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Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898
Some of the people rushing to the Klondike gold fields went by ship to Dyea, Alaska, and continued into Canada on foot by way of Chilkoot Pass. The Canadian government required each person to bring enough food and equipment to last a year. This generally weighed a thousand pounds or more, and it took several trips to carry it over…
ID Number:1983.10.13188
Date:Circa 1898
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Boat Enda on Lake Union, Seattle, June 11, 1938
Handwritten on sleeve: Boat Fonda [sic] 6-11-38.Webster & Stevens number: 145335
ID Number:1983.10.13213
Date:1938
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Music Hall Theatre, April 5, 1939
When Seattle's Music Hall Theatre opened in 1929, it was called the Mayflower Theatre. It had 2,600 seats and elaborate decor, and it presented movies, lectures, concerts, plays, and vaudeville shows. Business began to fall off in the 1960s, with the start of television and the growth of the suburbs. Even Broadway musicals, ice shows, dinner theater, and Las Vegas…
ID Number:1983.10.13291.1
Date:1939
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Assembling buses at Pacific Car and Foundry, Renton, Washington, July 13, 1939
Pacific Car and Foundry Company (later called PACCAR) originally made its name building railroad cars for the logging industry. In 1936, during the Great Depression, the Renton, Washington, firm diversified into buses and trucks. Seattle and many other cities began to replace their trolleys and streetcars with buses powered by electricity or gasoline in the late 1930s, and Pacific Car…
ID Number:1983.10.13326.2
Date:1939
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Mechanics and motorcycles outside Wm. O. McKay Co. building, Seattle, November 13, 1939
The William O. McKay Company was established in 1922 and operated a Ford and Lincoln dealership and repair facility at 609 Westlake Avenue North in Seattle for many years. This photo shows sixteen men in mechanics' coveralls standing near the service entrance of the McKay Lincoln-Mercury dealership. In front of them are four motorcycles with sidecars. Three of the sidecars…
ID Number:1983.10.13391.2
Date:1939
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Egyptian Theatre, Seattle, November 11, 1940
The Egyptian Theater at 4543 University Way N.E. opened on Christmas Day of 1925. Built by T.E. Murphy, it seated 1300 people and claimed to be one of the largest and finest suburban movie houses in the Northwest. The building was later altered and used for retail stores. Signs in image: [...] [Miller?] Men's Shop. [Ode O'Day?]. Avenue Bakery. Horluck.…
ID Number:1983.10.13438
Date:1940
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Suite at the Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located at 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as…
ID Number:1983.10.13639
Date:1926
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Room at the Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as of…
ID Number:1983.10.13640
Date:1926
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Interior of Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as of…
ID Number:1983.10.13641
Date:1926
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Interior of Mayflower Park Hotel, Seattle, 1928
The historic Mayflower Park Hotel opened in 1927 as the Bergonian Hotel, and is located at 405 Olive Way in downtown Seattle. Designed by architects George Wellington Stoddard, Bertram Dudley Stuart, Jr., and Arthur Wheatley, the facade of the building is renowned for its unique terra cotta detailing. As of 2018, the hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in…
ID Number:1983.10.13656.2
Date:1928