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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
Serial
Some Scenes Attending End of Round the World Flight, October 18, 1924
In 1924, four Douglas World Cruisers, each manned by an Army Air Corps pilot and mechanic, took off from Seattle's Sand Point Field to fly around the world. Some 175 days later, on September 29, 1924, three of the planes arrived back in Seattle. An estimated 40,000 people greeted the flyers as they landed at what is now Magnuson Park.…
ID Number:1956.1145.2.1
Date:1924
Document
Seattle Senior Grammar School report card, April 2, 1896
In 1883, when Seattle's small schools were bursting with students, a building was built to consolidate students at one larger facility at Sixth Street and Madison Avenue. This school, now referred to as Central School II, housed Seattle High School (later Senior Grammar School) on the top floor while the younger students attended classes on the lower two floors. In…
ID Number:1961.2451.1
Date:1896
Photograph
Washington Laundry building and delivery carriages, Seattle, 1910
Born in Tennessee, James Thomas Huff (1868-1924) moved to Seattle in 1894, finding work at the Seattle Laundry. In 1904, he established his own laundry business, Washington Laundry, at 1165 Eastlake Avenue on Lake Union.In this image Mr. Huff stands next to his Winton automobile in front of Washington Laundry. The laundry delivery drivers with their horses and wagons are…
ID Number:1969.4602.2
Date:1910
Photograph
Helene Madison and two men near car in front of Eldridge Buick, Pike Street, Seattle, September 1932
Helene Emma Madison (1913-1970) 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…
ID Number:1970.5051.76
Date:1932
Photograph
Portrait of Potlatch King Edgar L. Webster, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used imagery common to local Indigenous Peoples to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a…
ID Number:1977.6531.2
Date:1911
Postcard
Swimmers at Luna Park Beach, Seattle, 1911
West Seattle's Luna Park was named for Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon, and billed as Seattle's Coney Island. The amusement park was a popular place for Seattleites to swim, dance, and have fun. They could ride on a giant water slide, a rollercoaster, or a carousel, or have a drink at what was advertised as "the longest bar…
ID Number:1978.6689.12
Date:1911
Photograph
Washingon Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle, 1921
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 savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008. This photo documents the bank's location at the Walker Building on Second Avenue. Caption accompanying image: The Walker Building, built in 1899 was purchased by…
ID Number:1979.6747.28
Date:1921
Photograph
Portrait of Lucy Lyon, Seattle, circa 1900
Lucinda F. "Lucy" (Kinkead) Lyon (1849-1932) came to Seattle with her husband, Colonel George G Lyon (1841-1902), who was a member of Territorial Governor Watson C. Squire's staff from 1884-1887. A wealthy and prominent leader of society, Lucy was a founding trustee of the Seattle Historical Society (SHS, now MOHAI) in 1914.This portrait of Lucy was taken in Seattle when…
ID Number:1979.6840.4
Date:Circa 1900
Photograph
Cable car at 2nd Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle, 1908
In this image taken at Cherry Street facing north on Second Avenue, a woman boards a cable car in the center of a bustling street. Signs in image: Traveler 5¢ Cigars; Granam & Moore Jewelers; Plymouth Shoe Co.; L. L. Moore, Jewelers; Dr. Erwin, Dentist; Crawford, Conover, & Fisken, Fire Insurance; Crawford & Conover, Real Estate; North American Life; Washington…
ID Number:1980.6923.20
Date:1908