Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988
The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/9400 2023-05-15T17:39:52+02:00 Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988 Buranon, Kamal Seattle Post-Intelligencer United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CC, JPEG quality measurement 5. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/9400 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 2000.107.210.18.01 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/9400 MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, [image number] Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection Activists--American--Washington (State)--Seattle Community service--Uzbekistan--Tashkent International relations--Uzbekistan photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:57:01Z The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show off the completed Earth Mound, a mosaic of the Earth viewed from the North Pole. The sculpture is located in Tashkent at Friendship Park (or Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park, or Babur Park). The park, a gift from the City of Seattle, was dedicated simultaneously in Seattle and Tahkent via telephone on September 12, 1988. Caption information source: "Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park in Uzbekistan is dedicated in Tashkent and at Seattle Center on September 12, 1988," by Priscilla Long, HistoryLink.org Essay 3595 Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph. 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in. Other/Unknown Material North Pole University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections North Pole |
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The first city partnership between a US and a Soviet city, the official Seattle-Tashkent sister city relationship was established in 1973 but was preceded by ties that began in 1961 between the University of Washington and academic institutions in Tashkent. In this image volunteers from Seattle show off the completed Earth Mound, a mosaic of the Earth viewed from the North Pole. The sculpture is located in Tashkent at Friendship Park (or Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park, or Babur Park). The park, a gift from the City of Seattle, was dedicated simultaneously in Seattle and Tahkent via telephone on September 12, 1988. Caption information source: "Seattle-Tashkent Peace Park in Uzbekistan is dedicated in Tashkent and at Seattle Center on September 12, 1988," by Priscilla Long, HistoryLink.org Essay 3595 Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph. 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
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Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988 |
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Volunteers from Seattle at Peace Park in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 7, 1988 |
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