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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
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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
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James J. Hill seated in automobile, Seattle, circa 1909
Canadian-American railroad executive James Jerome Hill (1838-1916), nicknamed the "Empire Builder," was perhaps more significant to the framing of the empire of the Pacific Northwest than any other individual. He built the Great Northern Railroad and also controlled the Northern Pacific and Burlington railroads. Mr. Hill's decisions about rail routes and station stops had the power to turn fledging communities…
ID Number:1956.1029.1
Date:Circa 1909
Cartographic material
Bird's-eye view of Seattle, 1879
Eli Sheldon Glover (1845-1909) was an inventor and artist who was active in San Francisco, Chicago and Tacoma. Many of his works are perspective maps, and he traveled throughout the west drawing "birds-eye" views of newly developed cities. This image of Seattle was drawn by Mr. Glover in 1879, and is the second-earliest overview map of the city known to…
ID Number:1957.1281.10
Date:1879
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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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Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., circa 1917
Lumber was one of the Puget Sound's main exports in the 1890s. In 1899, 200,000 board feet of milled lumber left Seattle every day by rail or ship for the eastern United States and various Pacific ports. Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company began operations in 1917. The company, starting with some houses and a mill store, built a small community atop…
ID Number:1966.3827.2
Date:Circa 1917
Postcard
Two men with train backdrop at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This souvenir postcard from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition shows two men posing within a train backdrop. Such souvenirs photographs, depicting subjects against various backgrounds, were popular among fairgoers at the AYPE. Text on sign on train: Exposition Special A.Y.P Through Train Spokane to SeattleText on sign on train: North Coast Limited
ID Number:1966.4058.6
Date:1909
Postcard
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition promotional postcard, Seattle, circa 1909
Promotional photograph for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, with illustrations connecting Seattle to Alaska (including with an Alaska Native totem pole), which encourages people to arrive by steamship and railroad. Caption on image: Hello Bill! Meet me on the Pay Streak at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition - June 1st - Oct 16th - Seattle U.S.A. 1909.Postcard Number: 1853
ID Number:1966.4058.8
Date:Circa 1909
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Horace C. Henry home, Seattle, circa 1920
One of Seattle's early residents, Horace Chapin Henry (1844-1928) was a businessperson who made a fortune with building contractor Henry Balch when they formed Henry and Balch, a construction company that won many contracts for railroads and roads throughout the United States. Work brought Henry to Seattle in late 1891, and he began to make investments in local businesses, later…
ID Number:1967.4235.6
Date:Circa 1920
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Horace and Susan Henry home, Seattle, circa 1900
One of Seattle's early residents, Horace Chapin Henry (1844-1928) was a businessperson who made a fortune with building contractor Henry Balch when they formed Henry and Balch, a construction company that won many contracts for railroads and roads throughout the United States. Work brought Henry to Seattle in late 1891, and he began to make investments in local businesses, later…
ID Number:1967.4235.14a
Date:Circa 1900