3246 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Bob Eagle Staff and West Seattle High School ASB officers, Seattle, November 15, 1991
Principal of Seattle Public Schools' American Indian Heritage School and Program, Robert Bruce Eagle Staff (1952-1996) was born on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He moved to Seattle in 1980 and worked as vice principal at Summit Alternative School before coming to Indian Heritage. A few days before his death, Mr. Eaglestaff learned that his doctoral dissertation…
ID Number:2000.107.053.15.01
Date:1991
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Philip Ripley with aluminum foil statue at Renton Park Elementary School, Renton, April 14, 1992
In honor of Earth Day, students from the Puget Sound region were asked to collect as much aluminum foil as possible in an effort to promote recycling. The school with the overall biggest ball of foil was to win $1,000. In this image Philip Ripley, 10, a student at Hamlin-Robinson School in Seattle, walks by the 239-pound aluminum foil statue…
ID Number:2000.107.053.19.02
Date:1992
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Oscar Eason, Jr. speaking at NAACP chapter meeting, Seattle, August 25, 1986
Oscar Eason, Jr. (1930-2017) was a longtime civil-rights leader and community activist in Seattle, who broke down workplace barriers and fought for social justice. Eason moved to Seattle in 1958 from San Antonio, Texas, to work as a mechanical engineer at the Boeing Company, then in 1962 took a job working for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Eason served…
ID Number:2000.107.053.26.01
Date:1986
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Lucette Lightfoot and her daughter at voting booth, Seattle, September 20, 1988
Washington voters went to the polls on Tuesday, September 20, 1996 to vote in the primary election. Here, Lucetta Lightfoot (center) votes at the Catharine Blaine Elementary School in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. Her daughter Cara, aged 7, takes a look at the voting booth while her mother casts her ballot. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:2000.107.055.27.01
Date:1988
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Group from the Alki PTA march to support levy, West Seattle, May 25, 1953
In a May 1953 special election, Seattle voters approved a 2-mill property tax levy to fund kindergartens for another year. The levy passed by a majority of 54,965 to 18,537. Earlier that year, the state legislature had voted to limit the amount of money for education to $141 million, leaving each school district to fund its own kindergarten classes.Here, a…
ID Number:2000.107.055.27.02
Date:1953
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Voter registration table in front of University Bookstore, Seattle, October 3, 1984
Democrats, Republicans, and a host of other organizations pushed to increase voter registration as the 1984 national election drew closer. In the election, to be held November 6, incumbent Ronald Reagan (Republican) was running against Walter Mondale (Democrat).Here, Valerie Jean Fisher, from the Washington Public Interest Research Group (WashPIRG) sits outside the University Bookstore and registers University of Washington students…
ID Number:2000.107.055.27.03
Date:1984
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Presidential primary caucus at The Central Area Motivation Project Headquarters, Seattle, March 3, 1992
Before 2020, Washington state delegates to the Democratic National Convention were selected at party caucuses. In March 1992, a number of caucus groups met at the headquarters of the Central Area Motivation Project in Seattle’s Central District. The precinct voted to send two delegates for then-former California governor Jerry Brown plus one uncommitted delegate. Brown carried eight caucuses meeting there.…
ID Number:2000.107.055.28.01
Date:1992
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People on Mercer Street opposing Initiatives 547 and 35, Seattle, November 6, 1990
Increasing urban sprawl and environmental degradation led the Washington legislature to work on state-directed growth control measures. Unhappiness with their proposals led to the citizen-initiated Initiative 547 on the November 1990 ballot. The initiative would have would have required comprehensive land-use planning by all Washington state counties and the establishment of two regional growth control panels. Initiative 547 failed by…
ID Number:2000.107.055.28.02
Date:1990
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Jim Ellis, Seattle, September 1974
James Reed "Jim" Ellis (b. 1921), a Franklin High School graduate and Seattle lawyer, is widely regarded as one of the most visionary civic activists in King County history. In the late 1950s he spearheaded the clean up of Lake Washington, leading to the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Metro), which became a regional transportation system. In the…
ID Number:2000.107.056.08.02
Date:1974
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Jim Ellis at Freeway Park dedication ceremony, Seattle, July 6, 1981
James Reed "Jim" Ellis (b. 1921), a Franklin High School graduate and Seattle lawyer, is widely regarded as one of the most visionary civic activists in King County history. In the late 1950s he spearheaded the clean up of Lake Washington, leading to the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Metro), which became a regional transportation system. In the…
ID Number:2000.107.056.08.03
Date:1981