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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen in the foreground, and the Washington Hotel is on the hill in the top left of the frame.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer…
ID Number:1995.38.33.9
Date:1909
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Hotel Butler Annex, Seattle, 1909
This photo, taken in 1909, is of the Hotel Butler Annex, located on the corner of Marion Street and 4th Avenue. Motor cars and horse drawn carriages are both visible along the street.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush…
ID Number:1995.38.34.1
Date:1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.37.264
Date:1909
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Building Owners and Managers Conference delegates outside New Washington Hotel, Seattle, April 1920
In this photo, delegates at the Second Pacific Northwest Conference of Building Owners and Managers pose outside of the New Washington Hotel, the meeting headquarters. The convention opened April 23, with delegates from San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, B.C., Spokane, Tacoma, and Seattle attending. The delegates discussed the costs of operating commercial properties, zoning regulations, and the need for "alert, efficient…
ID Number:1998.31.1
Date:1920
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Worker attaching welcome banner to post prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.03
Date:1993
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Duane Glaesman being stopped by police officer during protest, November 18, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.009.35.04
Date:1993
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View of King Street businesses, Seattle, December 1973
This image shows storefronts in the West Kong Yick Building, located on South King Street between 7th Avenue South and Canton Alley (seen at far left). The West and East Kong Yick Buildings were constructed in 1910 by the Kong Yick Investment Company, which was made up of 170 investors from Chinese community around Seattle and led by Goon Dip.…
ID Number:2000.107.19731204.1.13
Date:1973
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Demonstrators with signs outside Westin Hotel prior to APEC conference, Seattle, November 19, 1993
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) was founded in 1989 as an informal dialog group with limited participation by ministers and cabinet-level officials in the Asian-Pacific region, and rose to world prominence in Seattle in 1993 when President Clinton endorsed the organization and used it for what is now an annual summit meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders. The group…
ID Number:2000.107.19931119.1.09
Date:1993
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Spring Apartment Hotel brochure, circa 1925
The Spring Apartment Hotel was constructed in 1922 for William H. Hainsworth, a representative of the Spring Apartment Hotel Co. The eleven-story building was designed by John Graham, Sr., and built by general contractor Hans Petersen for $500,000. There were no retail storefronts and the building was entirely devoted to residential hotel purposes and remained so for three decades.This brochure…
ID Number:2003.9.13
Date:Circa 1925
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Exterior of Anthony's book bindery, Seattle, circa 1945
Ferdinand Anthony (1836-1919), immigrated to the U. S. from Munich, Bavaria (now part of Germany), in 1862, and came to Seattle in 1882. In Seattle he established the city's first book bindery. The first location of the shop was in the Frye Opera House at First Avenue and Marion Street in downtown Seattle, but the building burned in the 1889…
ID Number:2007.31.3
Date:Circa 1945