100 results for: Rites and Ceremonies
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Chinese girls drill team honoring war casualties at memorial ceremony, Seattle, May 30, 1961
In this image, members of the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team perform the "gin-lai,” the traditional three bows of respect, as a wreath is placed at the base of a memorial bearing the names of Chinese war dead. The whole Chinese community joined in the Memorial Day ceremony at Chong Wa Playfield at Eighth Avenue South and South Weller…
ID Number:2000.107.176.19.03
Date:1961
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Funeral procession for Yee Wai Yee, July 14, 1953
Yee Wai Yee was a Chinese-American businessman who owned the Golden Dragon Café in Tacoma. He was also involved and well-liked in the Chinese communities of both Seattle and Tacoma. Yee was an active member of the Chinese Nationalist Party and was president of the Hop Sing Tong, a social organization among Chinese-Americans. Yee died in Sacramento on July 3,…
ID Number:2000.107.188.37.01
Date:1953
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Funeral for Trần Anh Thư, a six-month-old Vietnamese child, at Acacia Memorial Park, May 2, 1975
In early April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of Vietnamese children orphaned by the war were brought to the US to be adopted. Trần Anh Thư, a Vietnamese infant brought to the U.S. during Operation Babylift, died from pneumonia and malnutrition shortly after arriving in Seattle. This photo from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer shows mourners gathered…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.02
Date:1975
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Participants sing at service honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., Seattle, January 15, 1985
In this image, hundreds of people attending a service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. join hands as they sing "We Shall Overcome" at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle, on what would have been Dr. King's 56th birthday. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.260.01.01
Date:1985
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Woman sitting at Seattle War Memorial, Seattle, May 30, 1951
This image of a woman sitting at the Seattle War Memorial Plaza on Fourth Avenue was taken as a VWF (Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US) bugler calls "Taps" on Memorial Day. The woman is identified as a Gold Star mother, a woman entitled to display a gold star on a service flag, due to being the mother of…
ID Number:2000.107.264.02.01
Date:1951
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Children placing wreaths on Memorial Day, Seattle, May 30, 1945
In this image, children place wreaths at the foot of a pylon carrying the names of more than 1,000 King County residents killed in World War II. The ceremony took place during Memorial Day exercises held in Seattle's Victory Square, on University Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. The children are identified from left as: Gay Attebery, Barbee Scott, Ruth…
ID Number:2000.107.264.02.02
Date:1945
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Man at cemetery observing Memorial Day, Seattle, May 27, 1985
In this image, a visitor pauses to read a gravestone at Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle. The military graveyard, Veterans' Memorial Cemetery, was decorated with flags for Memorial day, and hosted about 300 people for a wreath-laying service. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, May 28, 1985, p. B1.Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.264.02.04
Date:1985
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Ret. Col. Guy Wickliffe participating in Memorial Day parade, Seattle, May 29, 1989
In this image, retired Marine Colonel Guy Wickliffe (1925-2003), a National Defense Service Medal (NDSM) and United Nations Service Medal for Korea (UNKM) recipient, listens to his marching orders as Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 289 prepares to join the Memorial Day parade along Alaskan Way in Seattle. Ret. Col. Wickliffe served in the United States Marine Corps for 30…
ID Number:2000.107.264.02.05
Date:1989
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Congregation at Mount Zion Baptist Church after murder of Alberta Williams King, Seattle, June 30, 1974
Alberta Williams King (1904-1974) was an activist, organist, and the mother of martyred civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). She organized and led the Ebenezer Women's Committee at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her husband and son were pastors, and was active in the NAACP, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the YWCA. On…
ID Number:2000.107.19740630.1.17A
Date:1974
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Day of the Dead altar at Mexican consulate, Seattle, November 1, 1993
The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a holiday traditionally celebrated by people of Mexican heritage. As with the related Christian holiday of All Souls Day, family and friends remember and pay respect to loved ones who have died. The Mexican holiday is joyful rather than solemn, with celebrations that often take a humorous tone. This photo…
ID Number:2000.107.19931101.1.29
Date:1993