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Bartell Drugs building, Seattle, 1967
The first Bartell Drugs store opened in 1890, when George Bartell bought the Lake Washington Pharmacy located in what became the Leschi neighborhood. The Bartell Drug Company incorporated in 1904 and moved to downtown Seattle. It expanded in the early 20th century, coming to include a candy factory and photo lab in addition to pharmacy locations. The company remained under…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.4.1
Date:1967
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Bartell Drugs building, Seattle, 1967
The first Bartell Drugs store opened in 1890, when George Bartell bought the Lake Washington Pharmacy located in what became the Leschi neighborhood. The Bartell Drug Company incorporated in 1904 and moved to downtown Seattle. It expanded in the early 20th century, coming to include a candy factory and photo lab in addition to pharmacy locations. The company remained under…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.8.1
Date:1967
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Businesses at corner of Pine Street and Fourth Avenue, Seattle, 1967
This image shows the intersection of Pine Street and 4th Avenue, looking south along Fourth. Through the 1960s and 70s, proposals were put forward to convert this area into an urban park with retail and commercial spaces, but lawsuits and controversies delayed any work until 1986. The new Westlake Center opened on October 20, 1988, including an indoor mall, an…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.15.1
Date:1967
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Aerial view of Bartell Drugs building in downtown Seattle, 1967
The first Bartell Drugs store opened in 1890, when George Bartell bought the Lake Washington Pharmacy located in what became the Leschi neighborhood. The Bartell Drug Company incorporated in 1904 and moved to downtown Seattle. It expanded in early 20th century, coming to include a candy factory and photo lab in addition to pharmacy locations. The company remained under Bartell…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.26.1
Date:1967
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Street view of the Sanitary Public Market, Seattle, circa 1967
This image looks west across 1st Avenue to show the Sanitary Public Market building at the Pike Place Market, with a man pushing a cart on the sidewalk in front. In the late 1960s when this photo was taken, there was a debate about Pike Place Market's future - whether to demolish the Market and redevelop the land into apartments…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.33.1
Date:Circa 1967
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Schwabacher Bros. & Co. employees posing outside store, Seattle, 1889
The Schwabacher Brothers, Louis Schwabacher (1837-1900), Abraham Schwabacher (1838-1909), and Sigmund (Sig) Schwabacher (1841-1917), were pioneering Bavarian-born Jewish merchants, important in the economic development of the Pacific Northwest. They owned several businesses bearing their family name, and opened an branch in Seattle in 1869. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods,…
ID Number:1981.7279.1
Date:1889
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Leonard Brand in his barber shop, Seattle, circa 1932
Leonard August Gabriel Brand (1902-1969) was born in Seattle to August Niklasson Brand (1862-1950) and Anna Amelia (Erlandson) Brand (1869-1952), both immigrants from Sweden. In 1903, August and Anna bought the Western Hotel (aka, The Michigan), which was built around 1880 and located at the corner of Sixth Avenue and James Street. They renamed it the Hotel Kalmar, after Anna's…
ID Number:1981.7328.68
Date:Circa 1932
Ephemera
Ames Log, Issue 21, November 24, 1919
St. Louis native Edgar Ames (1868-1944) moved to Seattle from Chicago in 1895 and in 1916 founded the Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Seattle. The modern plant he built on Harbor Island covered 20 acres and included a floating drydock. During World War I the yard produced 25 steel tankers and cargo steamships for the U.S. Shipping Board, and…
ID Number:1981.7373.1
Date:1919
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H.L. Bennett Box Factory, circa 1898
In 1898 or 1899, Harry L. Bennett opened a box factory on First Avenue South in Seattle. The factory produced wooden boxes and crates which were used by a number of local businesses for carrying and shipping goods. According to Seattle city directories, the H.L. Bennett Box Factory was in operation at various locations south of downtown Seattle until the…
ID Number:1981.7394.1
Date:Circa 1898
Poster
The Heart of Greater Seattle poster, June 1909
In 1909, prosperous Seattle proudly showed itself to the world as a place to do business. In addition to producing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition world’s fair, city boosters published maps and other materials to promote commercial interests.This panorama, entitled “The Heart of Greater Seattle: The Gateway to Alaska and the Orient," shows several miles of the city’s waterfront and the Cascade…
ID Number:1982.20.47
Date:1909