1344 results for: Seattle Center
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Japanese American servicemen playing chess at Fort Lawton, Seattle, July 22, 1945
In spite of having their loyalties questioned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and with more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent incarcerated in camps in the western U.S, Japanese Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in disproportionate numbers. Most served in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. military history for its…
ID Number:2000.107.217.01.01
Date:1945
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Nyra Sone holding flags at U.S. citizenship ceremony at the Seattle Center, July 4, 1986
Each year, the Immigration and Naturalization Service holds ceremonies for new immigrants to become U.S. citizens. In this image, Nyra Sone, a 9-year-old from Laos, is holding two American flags at her naturalization ceremony on the Fourth of July at the Seattle Center. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.217.23.02
Date:1986
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Sand Point Naval Air Station entrance, Seattle, circa 1940
Under a variety of official designations, Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle that juts into Lake Washington, served for almost 50 years as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy. The development of the combat-ready naval air station on Whidbey Island made Sand Point superfluous as an air base, and in 1970…
ID Number:2000.107.217.35.01
Date:Circa 1940
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Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft at Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, February 14, 1951
Under a variety of official designations, Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle that juts into Lake Washington, served for almost 50 years as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy. The development of the combat-ready naval air station on Whidbey Island made Sand Point superfluous as an air base, and in 1970…
ID Number:2000.107.218.01.01
Date:1951
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Bettylou Valentine at site for new Central Youth and Family Services building, Seattle, June 16, 1992
Bettylou (Burleigh) Valentine (1937-2014) came to Seattle in 1959 to attend graduate school at the University of Washington. She was an early leader of Seattle CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), serving as secretary in 1964. She helped organize the campus Civil Rights Action Group (CRAG) after the university administration refused to allow an NAACP chapter on campus. She left Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.218.33.03
Date:1992
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Lê Quốc Thân playing outside with his foster brother, Renton, April 8, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Many found foster families in the greater Seattle area.Some of the children in the program were biracial, with one American parent. This was the case for Lê Quốc Thân, whose Vietnamese mother took him to the Holt…
ID Number:2000.107.220.18.04
Date:1975
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Lê Quốc Thân leaping off the porch of his foster home, Renton, April 8, 1975
In April 1975, shortly before the end of the Vietnam War, several thousand Vietnamese children were brought to the US to be adopted. Many found foster families in the greater Seattle area.Some of the children in the program were biracial, with one American parent. This was the case for Lê Quốc Thân, whose Vietnamese mother took him to the Holt…
ID Number:2000.107.220.19.05
Date:1975
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Vietnamese child eating at Camp Murray, Washington, May 21, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, 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. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.20.02
Date:1975
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Vietnamese woman at Camp Murray, Washington, May 20 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, 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. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.20.03
Date:1975
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Vietnamese woman after arrival at Camp Murray, Washington, May 20, 1975
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces. In the immediate aftermath, 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. Vietnamese refugees arriving to the West Coast in May 1975 were…
ID Number:2000.107.220.20.04
Date:1975