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Correspondence
Interview with Mrs. David Webster with letter to Mrs. M.J. Carkeek, Seattle, 1914
In the 1860s, Asa Mercer, Seattle resident and founder of the University of Washington, traveled to the East Coast twice to recruit women to move to Seattle. The second group of women arrived in Seattle in 1866. Anna Robinson, a member of this group, married fellow shipmate David Webster. In 1914, Mrs. Webster was interviewed, probably by a member of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.134
Date:1914
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City of Seattle map, 1874
Canadian-born Angus Mackintosh (1839-1904) moved to Seattle in 1870, when the population was a modest 900 people. Mr. Mackintosh discovered King County had no registry of property titles, so he began preparing abstracts and built an extensive business doing the same for Pierce, Island, and Whatcom counties. Later he expanded into buying and selling real estate, banking, and the Seattle,…
ID Number:2018.3.8.1
Date:1874
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Plan of Seattle in 1855-6, revised 1930
On the morning of January 26, 1856, the "Battle of Seattle" began when Native Americans raided the white settlement in what is now known as Seattle. Previously warned of the attack, most settlers had barricaded themselves in a blockhouse. The attackers were driven off by artillery fire. The battle was the penultimate event in a series of armed conflicts, known…
ID Number:2018.3.8.4
Date:1930
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Bell's 5th Addition to the City of Seattle, March 30, 1882
William Nathaniel Bell (1817-1887) and his wife, Sarah Ann (Peter) Bell (1819-1856), were members of the pioneering Denny Party, arriving in present-day West Seattle in 1851. The Bells helped to establish the settlement that became Seattle, settling north of the future downtown in "Belltown." Virginia and Olive streets are named for two of Bell's daughters, and Stewart Street honors Olive's…
ID Number:2019.3.10
Date:1882
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Bell's 3rd, 4th, and 5th Addition to the City of Seattle, circa 1890
William Nathaniel Bell (1817-1887) and his wife, Sarah Ann (Peter) Bell (1819-1856), were members of the pioneering Denny Party, arriving in present-day West Seattle in 1851. The Bells helped to establish the settlement that became Seattle, settling north of the future downtown in "Belltown." Virginia and Olive streets are named for two of Bell's daughters, and Stewart Street honors Olive's…
ID Number:2019.3.11
Date:Circa 1890
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Supplemental Plat of Block 27 to Bell & Denny's First Add. to the City of Seattle, November 4, 1887
William Nathaniel Bell (1817-1887) and his wife, Sarah Ann (Peter) Bell (1819-1856), were members of the pioneering Denny Party, helping to establish the settlement that became Seattle in 1852, and settling in what was then north of downtown in "Belltown." Virginia and Olive streets are named for two of Bell's daughters, and Stewart Street honors Olive's husband, Joseph H. Stewart.…
ID Number:2019.3.31
Date:1887
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Map of Alaska, 1927
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.59
Date:1927
Serial
The Weekly Intelligencer, Seattle, October 25, 1869
Seattle's longest-running newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is the descendant of the city's earliest newspaper, The Seattle Gazette. First published in 1863, the Gazette was renamed the Weekly Intelligencer in 1867, and became the Daily Intelligencer in 1876. The Daily Intelligencer and The Post (begun in 1878) merged in 1881, establishing The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The P-I continues to serve the city…
ID Number:2019.3.61
Date:1869
Serial
The Weekly Intelligencer, Seattle, September 2, 1872
Seattle's longest-running newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is the descendant of the city's earliest newspaper, The Seattle Gazette. First published in 1863, the Gazette was renamed the Weekly Intelligencer in 1867, and became the Daily Intelligencer in 1876. The Daily Intelligencer and The Post (begun in 1878) merged in 1881, establishing The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The P-I continues to serve the city…
ID Number:2019.3.62
Date:1872
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The Daily Intelligencer, Seattle, June 6, 1876
Seattle's longest-running newspaper, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is the descendant of the city's earliest newspaper, The Seattle Gazette. First published in 1863, the Gazette was renamed the Weekly Intelligencer in 1867, and became the Daily Intelligencer in 1876. The Daily Intelligencer and The Post (begun in 1878) merged in 1881, establishing The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The P-I continues to serve the city…
ID Number:2019.3.63
Date:1876