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Image of Workers covering store windows prior to WTO protests, Seattle, December 3, 1999
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Workers covering store windows prior to WTO protests, Seattle, December 3, 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:2000.107.19991203.14.15
Date:1999
Image of Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally at Victor Steinbrueck Park, September 29, 2002
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Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally at Victor Steinbrueck Park, September 29, 2002

In August 2002, President George W. Bush proposed changes to environmental laws that would make it easier for timber companies to thin federal forests and to remove fire-prone dead trees and undergrowth. In response, the Northwest Old-Growth Campaign, a coalition of 13 environmental groups from Bellingham to southern Oregon, began campaigning to ban cutting of timber in old-growth and other…
ID Number:2000.107.20020929.CD03.01.001
Date:2002
Image of Dave Matthews performing at Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally, Seattle, September 29, 2002
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Dave Matthews performing at Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally, Seattle, September 29, 2002

In August 2002, President George W. Bush proposed changes to environmental laws that would make it easier for timber companies to thin federal forests and to remove fire-prone dead trees and undergrowth. In response, the Northwest Old-Growth Campaign, a coalition of 13 environmental groups from Bellingham to southern Oregon, began campaigning to ban cutting of timber in old-growth and other…
ID Number:2000.107.20020929.CD03.01.002
Date:2002
Image of Dave Matthews backstage at Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally, Seattle, September 29, 2002
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Dave Matthews backstage at Northwest Old-Growth Campaign rally, Seattle, September 29, 2002

In August 2002, President George W. Bush proposed changes to environmental laws that would make it easier for timber companies to thin federal forests and to remove fire-prone dead trees and undergrowth. In response, the Northwest Old-Growth Campaign, a coalition of 13 environmental groups from Bellingham to southern Oregon, began campaigning to ban cutting of timber in old-growth and other…
ID Number:2000.107.20020929.CD03.01.003
Date:2002
Image of Kevin Myette testing a REI mountain bike at Tiger Mountain, Issaquah, October 11, 2002
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Kevin Myette testing a REI mountain bike at Tiger Mountain, Issaquah, October 11, 2002

Seattle-based retail and outdoor recreation services company, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), was founded in 1938 and sells "people-powered" gear, clothing, and equipment for a wide variety of outdoor activities.In this image, Kevin Myette, director of product quality for REI, hits the trails of Tiger Mountain to test the performance of one of the company's latest mountain bikes, the Novara Ponderosa…
ID Number:2000.107.20021011.CD05.03.001
Date:2002
Image of Volunteer Park, Seattle, circa. 1912
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Volunteer Park, Seattle, circa. 1912

Seattle's Volunteer Park was named in honor of the men who served in the 1898 Spanish American War. The Olmsted Brothers' 1909 plan for the park included lawns, gardens, pavilions, and play areas which were designed to harmonize with the surrounding Capitol Hill neighborhood. Handwritten on mount: Volunteer Park - A Formal Park in Seattle. Volunteer Park ca. 1912.
ID Number:2002.3.2018
Date:Circa 1912
Image of United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975
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United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975

This 1975 poster calls for the boycott of all lettuce and grapes sold without the UFW label, and calls out Gallo wine in particular for its contract with the Teamsters rather than the farm workers union. Printed on both sides, the poster also describes union-busting efforts by grape growers, the hazardous nature of farm work, and the success of the…
ID Number:2002.23.8.14.4
Date:1975
Image of First Annual Salmon Homecoming poster, Seattle, September 16-19, 1993
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First Annual Salmon Homecoming poster, Seattle, September 16-19, 1993

In 1992, the Seattle Aquarium held its first Salmon Homecoming celebration, with a month of educational events to highlight the return of salmon to the streams of their birth. In 1993, this became a four-day event called the First Annual Salmon Homecoming Celebration, held on September 16-19 and presented by the Seattle Aquarium in conjunction with the Tribal Communities of…
ID Number:2007.25.14
Date:1993
Image of Park Ranger Charles Browne with ice axe near crevasse, Mount Rainier National Park,  circa 1930
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Park Ranger Charles Browne with ice axe near crevasse, Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1930

Charles Browne became a National Park Service Ranger around 1928, working first in Mount Rainier National Park, and later in Olympic National Park. After 37 years of service, Browne retired from the National Park Service in 1965.
ID Number:2009.16.3
Date:Circa 1930
Image of Park Ranger Charles Brown and others with bear trap, Mount Rainier National Park, 1930
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Park Ranger Charles Brown and others with bear trap, Mount Rainier National Park, 1930

The bear trap pictured here consisted of a corrugated pipe with a trap door at one end, mounted on two wheels and attached to a park truck. Bears would be baited into the trap with meat and released into another area of the park.Park Ranger Charles Browne is pictured at far right.
ID Number:2009.16.19
Date:1930
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