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Home of Harry Whitney and Olive Treat on West Highland Drive, Seattle, circa 1906
Harry Whitney Treat arrived in Seattle when the city was flush with Gold Rush earnings and invested in large tracts of real estate north of Ballard. As construction commenced on the 30-room Treat home atop Queen Anne Hill, at 1 West Highland Drive, he developed the area of Loyal Heights and Loyal Beach (now Golden Gardens). They were named after…
ID Number:1946.404.d.1
Date:Circa 1906
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Entrance hall to the Treat family home, Seattle, circa 1906
Harry Whitney Treat arrived in Seattle when the city was flush with Gold Rush earnings and invested in large tracts of real estate north of Ballard. As construction commenced on the 30-room Treat home atop Queen Anne Hill, at 1 West Highland Drive, he developed the area of Loyal Heights and Loyal Beach (now Golden Gardens). They were named after…
ID Number:1946.404.d.2
Date:Circa 1906
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Harry Treat's horse-drawn carriage on trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, taken at Mount Vernon, Washington, April 1913
Harry Whitney Treat, prominent Seattle businessman and horse lover, drove his carriage pulled by four horses from Loyal Farm to a horse show in Vancouver, British Columbia. He set a record time of four days, five hours and thirteen minutes for the 160-mile journey. This night photo shows a crowd of onlookers greeting Treat's carriage in Mount Vernon. Written on…
ID Number:1946.404.d.4
Date:1913
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Treat family in front of Loyal Building on Market Street, Seattle, circa 1912
Harry Whitney Treat (1865-1922) and Olive Marion (Graef) Treat (1869-1945), along with their daughters Priscilla Grace (Treat) Van Sickler (1902-1979) and Loyal Graef (Treat) Nichols (1906-2004), were colorful high society figures in Seattle; their Queen Anne mansion and Loyal Heights farm were filled with vintage English coaches, period costumes, hunting dogs, and purebred English Hackney horses. Harry Treat was a…
ID Number:1946.404.d.5
Date:Circa 1912
Poster
"Remember December 7th" poster, 1942
The Office of War Information (OWI) was a US government agency established in 1942 to create propaganda in order to shore up support for WWII on the home front. It used various media including posters, radio, newsreels, movies, and pamphlets in its work, and often invoked the attack on Pearl Harbor. The OWI encouraged Americans to live responsibly, focus on…
ID Number:1951.348.9
Date:1942
Photograph
Portrait of Territorial University Alumni, Seattle, November 4, 1911
The University of Washington opened on November 4, 1861, as the Territorial University of Washington on a 10 acre site in Seattle donated by Arthur and Mary Denny, Edward Lander, and Charlie and Mary Terry, about where the Fairmont Olympic Hotel stands today. In 1895 the growing university relocated to the current campus north of downtown. This studio portrait of…
ID Number:1952.245.c
Date:1911
Document
Survivor's Pension Certificate issued to Carson D. Boren, May 20, 1903
Carson Dobbins Boren (1824-1912) arrived in Seattle in 1851 as part of the group of White settlers known as the Denny party. He built a cabin at what is now the corner of Second and Cherry in downtown Seattle. Mr. Boren served as King County's first sheriff and also helped explore wagon routes over the Cascades. He preferred a solitary…
ID Number:1952.986.56
Date:1903
Cartographic material
Anderson's New Map of the County of King, State of Washington, 1894
Seattle entrepreneur and amateur photographer O.P. (Oliver Phelps) Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. O.P. trained as a draughtsman and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print…
ID Number:1952.986.57.4
Date:1894
Architectural drawing
Improvement of Third Avenue et al Lighting System, Seattle, July 1927
The 1927 map pictured here was created by the Seattle City Engineer's office. It shows a roughly 12-block area of downtown Seattle between Yesler Way and Jackson Street, and Third Avenue and Fifth Avenue, on land platted as D. S. Maynard's Addition to the City of Seattle. The map shows the locations where new posts and street lamps were to…
ID Number:1952.986.57.6
Date:1927
Photograph
Seattle Fire Department employees, wagons, and engine houses, 1898
The creation of the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) can be traced back to July 6th, 1876, when the all-volunteer Seattle Engine Company No.1 was organized. In 1883, the City Charter was amended to create and fund equipment, but not staff, for a centralized municipal fire department. The volunteer-based system persisted until pressure from the insurance industry and citizens after the…
ID Number:1953.287.1
Date:1898