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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
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University of Washington baseball team, circa 1909
The William Jennings "Wee" Coyle collection chronicles Coyle's sports career and teammates starting in high school and on through college, as well as his later career as Lieutenant Governor of Washington State. This photo of the UW baseball team includes from left to right, top row: Ten Million, Ernie Maguire, Dode Brinker, Leo Teats; center: Mert Hemingway, Butchy Belford, Jimmy…
ID Number:1960.1821.44
Date:Circa 1909
Postcard
Paul Bunyan's birthday cake display postcard, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Located in the fair's Food Circus, Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday cake weighed 25,000 pounds (plus decorations) and stood 23 feet tall, with a circumference of 60 feet. The recipe included 10,500 pounds of flour, 4,000 pound of sugar, 7,000 pounds of raisins, 1,500 dozen eggs and a "Bunyan pinch" of salt: 100 pounds. The cake was mixed by Van de…
ID Number:1965.3689.34
Date:1962
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Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., circa 1917
Lumber was one of the Puget Sound's main exports in the 1890s. In 1899, 200,000 board feet of milled lumber left Seattle every day by rail or ship for the eastern United States and various Pacific ports. Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company began operations in 1917. The company, starting with some houses and a mill store, built a small community atop…
ID Number:1966.3827.2
Date:Circa 1917
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Kilbourne & Clark employees posing in front of factory, Seattle, June 1922
Kilbourne & Clark Manufacturing Co. was a firm founded in 1899 by electrical engineer Walter Gordon Clark (1876-1950) and dentist-turned-promoter of electric power utilities Edward Corliss Kilbourne (1856-1959). Initially established to sell electrical machinery and supplies, the firm scored a long string of successes in making and marketing early radio equipment for the U. S. Navy, shipping, and broadcast receivers.In…
ID Number:1969.4571.1
Date:1922
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Fremont Station, Seattle, August 10, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.42
Date:1935
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Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Pier D from Railroad Avenue, Seattle, circa 1916
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co. and the Pacific Coast Railway. Handwritten on image: 17533. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USA.Signs in image: T.F. Clark Co. Inc. Copper Sheet Metal Works/ Copper Smithing, Draper Engine Works, Pier D/ The Admiral…
ID Number:1978.6585.7a
Date:Circa 1916
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Group of people and tents on Vashon Island, 1885
Members and friends of the Campbell and Corliss families spent part of the summer of 1890 at Chautauqua (now Ellisport) on Vashon Island. They may have been members of the Puget Sound Chautauqua Assembly which met on the island at that time. Inspired by the year-around educational activities of the Chautauqua Assembly in New York State, a local group started…
ID Number:1980.7025.19
Date:1885
Document
Paul Bunyan's Cookbook and Stories, circa 1962
Featuring an image of Paul Bunyan on the front, this small cookbook was published by Seattle Restaurant Food Supply, led by Walter F. Clark. Clark was a Seattle restauranteur and nationally acclaimed for putting Seattle on the food map. The legendary Paul Bunyan inspired the recipes in this booklet, and also had a prominent place at the Seattle World's Fair,…
ID Number:1980.7051.122
Date:Circa 1962
Music, notated
See You in Seattle (at the Big World's Fair)
The Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's World's Fair, ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The fair promoted the worlds of space, science, and the future. The cover of this sheet music shows a woman, a man, and a little girl walking excitedly through the fairgrounds below the Space Needle. The official logo of the fair is printed below the…
ID Number:1980.7097A.20
Date:1961