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Track System of Seattle Municipal Street Railway map, January 1920
Seattle's first street railway line was built in 1888 and over the next three decades at least six different cable car companies operated throughout the city. In 1919 the City of Seattle took over all of the city's transit lines and formed the Seattle Municipal Street Railway (today's METRO). Because of its steep hills, Seattle kept its cable car lines…
ID Number:1977.6521.4
Date:1920
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Northern Pacific trestle along shore of Lake Union, showing frontage owned by Pacific Coast Coal Co., Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. Handwritten on image: 17524. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USASigns in image: L Rank Signs/ 1628 4th At Times SquareTyped on verso: View of Lake Union showing Northern Pacific…
ID Number:1978.6585.18b
Date:Circa 1915
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Coal yard at Madison Park showing lake frontage and barges, Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. The Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, originally the Seattle & Walla Walla, became part of the Pacific Coast Railway in 1916. Handwritten on image: 4580. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth…
ID Number:1978.6585.21b
Date:Circa 1915
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Coal yard at Madison Park showing street frontage on Laurelshade Avenue, Seattle, circa 1915
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., and the Pacific Coast Railway. The Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, originally the Seattle & Walla Walla, became part of the Pacific Coast Railway in 1916. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USASigns in image:…
ID Number:1978.6585.21c
Date:Circa 1915
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Tug S.L. Dowell on Lake Washington, Seattle, circa 1915
Handwritten on image: 4581. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/1212 Fourth Ave/Seattle, USATyped on verso: "Tug S.L. Dowell" to be renamed "Pacific Coast." Part of equipment purchased with Madison Park Yard on Lake Washington for having coal barges on the lake.
ID Number:1978.6585.21d
Date:Circa 1915
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Portrait of Colonel Granville O. Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Granville Owen Haller (1819-1897) was a U. S. Army officer who served in the Florida, Mexican, and Civil wars before coming to Washington Territory in 1852 with his wife Henrietta M. Haller (1824-1910) and their children, Alice May (Haller) Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte (Haller) McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). In 1860 they were stationed at…
ID Number:1979.6840.7
Date:Circa 1880
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Portrait of Henrietta Haller, Seattle, circa 1880
Henrietta Maria (Cox) Haller (1824-1910) was born in Ireland, arriving in New York with her parents in 1837. She married U. S. Army officer Colonel Granville O. Haller (1819-1897) and the couple had four children, Alice May Haller Nichols (1851-1887), George Morris Haller (1852-1889), Charlotte Haller McKee (1854-1932), and Theodore Newell Haller (1864-1930). The family moved to Washington Territory in…
ID Number:1979.6840.8
Date:Circa 1880
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Aurora Avenue Bridge construction, Seattle, circa 1931
Construction on the George Washington Memorial Bridge, commonly known as the Aurora Bridge, began in 1929, and the bridge was opened to traffic on February 22, 1932. The nearly 3,000-foot long, cantilever and truss structure spans Lake Union between the Fremont and Queen Anne neighborhoods and completes the final link of U.S. Highway 99 from Canada to Mexico. Designed for…
ID Number:1980.6877.4.83
Date:Circa 1931
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Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, Salmon Bay, Seattle, circa 1925
The Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, located just west of the north end of the Ballard Bridge, opened in 1890. This and other Ballard sawmills turned out millions of shingles and board feet of lumber until the shrinking supply of cedar logs brought about the end of the industry. In 1958 the largest fire in Seattle since the fire of…
ID Number:1980.6877.117
Date:Circa 1925
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Rowe Machine Works dock, Ballard, circa 1930
Rowe Machine Works was located at the foot of 24th Avenue NW in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, on the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Rowe Machine Works operated at the same location through the 1980s.In this photograph, the tug Tatoosh and fishing vessel Grizzly II are docked in front of the Rowe Machine Works building, perhaps for repairs. Barbee Dry…
ID Number:1980.6877.156
Date:Circa 1930