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Bill Gates with students at Microsoft, February 10, 2000
This photograph shows Bill Gates with a group of high school students of color at an event at Microsoft. The event may have been related to the imminent release of Windows 2000 on February 17, 2000. Written on negative envelope: Gates talk to minority students
ID Number:2007.45.Box146.02.20000210.01.03.25
Date:2000
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University of Washington Drill Team, circa 1895
The members of the 1895 University of Washington Drill Team pose in uniform for a group photograph. In 1892, the University of Washington made two-year military training compulsory and by 1896, 500 students were enrolled in military science. UW suspended the mandatory military training requirement in 1902. Caption information source: "Military History at UW," Kinnear Husky Battalion (KHB) Legacy Foundation,…
ID Number:2008.32.3
Date:Circa 1895
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Central School's fifth grade class posing at annex, Seattle, circa 1898
In this image, 29 children pose together on the steps in front of the Washington Territorial University Building, vacated in 1895 after university's (now University of Washington) move to its current location north of downtown. The Seattle School Board leased the old university building from 1898-1899 due to overcrowding at Central School (now referred to as Central II). The university…
ID Number:2008.44.2
Date:Circa 1898
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Holy Names Academy at 7th Avenue and Jackson Street, Seattle, circa 1885
In 1860, the Sisters of Holy Names opened their Seattle school for girls in a rental home. Four years later, they moved the school to the new Holy Names Academy building near downtown Seattle, on the ridge that once connected First and Beacon Hills. A few days after the 1908 commencement exercises that building, shown in this image, was demolished…
ID Number:2008.54.34
Date:Circa 1885
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Letter written by Seattle student promoting the AYPE, March 5, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle in 1909, publicizing the development of the Pacific Northwest. People traveled from all over the country to see the AYPE, with an estimated 3,700,000 visitors having attended the fair by the time it closed in October 1909. The fairgrounds became the campus of the University of Washington.In this letter,…
ID Number:2008.57.1
Date:1909
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Students’ Army Training Corps group on steps of Washington State Museum, University of Washington campus, 1918
The establishment of Students' Army Training Corps (SATC) units during World War I was authorized by the Selective Service Act of 1917, and implemented by the newly created Committee on Education and Special Training of the US War Department. The short-lived SATC program utilized the facilities, equipment, and faculty of colleges and universities to select and train officer candidates and…
ID Number:2009.32.1
Date:1918
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Panelists for program on racial integration of Musicians' Association of Seattle, January 23, 2018
The American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," was founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM Local 76. Local 493 was at the heart of Seattle's vibrant jazz scene, and its E. Jefferson Street "clubhouse," the Blue Note, was a lifeline…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC657
Date:2018
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Group around table at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1984
The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s, when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.012.07
Date:1984
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Group with ROOTS Reunion sign, Seattle, 1984
The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.012.17
Date:1984
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Members of the Royal Esquire Club on steps of Collins Field House, Seattle, September 11, 1949
The Royal Esquire Club is a private African American men's club in Seattle, founded in 1947 by five young Black men, as there was no welcoming venue in the city where they could socialize. Still active as of 2025 and now located in the Columbia City neighborhood, the club provides a space for social interaction, education, and entertainment for its…
ID Number:2014.49.010.003.0005
Date:1949