18 results for: Layton, Robin
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Artists at the Street Life Gallery, Seattle, March 10, 1997
In March 1991, Catholic Community Services opened the Street Life Gallery, a co-op for unhoused artists in Seattle’s Belltown district. The artists ran the gallery and found it to be a friendly and supportive space. They paid nothing for materials and were able to keep 100% of their sales. Artworks were regularly featured in Real Change, a newspaper produced by…
ID Number:2000.107.19970124.15.20
Date:1997
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Ken Nakano, Jefferson Award Winner, Kirkland, April 7, 1997
In April 1997, a panel chose five Washingtonians to receive the state’s Jefferson Award. One of these was Ken Nakano, an American citizen who survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Among other things, Nakano was nominated for his work on behalf of Pacific Northwest residents harmed by radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, his campaign for reparations for Japanese Americans…
ID Number:2000.107.19970407.7.13
Date:1997
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Skateboarder at the Seattle Center skateboard park, Seattle, April 11, 1997
Seattle Center’s skateboard park at Fifth Avenue and Republican Street opened on April 12th, 1997. The opening was scheduled to coincide with the start of Seattle’s spring school break. Here, a skateboarder tries out the new facility on the day before the official opening. Caption information source: “Head over wheels", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 12, 1997, page A3.
ID Number:2000.107.19970411.12.31
Date:1997
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Kate Starbird at her signing for the Seattle Reign, April 22, 1997
The Seattle Reign were the first professional women’s basketball team in Seattle, playing from 1996 to 1998 in the American Basketball League (ABL). The ABL was founded in 1996, with Seattle as one of eight founding teams. The league collapsed partway through the 1998 season under the financial pressure of competing with the rival Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), which…
ID Number:2000.107.19970422.15.29a
Date:1997
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Mohamed Sultan, trade delegate from Djibouti, at the WTO Conference, Seattle, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991129.25.26
Date:1999
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Art and Revolution’s Giant Liberation Puppet at WTO protest, Seattle, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991130.20.01
Date:1999
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Protesters sitting with joined arms at WTO protest, Seattle, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991130.22.25
Date:1999
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Jose Botafogo, trade ambassador from Brazil, in Seattle for WTO conference, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991130.33.08
Date:1999
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C.C. Chen, trade official from Taiwan, in Seattle for WTO conference, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991130.33.22
Date:1999
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Henri Benkoski, government official from Belgium, in Seattle for WTO conference, November 30, 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:2000.107.19991130.35.25
Date:1999