibited from embracing her Native heritage. As an adult, she helped create organizations and publications that…
ID Number:2025.9.1
Date:1987
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Queers Fight the WTO flier, November 1999
This flier gives the schedule of events for an educational forum held at the Seattle Labor Temple a few weeks prior to the opening of the WTO Ministerial Conference in November 1999. The forum was organized by Dyke Action, Dyke Community Activists, and Out Front Labor Coalition/GLBT Pride at work, AFL-CIO. The workshops introduced the WTO and explained how it…
ID Number:2025.19.16
Date:1999
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Young women working in kitchen, Tulalip Indian School, circa 1912
The Tulalip Tribes are a confederation of several Coast Salish peoples including the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skykomish, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, Stillaguamish, and other allied tribes and bands. In the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, these groups ceded most of their land to the United States and reserved the Tulalip Indian Reservation for their permanent homeland. They also reserved rights for hunting,…
ID Number:Lib1988.11.16
Date:Circa 1912
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Women employees at Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Seattle, January 19, 1944
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, and they are responsible for many ships, including some of the Washington State ferries and many naval vessels during and after World…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.w546
Date:1944
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Captain Billy and woman on horseback, circa 1900
The Yakama (formerly spelled Yakima) people have lived in the Columbia River basin since time immemorial. During the winter, they lived in permanent villages built on the valley floor, where the climate was most temperate. Starting in spring, they traveled along the rivers and into the hills to gather food. Some gathered roots and berries, and others fished in rivers,…
ID Number:Lib1992.9.72
Date:Circa 1900