169 results for: Agriculture and Farms
Postcard
Men with giant apples, 1907
This color postcard shows two men pulling two oversized apples on a cart up to a Great Northern Railway railcar. Caption on image: Expressing Washington Apples.Copyright 1907
ID Number:1969.4769.1
Date:1907
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Farm near Seattle Electric Power Plant, Georgetown, 1907
This view of Georgetown looks across a farm to the Seattle Electrical Power Plant in the distance. Handwritten on verso: Georgetown from Graham Ave looking West. Seattle Electric Power Plant 1907.
ID Number:1974.5868.233
Date:1907
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Oneida Gardens, Seattle, March 1908
The Oneida Gardens farm was at 35th Ave NE and East 55th Street near Calvary Cemetery in Ravenna. Handwritten on verso: Oneida Gardens, Mar 1908. 35th Ave NE & E 55.
ID Number:1974.5868.251
Date:1908
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Child with dahlias, Seattle, 1936
This photograph was probably taken for Mrs. Alta M. Wheeler, who ran a dahlia farm and store called Dahlialand Gardens on Boyer Avenue East in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. The Wheelers raised the dahlias on a large tract of land located where St. Demetrious Greek Orthodox Church and the Montlake Playfield are now located.The image is part of a…
ID Number:1974.5923.360.1
Date:1936
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Aerial of Hollywood Chicken Farm, Woodinville, 1940
Hollywood Farm, in Woodinville, was built by the Frederick Stimson family. They used it as a weekend retreat and summer home. Milk and cream from the farm's prize-winning Holstein dairy herd was sent to Seattle by railroad. Seattleites visited by train and bought cream, ice cream, and sausages at the farm's ice cream parlor.This aerial photo is part of a…
ID Number:1974.5923.361.1
Date:1940
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Aerial of Hollywood Chicken Farm, Woodinville, 1940
Hollywood Farm, in Woodinville, was built by the Frederick Stimson family. They used it as a weekend retreat and summer home. Milk and cream from the farm's prize-winning Holstein dairy herd was sent to Seattle by railroad. Seattleites visited by train and bought cream, ice cream, and sausages at the farm's ice cream parlor.This aerial photo is part of a…
ID Number:1974.5923.361.3
Date:1940
Postcard
Greenhouses in the snow, Bryn Mawr, Washington, circa 1910
In 1907, A.T. Wilson bought 12 acres of land on Grand Avenue (now 87th Avenue South) in Bryn Mawr, now part of Renton, Washington. The greenhouse business flourished at this location through the 20th century under the ownership of Wilson, then Stuber & Richardson, and later Hank Komatsu.This photographic postcard, made sometime between 1907 and 1912, shows the Bryn Mawr…
ID Number:1976.6377.3
Date:Circa 1910
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Man and woman with chicken and eggs at J.F. Jappe's Farm, Alderwood Manor, circa 1925
The community of Alderwood Manor, Washington, was established in 1917 and soon after became one of the largest egg producing regions in the United States. This photo highlights the production at J.F. Jappe's farm. Caption on image: Half weeks egg production at J.F. Jappe's Farm Alderwood Manor. Pierson & Co., PhotoPhotographer's Reference Number: 24Caption information source: Alderwood Manor Heritage Association…
ID Number:1980.6877.4.115
Date:Circa 1925
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Two men with horse drawn delivery wagons outside of Kristoferson's Dairy, Seattle, circa 1914
Swedish immigrants Alfred and Alberta Kristoferson moved to Washington in the late 1800s to start a dairy. By the early 1900s, Son August Kristoferson soon took the reins of the dairy business after his father's death in 1914. Kristoferson's Dairy was originally located on Fifth Avenue South but soon moved to 1218 First Avenue South where it stayed until moving…
ID Number:1980.6877.75
Date:Circa 1914
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Willowmoor Farm, Redmond, October 1914
In 1904, Seattle banker James W. Clise bought land along the Sammamish Slough, near Redmond, Washington, and began to build a hunting lodge and summer retreat. During the next three years, the family greatly expanded the original building which they called Willowmoor. They moved there permanently in 1907. Over the years, Clise expanded the property and developed a model farm…
ID Number:1980.7158.2.1
Date:1914