120 results for: Crowley, Walt
Photograph
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
Ephemera
Seattle Electric Company ticket, Seattle, 1903
In 1898 the Seattle Electric Company was granted a contract to consolidate the city's 22 separate streetcar lines and private street railways. The SEC was an arm of the national Stone & Webster utility cartel, which also controlled the city's electrical grid and operated the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSE), an interurban line linking Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. Due to…
ID Number:1953.641.1b
Date:1903
Ephemera
Puget Sound Electric Railway time table, 1904
The Puget Sound Electric Railway was an interurban railway that ran for 36 miles between downtown Tacoma and Pioneer Square in Seattle, where it interchanged with other interurbans in the area. The railroad ran from 1902-1928, when Highway 99 was opened to accommodate the rise in popularity of automobiles over trains and streetcars. Most of the rails were pulled up…
ID Number:1953.677.1
Date:1904
Document
Marriage certificate for David Denny and Louisa Boren, January 23, 1853
David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) was born in Putnam County, Indiana. In 1851, at age 19, he traveled overland to Alki Point, in what was then Oregon Territory, to prepare for the arrival of the rest of the Denny Party. In 1853, he married his stepsister Louisa Boren (1827-1916), also a member of the Denny party, and moved across the bay…
ID Number:1955.921.c
Date:1853
Cartographic material
Complete Map of the City of Ballard, Wash. and Vicinity, November 15, 1904
Seattle's Ballard neighborhood was an independent city when it incorporated in 1890 until it was annexed by Seattle on May 29, 1907. Six months earlier the vote by Ballard citizens to join Seattle had passed by a narrow margin, 996 to 874. The map pictured here was created three years before annexation and shows, among other features, "the changes in…
ID Number:1968.4347.1
Date:1904
Photograph
Portrait of Squire Park residents, Seattle, 1918
Pictured here are five Seattlites who lived and/or worked on E. Jefferson Street in Seattle's Squire Park neighborhood. The individuals are identified on the verso of the photograph left to right as: Robert Ross "Bob" Hedges, born in Oklahoma in 1881, was a car operator at Puget Sound Traction Light & Power (PSTL&P); Vincent Amato, born in Italy in 1876,…
ID Number:1972.5373.20
Date:1918
Cartographic material
Track System of Seattle Municipal Street Railway map, January 1920
Seattle's first street railway line was built in 1888 and over the next three decades at least six different cable car companies operated throughout the city. In 1919 the City of Seattle took over all of the city's transit lines and formed the Seattle Municipal Street Railway (today's METRO). Because of its steep hills, Seattle kept its cable car lines…
ID Number:1977.6521.4
Date:1920
Correspondence
Louisa Denny's letter to Harold Denny, February 26, 1916
Early Seattle settler Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827-1916) was born in Illinois and arrived in what was to become Seattle on November 13, 1851. She was the wife and step-sister of fellow pioneer David Thomas Denny (1832-1903), and the sister of Carson Dobbins Boren (1824-1912) and Mary Ann (Boren) Denny (1822-1910). David and Louisa married in 1853 in city's first non-Indigenous…
ID Number:1980.6891.29
Date:1916
Photograph
Front Street Cable Railway Company power house and cable cars, Seattle, circa 1890
In 1888, J. M. Thompson, a developer of San Francisco’s cable car lines, joined with Seattle developer Fred Sander to build the Front Street Cable Railway. The line ran along what is now First Avenue from Pioneer Square to Pike Street, and south along Second Avenue. Thompson and Sander later extended service to the north, up steep Queen Anne Hill.In…
ID Number:1980.6923.47
Date:Circa 1890
Photograph
Schooner Sophia Christensen, Seattle, circa 1925
The four-masted schooner Sophie Christenson, shown here docked in Seattle, was a cod ship that operated in the Bering Sea and Alaskan coast. This ship had been converted from transporting lumber. Handwritten on sleeve: Schooner Sophia Christensen.Photographer's Reference Number: 113362Caption information source: "Puget Sound's Cod Schooners" by Walt Crowley, HistoryLink.org Essay 3695.
ID Number:1983.10.3060.1
Date:Circa 1925