11 results for: Lindsley, Lawrence Denny
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Invitation to USS Nebraska launching on October 7, 1904
In 1904, the Moran Brothers shipyard in Seattle launched the battleship USS Nebraska (BB-14). This vessel was the first steel ship to be built on Puget Sound and the first naval battleship to be built in the Pacific Northwest. At the launching, bands played, people cheered, dignitaries made speeches, and Mary Nain Mickey, the daughter of the Governor of Nebraska,…
ID Number:1969.5072.100
Date:1904
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Invitation to USS Nebraska keel laying ceremony on July 4, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the U. S. Navy, the USS Nebraska (BB-14). The shipyard underwent major renovations to accommodate the construction of such a large vessel, including the building of a 600 foot long ship shed. The ship's keel laying ceremony was held on Independence Day…
ID Number:1969.5072.101
Date:1902
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Invitation to USS Rowan launching on April 8, 1898
In 1898, the Moran Bros. Company shipyard in Seattle launched the USS Rowan (also TB-8), a Navy torpedo boat which was the first war vessel built in the State of Washington. An estimated 10,000 people came to watch the ceremony on Elliott Bay during which the boat was christened by Adria Maude (Semple) Moale Langdon (1872-1947) the wife of Navy…
ID Number:1969.5072.102
Date:1898
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Youngs Bros. business card, circa 1890
Luther Burns Youngs (1858-1923) came from Kentucky to Seattle in 1883. A carpenter by trade, he started a construction business that became quickly profitable in Seattle's booming population. According to Seattle city directories, there were 3,553 residents in 1880 and 43,835 residents in 1890. Already serving as a member of the Board of Public Works, Mr. Youngs was appointed superintendent…
ID Number:1969.5072.103
Date:Circa 1890
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Request for installation of electricity in home, July 7, 1906
In 1906, businessperson Manuel Brock Augustine (1844-1922) wrote the note pictured here to the superintendent of the Seattle Light and Water Department (now Seattle Public Utilities), Luther Burns Youngs (1860-1923), asking to have electric lights installed in his home. Mr. Augustine and his business partner, Charles Louch (b. 1850), had between them been operating grocery, wholesale, mining supply stores in…
ID Number:1969.5072.104
Date:1906
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Day, Latimer, & Wood business card, circa 1885
Benjamin Franklin Day (1834-1904) was born in Ohio and came to Seattle in 1880, buying a 160-acre farm north of Lake Union in what is now the Fremont neighborhood. A real estate speculator and investor, Mr. Day is remembered for having donated money in 1889, then land in 1891, to the Seattle School District. In 1892, the district built and…
ID Number:1974.5903.58
Date:Circa 1885
Logbook
Home for Orphans and Friendless notebook, Seattle, 1886-1910
Seattle's oldest charity, the Seattle Children's Home, originated as the Ladies' Relief Society in April 1884 to aid orphaned children. In the 1930s, the home shifted its emphasis from orphans to troubled children. Beginning in the 1980s, it provided comprehensive treatment and services to troubled youth. In 2012, Seattle Children's Home merged with Navos, one of the largest providers of…
ID Number:1974.5903.59
Date:1886
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Manning & Byrne Undertakers business card, circa 1912
Joseph R. Manning was born and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. He held a position on the city council in New Haven, and was appointed health commissioner. Manning moved to Seattle in 1905, first working in the county auditor's office, and as superintendent of the King County Building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, before establishing an undertaking business in around 1911.…
ID Number:1974.5903.59a
Date:Circa 1912
Photograph
Looking into Tunnel B, 1901
David Denny and members of his family owned several mining claims at Gold Creek, below Snoqualmie Pass, on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains. In 1901, Lawrence Denny Lindsley snapped this photograph of his uncle Victor Winfield Scott Denny (known as Win) inside Tunnel B in one of the Denny mines. They were apparently setting powder explosives to drive…
ID Number:1987.89.33
Date:1901
Photograph
Edward and Abbie Denny Lindsley posing for wedding portrait, Seattle, 1877
Abilene Lucinda "Abbie" Denny (1858-1915) was born in Seattle to pioneers David Thomas Denny (1832–1903) and Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827–1916). In 1877 she married Edward Lawrence Lindsley (1853-1933) who had been born in Wisconsin to Aaron and Maria Newell Lindsley. Abbie Lindsley was a well-known painter and writer, using the pen-names "Chelana" and "Sagebrush." Together the Lindsleys had at least…
ID Number:1999.42.1
Date:1877