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| Title | Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971 |
| Photographer | Eagan, Timothy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1971 |
| Caption | Demonstrators march in a successful campaign to "Save the Market" from demolition. Seattle voters showed their support on November 2, 1971 by passing Initiative No. 1 that opposed the City Councils plan to raze the Market and build high-rise offices and apartments with federal urban renewal funds. |
| Notes | Signs in image: The Pike Place Market is Seattle's History. Our Children Need the Market. Removal is Not Renewal. Let's Keep the Market - Fight Urban Renewal.
Handwritten on sleeve: Save the Market Protest march.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): February 4, 1971. |
| Subjects | Demonstrations--Washington (State)--Seattle; Pike Place Market (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.53773.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative: b&w |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
