106 results for: Williams
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Women cooking salmon, Muckleshoot Reservation, circa 1950
The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe is made up of descendants of the Duwamish and Upper Puyallup peoples who lived near Puget Sound and its associated waterways since time immemorial. Muckleshoot ancestors lived in villages that were tied together by marriage bonds, trade, shared ceremonies, and use of the same land. This network of interconnected villages extended far beyond the Upper Puyallup…
ID Number:PI23907
Date:Circa 1950
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Denny Way sewer outfall into Puget Sound, Seattle, May 12, 1913
Prior to 1890, Seattle relied on a haphazard assortment of sewers and cesspools that, at best, drained into surrounding lakes and salt water. Faced with recurring threats of waterborne diseases including typhoid and cholera, City Engineer Benezette Williams designed the Seattle's first centralized combined sewage system plan in 1891. This plan sought to remove as much city sewage as possible…
ID Number:SHS8888
Date:1913
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Alder Street sewer outfall into Lake Washington, June 19, 1917
Prior to 1890, Seattle relied on a haphazard assortment of sewers and cesspools that, at best, drained into surrounding lakes and salt water. Faced with recurring threats of waterborne diseases including typhoid and cholera, City Engineer Benezette Williams designed the Seattle's first centralized combined sewage system plan in 1891. This plan sought to remove as much city sewage as possible…
ID Number:SHS8917
Date:1917
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The Orcas at Lake Washington Ship Canal, February 2, 1916
The Lake Washington Ship Canal was created to move logs, coal, and other resources directly from the east side of Lake Washington to Elliott Bay. Construction began in 1911 under Hiram M. Chittenden of the Army Corps of Engineers. The formal dedication and opening of the Lake Washington Ship Canal for business was on July 4, 1917, when the SS…
ID Number:SHS10603
Date:1916
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Choir at Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Seattle, 1916
Typed on sleeve: Male choir in Seattle synagogue, 1916. Cantor: Sol Tovbin. Director: Boris Dolgoff. Top row, left: Abraham Steinberg. 2nd row, left: Aleck Hoffman, Sidney Resnick. 2nd row, far right: Louis Woron. 3rd row, right: William Warshall. Bottom row, 3rd from left: Abe Resnick. 4th from left: David Hoffman. Far right: Adolph Warshall.Additional names given in Cone/Droker/Williams "Family of…
ID Number:SHS15795
Date:1916
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Motorcycle police squad outside station, Seattle, October 22, 1914
In early 1910, the Seattle police department invested $1,329 in its first three motorcycles, with seven patrolman selected as the first members of the "motor cops" squad. In this 1914 photo, a motorcycle squad of 15 officers shows off its new Indian brand motorcycles. Executives of the Seattle Police Department stand to the right of the fleet: left to right,…
ID Number:SHS16707
Date:1914