1344 results for: Seattle Center
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Roberta Byrd Barr with Face to Face panel, February 2, 1966
Roberta Byrd Barr (1919-1993) was a civil rights leader, educator, and journalist. Born in Tacoma, Barr returned to Seattle in 1959, attending University of Washington and working as a teacher at Jefferson Elementary School, and then as librarian at John Muir Elementary. When Seattle teachers and parents boycotted the city’s public schools and demanded desegregation in 1966, Barr headed the…
ID Number:2000.107.243.01.01
Date:1966
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Balloon floats parading south on Third Avenue, Seattle, November 20, 1954
In this image, spectators line Third Avenue in downtown Seattle to watch the 6th annual Santa Claus Parade. The parade theme was "1954 Story Book Parade," and featured 30 giant balloon floats. The train balloon in the center of the image was the largest in the parade, at 65 feet long and about 14 feet high. The balloons were escorted…
ID Number:2000.107.244.05.01
Date:1954
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Dogs competing in Seattle Kennel Club show, March 1, 1987
In this image, Judge Ronald R. Young directs the action as these English springer spaniels, with a little help from their owners, strut their stuff. With 70 representatives, the springers were the most popular breed at the show. More than 1770 total dogs entered in the Seattle Kennel Club's 82nd All-Breed Dog Show at the Seattle Center.The owners and dogs…
ID Number:2000.107.246.07.01
Date:1987
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Seattle Totems team photograph, Seattle, February 1960
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.257.10.01
Date:1960
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Group building Tent City near Kingdome, Seattle, November 21, 1990
This image was taken as people experiencing homelessness construct what became known as "Tent City" in an attempt to alleviate a shortage of emergency shelter in downtown Seattle. By the following week about 50 people were camped at the site near the Kingdome, drawing attention to the loss of emergency shelter space from the previous year and a growing homeless…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.01
Date:1990
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Man removing belongings from Tent City, Seattle, December 10, 1990
This image was taken as Doug Castle, an unemployed fisherman from Dallas, collects some of his belongings from Seattle's Tent City. The site near the Kingdome had provided emergency shelter for some of the homeless population since November 21. Mr. Castle, a leader of the group Share (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort), and the other inhabitants were moving to a…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.02
Date:1990
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Beatrice LaFramboise outside Providence Regina House food bank, Seattle, November 4, 1986
In this image, Sister Beatrice LaFramboise, director of the Providence Regina House food bank, leans on the fence outside the Seattle facility. The Sisters of Providence have been operating a weekly food and clothing bank out of the South Park Neighborhood Center since 1963. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, November 13, 1989, p. B3.Caption information also derived from captions…
ID Number:2000.107.260.09.01
Date:1986
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Woman sitting at Seattle War Memorial, Seattle, May 30, 1951
This image of a woman sitting at the Seattle War Memorial Plaza on Fourth Avenue was taken as a VWF (Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US) bugler calls "Taps" on Memorial Day. The woman is identified as a Gold Star mother, a woman entitled to display a gold star on a service flag, due to being the mother of…
ID Number:2000.107.264.02.01
Date:1951
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Family seeking information on victims of Wah Mee Club massacre, Seattle, February 20, 1983
In this image Cerisse Jatabutr, center, accompanied by her mother and brother, knock at the door of the King County Medical Examiner at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. The family members received confirmation that Cerisse's father, Hung Fat Gee, was among the 13 people killed the previous day at the Wah Mee gambling club in the Chinatown - International District. Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.265.07.02
Date:1983
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Rich Walsh, founder and director of the Resource Center for the Handicapped, Bothell, December 1986
In 1977, Richard “Rich” Walsh suffered a serious automobile accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He moved to the University of Washington Medical Center for major rehabilitation and found his life’s calling. Seeing other young, paralyzed people sent to nursing homes for the rest of their lives, Walsh decided there had to be a better way. He…
ID Number:2000.107.289.02.01
Date:1986