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Image of Man removing belongings from Tent City, Seattle, December 10, 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
Image of Couple sitting under freeway overpass, Seattle, April 14, 1987
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Couple sitting under freeway overpass, Seattle, April 14, 1987

In this image Joe Minish and his companion Jody huddle in blankets in their camp under the Pine Street overpass in downtown Seattle. Keith Roy Ganyo, left, a former Marine, crawls out of a hole under the bridge abutment where the group stores their belongings. This camp was one of about 30 around the city where people experiencing homelessness were…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.04
Date:1987
Image of Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, May 1, 1991
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Man sitting in temporary shelter, Seattle, May 1, 1991

In this image Tony, a resident of "The Ranch," a tent city temporarily located on Beacon Hill in Seattle, sits in the doorway of his makeshift home. The Ranch was made up of seven huts constructed of scavenged wood and plastic built in a wooded area near South Dearborn Street and 12th Avenue South. Caption information written by Post-Intelligencer staff…
ID Number:2000.107.257.11.07
Date:1991
Image of Kearney Kozai with curling stone at the Granite Curling Club, Seattle, January 1960
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Kearney Kozai with curling stone at the Granite Curling Club, Seattle, January 1960

Born in Oahu, Hawaii, to Japanese-immigrant parents, Kearney Kozai (1925-1990), moved to Seattle with his wife, Betty, in the 1950s, after having served in the Army during World War II. An engineer at the Boeing Co., Mr. Kozai became fascinated by the sport of curling shortly after his arrival in the city. In 1961, Mr. Kozai helped build the Granite…
ID Number:2000.107.260.08.01
Date:1960
Image of Woman sitting at Seattle War Memorial, Seattle, May 30, 1951
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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
Image of Don Chin talking with city officials after Wah Mee Club massacre, Seattle, February 20, 1983
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Don Chin talking with city officials after Wah Mee Club massacre, Seattle, February 20, 1983

In this image Don Chin, a resident of Seattle's Chinatown - International District, asks Mayor Charles Royer and Seattle Police Chief Patrick Fitzsimons what is being done to protect his community in the wake of the murder of 13 patrons in the Wah Mee gambling club two days previously, on February 18, 1983. Caption information source: "Three robbers raid Wah…
ID Number:2000.107.265.07.01
Date:1983
Image of Map of Seattle, 1889, with Great Fire area drawn on top, circa 1990s
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Map of Seattle, 1889, with Great Fire area drawn on top, circa 1990s

This map of Seattle, prepared by Llewellyn, Dodge and Co. om 1889, presents a bird's-eye view of the city before the June 6, 1889 fire, facing northeast from Elliott Bay towards the Cascade Mountain Range. Here, a photograph of the map was created by Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff, and the area of the city affected by the fire indicated with an…
ID Number:2000.107.273.03.01
Date:Circa 1990s
Image of Dai Vu studying questions in his English class, Seattle, October 1979
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Dai Vu studying questions in his English class, Seattle, October 1979

Ten-year-old Dai Vu, from Vietnam, arrived in the US in August 1979 with his father and two older siblings after living in a Malaysian refugee camp for 5 months. All of the family's money went into the boat passage for the four, and Dai's mother and younger siblings had to be left behind. In Seattle, Dai attended school at Lake…
ID Number:2000.107.289.01.02
Date:1979
Image of Lt. Tracy Franks spraying Chief Molly Douce with fire extinquisher during Pride Parade, Seattle, June 30, 2002
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Lt. Tracy Franks spraying Chief Molly Douce with fire extinquisher during Pride Parade, Seattle, June 30, 2002

Seattle celebrated its first Gay Pride Week in June 1974, with a variety of festive activities at private and public venues around the city. The largest event, a day of celebrations at Occidental Park, drew a crowd of about 200. Three years later, Mayor Wes Uhlman officially endorsed the city’s pride celebration, declaring June 25 to July 1, 1977 to…
ID Number:2000.107.2002.CD01.02.03.001
Date:2002
Image of Artist Weldon Butler in his studio, Seattle, February 13, 2002
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Artist Weldon Butler in his studio, Seattle, February 13, 2002

Weldon Butler (1941-2019) began studying to become an artist when he was a teenager, looking at art at the local museum and training at Fleischer Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1968 and studied art at Green River College before moving to Seattle in 1973, where he first showed his works at Bumbershoot and the…
ID Number:2000.107.2002.CD01.02.03.003
Date:2002
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