1514 results for: City of Seattle
Photograph
Hotel Leland, 84 Pike St., Seattle, circa 1903
This image of the Hotel Leland features a Seattle Water Department official checking water meters. The Hotel Leland, located on First Avenue and Pike Street, was built in 1900 by brothers Frank (1865-1954), John, and Erwin Goodwin of the Goodwin Real Estate Company. Seven years later a wooden planked road, called Pike Place, was constructed off of Pike Street and…
ID Number:1972.5346.27
Date:Circa 1903
Photograph
Hotel Cecil, Beebe Building, and Globe Building, Seattle, circa 1903
The three buildings seen here are viewed from Spring Street looking south towards Madison Street. They occupy the entire west side this block of First Avenue in the Central Business District of downtown Seattle. These buildings are listed together as (south to north) the "Globe Building, Beebe Building and Hotel Cecil" on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings…
ID Number:1972.5346.31
Date:Circa 1903
Photograph
Globe block, corner of Madison and Post Streets, Seattle, circa 1903
The Globe Block, seen here at the northeast corner of Madison Street and Post Street, was commissioned by Seattle Developer James W. Clise (1855-1939) in 1900-1901. The Alexis Hotel has occupied the Globe Building since 2003. This building and the two to the north are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Globe Building, Beebe Building and Hotel…
ID Number:1972.5346.33
Date:Circa 1903
Photograph
Globe Building, Beebe Building, and Hotel Cecil, Seattle, circa 1903
The three buildings seen here are viewed from Madison Street looking north towards Spring Street. They occupy the entire west side of this block of First Avenue in downtown Seattle. These buildings are listed together as (south to north) the "Globe Building, Beebe Building and Hotel Cecil" on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings are also part of…
ID Number:1972.5346.36
Date:Circa 1903
Photograph
Portrait of Squire Park residents, Seattle, 1918
Pictured here are five Seattlites who lived and/or worked on E. Jefferson Street in Seattle's Squire Park neighborhood. The individuals are identified on the verso of the photograph left to right as: Robert Ross "Bob" Hedges, born in Oklahoma in 1881, was a car operator at Puget Sound Traction Light & Power (PSTL&P); Vincent Amato, born in Italy in 1876,…
ID Number:1972.5373.20
Date:1918
Book
Cupid's Book of Good Counsel-Seattle, Seatte, Washington, circa 1918
Book of advertisements given for free to newlyweds. Catering mainly to the bride, it also contains recipes and tips for cooking and housekeeping, and the ads are city specific.
ID Number:1972.5567.116.14.1
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Seattle waterfront from Elliott Bay, circa 1920
Visitors to Seattle in the early years of the 20th century could purchase panoramic images of the city to send to friends or keep as souvenirs. This postcard, with its hand-colored image, shows the bustling harbor and city. In the foreground, left to right, are a “mosquito fleet” steamer on its way across Puget Sound, a small launch, a freighter,…
ID Number:1973.5630.1
Date:Circa 1920
Ephemera
Liberty Theatre souvenir, Seattle, October 27, 1914
Seattle's Liberty Theatre opened at First Avenue and Pike Street in 1914, intending to be "a theatre which for perfection of appointment, convenience and luxuriousness has no equal this side of Chicago." The exterior of the building featured a forty-foot-high Statue of Liberty, illuminated by 1,200 lamps of eight different colors. When it was built, the movie theater's concave screen…
ID Number:1973.5659.1
Date:1914
Photograph
Alki Beach Park, Seattle, circa 1908
Alki Beach has long been a popular recreation spot in the Puget Sound region. Originally a favorite campsite for Duwamish Tribe, it became known as the birthplace of Seattle when the Denny Party landed there in 1851. They called this settlement "New York Alki," a reference to the hope that it would grow to become an important city ("Alki" is…
ID Number:1973.5695.1
Date:Circa 1908
Correspondence
Letter from Bertha K. Landes, March 15, 1926
Bertha Ethel (Knight) Landes (1868-1943) was the first female mayor of a major American city, serving as mayor of Seattle from 1926 to 1928. Landes vowed to clean up city government, running for mayor on the platform of "municipal housekeeping." She served only one term as mayor but remained a civic leader in such organizations as the Women's University Club,…
ID Number:1974.5855.5
Date:1926