1512 results for: City of Seattle
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Portrait of Olive Treat, circa 1915
Born in Brooklyn, Olive Marion (Graef) Treat (1869-1945) married real estate developer Harry Whitney Treat (1865-1922) in 1896 in Tarrytown, New York. The couple moved to Seattle in about 1904, shortly after the death of her father, Charles Graef (1833-1902). The Treats' Queen Anne Hill mansion and Loyal Heights farm were the center of much of Seattle's social life, and…
ID Number:1941.169.a
Date:Circa 1915
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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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Priscilla Grace Treat, Seattle, circa 1907
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). The Treat family were…
ID Number:1946.404.d.3
Date:Circa 1907
Ephemera
For Seattle: The New York of the Pacific Coast, 1906
The Seattle Commercial Club was incorporated on July 11, 1906, by a group of businessmen in order to "stimulate the civic spirit and patriotism of the citizens of Seattle; to procure a market for the produce of this vicinity; to encourage commerce and enterprise in all mercantile lines; to support all local industries and manufacturers; and to collect and impart…
ID Number:1947.25.22
Date:1906
Cartographic material
Bird's Eye View of the City of Seattle, Washington Territory, 1884
"Bird's eye view” maps of cities and towns had their heyday in the U.S. and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lithographer Henry Wellge (1850-1917) is one of only five men who produced more than half of the known panoramic maps from this period. Born in Germany, Mr. Wellge immigrated in 1871 to the Milwaukee area and…
ID Number:1947.83.1
Date:1884
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Portrait of David Denny, Seattle, circa 1890
David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) was the first member of the Denny Party (led by his older brother Arthur) to arrive in the future city of Seattle in 1851. He staked a claim to the future site of Seattle Center and in 1853 married fellow pioneer Louisa Boren (1827-1916). Denny pursued a diverse career as a community leader, capitalist, streetcar operator,…
ID Number:1952.986.47
Date:Circa 1890
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Map of Puget-Sound, Washington Territory, 1875
In 1800, the United States Congress created local Land Offices to facilitate the selling of land to settlers. Each office had a Register to handle sales and documentation, a Receiver to oversee the money, and a Surveyor General who provided plat maps, one of which was logged in the Land Office. In 1852, over one year after the Washington Territory…
ID Number:1952.986.57.1
Date:1875
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Anderson's 1896 Street and Guide Map of the City of Seattle
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:1952.986.57.2
Date:1896
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Map of the City of Seattle, King County, Washington Territory, 1887
R. H. (Reginald Heber) Thomson (1856-1949) was Seattle City Engineer from 1892 until 1911 and instrumental in reshaping the landscape of Seattle. Thomson was born in Hanover, Indiana, and worked as a surveyor there before heading west with his father to Oakland, California. In 1881, Thomson arrived in Seattle and soon after partnered with F. H. (Frederick Harrison) Whitworth (1846-1933),…
ID Number:1952.986.57.3
Date:1887