186 results for: Haller, Grant M.
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Tom Friedman demonstrating experimental bike rack, Seattle, April 27, 1978
In this image, transit planner Tom Friedman places a bike on the special rack attached to the backs of five buses for a six-month test of a new Metro Transit project called "Bike & Ride." Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph
ID Number:2000.107.124.30.01
Date:1978
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Metro Transit inspector standing in bus tunnel under construction, Seattle, May 18, 1988
In this image Tom Plant, senior construction inspector for Metro Transit, stands at the portal of the West bus tunnel as it enters the underground Pioneer Square station. This view is looking north under 3rd Avenue. 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…
ID Number:2000.107.124.35.01
Date:1988
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Electrician working on tunnel under Pine Street, Seattle, August 20, 1987
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (also 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, apprentice electrician Debe Carlton wires a duct bank of PVC pipe to reinforcing steel rebar before forms…
ID Number:2000.107.124.36.04
Date:1987
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Chris Niggas patching Metro tunnel's waterproof membrane, Seattle, May 18, 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 taken during tunnel construction, Chris Naggas patches a hole in the waterproof PVC membrane installed to keep water from…
ID Number:2000.107.124.37.03
Date:1988
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Motocross racers in heavy mud at Puyallup Raceway Park, November 16, 1974
Some 10,900 motocross fans braved the heavy rain to watch the international Rainier Trans-AMA motocross competition at Puyallup Raceway Park in November 1974. The course was one mile long with 14 jumps. Here, some riders fall into the mud, while others try to avoid them. Caption information source: “Motocross: Here’s Mud in Your Eye”, by Joe Sherk, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November…
ID Number:2000.107.128.36.01
Date:1974
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Baptist missionary Hanh Nguyen with Giu Vo and her family in their apartment, Seattle, March 1982
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere.This image shows a family of refugees in their apartment shortly after arriving in Seattle. Hanh…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.01
Date:1982
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The Nguyens in their Pioneer Square grocery store, Seattle, December 28, 1977
Thuy-Ngan (left) and Hy-Van Nguyen came to Seattle in 1975 with their seven-month-old son. They were part of the large number of refugees who settled in the Seattle area after the fall of Saigon. Both in their 30s, they had held professional jobs in Vietnam: Thuy-Nan taught French at the University of Saigon, and her husband was an architect. Unable…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.02
Date:1977
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Phuong Nguyen cooking in her restaurant, Seattle, September 1978
Phuong Nguyen, her husband Phi-Hung Nguyen, and their seven children arrived in Seattle from Vietnam in 1975. Phi-Hung, a former university professor in art and sculpture, enrolled in a program to help him find a new job, and Phuong enrolled in a restaurant management program. By 1978, Phi-Hung was working at a professional level in graphics design, Phuong had opened…
ID Number:2000.107.132.16.03
Date:1978
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Won Ldy Paye with students at McGilvra Elementary School, February 19, 1988
Won-Ldy Paye is a storyteller, dancer, drummer, and artist from Tapita, Liberia. He was trained by his grandmother to remember and retell the stories of the Dan people of northeastern Liberia, and is a member of the Tlo Ker Mehn, the class of professional Dan entertainers who are keepers of the oral tradition. Paye immigrated to the US in 1990…
ID Number:2000.107.139.04.01
Date:1988
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Won Ldy Paye teaching African music to fourth grade students, Seattle, February 19, 1988
Won-Ldy Paye is a storyteller, dancer, drummer, and artist from Tapita, Liberia. He was trained by his grandmother to remember and retell the stories of the Dan people of northeastern Liberia, and is a member of the Tlo Ker Mehn, the class of professional Dan entertainers who are keepers of the oral tradition. Paye immigrated to the US in 1990…
ID Number:2000.107.139.04.02
Date:1988