3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Benefit rock concert at Seward Park for Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
In 1963 Seattle City Council proposed razing the Pike Place Market in hopes of obtaining federal urban renewal funds. Opponents to the demolition banded together in organizations to "Save the Market." Fundraisers included concerts, selling shopping bags, cookbooks and buttons. After an eight year battle the Market was saved by Initiative No. 1 on November 2, 1971. Handwritten on sleeve:…
ID Number:1986.5.54480.1
Date:1971
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Japanese dancers performing at the Northwest bandshell at Festival 71, Seattle Center, August 1971
Held in August 1971, Festival 71 was the first event after the 1961 Seattle World's Fair to utilize the entire Seattle Center campus. The event was repeated as Festival 72 the following year, becoming Bumbershoot in 1973. Bumbershoot continues as North America's largest urban arts festival, taking place annually at Seattle Center over the Labor Day weekend.In this photo, dancers…
ID Number:1986.5.54911.1
Date:1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family refinishing furniture, Seattle, August 1971
The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.1
Date:1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family at a bungalow, Seattle, August 1971
The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.2
Date:1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family renovating a house, Seattle, August 1971
The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.3
Date:1971
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Members of the Love Israel Family reading scripture, Seattle, August 1971
The Love Israel Family, a Seattle communal group, was founded in 1968 by Paul Erdman, who changed his name to Love Israel. The Family started out in a bungalow on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, and all members took the surname Israel, with new first names representing virtues or biblical figures. Their non-traditional dress, living arrangements, and spiritual practices were often…
ID Number:1986.5.54913.4
Date:1971
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First UW Ethnic Cultural Center building, Seattle, 1971
The Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) at the University of Washington (UW) was founded after years of demands from nonwhite students, who made up a very small percentage of UW’s student body at the time. In 1968, the Black Student Union began to protest for the expansion of educational programs for minority students and for greater racial and ethnic diversity in…
ID Number:1986.5.54948.5
Date:1971
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Rally against the Burke Gilman Trail, Seattle, September 12, 1971
In 1885, Judge Thomas Burke, D.H. Gilman, and other investors raised funds to build the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway. They hoped to connect Seattle by train to the eastern part of the U.S., but the initial route only reached the north end of Lake Washington. Later absorbed by the Northern Pacific the line was used primarily for a…
ID Number:1986.5.55062.1
Date:1971
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People hiking in support of the Burke Gilman Trail, Seattle, September 12, 1971
In 1885, Judge Thomas Burke, D.H. Gilman, and other investors raised funds to build the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway. They hoped to connect Seattle by train to the eastern part of the U.S., but the initial route only reached the north end of Lake Washington. Later absorbed by the Northern Pacific the line was used primarily for a…
ID Number:1986.5.55062.2
Date:1971
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John Singer and Paul Barwick applying for marriage license, Seattle, September 20, 1971
Paul Barwick (1947-) and John Singer (later Faygele ben-Miriam, 1944-2000) together filed one of the first gay marriage lawsuits in American history, known as Singer v. Hara, after being denied a marriage license at the King County Administration Building in Seattle in 1971. The two men were members of the local chapter of the Gay Liberation Front, a national activist…
ID Number:1986.5.55086.2
Date:1971