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Seattle Reign players during game vs. San Jose Lasers, Seattle, January 19, 1997
The Seattle Reign were the first professional women’s basketball team in Seattle, playing from 1996 to 1998 in the American Basketball League (ABL). The ABL was founded in 1996, with Seattle as one of eight founding teams. The league collapsed partway through the 1998 season under the financial pressure of competing with the rival Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which…
ID Number:2000.107.19970119.6.05
Date:1997
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Players in an over-50 women's soccer game in the heavy rain at Woodland Park, Seattle, March 18, 1997
Women's soccer in Washington State grew and flourished from the 1970s through the 1990s, with the development of multiple high school and college programs, and women's leagues and clubs. The proliferation of women's soccer clubs gave women of all ages and abilities the opportunity to develop and compete.Here, two over-50 women's soccer teams plays a game at night in heavy…
ID Number:2000.107.19970318.2.14
Date:1997
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Boy kicking soccer ball outside the Masjid Al-Salaam mosque building, SeaTac, August 3, 2001
In 1974, the Masjid Al-Salaam opened in a small frame house at 3040 S. 150th St, in what is now the city of SeaTac, between Seattle and Tacoma. Worshipers included people from Somalia, Southeast Asia, Bosnia, Indonesia, and the Middle East. The Masjid, now also called the Islamic Center of Seattle, was the first mosque in Washington State. Sometime in…
ID Number:2000.107.20010803.2.03
Date:2001
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Félix Hernández pitching during his first win, Safeco Field, Seattle, August 9, 2005
Félix Abraham Hernández, born in 1986 in Venezuela and nicknamed "King Félix," was a starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2005 at the age of 19. In 2011, a special cheering section for Hernández, dubbed "the King's Court," was created in Safeco Field by the left field foul area. On August…
ID Number:2000.107.20050809.CD01.003
Date:2005
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Campaign posters at Duthie shipyard, Seattle, June 26, 1918
John Frederick Duthie (1876-1945) was born in England and immigrated to the U. S. about 1887 with his parents and siblings. Around 1899 he moved to Seattle with his wife and the following year he opened a small shipyard, J. F. Duthie & Company, on land leased from the Port of Seattle, located on the Duwamish River's East Waterway, just…
ID Number:2001.67.3
Date:1918
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Drag Race'N poster, June 16, 1991
The flier seen here advertises the 1991 closet ball pageant, Drag Race'n, organized by the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & The Olympic and Rainier Empire. The group is a member of the International Court System (ICS), the second largest LGBTQ organization in the world, and aims to provide funds and services to other non-profits within the local gay and…
ID Number:2002.23.2.64.2
Date:1991
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Poster forthe Anti-Inaugural Ball at Red & Black books, January 21, 1989
This poster advertises "Another Anti-Inaugural Ball," a party organized by Seattle's Red & Black Books and held the weekend of the inauguration of George H. W. Bush as U. S. president. The party included entertainment by local band Rumors of the Big Wave and was emceed by comedian Peggy Platt. Opened as a collective in 1979, Red & Black Books…
ID Number:2002.23.7.56.1
Date:1989
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Supersuckers performing at Neumos, Seattle, June 6, 2006
Neumos (officially "Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room") is a music venue located at E. Pike St. and 10th Avenue in Seattle. Opened as Moe’s Mo’Roc’N Café in 1992, it reopened as Neumos ("New Moe's") in 2003, 6 years after Moe's closed. In 2017, Neumo's was renovated, with new state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems installed. As of 2024, Neumo's continues as…
ID Number:2014.43.1.1.MUSIC610
Date:2006
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Evelyn Williamson and Lionel Hampton onstage at the Trianon, December 1940
Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure wherever jazz was played around the city. On this occasion, he photographed Evelyn Williamson as she sang with Lionel Hampton and his band at the Trianon Ballroom in December 1940. Williamson, a local vocalist who sang in Jackson Street area clubs, had already recorded a number with the band. At this time,…
ID Number:2014.49.002.037.0229
Date:1940
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Saxophone section of Jive Bombers, Seattle, circa 1944
During World War II, Black musicians were recruited from across the country to officially serve as musicians in the U.S. Navy. Trained to play in big bands at the Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, the men formed 25-piece bands to tour naval bases and boost morale. One of the bands was transferred to the Sand Point Naval Air Station…
ID Number:2014.49.002.037.0234
Date:Circa 1944