584 results for: Asian American
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Tung On Chin in the Linyen Cafe, Seattle, July 1965
Tung On Chin (1905-1989) was the owner of the Linyen Cafe, located at 424 Seventh Avenue South in Seattle's Chinatown International District. Chin first arrived in Seattle in 1923, then went back to China in 1929 and 1933 before returning to Seattle for good in 1934. The first newspaper ad for the Linyen Cafe appears in late 1939. Chin was…
ID Number:1986.5.21463.2
Date:1965
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Ruby Chow in the kitchen, probably in Seattle, 1960
Ruby Chow (1920-2008) was a Chinese-American activist and restaurateur who was active in the community for over 50 years. She was born in Seattle and grew up in what was then Chinatown (now the Chinatown International District). In 1948, Ruby and her husband Ping opened Ruby Chow’s Restaurant, which quickly became popular especially with celebrities and dignitaries. Chow became the…
ID Number:1986.5.21497.1
Date:1960
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Suman Gupta with her daughter after receiving permanent residency, Seattle, March 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.4
Date:1966
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Suman Gupta and family in office after she received permanent residency, March, 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.11
Date:1966
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Philip Hayasaka sitting at desk, Seattle, August 30, 1968
Philip Hayasaka was born in 1926 and raised in a Japanese American neighborhood on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. He was incarcerated during World War II. After attending the University of Washington and serving in the Korean War, Hayasaka became active in civil rights in Seattle. He served as President of the multi-racial Jackson Street Community Council and led the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:1986.5.28105.8
Date:1968
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Rajanikant “Raj” and Irene Joshi with their daughters and an unidentified man, February 1965
Rajanikant "Raj" Joshi (1932-2018), originally from Gwailor, India, came to the U.S. in the late 1940s with his family. He attended the University of Washington in the mid-1950s, earning his Master's degree in Urban Planning. He met his wife, Irene, at the UW, and the two married on their shared birthday, October 10, in 1958. Joshi worked as an urban…
ID Number:1986.5.30744.1
Date:1965
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Mineo Katagiri seated at a desk, possibly in Seattle, 1966
Handwritten on sleeve: Katagiri, Mineo.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 11, 1966.
ID Number:1986.5.30904.1
Date:1966
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Akia Kuniyuki, Philip Hayasaka, and Ruth Chinn at Jackson Street Community Council office, Seattle, 1960
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Seattle’s public-school system was growing. Proposition 22, a $5.5 million funding levy, appeared on the November ballot in 1960. While some of the money was for normal operations and maintenance, the Seattle School Board pointed to the system’s needs to cover additional pupils, rising supply costs, teacher salary increases and staffing of new…
ID Number:1986.5.32067.1
Date:1960
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Lung Sing Luke in his grocery store at 920 James Street, Seattle, February 26, 1960
When Seattle grocer Lung Sing Luke was robbed at gunpoint, he basically shrugged it off. His store, at 920 James Street on First Hill, had already been the target of six or seven robberies during the ten years since he had run the shop. This time, he figured he'd lost about $235.00.Here, shortly after the robbery, Luke stands at his…
ID Number:1986.5.33599.1
Date:1960
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Wing Luke and his mother inside a store, probably in Seattle, 1962
Wing Luke was the first Asian American to hold elected office in the Pacific Northwest. He served on the Seattle City Council from 1962 until his death in a plane crash in 1965. Handwritten on sleeve: Luke, Wing, city council and mother.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month…
ID Number:1986.5.33602.1
Date:1962