• Visit
    • Museum Accessibility
    • Community Access
    • Group Visits and Tours
    • Programs
      • History Café
      • MOHAI Mercantile Literary Series
      • First Thursday
      • Denny Lecture
      • Al Young Educator of the Year
      • Everyday Heroes
    • MOHAI Mercantile
    • Gourmondo at MOHAI
  • Exhibits
  • Events
  • Collections and Research
    • Collections Search
    • Themed Collections
    • Research Library
    • Image Ordering
    • Donate an Artifact
    • Curator’s Fellowship
  • Support
    • Donate
    • Membership at MOHAI
    • Gift Memberships
    • Corporate Support
  • Education
    • Field Trips
      • Self-Guided School Year Explorations
      • Creating Our Community
      • Cracking the History Code: Salish Stories
      • Cracking the History Code: Settling Around the Sound
      • Hands on History
      • Self-Guided Summer Field Trips
      • Homeschool Group
    • Portable Museum Program
    • Scholarships
    • Education FAQ
    • Primary Source Analysis
    • Online Curricula
    • Teen Programs
    • Idea Lab
    • Discovery Packs
    • Summer Camps
  • About
    • Annual Reports
    • The MOHAI Blog
    • Contact MOHAI
    • Opportunities
    • Leadership
    • Private Events
  • Donate
  • Tickets
  • Membership
HomeCollections and ResearchCollections Search

Collections Search

Explore stories in Northwest history through highlights from MOHAI’s collections. Search by keyword below or browse the entire online collection by entering the asterisk symbol (*). Filter your search by type of materials.

Download lower resolution images directly from an item page. MOHAI offers high-resolution digital reproductions of photographs and other materials from our collections for personal and professional use.

We have many more items in our collections and not everything you see online is on view at the museum. We have additional materials online at the University of Washington’s Digital Collections.

MOHAI Statement on Harmful Content

Search by Collection

Not finding what you are looking for?
Ask the MOHAI Collections Staff

381 results for: Seattle Construction Company

Share:
Image of Columbia Funeral Home hockey team, Seattle, April 1963
Photograph

Columbia Funeral Home hockey team, Seattle, April 1963

This photograph shows the Columbia Funeral Home hockey team, which won the Sertoma Hockey League playoffs in 1963. The league was made up of teams owned or sponsored by Seattle businesses, including Gordon’s Custom Furrier, Pike Sign Company, and Trippy Construction. The players are identified as: Back row: Steve Barrett, Merle Raftery, Spike Husby, Gary Spring, Wayne Dodman. Front row:…
ID Number:2000.107.089.26.01
Date:1963
Image of Jim Mason and Eddie Rye, Jr. talking to press, Spetember 15, 1986
Photograph

Jim Mason and Eddie Rye, Jr. talking to press, Spetember 15, 1986

On September 15, 1986, about two dozen African American contractors and unemployed workers visited the Guy F. Atkinson Co. job site near the Mount Baker tunnel to express their dissatisfaction with minority hiring and contracting procedures used by the firm. Eddie Rye Jr., a representative of the Black Contractors Coalition, told Atkinson representative Ira Fell that the group was particularly…
ID Number:2000.107.119.28.01
Date:1986
Image of Boring machine at Metro tunnel portal, Seattle, May 18, 1987
Photograph

Boring machine at Metro tunnel portal, Seattle, May 18, 1987

In this image taken at the Metro Bus Tunnel portal between Jackson Street and Main Street near Fourth Avenue, workers from Shaughnessy Moving Engineers and Atkinson and Dillingham Construction Company remove the last of two iron support beams that held up the huge new Robbins boring machine, nicknamed the "Mole," during transportation. At its starting place in this photo, the…
ID Number:2000.107.124.37.04
Date:1987
Image of Skid-steer loader clearing grounds for new Microsoft plant, Bothell, December 30, 1987
Photograph

Skid-steer loader clearing grounds for new Microsoft plant, Bothell, December 30, 1987

Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology. This photo shows construction of a…
ID Number:2000.107.125.10.01
Date:1987
Image of Employees watching awards ceremony at Fisher Flouring Mills, Seattle, September 8, 1944
Photograph

Employees watching awards ceremony at Fisher Flouring Mills, Seattle, September 8, 1944

The Fisher Flouring Mills was one of the first industrial businesses to open on Harbor Island, located in Seattle's Elliott Bay at the mouth of the Duwamish waterway, after construction of the artificial island was completed in 1909. In 1926, founding brothers Orin Wallace Fisher (1891–1979) and Oliver David Fisher (1875-1967) began a radio station (now KOMO and part of…
ID Number:2000.107.172.34.05
Date:1944
Image of Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985
Photograph

Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985

The Georgetown Steam Plant, located near Boeing Field in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, was originally constructed in 1906 for the Seattle Electric Company. The plant's overall contributions to electricity production were minor but the innovative methods and materials used to build it, the intact early-twentieth-century steam-generating equipment it houses, and the involvement of pioneering efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868-1924),…
ID Number:2000.107.173.07.02
Date:1985
Image of Construction on new ZymoGenetics headquarters, Seattle, July 27, 1993
Photograph

Construction on new ZymoGenetics headquarters, Seattle, July 27, 1993

ZymoGenetics was established in Seattle in 1981 by University of Washington professors Earl Davie and Benjamin Hall, along with University of British Columbia professor Michael Smith. One of the oldest biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., ZymoGenetics was involved in the development of therapeutic proteins. The company was acquired by Novo Nordisk in 1988, and was spun off as a public…
ID Number:2000.107.19930727.1.31
Date:1993
Image of Aerial view of Washington State Coliseum construction site showing original buildings, Seattle, 1960
Photograph

Aerial view of Washington State Coliseum construction site showing original buildings, Seattle, 1960

The Howard S. Wright Construction Company broke ground for the Washington State Coliseum (now Key Arena) on May 12, 1960. This aerial photograph depicts the surrounding city and fairgrounds, including the original Stadium, Ice Arena, and Armory buildings prior to renovation for the Century 21 Exposition. Stamped on verso with business stamp of Jesse Ebert Photographers, 3225 California Avenue Southwest,…
ID Number:2004.48.2.7
Date:1960
Image of Aerial view of Washington State Coliseum construction site, Seattle, 1960
Photograph

Aerial view of Washington State Coliseum construction site, Seattle, 1960

The Howard S. Wright Construction Company broke ground for the Washington State Coliseum (now Key Arena) on May 12, 1960. This aerial photograph, probably taken during the summer of 1960, shows a view of the concrete pour wooden framework, and the first V-shaped concrete pillars erected. Stamped on verso with business stamp of Jesse Ebert Photographers, 3225 California Avenue Southwest,…
ID Number:2004.48.4.11
Date:1960
Image of Monorail construction along Fifth Avenue, Seattle, 1961
Photograph

Monorail construction along Fifth Avenue, Seattle, 1961

The Seattle Monorail is an elevated train line that runs approximately one mile along Fifth Avenue from Westlake Center to the Seattle Center. The monorail, which cost 3.5 million to build, opened on March 24, 1962 for the Century 21 Exposition. The line and its trains were constructed by Alweg Rapid Transit Systems, a German company. The image depicts the…
ID Number:2004.48.9.5
Date:1961
Previous 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 39 Next

Land Acknowledgement

MOHAI stands on the historic and contemporary lands and shores of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish Nations. We acknowledge the forced displacement of Native Communities from this land while honoring the endurance of the Duwamish people who still live here.
Address: 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle WA, 98109
Phone: 206 324 1126
  • Plan a Visit
  • Directions and Parking
  • Accessibility
  • Group Tours
  • About

Sign up to Receive our Newsletter

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Copyright 2026, Museum of History & Industry. All Rights Reserved