453 results for: Hotel Seattle
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View of Western Ave., Seattle, circa 1919
This view of Seattle was taken facing north from about where the Public Market Parking Garage is now located. The large building in the center of the frame is the Seattle Seamen's Institute (also Seamen's Bethel, or Seaman's Hotel), opened by the Seamen's Friend Society in 1904 as a home for retired sailors and mariners. On the eastern side of…
ID Number:1983.10.1659.4
Date:Circa 1919
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Chinese section of downtown Seattle, circa 1920
Starting in 1907, Chinese and Japanese businesses began moving to the area around King Street. By the 1920s, most of Seattle's Chinese residents lived and worked there. The population was largely male, because very restrictive laws kept most Chinese wives from immigrating to the United States to join their husbands. Many of the men lived in rooms in the Hotel…
ID Number:1983.10.1774.2
Date:Circa 1920
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Japanese clothing store and other Jackson Street businesses , circa 1919
Many Asian immigrants to Seattle settled in what is now the Chinatown International District. Some of the Japanese and Chinese immigrants ran clothing stores, barbershops, and other small business, such as those seen in this photo, taken about 1919. Signs include: Busch Hotel, Chop Suey Noodles, YamatoyaWebster & Stevens number: 82298
ID Number:1983.10.1775
Date:Circa 1919
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Putting out the fire at the Hotel Lincoln, April 7, 1920
The Seattle Fire Department battled a large blaze at the Hotel Lincoln on April 7, 1920. The fire broke out in the middle of the night in the hotel's basement laundry room. By the time it was discovered, it had had burned upwards inside the walls. Many guests were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by ladder or rope.…
ID Number:1983.10.1870.2
Date:1920
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Fire Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920
The Seattle Fire Department battled a large blaze at the Hotel Lincoln on April 7, 1920. The fire broke out in the middle of the night in the hotel's basement laundry room. By the time it was discovered, it had had burned upwards inside the walls. Many guests were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by ladder or rope.…
ID Number:1983.10.1870.8
Date:1920
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Two Yakama couples outside a Seattle hotel, January 29, 1921
The Yakama (formerly spelled Yakima) people have lived in the Columbia River basin since time immemorial. Historically, they lived in permanent winter villages built on the valley floor where the climate was most temperate. Starting in spring, they traveled along the rivers and into the hills to gather food. Some gathered roots and berries, and others fished in rivers, especially…
ID Number:1983.10.2082.2
Date:1921
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Four members of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1920
On November 27, 1911, the "Native Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Prior to 1870" was organized in Seattle by sixty white, non-Indigenous, women from all over the Pacific Northwest to honor their settler heritage. The organization still exists as of 2018, now called Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, and promotes historic preservation and education.In this image four women…
ID Number:1983.10.2102.1
Date:1920
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Sorrento Hotel garden, Seattle, circa 1921
By 1910, a number of hotels had been built just outside Seattle's downtown area for people traveling on business or pleasure. The Sorrento Hotel, which advertised itself as "a hotel in the heart of things," opened on First Hill in 1908. It had Seattle's first rooftop restaurant, a roof garden, and scenic views of the city, the bay, and the…
ID Number:1983.10.2171.2
Date:Circa 1921
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Sorrento Hotel entrance, Seattle, circa 1921
By 1910, a number of hotels had been built just outside Seattle's downtown area for people traveling on business or pleasure. The Sorrento Hotel, which advertised itself as "a hotel in the heart of things," opened on First Hill in 1908. It had Seattle's first rooftop restaurant, a roof garden, and scenic views of the city, the bay, and the…
ID Number:1983.10.2171.3
Date:Circa 1921
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Sorrento Hotel tea room, Seattle, circa 1921
By 1910, a number of hotels had been built just outside Seattle's downtown area for people traveling on business or pleasure. The Sorrento Hotel, which advertised itself as "A hotel in the heart of things," opened on First Hill in 1908. It had Seattle's first rooftop restaurant, a roof garden, and scenic views of the city, the bay, and the…
ID Number:1983.10.2171.4
Date:Circa 1921