1312 results for: Seattle Center
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Anchor and Dewitt Jensen at Jensen Motor Boat Company, Seattle, April 22, 1997
The Jensen Motor Boat Company was founded in 1922 by Tony Jensen (1889-1963), a Danish immigrant and descendant of boat builders. In 1927, Tony, his wife Bessie (1892-1968), and two partners moved the company to 1417 NE Boat Street on Seattle’s Portage Bay. The company specialized in building boats with experimental designs. Sons George (1915-1977) and Anchor (1918-2000) continued the…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.17.08
Date:1997
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Tamakko-za drama and drum troupe performing at Seattle Center, May 13, 1997
The 11th Annual Seattle International Children's Festival took place at Seattle Center in May 1997. It featured performing groups and artists from ten different countries. Here, the Tamakko-za drama and drum group from Japan performs a skit involving a pesky insect. Caption information source: "On the cultural beat," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 14, 1997, page B1.
ID Number:2000.107.19970513.13.13
Date:1997
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Eddie Vedder performing at Memorial Stadium, Seattle, July 22, 1998
In July 1998, hometown band Pearl Jam held two concerts in Seattle’s Memorial Stadium to raise $500,000 for 10 local charities. The concert opened with sets by the Wallflowers and Seattle punk band Zeke, before Pearl Jam took the stage, with Eddie Vedder’s shout of “We’re home!” Among the causes benefitting from the concert proceeds were the John Stanford Book…
ID Number:2000.107.19980722.1.01
Date:1998
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Eddie Vedder performing at Memorial Stadium, Seattle, July 22, 1998
In July 1998, hometown band Pearl Jam held two concerts in Seattle’s Memorial Stadium to raise $500,000 for 10 local charities. The concert opened with sets by the Wallflowers and Seattle punk band Zeke, before Pearl Jam took the stage, with Eddie Vedder’s shout of “We’re home!” Among the causes benefitting from the concert proceeds were the John Stanford Book…
ID Number:2000.107.19980722.1.09
Date:1998
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Pearl Jam performing at Memorial Stadium, Seattle, July 22, 1998
In July 1998, hometown band Pearl Jam held two concerts in Seattle’s Memorial Stadium to raise $500,000 for 10 local charities. The concert opened with sets by the Wallflowers and Seattle punk band Zeke, before Pearl Jam took the stage, with Eddie Vedder’s shout of “We’re home!” Among the causes benefitting from the concert proceeds were the John Stanford Book…
ID Number:2000.107.19980722.1.17
Date:1998
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Eddie Vedder performing at Memorial Stadium, Seattle, July 22, 1998
In July 1998, hometown band Pearl Jam held two concerts in Seattle’s Memorial Stadium to raise $500,000 for 10 local charities. The concert opened with sets by the Wallflowers and Seattle punk band Zeke, before Pearl Jam took the stage, with Eddie Vedder’s shout of “We’re home!” Among the causes benefitting from the concert proceeds were the John Stanford Book…
ID Number:2000.107.19980722.2.10
Date:1998
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Cheri Honkala being arrested by police at WTO protest, Seattle, November 29, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.9.30
Date:1999
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Demonstrators in turtle costumes at WTO protest, Seattle, November 29, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.16.22
Date:1999
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Mohamed Sultan, trade delegate from Djibouti, at the WTO Conference, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.25.26
Date:1999
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Jubilee 2000 Coalition march at WTO protest, Seattle, November 29, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2000.107.19991129.34.21
Date:1999