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Military road on Beacon Hill, Seattle, circa 1900
The Fort Steilacoom to Fort Bellingham Military Road was a network of roads running through the Puget Sound area to promote the migration of settlers to Washington Territory and to secure U. S. interests in the region from those of Native Americans. Today’s I-5 roughly follows the route north from Fort Vancouver, built in 1924 by the Hudson's Bay Company…
ID Number:SHS2354
Date:Circa 1900
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Men assembling wooden wings, Boeing Airplane Company, 1922
In 1921, the Boeing Airplane Company won a large government contract to build 200 single-seater MB-3A fighter planes for the U. S. Army. By the end of 1922, workers had completed the work and had also designed, built, and refurbished several other kinds of planes. This helped keep the company open during the business slump that followed World War I.This…
ID Number:SHS9274
Date:1922
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Rainier School exterior, Seattle, circa 1891
Seattle's Rainier School opened as the Jackson Street School, built by the realty firm Eshelman, Lewellyn & Company to stimulate growth in the Rainier Heights neighborhood. Seattle's population was growing quickly at the time, and although the school opened with just 20 students, its enrollment grew to 192 just four years later. In 1891 a new school building opened across…
ID Number:SHS11347
Date:Circa 1891
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First paying passengers of Boeing Commercial Air Service posing at Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first customers was taken on the dock at Lake Union, with the seaplane behind. Third from the left is pilot…
ID Number:SHS11352A
Date:1919
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First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first one of the first commercial flights was taken on Lake Union. It is not clear if this image is…
ID Number:SHS11352B
Date:1919
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Men pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, 1916
William Boeing started his airplane company in this hangar he had built on the shore of Lake Union in December 1915. The B & W seaplane, named after its designers, Boeing and Conrad Westervelt, was the first airplane produced at the small factory. The seaplane, constructed of Washington State spruce lumber, steel wire, and linen fabric, made its first successful…
ID Number:SHS11540
Date:1916
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Boeing Airplane Company Plant 1, June 8, 1917
The Boeing Airplane Company got its first big military order when its "C" model seaplane was accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Navy during World War I. The company opened a new plant on the west side of the Duwamish River, south of Seattle, to handle all this new business. This photo, taken in June 1917, shows the new…
ID Number:SHS12999
Date:1917
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Boeing plant, Seattle, April 16, 1918
The Boeing Airplane Company got its first big military order when its "C" model seaplane was accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Navy during World War I. The company opened a new plant on the west side of the Duwamish River, south of Seattle, to handle all this new business. This photo, taken in April 1918, shows the new…
ID Number:SHS17645
Date:1918