Natioanlly recognized artist, cartoonist and playwright Lynda Barry. Through her images and writings, she reflects on growing up in Seattle and her Filipino heritage.
Seutsay Sasouvanh, a Laotian immigrant who arrived in 1980, started an auto body shop in Seattle. From left, Seutsay Sasouvanh, Som Sasouvanh, Khamsene Keophilavanh, Khambay Phanthourath and Noumay Saysuwan.
Two years after arriving in Seattle, the Nguyen family opened the Saigon Restaurant in the Pike Place Market, the first Vietnamese restaurant. Front row, from left: Thien-Huong, Phuong Chi, Hong Phuc, Phuong "Lucy" Pham and My Hanh. Back Row: Tuan,…
Chinese established small restaurants throughout the state, serving a unique Chinese American cuisine which catered to the American palate. Pictured is owner Harry Y. Wong (at left) and hjis wife, Mary Hall Wong, and Julian Reyes at WOng's Noodle…
The Quong Tuck Company, an import-export business, was started in Seattle in 1884 by the legenday Chin Gee Hee, who contacted labor for railroads and canneries and returned home to China to build a railroads and canneries and returned home to China…
Japanese cleared hundreds of acres of land near the center of what is now downtown Bellevue to grow strawberries and vegetables. Pictured is the Numoto Strawberry Farm in Bellevue in 1925.
