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Opportunities Industrialization Center records, 1966-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center
Title
Opportunities Industrialization Center records
Dates
1966-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
12.54 cubic feet (11 boxes)
Collection Number
4055 (Accession No. 4055-001)
Summary
Records of the Seattle-based community vocational center that provided pre-apprenticeship training from 1966 to 1986.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Records are stored offsite; advance notice is required for use.

Request at UW

Languages
English
Sponsor
Full processing supported by the Labor Archives Fund and the Labor Archives of Washington State Budget
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Historical Note

OIC Seattle (often refered to locally as "SOIC") was incorporated in May 1966 as a private, nonprofit community-based vocational training center. It was founded as an outgrowth of the OIC movement which had been started two years earlier in Philadelphia. In 1972, OIC Seattle became the first community-based organization to receive federal designation as a Skills Center. Its rapid growth and expanding programs made possible the building of a multi-million dollar training center dedicated in 1974. OIC Seattle's diversified funding and its accreditation saved the school from the financial collapse experienced at the beginning of the 1980s by many similar institutions, but it could not survive the federal government's rapid and drastic cutback of funding around 1983 and 1984. It attempted to continue its services by totally reorganizing its service delivery system. Efforts continued another two years but on September 25, 1986, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy notice was filed.

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Content Description

Board minutes, 1968-1988; historical documents; publications; financial records; reports; contracts; planning and facility development records; public relations and publicity records; video and film materials; and a large number of photographs illustrating SOIC activities, most of which are 8 x 10" black-and-white prints with related 35mm negatives and contact sheets.

The Workforce Training & Education Coordinating Board maintains records (transcripts) for closed schools in Washington State, including the Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center. For more information about accessing these transcripts, see their Closed School Transcript Request webpage .

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Other Descriptive Information

Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center records, 4055-001, box number, folder number.

Restrictions on Use

Literary rights of representatives of the records-creating organization have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into the following series and subseries:

  • SERIES 1: HISTORICAL/ORGANIZATIONAL FEATURES, 1966-1986
  • SERIES 2: NEWSLETTERS AND BROCHURES, 1970-1986
  • SERIES 3: MINUTES, 1966-1988
  • SERIES 4: FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1972-1986
  • SERIES 5: REPORTS, 1968-1986
  • SERIES 6: CONTRACTS, 1968-1983
  • SERIES 7 : PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS RECORDS, 1967-1985
    • Subseries 1 : Speeches, Advertising and Publications 1967-1985
    • Subseries 2 : Photographs 1967-1985
  • SERIES 8: PLANNING AND FACILITY RECORDS , 1971-1987
  • SERIES 9: PUBLICATIONS , 1974-1983

Acquisition Information

Donated by Opportunities Industrialization Center, Seattle, 10/31/1989.

Processing Note

Collection was initially rehoused and inventoried by Becky Rosenberg and fully processed by Ernie Dornfeld in 2018.

Related Materials

The OIC of Washington website was regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from 2014-2019. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/https://www.yvoic.org/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Vocation training centers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
  • Vocational training centers--Washington (State)--Seattle

Corporate Names

  • Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center--Archives

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Charles, John (creator)
    • Isaki, Paul (creator)
    • McKinney, Samuel B.--Archives (creator)
    • Williams, James L (creator)

    Corporate Names

    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)


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