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Children on swings at McNeil Island playground, April 19, 1972
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.18.08
Date:1972
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Inmates eating lunch at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 1939
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.01
Date:1939
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Inmates working in cannery at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.02
Date:1942
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View of McNeil Island Penitentiary, March 3, 1971
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.03
Date:1971
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Cuban detainees watching TV at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 1981
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.04
Date:1981
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Inmates watching a sweat lodge ceremony at McNeil Island Corrections Center, January 1985
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.05
Date:1985
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Cell at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 28, 1974
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.06
Date:1974
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Metro Transit tunnel construction, Seattle, February 4, 1988
In this image, construction crews excavate the area that will become the north portal entrance to the Metro Transit bus tunnel and the Convention Center Station at Ninth Avenue and Pine Street. Work on Metro's $455 million 1.3-mile-long bus tunnel began in 1987 amid concerns from local business owners that construction would affect commerce. Metro kept the sidewalks open for…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.01
Date:1988
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Jim Lukehart investigating an electrical connection in bus tunnel, Seattle, December 12, 1988
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated in 2009 to include light rail access.In this image International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) organizer Jim Lukehart (center) stands with a worker in the Metro tunnel. The…
ID Number:2000.107.124.35.06
Date:1988
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Isidoro Gonzales working in kitchen during occupation of Beacon Hill School, October 18, 1972
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.01
Date:1972