3220 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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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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Ironworker Ray Lind on the Space Needle, Seattle, October 1961
Hundreds of feet above the site of the Seattle World's Fair grounds, ironworker Ray Lind inspects the work of his construction crew on the Space Needle. He stands on a wood platform attached to the outside of one of the 500-foot high "legs" of the structure. Lind is excited that he and his fellow ironworkers are among a relatively small…
ID Number:1986.5.33157.1
Date:1961
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Lung Sing Luke in his grocery store at 920 James Street, Seattle, February 26, 1960
When Seattle grocer Lung Sing Luke was robbed at gunpoint, he basically shrugged it off. His store, at 920 James Street on First Hill, had already been the target of six or seven robberies during the ten years since he had run the shop. This time, he figured he'd lost about $235.00.Here, shortly after the robbery, Luke stands at his…
ID Number:1986.5.33599.1
Date:1960
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Wing Luke and his mother inside a store, probably in Seattle, 1962
Wing Luke was the first Asian American to hold elected office in the Pacific Northwest. He served on the Seattle City Council from 1962 until his death in a plane crash in 1965. Handwritten on sleeve: Luke, Wing, city council and mother.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month…
ID Number:1986.5.33602.1
Date:1962
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Mrs. Lew Fung Hai Luke and her son Wing Luke at Federal Courthouse, Seattle, October 21, 1963
Lew Fung Hai Luke moved from China to Seattle with her husband, Lung Sing Luke, in 1931. They operated a hand laundry in the University District and later ran a grocery store on First Hill. The couple had six children, the eldest of whom was Wing Luke, who became a Seattle City Councilmember in 1962.Once the last of her children…
ID Number:1986.5.33603.1
Date:1963
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Sharon Maeda, June 1962
Sharon Maeda (b. 1945) is a longtime Seattle activist for the rights of women and racial minorities. Maeda’s parents were incarcerated at the Minidoka concentration camp during World War II and she was born in Milwaukee after her parents were allowed to leave the camp, but before they were permitted to return to the Pacific Northwest. Maeda taught middle school…
ID Number:1986.5.33992.1
Date:1962
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Hugh McElhenny receiving Post-Intelligencer Sportsman of the Year award, probably in Seattle, 1951
Handwritten on image: Hugh McElhenny (man of year).Handwritten on sleeve: McElhenny, Hugh.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): December 31, 1951.
ID Number:1986.5.35104.1
Date:1951
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Rev. Dr. Samuel McKinney, probably in Seattle, 1958
Handwritten on negative: Rev. Samuel McKinney.Handwritten on sleeve: McKinney, Samuel B., Rev.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): January 31, 1958.
ID Number:1986.5.35335.1
Date:1958
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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