736 results for: Transportation
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Schwabacher delivery truck with Carnation milk, circa 1920
Schwabacher Brothers & Company, a San Francisco firm, opened an branch in Seattle in the 1860s. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods, and other materials to the logging camps, mill towns, and farming communities. The first supplies were delivered across the water and upriver by steamer. In later years, the…
ID Number:1983.10.2435.1
Date:Circa 1920
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Carnation Milk Co. promotional photo showing a bull on a dock near a ship, circa 1919
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the…
ID Number:1983.10.2436.2
Date:Circa 1919
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Ferry "Lincoln of Kirkland" at Anderson shipyard, circa 1923
The ferry "Lincoln of Kirkland" was launched in 1914 from the Anderson Shipbuilding Corporation in Houghton, on Lake Washington. About 1923, it was refurbished at the same yard. The ferry ran between Leschi and Madison Park to Kirkland until 1945. During World War II, the "Lincoln" ferried shipyard workers from Madison Park to a newly-constructed landing just north of the…
ID Number:1983.10.2530.2
Date:Circa 1923
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Second Avenue, Seattle, 1925
This busy street scene features a streetcar, cars, and pedestrians on Second Avenue in downtown Seattle. Signs in image: Hats and Caps. Chocolates. Young's Clothes Shop. Seattle Shoe Repairing Co. Hotel Seattle. Marion Building. Hotel New Avon. DeLuxe Cafe. Pioneer Dentists. Store No. [...] Bartell Drugs. Best Ever Dairy Lunch. We Control 850 Seattle Stores - Henry Broderick Inc. Florence…
ID Number:1983.10.2930
Date:1925
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Automobiles crossing the Cascades through Stevens Pass, July 12,1925
After the Snoqualmie Pass road was built through the Cascade Mountains, a second trans-mountain road was built at Stevens Pass. Some 1,200 people in 283 cars drove up to Stevens Pass for the official dedication on July 11, 1925. Photographers from the Webster & Stevens firm, in the official Seattle Times press car, took photos the following day.This photo shows…
ID Number:1983.10.2935.2
Date:1925
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Traffic tower at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street, 1925
Between 1922 and 1937, the number of automobiles on Seattle's streets more than tripled. In 1925, the city had a traffic tower at the busy area where Fourth Avenue, Pike Street, and Westlake Avenue met. It would have been hard for drivers to see one another as they neared the intersection. A policeman in the tower could see the vehicles…
ID Number:1983.10.2952.1
Date:1925
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A wreck on the Puget Sound Electric Railway, September 23, 1925
In September 1925, two interurban trains collided head-on in a dense fog. The wreck took place just south of Kent. The motorman in the southbound train saw the other train's lights, locked on the brakes and jumped. Luckily, the eighteen people injured in the accident received only cuts and bruises. In this photo, spectators watch as a crane prepares to…
ID Number:1983.10.3019.2
Date:1925
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Cowen Park bridge, Seattle, circa 1925
The Seattle Engineering Department constructed a wooden trestle across the ravine in Cowen Park in the early 1900s. Handwritten on sleeve: Cowan [sic] Park Bridge.Photographer's Reference Number: 113361
ID Number:1983.10.3059.3
Date:Circa 1925
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Chalmers cars at the Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1918
In 1915, sixteen years after the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Service built a single lane road from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley. The Paradise Inn was built in 1916 and became a popular destination for automobile trips. A car could leave Seattle or Tacoma after breakfast and eat lunch at the Paradise Inn. Before the…
ID Number:1983.10.3065
Date:Circa 1918
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Taggart Motor Co. and Georgetown City Hall, Seattle, 1925
Before it was annexed to Seattle in 1910, Georgetown was a separate city connected to Seattle by streetcar. By the mid-1920s, Georgetown was just a short drive away in the family automobile. This 1925 photo shows evidence of both the old and the new transportation. Taggart Motor Company, the Ford dealership, sits on Stanley Avenue near the streetcar tracks. The…
ID Number:1983.10.3076.3
Date:1925