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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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Views of East Newton Street, Seattle, 1911 and 1912
Seattle's Portage Bay-Roanoke-North Capitol Hill neighborhood is located at the far northern end of the north-south ridge that forms Seattle's Capitol, Renton, First, and Beacon hills. Development during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was spurred by the area's convenient location: close enough -- but not too close -- to downtown Seattle. Initially somewhat challenging to access, by 1906…
ID Number:1957.1279.1
Date:1911-1912
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Church leaders posing together at St. Mark's Church, Seattle, 1894
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church was founded in 1889 to meet the needs of a growing Seattle population. The congregation's first dedicated church building was built in 1890 at 5th Avenue and Stewart Street, in downtown Seattle. By 1897 they had outgrown it and moved into a new building at Seneca and Broadway on First Hill. In 1923 land was purchased on…
ID Number:1957.1290.1
Date:1894
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Seattle High School Class of 1901
As the population of Seattle grew, so did the city's schools. The first school was called "Central School," a name that was applied to several different buildings as the original building was outgrown and a subsequent building burned down. In 1900, the older students of Seattle would have attended Seattle High School, located on the third floor of a building…
ID Number:1961.2387.1
Date:1901
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Warranty Deed from John W. Maple and wife to Martin Cavanaugh, August 26, 1872
Ohioan Martin Luther Cavanaugh arrived in Seattle in 1852, where he rented 10 acres in Georgetown, in the Duwamish Valley. Eventually Martin (1836-1926) bought the property, then expanded his holdings to 300 acres. On August 26, 1872, Mr. Cavanaugh bought a parcel of land from John W. Maple and his wife E. J. Maple, relatives of his wife Mary Ann…
ID Number:1964.3312.8
Date:1872
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Handwritten bond between John W. Maple and wife to Martin Cavanaugh for a private road, August 28, 1872
Ohioan Martin Cavanaugh arrived in Seattle in 1852, where he rented 10 acres in Georgetown, in the Duwamish Valley. Eventually Martin (1836-1926) bought the property, then expanded his holdings to 300 acres. On August 26, 1872, Cavanaugh bought a parcel of land from John W. Maple and his wife E. J. Maple, relatives of his wife Mary Ann (Maple) Cavanaugh…
ID Number:1964.3312.9
Date:1872
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Seattle Police Tug-of-War champions, July 1924
The Seattle Police Sports Association was organized in 1922 to for members of the police department. Seattle police athletes competed against other departments from Tacoma, Portland, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, and other Northwest cities in track and field events, such as the 100 meter dash, javelin throw, and various marksmanship events. In July 1924, the Seattle Police Department won the Tug-of-War…
ID Number:1964.3355.2
Date:1924
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Julean Arnold and China Club of Seattle aboard S.S. President Grant, Seattle, April 7, 1923
Julean Herbert Arnold was a U. S. Commercial Attache in China and Japan from 1914-1940, and a founder of the China Club in Seattle. Established in 1916, the China Club of Seattle still operates today and is committed to promoting closer trade and cultural relations with China. In 1923, Mr. Arnold spent four months touring the United States, including Seattle,…
ID Number:1967.4171.1
Date:1923
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Seattle City Treasurer's office employees, June 1908
This portrait of the employees of the office of the City Treasurer includes the following identifications:First [front] row, left to right: J. F. Haney, Asst. Treas.; W. H. Sanders; Margaret Epler; Maude Judd; George F. Russell, City Treasurer (1906-1908); A. N. Graves; C. L. Blewett.Second row, left to right: Thomas Scott; Charles A. Duke; Amos Brown; Col. H. W. Beecher;…
ID Number:1969.4653.12
Date:1908
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Broadway Station, Seattle, August 13, 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:1972.5319.44
Date:1935