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Jeff Bickford reading SLF statement after arrests, April 17, 1970
In February 1970, contempt citations were issued to the "Chicago Seven," a group of defendants charged with conspiring to riot during the August 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago. Demonstrations against the contempt charges took place in numerous cities, including Seattle, where the newly formed Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests downtown. On February 17, over 2000 people demonstrated…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.03
Date:1970
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of Washington professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.04
Date:1970
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges were…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.05
Date:1970
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Jeff Dowd and others at Mayor's office, July 8, 1970
The short-lived Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) was organized by University of professor Michael Lerner in January 1970, after the disintegration of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1969 left a leadership void among student-based antiwar and radical organizations. In February 1970, the group sponsored a protest that became violent at the Federal Courthouse in Seattle. Conspiracy charges were…
ID Number:2000.107.176.30.06
Date:1970
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Joe Torlai selling produce at Inner City Market, Seattle, August 2, 1975
In this image Joe Torlai, a second-generation Renton farmer, weighs some of his produce for sale at the new Inner City Farmer's Market at 18th Avenue and East Cherry Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. This same year Mr. Torlai was honored as the youngest farmer at the Pike Place Market in conjunction with the market's 68th birthday. Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.176.37.05
Date:1975
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New trucks parked at the Metropolitan Laundry Company, Seattle, January 8, 1938
In 1938, the Metropolitan Laundry Company took delivery of ten new International D-2 panel trucks, shown here in front of the laundry. The company was located at 244 Pontius Avenue N., in Seattle's Cascade neighborhood. Numerous ads in The Seattle Times urged housewives to save time by sending their family clothing out to be washed or dry cleaned by Metropolitan.As…
ID Number:2000.107.177.01.02
Date:1938
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Florence Donley sitting in lobby of new SOIC building, Seattle, January 17, 1975
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.177.26.01
Date:1979
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Man learning to weld at SOIC, August 1975
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.177.26.02
Date:1975
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Women learning keypunch at SOIC, January 1979
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained, and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.177.26.03
Date:1979
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Plumbing student at SOIC, January 15, 1979
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see"), was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.177.26.04
Date:1979