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Naturalization ceremony at Woodland Park, Seattle, July 7, 1947
Assembled in Woodland Park, a group of foreign-born residents of Seattle received citizenship papers as part of the annual Fourth of July ceremony arranged by Seattle Post No. 1 of the American Legion. The main address was given by General Carl Andrew Spaatz (1891-1974) and was to be followed by an elaborate nighttime fireworks show over Green Lake.This photo shows…
ID Number:PI24528
Date:1947
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Betty Morrison and Thomas Morrison holding their naturalization papers, December 22, 1947
In this image Betty Lorraine Morrison (b. 1931) and Thomas Lyle Morrison (b. 1930), two new American citizens, pose holding their naturalization papers. The siblings were born in Vancouver, B. C., and were adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrison of Seattle. Along with about 40 other foreign-born residents, the Morrison children took their oaths of office in a ceremony…
ID Number:PI24530
Date:1947
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Reception for new citizens at Seattle P-I building, April 29, 1949
On April 29, 1949, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer held a reception for newly naturalized citizens at the P-I building at Sixth Avenue and Wall Street. This photo shows the large group of new citizens standing, holding their right hands over their hearts, as a woman walks down the aisle carrying an American flag. Handwritten on negative: New citizen reception PI 4/29/49Handwritten…
ID Number:PI24535
Date:1949
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Seattle Police Department motorcycle corps, Seattle, August 1941
In early 1910, the Seattle police department invested $1,329 in its first three motorcycles, with seven patrolman selected as the first members of the "motor cops" squad. At the time, speeding fines were paid to King County rather than the city of Seattle, and the city hoped to pass a traffic ordinance which would allow it to keep fines for…
ID Number:PI24808
Date:1941
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Garfield students weighing donated waste paper, March 21, 1947
During and after World War II, many of Seattle's school children collected newspapers to help the war effort, and to alleviate later paper shortages caused by the war. Here, a group of enthusiastic Garfield High School students weigh bundles of newspapers being uploaded from a student's car. The school had collected 114 tons of paper in 5 days, and more…
ID Number:PI25518
Date:1947
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Mrs. Wickman's Pie soccer team playing game with unidentified team, Seattle, October 1940
Seven soccer football clubs signed on to participate in the 1940-1941 season of the Seattle Soccer League. Among the new contenders was a team called Mrs. Wickman's Pie. The Mrs. Wickman team had played in different leagues previously, and won the state cup in 1928. Here, the men of Mrs. Wickman's Pie play an unidentified team at Lower Woodland Park.…
ID Number:PI26967
Date:1940
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Boarded up window displays on Jackson Street after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28067
Date:1942
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Boarded up storefronts on 6th Ave. S after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, June 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28071
Date:1942
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Racist graffiti in front of Japanese American home, Seattle, May 11, 1945
On December 18, 1944, the United States government announced that Japanese Americans in incarceration camps could return to their homes after January 1, 1945. In Seattle, and elsewhere on the West Coast, this was a controversial issue. When the first returnees arrived in Seattle in January, some found a cold welcome and vandalized property. Groups like the Remember the Pearl…
ID Number:PI28083
Date:1945
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Kameno and Shinichi Seike at Nisei memorial dinner, Seattle, December 13, 1946
Nearly 1000 veterans, family members, and friends attended a Nisei veterans' testimonial banquet at Seattle's Civic Auditorium on December 13, 1946. The event, sponsored by the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), featured speakers paying tribute to Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) soldiers who lost their lives during World War II.Close relatives of those who died sat at special tables like…
ID Number:PI28185
Date:1946