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Image of Terri Port and Rebecca Osman at PNB School, Seattle, January 29, 1983
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Terri Port and Rebecca Osman at PNB School, Seattle, January 29, 1983

Pacific Northwest Ballet, one of the largest and most highly regarded ballet companies in the United States, was founded in 1972. In July 2005, Peter Boal became artistic director, succeeding Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, artistic directors since 1977. The company is especially known for its performance of the Stowell/Maurice Sendak adaptation of the "The Nutcracker," which it presented from…
ID Number:2000.107.013.11.01
Date:1983
Image of Richard Belmont speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972
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Richard Belmont speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972

When 140 acres of their ancestral land on Oyster Bay was declared surplus by the federal government, the Suquamish Tribe sought to have it returned to the tribe. They wanted to use to site for an Indian canoe house and racing area, an Indian historical and cultural center, an center for marine science and ecology, and a meeting facility that…
ID Number:2000.107.019.39.01
Date:1973
Image of Martin Jugum, Harry Bridges, and William Forester talking at union party, Seattle, June 12, 1986
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Martin Jugum, Harry Bridges, and William Forester talking at union party, Seattle, June 12, 1986

By the mid-1880s, Seattle had grown from a tiny settlement to a bustling trade center due in large part to the transcontinental rail lines and transoceanic water routes that met along its central waterfront. Work at the waterfront in the era before containerized shipping was labor intensive, requiring careful balancing and weight management within ship holds and complex teams of…
ID Number:2000.107.026.32.02
Date:1986
Image of Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983
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Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983

Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995 World…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.01
Date:1983
Image of Beverly and Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
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Beverly and Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979

In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) and his wife Beverly sit in the living room of their home. Mounted on the wall between the paintings (original works by John Schoenherr for a "Dune" calendar) is a control panel for the home's solar heating system. An avid alternative energy experimenter, Herbert created his own solar collector, wind plant, and…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.02
Date:1979
Image of Frank Herbert working in his home office, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
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Frank Herbert working in his home office, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979

In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) sits at his desk in a loft above the kitchen of his Port Townsend home. Though Herbert became famous for writing science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and university lecturer. Herbert was a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1969 to 1972.…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.03
Date:1979
Image of Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979
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Frank Herbert at home, Port Townsend, September 11, 1979

In this image Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert (1920-1986) points to fir trees that may need to be topped to allow more sunlight to reach his homemade roof-top solar collectors. He had recently installed a solar heating system that used halved beer cans as collectors. Herbert was the first science fiction author to popularize ideas about ecology and systems thinking, stressing…
ID Number:2000.107.087.11.04
Date:1979
Image of Elaine Ko speaking at press conference, Seattle, August 5, 1982
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Elaine Ko speaking at press conference, Seattle, August 5, 1982

Elaine Ko (b. 1954) is a community activist in Seattle who has worked for decades on behalf of the Asian and Pacific Islander community, immigrants, refugees, women, and victims of domestic violence in the Puget Sound area. In 2006, Ko succeeded Bob Santos as Executive Director of the Inter*Im Community Development Association in Seattle's Chinatown - International District (previously the…
ID Number:2000.107.107.16.01
Date:1982
Image of Nirvana performing during MTV taping at Pier 48, Seattle, December 13, 1993
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Nirvana performing during MTV taping at Pier 48, Seattle, December 13, 1993

In December 1993, the cable channel MTV recorded its “Live and Loud” concert special in Seattle. To be aired on New Year’s Eve, the concert was originally set to feature both Pearl Jam and Nirvana, but Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam's vocalist) had come down with the flu and had to cancel. After sets by the Breeders and Cypress Hill, Nirvana…
ID Number:2000.107.132.29.02
Date:1993
Image of Mary Ann Peters painting mural in Port of Seattle building, February 14, 1993
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Mary Ann Peters painting mural in Port of Seattle building, February 14, 1993

Mary Ann Peters is a Seattle artist whose work has been exhibited extensively across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. She has received the Stranger Genius Award in Visual Art, the Pollock Krasner Fellowship, and the Civita Institute Fellowship. Peters also received the Neddy Artist Award for visual artists in Washington State in 2000. Peters is a founder of the Center…
ID Number:2000.107.140.14.01
Date:1993
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