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Olympic Manor house under construction, April 7, 1926
Seattle grew quickly after 1900. New residential areas extended out from the central city. Houses in those areas were often individually built by skilled carpenters and other craftsmen.In this photo, two plasterers stand by a new house in Olympic Manor, a housing development in north Seattle in the Crown Hill neighborhood. They are mixing plaster for surfacing the interior walls.…
ID Number:1983.10.3148.3
Date:1926
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Seattle's water pipeline, circa 1926
As early as the 1890s, Seattle city engineers realized that Lake Washington could not supply enough clean water for the growing city. Workers built a pipeline system from the city-owned Cedar River watershed, and the first Cedar River water arrived in Seattle in 1901. The early pipelines used both steel and wood stave pipe. Workmen built the wooden pipes by…
ID Number:1983.10.3161.4
Date:Circa 1926
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Workers packing eggs, circa 1925
A group of farmers formed the Washington Cooperative Egg & Poultry Association to promote and market their eggs, chicken, and other poultry products. The coop was located in Puyallup and had a huge packing facility in Seattle. This photo, taken in the mid-1920s, shows women packing eggs for delivery to market. Photographer's Reference Number: 119190
ID Number:1983.10.3194.2
Date:Circa 1925
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Women working inside Olympic Garment Co., Seattle, circa 1928
The Olympic Garment Company was located on the third floor of the Sanitary Market Building on First and Pike Streets. Seattle had several clothing manufacturing businesses during the first half of the twentieth century. Handwritten on sleeve: Baxtey [sic] Dress Co. Int.Photographer's Reference Number: 129779
ID Number:1983.10.3518
Date:Circa 1928
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Kelly-Springfield truck hauling logs, circa 1925
Logging companies sometimes built railroads to haul logs out of the forest. Later, they used trucks. This photo was taken in the mid-1920s, somewhere in western Washington. A Kelly-Springfield logging truck hauls a large fir log along a track-like wooden logging road. Behind the truck are acres of cutover land. Wood was used for roads because it was cheap and…
ID Number:1983.10.3675.10
Date:Circa 1925
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Kelly-Springfield truck hauling logs, circa 1925
By the late 1920s, many logging companies had started using trucks to haul logs out of the forest and down to the sawmill. This photo was taken in the mid-1920s, somewhere in western Washington.A Kelly-Springfield truck hauls a load of fir logs along a logging road. This photo was taken in the mid-1920s by Bellingham photographer J. Wilbur Sandison and…
ID Number:1983.10.3675.15
Date:Circa 1925
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Kelly-Springfield logging truck, circa 1925
Logging companies sometimes built railroads to haul logs out of the forest. Later, they used trucks. This photo was taken in the mid-1920s, somewhere in western Washington. A Kelly-Springfield logging truck prepares to haul a large log along out of the forest. Original photo copied by Webster & Stevens. Handwritten on sleeve: Kelly Truck Co.Photographer's Reference Number: 131173
ID Number:1983.10.3675.16
Date:Circa 1925
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Inside the Northwest Steel Rolling Mills, November 7, 1927
Northwest Steel Rolling Mills was one of several steel companies in Seattle in the late 1920s. In their Ballard mill, they melted scrap metal and made it into steel bars and cylinders for use by other industries. This 1927 photo shows workmen in the factory moving a large bucket of molten metal. Description in handwritten inventory: Auto Tour Steel Plants…
ID Number:1983.10.3841.6
Date:1927
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Seattle Times rural delivery, circa 1927
This photo shows a newspaper delivery driver on a rural delivery for the Seattle Times. Handwritten on sleeve: Times Rural Delivery.Photographer's Reference Number: 128298
ID Number:1983.10.3866.1
Date:Circa 1927
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Seattle Times composing room, circa 1927
The Seattle Times' composing room was on an upper floor of the Times Square Building. The text of the articles on each page of the newspaper was set by hand in metal type. Each page was then printed from a separate printing plate. This photo, taken around 1927, shows men setting type and checking page composition in the Seattle Times…
ID Number:1983.10.3874.3
Date:Circa 1927