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American House business card, circa 1877
John Harte McGraw (1850-1910) moved to Seattle from Maine in 1876 and got a job as a clerk in the Occidental Hotel. According to his obituary, he became an owner of American House boarding house in 1877, though the hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1878. That year he joined Seattle's tiny police force and began a successful career…
ID Number:2018.3.3.57
Date:Circa 1877
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Crawford & Conover business card, circa 1900
The real estate investment firm of Crawford & Conover was founded in Seattle in 1888 by Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper reporters turned business partners Samuel Leroy Crawford (1855-1916) and Charles Tallmadge Conover (1862-1961). C.T. Conover is credited with coining Washington State's nickname, "The Evergreen State," during an 1890 national campaign to advertise Seattle and Washington State. After Conover's retirement in 1941,…
ID Number:2018.3.3.58
Date:Circa 1900
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G. B. Sanborn business card, circa 1895
Gustavus B. Sanborn (1848-1902) moved to Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 1889 and began a successful hardware business. In 1901, Sanborn build a new brick and stone building for his business; the Sanborn Building still stands, as of 2018, at 5325 Ballard Avenue N.W.This business card for one of Mr. Sanborn's Ballard Avenue stores gives its address as simply "Ballard Ave.,…
ID Number:2018.3.3.59
Date:Circa 1895
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1882
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.61
Date:1882
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1890
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.63
Date:1890
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1887
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.64
Date:1887
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1886
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.65
Date:1886
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New Year's Day greeting card, January 1, 1885
Prominent early Seattle citizens Henry Yesler, Bailey Gatzert, and Moses Maddocks were close friends, loved to play pranks on each other, and at one time or another each held the office of Mayor of Seattle. Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) was a lumberman who established the Seattle’s first steam-powered sawmill in 1852, and was Seattle's mayor from 1874-1875 and 1885-1886. Bailey…
ID Number:2018.3.3.66
Date:1885
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Olympic Hotel brochure, circa 1928
In 1924 Seattle's landmark Olympic Hotel (now Fairmont Olympic Hotel) opened downtown on the original site of the University of Washington. Designed by architect George B. Post & Son in the Italian Renaissance style popular at the time, the total cost for construction was $5,500,000, with $800,000 going to furnishings alone.The brochure pictured here advertises the hotel's elegant features, including…
ID Number:2018.3.3.70
Date:Circa 1928
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New Washington Hotel brochure, circa 1925
In 1908, real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. As the city's premier hotel for several decades the New Washington Hotel welcomed many prominent guests over the years, including four U. S. Presidents…
ID Number:2018.3.3.71
Date:Circa 1925