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Damage from Belltown fire, Seattle, June 11, 1910
On June 10, 1910, a fire spread along the waterfront side of Belltown and consumed 13 square blocks of industrial and commercial buildings. Among the heaviest losses were the buildings of Galbraith, Bacon & Co, (where the fire reportedly originated), Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, and the Glenorchy Hotel on Wall Street. A headline in The Seattle Daily Times of…
ID Number:1983.10.9014.1
Date:1910
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Denny Building, early home of The Seattle Times, circa 1913
In 1902, The Seattle Daily Times moved to the Denny Building at the corner of Second Avenue and Union. People walking by on the street could read the posted news bulletins and watch the presses through the basement windows. During elections or baseball games, they could stop by to get the latest results.This photo, taken around 1913, shows the The…
ID Number:1983.10.9589
Date:Circa 1913
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Veterans marching in Memorial Day Parade, Seattle, May 30, 1917
This image of First Avenue in downtown Seattle was taken facing north from just south of the intersection of First Avenue and Madison Street. The streets of First Avenue are lined with spectators of the Memorial Day parade which began at First Avenue and Pine Street. Various active members of the military marched in the parade, as well as veterans…
ID Number:1983.10.10554.1
Date:1917
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Men constructing buildings for military on University of Washington campus, Seattle, 1917
The University of Washington hosted military facilities for both the Army and Navy during World War I. The campus had a branch of the Student Army Training Corps (SATC), with nearly 2000 male students registered, and the University providing room and mess while the military provided training. SATC began recruitment in September 1918, and was demobilized in November 1918, eventually…
ID Number:1983.10.10583.2
Date:1917
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Float at Labor Day parade, Seattle, September 2, 1918
For many years, Seattle's industries closed on Labor Day, and trade union members marched in the annual Labor Day parade. In 1918, the United States' armed forces were still fighting in Europe. Union members serving at forts and naval stations in the Seattle area marched in the parade in uniform. The Seattle Times reported that 50,000 union members took part…
ID Number:1983.10.10777.1
Date:1918
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Navy pilots attending training class on UW campus, Seattle, 1918
During World War I the U. S. Navy established a temporary Naval Training Station in Seattle, on the University of Washington campus, near where the university's health sciences center is now located. The training camp was active from 1917-1919, during which time over 5,000 mostly college students were trained for both naval and naval aviation units. In this image, 11…
ID Number:1983.10.10784
Date:1918
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Launching of Alician at Todd Shipyards, Seattle, 1924
Todd Shipyards (now Vigor Shipyards) was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation through the merger of several companies, including the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company, the origins of which were established in 1882 when Robert Moran opened a marine repair shop at Yesler's Wharf. This image shows the launch of a new pleasure yacht, the Alician,…
ID Number:1983.10.11658.2
Date:1924
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Andy Gump visiting Seattle, June 1926
The Gumps was an extremely popular comic strip about a middle-class family created in 1917 by Sidney Smith (1877-1935), running in nation-wide newspapers until 1959. Readers anxiously followed the convoluted story lines, and by1919, this popularity prompted an interest in film adaptations. Between 1923 and 1928, Universal Pictures produced at least four dozen Gumps two-reel comedies starring Joe Murphy (1877-1961),…
ID Number:1983.10.11801.2
Date:1926
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Knights Templar parading on Second Avenue, Seattle, July 1925
The Knights Templar, a Masonic order modeled after Medieval Christian Crusaders, held their 36th triennial conclave in Seattle on July 28-30, 1925. More than 10,000 participants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana flooded into Seattle. The city was decorated with over 150 illuminated Christian crosses, the order's symbol, including a 40-foot lighted cross placed on top of the Olympic Hotel,…
ID Number:1983.10.12017
Date:1925
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Mayor Doc Brown posing dressed as a preacher, Seattle, 1925
Edwin J. "Doc" Brown (1864-1941) was a two-term mayor of Seattle, elected in May 1922 and again in 1924. He graduated from Kansas City School of Law in 1899, and worked as a dentist, thus earning the nickname "Doc" Brown. As a politician during prohibition, Brown personally did not drink alcohol, but supported the public's right to drink.In late 1925,…
ID Number:1983.10.12247.2
Date:1925