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Passengers boarding Blue Streak bus at Northgate, Seattle, September 9, 1970
In this image passengers board a Seattle Transit System (now Metro Transit) Blue Streak bus at the Northgate Station. The Blue Streaks were intended as fast or express service buses, added at peak travel times. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.190.10.01
Date:1970
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Dolores Sibonga and Bill Hilliard talking at Washington State Human Rights Commission offices, Seattle, December 19, 1978
Dolores Sibonga (1931-) was the first Filipina-American lawyer admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1973 and the first minority woman on the Seattle City Council, appointed to replace a retiring Phyllis Lamphere for three months in 1978. She was elected the following year and served on the council until 1992. Prior to law school, she worked as a journalist…
ID Number:2000.107.197.23.01
Date:1978
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Ron Sims listening to testimony at King County Council meeting, Seattle, March 13, 1992
In 1985, Ronald Cordell "Ron" Sims (1948-) became the first African American elected to county government in Washington state, winning a seat on the King County Council. He served on the council for three terms and in 1996 was appointed to fill King County Executive Gary Locke's position when he became Washington State Governor; he was re-elected in 1997, 2001…
ID Number:2000.107.198.12.04
Date:1992
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Sam Smith, Edwin Pratt, and others at press conference, January 24, 1969
Sam Smith was the first African-American person to be elected to the Seattle City Council in 1968 and was on the Council until 1991, chairing many committees and serving as Council President from 1974-1979 and 1986-1989. Smith also served in the Washington State Legislature for five terms, beginning with his election from the 37th district in 1958.In January 1969, Councilman…
ID Number:2000.107.200.11.01
Date:1969
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Sam Smith with protesting City Light employees in council chambers, April 11, 1974
Sam Smith was the first African-American person to be elected to the Seattle City Council in 1968 and was on the Council until 1991, chairing many committees and serving as Council President from 1974-1979 and 1986-1989. Smith also served in the Washington State Legislature for five terms, beginning with his election from the 37th district in 1958. He was born…
ID Number:2000.107.200.12.02
Date:1974
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Longview Timber Barons soccer team, January 1926
Businessman Jack H. Kelly emigrated to the US from Canada in the early 1900s, setting up a plumbing business and starting up a local soccer team at every town he stopped in. In 1923, Kelly stopped in Longview, Washington, set up his business, and later started a soccer team. The Longview Timber Barons had their first organization meeting and practice…
ID Number:2000.107.201.33.04
Date:1927
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Mark Peterson of the Seattle Sounders celebrates one of his two goals in a game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Seattle, July 1, 1983
The Seattle Sounders were the first professional soccer team in Seattle, playing in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1974 to 1983. Here, Sounders player Mark Peterson celebrates after scoring one of his two goals during a game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, leaving Tampa Bay goalie Jurgen Stars, at right, looking dejected. In November 1983, Tacoma native Peterson…
ID Number:2000.107.202.03.02
Date:1983
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Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performing at Bumbershoot, Seattle, September 3, 1990
American musician Chris Cornell (1964-2017) was best known as the lead vocalist for the rock bands Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog. Cornell is considered one of the chief architects of the 1990s grunge movement. In 2012, wanting to use music to support causes that help foster change, Cornell and his wife created the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation…
ID Number:2000.107.202.29.01
Date:1990
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Carl Stork with Microsoft demonstration disk, Redmond, February 1987
In the 1980s, Microsoft was helping with research and development of a new technology to store and access computer files – the CD-ROM. Standing for “compact disk, read-only memory,” the CD-ROM could store about 1,500 times more data than the then-standard floppy disk. In order to increase interest in CD-ROMs, in 1987 Microsoft created an electronic encyclopedia as a demonstration…
ID Number:2000.107.206.15.01
Date:1987
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Seattle delegates meeting with Mayor Vahid Kazimov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, April 14, 1983
In August 1971 three Soviet mayors, from Tashkent, Irkutsk and Sochi, visited Seattle on a promotional tour organized by Alaska Airlines. The mayors met with Seattle Mayor Wes Uhlman, who later proposed that Seattle and Tashkent establish the first United States-USSR sister city relationship. Seattle and Tashkent already had strong ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington…
ID Number:2000.107.210.18.02
Date:1983