17 results for: Green, W.H.
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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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Orion Denny and John Pritchard outside Denny Clay Mine, Taylor, circa 1895
The Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was founded in 1892 by Arthur A. Denny (1822-1899) when he bought out predecessor company Puget Sound Fire Clay Company. Clay's popularity over wood as a building material grew substantially after the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. Raw material was extracted with hydraulic mining equipment from heavy glacial clay deposits in Taylor, Washington (near…
ID Number:1962.2540.5
Date:Circa 1895
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Birdseye view of Denny Hill regrade showing conveyors, looking south from Battery Street near 5th Avenue, October 20, 1929
The Seattle Board of Public Works awarded George Nelson & Company the contract for the second and final phase of the regrading of Denny Hill in 1928-1930. Unlike the earlier regrade, this project made use of belt conveyors to move material from the site out to Elliott Bay. An electric shovel removed dirt from the hill and dropped it into…
ID Number:1968.4524.45
Date:1929
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Panorama of Denny regrade area, from Battery and 5th Avenue, November 12, 1930
This photograph documents the second and final phase of the regrading of Denny Hill in 1928-1930. Numbered on photo: 25C 26C
ID Number:1968.4524.53.54
Date:1930
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Helene Madison McGiver with teacher and students at Lincoln High School, Seattle, February 1952
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.83
Date:1952
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Bridge construction at the Green River Gorge, circa 1914
In 1914 and 1915, workers replaced the old road bridge which crossed the Green River Gorge near Franklin, Washington. The old bridge had been built in the late 1880s. This photo shows both the old and the new bridges. Compare the size of the workmen waving from the unfinished bridge with the size of the structures and the depth of…
ID Number:1982.20.6
Date:Circa 1914
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View from roof of Pike Place Market, Seattle, circa 1919
This view looking north on Pike Place from above the Main Arcade building shows bustling activity and traffic from both cars and horses on both Pike Place and Western Avenue (left side of frame). The old Armory building that was demolished in the 1960s can be seen in the distance. Signs in image: Seattle Cabinet Wks; Mfg & Show Cases;…
ID Number:1983.10.1659.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Muckleshoot Treaty Trek in support of tribal fishing rights, 1966
In the 1960s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4450.2
Date:1966
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Sign for Bike Lane on East Green Lake Way North, Seattle, May 1976
In the 1970s, Seattle began to pay more attention to bicycle safety by increasing the number of signs and protected bike lanes. The intersection of East Green Lake Way N. and the two one-way branches of NE Ravenna Boulevard is a complicated one. Located near ballfields and playfields in Green Lake Park, as well as a beach, businesses, and settled…
ID Number:2000.107.021.21.03
Date:1976
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Barbara Bergano and Lope Malle roasting a pig at Seafair Fiesta Filipina, Seattle, August 7, 1971
Fiesta Filipina (also Philippine Festival) began as an annual event commemorating the anniversary of Philippine Independence. The event was held at Seward Park and became part of Seafair, Seattle's ten-week-long summer festival. In 1987 the event was moved to the Seattle Center, where by 1997 it had been renamed Pagdiriwang and become one of the five ethnic and cultural festivals…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.02
Date:1971