154 results for: American House
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Vivian Caver, Seattle, September 9, 1975
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.01
Date:1975
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Vivian Caver at press conference, Seattle, February 1980
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.02
Date:1980
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Baba Jeanne Mangaoang speaking at Congressional hearing, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1954
Baba Jeanne "B.J." (Sears) Mangaoang (1915-2007) was a Seattle woman who remained active in Communist Party (CP) politics, the fight against the Red Scare, and advocated for peace and social justice throughout her life. She was introduced to the CP as a student at the University of Washington in the early 1930s, formally joining the Party in 1938. She worked…
ID Number:2000.107.046.27.01
Date:1954
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Slade Gorton listening to testimony on bill to decommercialize steelhead trout, Seattle, June 29, 1981
In 1981, bills were introduced in the US Congress to make steelhead trout a game fish rather than one that could be fished commercially. At this time, non-Native fishers could not fish for steelhead commercially. Sports fishers hailed the bill, but Native fishers bitterly opposed it, fearing it could seriously affect their livelihood.A public hearing on the legislation, held on…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.03
Date:1981
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Drummers performing at Cherry Blossom Festival at Seattle Center, May 5, 1979
The Japanese tradition of holding events or festivals surrounding the short-lived blooming of ornamental cherry blossom trees (sakura) is thought to be centuries old and is maintained in many parts of the world. Cherry blossom festivals (hanami) are a reminder to celebrate life and to enjoy the transient beauty of flowers. They are held outside and often include a variety…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.04
Date:1979
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Russell Means and Hank Adams at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972
In 1972, American Indian Movement (AIM) activists Dennis Banks (1937-2017), Ojibwe, and Russell Charles Means (1939-2012), Oglala Sioux, along with members of the Rosebud Sioux, organized the Trail of Broken Treaties and Pan American Native Quest for Justice, a caravan of automobiles that would cross the nation in a political protest concluding at the White House. On October 6th, three…
ID Number:2000.107.123.30.01
Date:1970
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House at center of debate in Open Housing Campaign, Seattle, May 2, 1959
Seattle's African American population increased dramatically between 1940 and 1960, making the community the city's largest minority group. Like other minorities, African Americans experienced discrimination in many ways, including in housing. The enforcement of restrictive covenants in specific developments or subdivisions, realtors agreeing not to show houses to people of color, and red-lining, where banks denied credit to minorities, largely…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.02
Date:1959
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Seattle Art Museum exterior, October 31, 1991
The new Seattle Art Museum (SAM) building at 1st Avenue and University Street opened on December 5, 1991. The 5-story building, designed by Robert Venturi, had four times the space of the old museum at Volunteer Park, with new galleries displaying African art, Northwest Native American art, modern art, photography, and Northwest artists. The Volunteer Park Museum was remodeled to…
ID Number:2000.107.164.37.03
Date:1991
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Brokers inspecting pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, January 22, 1981
In this image, New York-based fur brokers Phillip Brenner, left, and Rolf Harf inspect pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, a celebrated fur auction house established in 1898 as a store where gold miners could barter wild Alaskan furs for supplies such as food, clothes, and tools. Still based in the Seattle area, the company was consolidated in the late…
ID Number:2000.107.173.04.01
Date:1981
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Total Experience Gospel Choir members singing, Seattle, June 22, 1980
The Total Experience Gospel Choir (1973-2018) was founded and led by Pastor Patrinell Wright and, though based in Seattle, the choir performed and toured extensively around the world. Wright formed a choir at Franklin High School as an alternative activity for African-American students in 1970, but when a school-funding levy failed in 1973, her position was cut and she began…
ID Number:2000.107.213.12.01
Date:1980