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Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, 1917
In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills. The mill…
ID Number:1983.10.10416.2
Date:1917
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Arctic Building, Seattle, circa 1917
The Arctic Club, formed by Seattle residents who had struck it rich in the Klondike, commissioned architect A. Warren Gould to design this building to serve as their headquarters. Architectural features included Alaskan marble in the hallways and walrus heads around the third floor. It was one of the earliest buildings to use terra cotta panels over a steel reinforced…
ID Number:1983.10.10417
Date:Circa 1917
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Ezra Meeker in an automobile, 1918
In the 1850s, Ezra Meeker and his family had traveled to the Pacific Northwest by oxcart, along the Oregon Trail. When he was 75 years old, Meeker began his travels to promote the old trail. He formed the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, and worked with states and cities to commemorate the trail and the early settlers.In this 1918 photo, taken…
ID Number:1983.10.10420
Date:1918
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Fire Station No. 5, Seattle, circa 1917
The building shown in this photograph was not the first fire station at this location. A two-story wood fame building stood here from 1902 until 1912, and prior to that, a simple one-story structure had done the job. This waterfront station served as the headquarters for the fireboats "Snoqualmie" and "Duwamish" in the early 1900s. Handwritten on sleeve: Fire Station…
ID Number:1983.10.10424
Date:Circa 1917
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Northern Pacific Railroad bridge, Seattle, circa 1917
This bridge was used by the Northern Pacific railroad to cross the Lake Washington Ship Canal between Fremont and Ballard. Handwritten on sleeve: Bascule Bridge, Lake Wash. canal.Webster & Stevens number: 54405
ID Number:1983.10.10425
Date:Circa 1917
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Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle, 1917
The Lake Washington Ship Canal followed the routes of earlier canals and streams which connected Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Salmon Bay. This photo shows part of the canal in 1917. It was taken looking west from the Ballard Bridge. Handwritten on sleeve: Ship Canal W. from Ballard Bridge, 1917.Webster & Stevens number: 54408
ID Number:1983.10.10428
Date:1917
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View of Pike Street from Second Avenue, Seattle, 1917
This view of Pike Street was taken facing northeast from Second Avenue. Several of the buildings in this image are identifiable. The seven-story building at the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Pike Street (bottom left of frame) is the Harper Building, which was built in 1890 and demolished in 1984. Further east on Pike Street, at the northeast corner…
ID Number:1983.10.10449.1
Date:1917
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Times Building, Seattle, 1917
Webster & Stevens number: 55361
ID Number:1983.10.10453
Date:1917
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View of Broadway and East Pike Street, Seattle, 1917
This view faces south along Broadway toward East Pike Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The three-story building in the center of the frame is the Broadway & East Pike Building, built in 1912 and is still standing as of 2018. Signs in image: Signal Studebaker Trucks; The Used Cars You Saw Advertised are Here!; Progressive Printing Co.; Drink Coca-Cola,…
ID Number:1983.10.10456.2
Date:1917
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Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, circa 1915
In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills, which closed…
ID Number:1983.10.10459
Date:Circa 1915