832 results for: Puget Sound
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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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Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad depot, Renton, circa 1915
The Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad was extended as far as Renton in 1877 and started carrying coal to Seattle. The railroad built the depot building two years later. The Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad and, later, the Pacific Coast Coal Company took over the railroad line, including the Renton station. This photo shows the depot around 1915. The building…
ID Number:1978.6585.22
Date:Circa 1915
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Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad ticket office and freight warehouse, Newcastle, 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: 11718Signs in image: Shoes/ Agent for Hamilton…
ID Number:1978.6585.23
Date:Circa 1915
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Columbia & Puget Sound train depot, Maple Valley, circa 1920
Maple Valley's first railroad station, built in the early 1890s, was replaced with the building shown in this photo in the early 1920s. This was one of only five village depots in the United States which was both a depot and a train dispatcher's office. Depot personnel dispatched Pacific Coast Coal Company trains from Black Diamond to Seattle and served…
ID Number:1978.6585.28
Date:Circa 1920
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Columbia & Puget Sound train depot, Black Diamond, circa 1915
Sometime around 1886, the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad built a depot at Black Diamond, Washington. The Pacific Coast Coal Company later took over the railroad line and enlarged the depot. Since 1972, the building has been restored and houses the Black Diamond Historical Museum. This photo shows the depot in about 1915. Handwritten on image: 11747Typed on verso: Black…
ID Number:1978.6585.29
Date:Circa 1915
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Alaska Steamship Company at Piers 1 and 2, Seattle, circa 1898
The Alaska Steamship Company was formed in 1894, initially to ship passengers and fishing products between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In 1896 gold was discovered on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, triggering a stampede of prospectors into Seattle and an era of prosperity that lasted for more than a decade. The Alaska Steamship Company…
ID Number:1978.6603.1
Date:Circa 1898
Postcard
Fishermen with net, Seattle, circa 1910
This postcard features five fishermen casting a net. Caption on image: Fishermen casting the net. Puget Sound, Wash.
ID Number:1978.6686.6
Date:Circa 1910
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
Postcard
Bus driving through south gate at Fort Lawton, Seattle, circa 1960
In 1897, the city of Seattle donated land on Magnolia Bluff to the US government to build a new Army post as part of a defense system for Puget Sound; this was designated as Fort Lawton in 1900. During most of its active service, the fort served as an embarkation station where troops gathered before being sent to duty in…
ID Number:1979.6782.x24
Date:Circa 1960
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Clock at Colman Dock, Seattle, 1910
This clock, built by the E. Howard Co. of Boston, was installed at Seattle's Colman Dock in 1908. The clock served as a beacon for land and water travelers, its four 54-inch dials lit from inside. On the evening of April 25, 1912, the steamship Alameda slammed into the dock and the tower sheared off, fell onto the Alameda, and…
ID Number:1980.6877.5.59
Date:1910