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Sam Smith, Edwin Pratt, and others at press conference, January 24, 1969
Sam Smith was the first African-American person to be elected to the Seattle City Council in 1968 and was on the Council until 1991, chairing many committees and serving as Council President from 1974-1979 and 1986-1989. Smith also served in the Washington State Legislature for five terms, beginning with his election from the 37th district in 1958.In January 1969, Councilman…
ID Number:2000.107.200.11.01
Date:1969
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Longview Timber Barons soccer team, January 1926
Businessman Jack H. Kelly emigrated to the US from Canada in the early 1900s, setting up a plumbing business and starting up a local soccer team at every town he stopped in. In 1923, Kelly stopped in Longview, Washington, set up his business, and later started a soccer team. The Longview Timber Barons had their first organization meeting and practice…
ID Number:2000.107.201.33.04
Date:1927
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David Sohappy at Geiger Corrections Center, Spokane, November 22, 1987
David Sohappy (1925-1991) was a Wanapum fisher and activist for Indigenous fishing rights. In the mid-1960s, Sohappy and his family moved to Cook’s Landing in Skamania County at the mouth of the Little White Salmon River. There, Sohappy became a fisher full-time and took only as many fish as needed for his community, in line with traditional Wanapum beliefs and…
ID Number:2000.107.202.10.01
Date:1987
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Terry Tafoya teaching a dance to students at the Pacific Science Center, Seattle, March 2, 1983
In this photo, Terry Tafoya of the Northwest Institute for Indian Education (NINE) leads a traditional dance with 5th grade students at an overnight camp at the Pacific Science Center. Tafoya was one of three educators with NINE who taught Native history to teachers and students at schools, workshops, and camps. Caption information source: "Kids learn about Indians from Indians"…
ID Number:2000.107.210.01.01
Date:1983
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Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show off the completed Earth Mound, a mosaic of the Earth viewed from the…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.01
Date:1988
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Jakob Schapiro, Leon Admov, and Matthew Phillips painting tiles, Seattle, February 29, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image taken at Orca-Day Elementary School, artist Jakob Schapiro and architect Leon Admov of Tashkent join fifth-grader Matthew…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.03
Date:1988
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Grace Thorpe making sign for protest at courthouse, Seattle, March 16, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.212.01.01
Date:1970
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Edward Thomas, Mark Tobey, and Ethel Thomas, Seattle, August 7, 1963
Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.In this image Tobey, center, accompanied by Edward B. Thomas and his wife Ethel Morrison Thomas, enters the Seattle Art Museum for a…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.03
Date:1963
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David Levine, Mark Tobey, and Gordon Clinton, Seattle, March 30, 1959
Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.In this image Tobey, center, is presented with a copy of a City Council resolution in his honor by Council President David Levine,…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.04
Date:1959
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Total Experience Gospel Choir members singing, Seattle, June 22, 1980
The Total Experience Gospel Choir (1973-2018) was founded and led by Pastor Patrinell Wright and, though based in Seattle, the choir performed and toured extensively around the world. Wright formed a choir at Franklin High School as an alternative activity for African-American students in 1970, but when a school-funding levy failed in 1973, her position was cut and she began…
ID Number:2000.107.213.12.01
Date:1980