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"The Police Force," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, February 17, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.30.2
Date:1886
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"The Examination," Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer, February 19, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.32.1
Date:1886
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"The Riot Examination," Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer, February 20, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.33.1
Date:1886
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"The Riot Examination," Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer, February 21, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.34.1
Date:1886
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"What the Press Say," and "The End of Martial Law," Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer, February 23, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.35.1
Date:1886
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"The Chinese Question," Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, March 3, 1886

Seattle's earliest Chinese residents are believed to have arrived in the early 1860s, and while welcomed at first for the role they played in the region's development, Chinese immigrants were not allowed to vote and were subjected to numerous laws that restricted their rights. In the mid-1870s and early 1880s the national economy took a downturn, increasingly leading white workers…
ID Number:2022.3.3.36.1
Date:1886
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Union Strong Starbucks Worker Solidarity poster, 2022

In December 2021, workers at a Starbucks location in Buffalo, New York voted to form a labor union, making it the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. In 2022, workers at many other Starbucks locations also began holding union elections. By December 2022, more than 270 stores, including several stores in Seattle, had successfully voted to unionize and join…
ID Number:2022.33.1
Date:2022
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Chicken Soup Brigade Newsletter: The Monthly for Volunteers and Clients, April 1989

The Chicken Soup Brigade (CSB) was founded in 1983 to provide assistance to people who were disabled by illness. With the escalation of the AIDS crisis, the group's focus soon shifted to providing services only to people with AIDS. Volunteers helped with transportation, medical appointments, meals, cleaning, and other everyday needs. The organization grew dramatically after hiring its first paid…
ID Number:2023.30.5
Date:1989
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Draft of letter from Evelyn Chapman to Washington legislators regarding Title I funding for the Northwest Center, May 26, 1969

Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.01
Date:1969
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Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968

Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968
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