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Filming workers for a documentary at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story," a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Evelyn O'Hara and Belle Samuelson are being filmed while they sew boots.
ID Number:2013.114.15
Date:1959
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Frank Law interviewed by Bill Neilson at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, employee Frank Law is being interviewed by emcee Bill Neilson inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013 13. SHOW…
ID Number:2013.114.16
Date:1959
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Ben Peterson at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Ben Peterson is being filmed while working inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013 22. SHOW DATE 10 13…
ID Number:2013.114.17
Date:1959
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Tony Russo at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Tony Russo is being filmed while working on a pair of boots inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013…
ID Number:2013.114.19
Date:1959
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Worker being interviewed for a documentary at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story," a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, the show's emcee Bill Nielson interviews expert hand-sewer Julius Brandt. A selection of the company's boots and shoes can be seen in the background.
ID Number:2013.114.20
Date:1959
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Gordon Matheson at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Gordon Matheson is being filmed while working on a pair of boots inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013…
ID Number:2013.114.21
Date:1959
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Bob Burki at work during KING-TV filming at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1959
On October 13, 1959, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired "Richfield Success Story" a 30-minute television documentary about the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company. The film featured the boot making process and included interviews with long-time employees. Here, Bob Burki is being filmed while working on a pair of boots inside the factory. Stamped on verso: RICHFIELD SUCCESS STORY. PICTURE # 91013…
ID Number:2013.114.22
Date:1959
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Currin-Greene Shoe manufacturing employees, Seattle, 1955
Hugh Currin and Warren Greene founded the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company in 1908. They built their first plant on Seattle’s Eastlake Avenue and moved in 1920 to a new plant on Western Avenue. The company specialized in specialty and heavy-duty work boots and shoes, which they sold throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The company later acquired the Rainier shoe…
ID Number:2013.114.24
Date:1955
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
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CORE jobs rally poster, October 4, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.2
Date:1964