283 results for: Retail and Department Stores
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Standard Furniture airship, circa 1910
Downtown Seattle businesses tried many ways of attracting customers. In this photo, the Standard Furniture Company uses an airborne Santa Claus to promote their credit plan. The airship is suspended above Second Avenue at Pine Street. The Hotel Washington, at 2nd Avenue and Stewart Street, is in the background. Webster & Stevens number: 18929
ID Number:1983.10.9109.2
Date:Circa 1910
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Bon Marche children's room, circa 1914
For many years, Seattle's Bon Marche department store has had children's activities at Christmastime. In this photo, a group of young children sit in a circle listening to a woman. At the right of the photograph, other children and women look on. Webster & Stevens number: 19403
ID Number:1983.10.9180
Date:Circa 1914
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Burnside Town of $2.00 Hats, Seattle, circa 1915
Signs in image: Burnside "Town of $2.00 Hats" - Factory and Stores - Builds $2 Hats - Hats Made to Order - Hats Cleaned, Blocked, Dyed - 4th and Union, 3rd and James - The Key to Our Success - Always $2.00. [Bowling Alley]. Hotel Georgian. Restaurant. Handwritten on sleeve: Burnside Hat Store.Webster & Stevens number: 19844
ID Number:1983.10.9278.1
Date:Circa 1915
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Arcade Building, Seattle, circa 1913
The Arcade Building on the west side of 2nd Avenue between Union and University Streets, was altered twice. The right half was demolished for a larger Rhodes Department Store, and the facade portion of the remaining half was sliced off to create a parking garage. Both of the altered parts were torn down in the 1980s. Signs in image: The…
ID Number:1983.10.9588
Date:Circa 1913
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Corner Market at Pike Place, circa 1915
Seattle opened its public market at Pike Place in 1907 so that farmers could sell fresh eggs, dairy products, produce, and other things directly to city dwellers. The Corner Market was built several years later across the street at the corner of First Avenue and Pike Place.In this busy scene, shoppers hurry with their baskets or stop to chat. An…
ID Number:1983.10.10020
Date:Circa 1915
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Exterior of Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse, Seattle, circa 1915
Chicago-based mail order firm Sears, Roebuck & Company opened its first Seattle warehouse about 1910 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. By 1913 the company had completed construction on a new seven-story reinforced concrete warehouse and distribution center closer to the rail yards south of downtown. The following year Sears announced plans for a huge addition to the distribution center, designed…
ID Number:1983.10.10166
Date:Circa 1915
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Pike Place Market from Western Avenue, Seattle, circa 1915
Seattle's Public Market or "Pike Place Market" opened in 1907 on the edge of a steep hill and over the years has grown to incorporate several lower levels of the original building as well as several additional buildings. A local preservation movement in 1971 established the seven-acre Pike Place Market Historical District which continues to protect the physical and social…
ID Number:1983.10.10173
Date:Circa 1915
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The Bon Marche, circa 1916
In 1890, German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine invested their life savings of $1,200 to start The Bon Marche at First Avenue and Cedar Street. He modeled his new department store after one he had known in Paris. The Bon Marche moved to the corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street in 1896. By 1901, it had expanded…
ID Number:1983.10.10338
Date:1916
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Fish market near the Seattle waterfront, circa 1917
Even in the 1910s, at least one Seattle fish market promoted its shipping services. In this photo, taken at a market next to Colman Dock around 1917, two salesmen show their fresh fish to several prospective buyers. The market has salmon for sale, and crabs for 20 cents each. The sign above the door says that fish can be shipped…
ID Number:1983.10.10556
Date:Circa 1917
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Pike Place Market, Seattle, circa 1917
In 1917 real estate developer Frank Goodwin purchased the Bartell Building (1900) on the southwest corner of First and Pike and renamed it the Economy Market, thus completing the ensemble of core market buildings. Initially the stables for farmer's horses, the building got its name for being the discount or day-old section of the market. Signs in image: Economy Market.…
ID Number:1983.10.10580.2
Date:Circa 1917