3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Anti-abortion demonstration on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, May 30, 1985
On May 30, 1985, a coalition of Seattle religious groups walked from the Seattle Center to the Federal Courthouse in a "Memorial March for the Unborn.'' In this image, anti-abortion demonstrators march down Fifth Avenue towards the Federal Courthouse. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.10
Date:1985
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Anwar Aboul Hosn with tray of baklava, December 1977
Anwar Aboul Hosn (also spelled Abou El Hosn, Abouelhosn, or Aboul Hossen) came to Seattle in 1973 and purchased the Ali Baba restaurant at 707 East Pine Street in 1977. On New Year’s Day 1978, Anwar Aboul Hosn donated 100% of the proceeds from his restaurant that day to help fellow Lebanese people left homeless by the two-year-old Lebanese civil…
ID Number:2000.107.001.17.01
Date:1977
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Gene Achziger and his Bubbleator greenhouse, Des Moines, Washington, December 8, 1988
In this image Gene Achziger adjusts the doors on the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Bubbleator, converted to a greenhouse at his Redondo home in the 1980s. The Bubbleator was a 19-foot wide, 3,000 pound, bubble-shaped transparent hydraulic elevator, built specifically for the fair's "World of Tomorrow" exhibit in the Washington State Coliseum (later Key Arena, and as of 2021 Climate…
ID Number:2000.107.002.14.01
Date:1988
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Clarence Acox directing Jazz Ensemble at Garfield High School, Seattle, May 11, 1991
In this image director Clarence Acox leads the Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble in some swinging music of the '30s and '40s in the high school gymnasium. A native of New Orleans, Clarence Acox Jr. is a well-known jazz drummer and band director who has been teaching at Garfield since 1971. Acox has led the Garfield Jazz Ensemble to win…
ID Number:2000.107.002.17.01
Date:1991
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UW crew team members Gordon Adam and Norm Turay, Seattle, circa 1936
In this image two members of the Husky men's rowing team sit outside what appears to be the crew house on the University of Washington campus. Both men were coached by the legendary Alvin M. Ulbrickson (1903-1980) and Thomas Bolles (1902-1978), racing in boats built by George Pocock (1891-1976). This famed period in UW rowing history was featured in Daniel…
ID Number:2000.107.002.18.01
Date:Circa 1936
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Bishop John Hurst Adams discussing education, Seattle, November 19, 1987
Rev. Dr. John Hurst Adams (1927-2018) was the pastor at Seattle’s First African Methodist Episcopal (FAME) Church from 1962 to 1968 and a leader in the city’s civil rights struggle. He chaired the Central Area Civil Rights Committee, made up of the heads of the local civil rights organizations Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), NAACP, and Seattle Urban League. The…
ID Number:2000.107.002.26.01
Date:1987
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Ismail Ahmad and Wahab Almatar at the Islamic International House at UW, August 1990
At left in this photo is Ismail Ahmad, who came to Seattle from Iraq around 1970 to attend the University of Washington. In 1990, Ahmad was running the Islamic International House, housing in the University District for Muslim students. Wahab Almater, at right, from Kuwait, was a UW graduate student in business, living at the Islamic International House along with…
ID Number:2000.107.002.39.01
Date:1990
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New sign at SeaTac airport, October 1983
In September 1983, shortly after the death of longtime US Senator for Washington Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Port of Seattle commission decided to rename Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac for short) to Henry M. Jackson International Airport in his honor. Tacoma officials objected that the name change both insulted their city and violated the deal made when the airport first…
ID Number:2000.107.005.05.01
Date:1983
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Workers removing sign at SeaTac airport, March 1984
In September 1983, shortly after the death of longtime US Senator for Washington Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Port of Seattle commission decided to rename Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac for short) to Henry M. Jackson International Airport in his honor. Tacoma officials objected that the name change both insulted their city and violated the deal made when the airport first…
ID Number:2000.107.005.05.02
Date:1984
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Yolanda Alaniz at victory celebration, April 27, 1992
Yolanda Alaniz was born in 1950 in Texas, and grew up in Sunnyside, Washington, in the Yakima Valley. She and her family worked as farm laborers. Alaniz began attending the University of Washington in 1969 and during her time there she became an activist for Chicano rights and women’s rights. At UW, Alaniz was a member of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil…
ID Number:2000.107.005.11.01
Date:1992