74 results for: DeGiulio, Robert
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Dior Seck at Black Community Festival, Seattle, July 30, 1993
In this image Dior Seck of Senegal is surrounded by handmade Senegalese dolls in traditional dress. Seck is the owner of Sahle International Arts and Crafts in the University District and was selling African art, old and new, at the two-day Black Community Festival at Judkins Park in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle. Caption information derived from captions written…
ID Number:2000.107.165.25.01
Date:1993
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Planting cherry trees on Capitol Hill, Seattle, April 13, 1982
In the spring of 1982, residents of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood turned out to plant some 250 cherry trees paid for by federal block grant money. Residents chose Bing cherries for their food value and because their foliage matched the area's brick gutters.Here, landscape contractor Henry Zinser helps Capitol Hill resident Carol Baldwin plant a Bing cherry tree on East…
ID Number:2000.107.168.11.05
Date:1982
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Students reading Variety Club's "World's Longest Letter," Seattle, March 15, 1985
In this image, students visiting Seattle's Seafirst Building look over the thousands of letters that make up the "World's Longest Letter." The completed 1,858 foot letter was part of Operation Peace Letter sponsored by the Variety Club of the Pacific Northwest, and was to be presented to the state congressional delegation in Washington, D. C. and then sent to the…
ID Number:2000.107.171.09.04
Date:1985
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Swan family performing the Eagle Dance, May 23, 1992
In this image Roxana Robertson, right, and other members of the Swan family wear traditional Native American costume as they demonstrate the Eagle Dance, which they will perform at Seattle's annual Northwest Folklife Festival. The festival has been held each Memorial Day weekend since 1972 at Seattle Center as a free celebration of folk and ethnic music, dance, and arts.…
ID Number:2000.107.172.37.08
Date:1992
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Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985
The Georgetown Steam Plant, located near Boeing Field in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, was originally constructed in 1906 for the Seattle Electric Company. The plant's overall contributions to electricity production were minor but the innovative methods and materials used to build it, the intact early-twentieth-century steam-generating equipment it houses, and the involvement of pioneering efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868-1924),…
ID Number:2000.107.173.07.02
Date:1985
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Spectators at Chinatown - International District festival, Seattle, June 8, 1980
The Chinatown - International District's Summer Festival, the "largest pan-Asian celebration in the Northwest," was begun in 1975 and features cultural performances, music, dancing, martial arts, and a wide array of international bites at the beloved $3 Food Walk. The event was renamed Dragon Fest when it became one of the official events of Seafair, Seattle's ten-week-long summer festival.In this…
ID Number:2000.107.176.19.09
Date:1980
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Owner Laurie Gulbransen inside Dog House Restaurant, Seattle, January 10, 1994
Originally located on Denny Way, the Dog House restaurant was conveniently located for northbound travelers on Aurora Avenue, the Seattle section of Route 99. The Dog House restaurant and bar were also popular with locals. After the location was bypassed by the Battery Street tunnel in the 1950s, the restaurant moved nearby to Seventh Avenue and Bell Streets, where it…
ID Number:2000.107.185.19.09
Date:1994
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Owner Laurie Gulbransen outside Dog House Restaurant, Seattle, January 10, 1994
Originally located on Denny Way, the Dog House restaurant was conveniently located for northbound travelers on Aurora Avenue, the Seattle section of Route 99. The Dog House restaurant and bar were also popular with locals. After the location was bypassed by the Battery Street tunnel in the 1950s, the restaurant moved nearby to Seventh Avenue and Bell Streets, where it…
ID Number:2000.107.185.19.10
Date:1994
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Fire inspectors at Ray's Boathouse, Seattle, May 27, 1987
One of Seattle’s landmark waterfront restaurants, Ray’s Boathouse, burned in a spectacular fire on May 26, 1987. A wiring problem beneath Ray’s pier caused plumes of smoke, which spread up into the restaurant through the kitchen floor and prompted the evacuation of customers and staff. Some 50 to 60 fire fighters, plus 20 fire trucks and boats fought the four-alarm…
ID Number:2000.107.185.24.02
Date:1987
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Sir Mix-A-Lot in his recording studio, Auburn, January 19, 1992
Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray) was born in Auburn, WA in 1963 and raised in Seattle's Central District. He was involved in the birth of hip-hop in Seattle in the early 1980s, and his first hit, "Posse on Broadway," was released in 1987. It describes a trip through Seattle’s Central Area and Capitol Hill and remains one of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s most…
ID Number:2000.107.198.16.01
Date:1992