12 results for: Jacobs Photo
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University of Washington football team, circa 1910
This UW football team was coached by Gilmour "Gloomy Gil" Dobie and captained by Huber Grimm. The team's record was 6-0-0. Handwritten on image: Jacobs Photo 658. Typed on verso: Univ. of Wash. - athletics. football team, Pac. Coast Champs, ca. 1910. Left to r: top: Dobie, Zednick, Patton, Sutton, Seeler. next to top: Husby, Eakins, Pullen, Presley, Husby, Griffith,…
ID Number:1960.1821.33
Date:Circa 1910
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Men with mail sacks and mail truck outside Washington Mutual Savings Bank, circa 1941
Men, probably Washington Mutual employees, pose with a U.S. postal worker near a mail truck being loaded with sacks containing interest payments outside the Washington Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle. Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest…
ID Number:1979.6747.77
Date:Circa 1941
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Smith Tower, Seattle, circa 1915
This view looking north shows the 42-story L. C. Smith Building (Smith Tower) rising above Seattle. Named for its original owner, Lyman Cornelius Smith of Smith Corona typewriter fame, it was the tallest building in Seattle from 1914 until the SeaFirst Building was constructed in 1968. Signs in image: M. Furuya Co. Importers & Exporters. Western Dry Goods Co. Seattle…
ID Number:1980.7054.4
Date:Circa 1915
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Chamber of Commerce Building, Seattle, circa 1925
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:1983.10.391
Date:Circa 1925
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Benjamin M. Paris and three men posing at Ben Paris Sporting Goods and Recreation, Seattle, circa 1930
Benjamin M. Paris (1884-1950) was an American sportsman, entrepreneur, and conservationist. His namesake store, the Ben Paris, was a combination restaurant, lounge, pool hall, pull-tab parlor, barber shop, sporting goods establishment, and was a Seattle institution for many years. Opened in the late 1920s, it was located on the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Pine Street on the lower…
ID Number:1991.64.3
Date:Circa 1930
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Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934
This image shows the opening of the new building of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, which took over the building from the defunct Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. Built in the early 1920s at 300 Pike Street in downtown Seattle, the building was later demolished and the site has been occupied since 1985 by the Century Square Office…
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.01
Date:1934
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Cooking demonstration at war kitchen, Seattle, July 1918
In this image, demonstrations and advice are given to housewives and cooks on preparing food with the limited wartime rations. The "War Kitchen," as it was referred to, was located at the Central Building in downtown Seattle and supervised by Dorothy Shank, home economics instructor at the University of Washington, Mildred Thronburg, demonstrator, and Mrs. F. G. Stoner, special investigator.…
ID Number:2000.107.233.10.14
Date:1918
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Employees packaging coffee at Crescent Manufacturing Company, Seattle, circa 1920
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early 20th century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.Pictured here are employees packaging coffee at…
ID Number:2005.24.27
Date:Circa 1920
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Schwabacher Bros. band waiting to join parade, Seattle, July 29, 1938
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened an branch store in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other…
ID Number:2015.30.4
Date:1938
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Society Candy Company employees at Mount Rainier, August 1919
From August 5th through 7th, 1919, employees of the Imperial Candy Company hiked and relaxed at Mount Rainier National Park. Here, the group members, wearing suits, dresses, and hiking attire, pose for a panoramic group photo. The top of Mount Rainier can be seen in the distance.In 1906, Samuel David McKinstry and a partner founded the Imperial Candy Company in…
ID Number:2016.53.2
Date:1919