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Blaine School students in costume viewing Catharine Blaine plaque, Seattle, January 12, 1954
In 1853, Catharine (Paine) Blaine (1829-1908) and her husband, Reverend David E. Blaine (1824-1900), arrived in Seattle from Seneca Falls, New York. The Blaines were Methodist missionaries and David founded Seattle's first church, called the Little White Church. Catharine became Seattle's first teacher and school administrator when she was hired to teach children in a "select," or private, school located…
ID Number:2000.107.186.07.01
Date:1954
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Blaine School students exiting at end of day, Seattle, October 14, 1952
In 1853, Catharine (Paine) Blaine (1829-1908) and her husband, Reverend David E. Blaine (1824-1900), arrived in Seattle from Seneca Falls, New York. The Blaines were Methodist missionaries and David founded Seattle's first church, called the Little White Church. Catharine became Seattle's first teacher and school administrator when she was hired to teach children in a "select," or private, school located…
ID Number:2000.107.186.07.03
Date:1952
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Student Eddie Releford in Cleveland High School's radio/television studio, Seattle, November 25, 1979
In the late 1970s, community and Seattle School District planners worked on a 1990 building plan to be adopted the following year. Faced with shrinking enrollments and the need to desegregate, they recommended that a number of schools, including Cleveland High School, on Seattle’s Beacon Hill, be shut down and teachers and students be moved to other schools. Cleveland students…
ID Number:2000.107.186.14.01
Date:1979
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Students sitting in classroom at First Place, Seattle, May 30, 1991
In this image Gioconda, 10, and her brother Edgar, 11, rehearse a spelling test at First Place, a nonprofit educational program for homeless children, while their classmate on the right appears to be thinking more about the swimming trip scheduled to follow the spelling test. When First Place opened in 1989, it was Seattle's sole confidential educational program for homeless…
ID Number:2000.107.186.24.01
Date:1991
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View of Rainier Avenue and Lake Way looking east, March 1954
Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle, Black…
ID Number:2000.107.189.16.01
Date:1954
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Charles Simonyi, February 7, 1991
Charles Simonyi (b. 1948) is a software architect who worked at Microsoft from 1981 until 2002, leading the team that created Word, Excel, and other applications. During his time there, he served as director of application development, chief architect, and distinguished engineer. Born in Hungary, Simonyi came the U.S. in 1968. He worked at Xerox PARC from 1972 until 1980,…
ID Number:2000.107.198.07.01
Date:1991
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Terry Tafoya teaching a dance to students at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, March 2, 1983
In this photo, Terry Tafoya of the Northwest Institute for Indian Education (NINE) leads a traditional dance with 5th grade students at an overnight camp at the Pacific Science Center. Tafoya was one of three educators with NINE who taught Native history to teachers and students at schools, workshops, and camps. Caption information source: "Kids learn about Indians from Indians"…
ID Number:2000.107.210.01.01
Date:1983
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Helen Taverniti with her piano student, Seattle, March 28, 1984
Helen Elizabeth (Stewart) Taverniti Morse (1921-2005) was a musician, composer, and music teacher in Seattle. Born in Iowa, Taverniti attended Seattle Public Schools and University of Washington, and studied piano beginning at age 4. She wrote two musicals for the Seattle Civic Repertory Playhouse, and had a career as a performer for over 50 years. Taverniti was well-known as a…
ID Number:2000.107.210.21.01
Date:1984
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Mark Tobey and Vera Belsky, Seattle, circa 1930
Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style. Tobey also taught free art classes for the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. Here, he examines the work of Vera Belsky, who…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.01
Date:1930
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Kimlien and Duong Tran, Bellevue, June 1985
Duong Tran moved to the United States as a refugee when she was 13 years old after Saigon fell in 1975 during the Vietnam War. Her family settled in Pennsylvania, and Duong and her husband Kimlien Tran moved to Seattle when he started working at Boeing. Duong Tran went to the University of Washington to study engineering and served as…
ID Number:2000.107.213.34.01
Date:1985