3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Bank customer in car using "snorkel" depository, Seattle, March 30, 1956
As the oldest customer of the Seattle office of the Bank of California, Judge Kenneth Mackintosh made the first deposit in the bank's new "snorkel" sidewalk installation. The "snorkel" curb teller was designed for customers to pull up to the window in their car. A teller was stationed at an underground office, able to see the customer (and vice versa)…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.01
Date:1956
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Employee at the Federal Reserve Bank, Seattle, January 14, 1954
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco opened a branch in Seattle in 1917. After some years in leased space, the Seattle Branch moved into its own, purpose-built building on Second Avenue and Madison Street in 1951. Among the branch's many responsibilities were the handling and distribution of coins and currency.Here, Ella Dalton sorts and cancels worn out bills with…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.02
Date:1954
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Employee at the Federal Reserve Bank, Seattle, 1951
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco opened a branch in Seattle in 1917. After some years in leased space, the Seattle Branch moved into its own, purpose-built building on Second Avenue and Madison Street in 1951. Among the branch's many responsibilities were the handling and distribution of coins and currency.Here, coin sorter Robert Popilek works at his machine at…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.03
Date:1951
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Federal Reserve Bank branch under construction, Seattle, July 21, 1949
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco opened a branch in Seattle in 1917. After some years in leased space, the Seattle Branch moved into its own, purpose-built building on Second Avenue and Madison Street in 1951. The new bank had a two-story vault with 30-inch steel-reinforced concrete walls and an inner steel shell. This 1949 image shows the bank…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.04
Date:1949
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Emerald City Bank, formerly Liberty Bank, June 20, 1988
Emerald City Bank was a short-lived successor to Liberty Bank, the first principally Black-owned bank in Seattle. Liberty Bank was founded by a group of leading figures in Seattle’s Black community in partnership with Japanese and Jewish community leaders from the Central Area. It opened on May 31, 1968 with 518 stakeholders, most of whom were Black people of limited…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.05
Date:1988
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Lincoln First Federal Bank, Seattle, September 19, 1954
This image of the recently completed Lincoln First Federal Savings and Loan Association (previously Northern Federal Savings & Loan Association) building highlights the busy downtown Seattle intersection of Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The Metropolitan Business College, shown here above the bank, occupied that space from 1941 through 1978. The building's Forecaster sign (unsurprisingly) proclaims the day to be "cloudy."…
ID Number:2000.107.165.12.01
Date:1954
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Magnolia State Bank, Seattle, August 7, 1953
The Magnolia State Bank, organized, staffed, and wholly owned and directed by residents of Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, opened for business at 2231 32nd Avenue West on December 15, 1948. Some time in the late 1950s, the bank became the Magnolia branch of Peoples National Bank of Washington.This photograph of Magnolia State Bank was taken the day after a lone thief…
ID Number:2000.107.165.12.02
Date:1953
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Maude Zerby Strong painting a mural, Seattle, May 5, 1937
Illinois-born artist Maude Zerby Strong (1896-1978) was a long-time resident of Seattle who also lived in San Francisco from about 1930-1945. Strong was noted for her miniatures as well as regional landscapes. She also worked as a color artist at a Asahel Curtis' photo studio in Seattle.In this image, Strong poses in front of a mural she is painting at…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.01
Date:1937
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Woman using Peoples Bank home banking program, September 20, 1984
In 1984 sixty customers of Peoples Bank began a one-year trial of the bank's experimental new home-banking system. For a $7.50 monthly fee and a charge for each transaction, the customers could pay bills, transfer funds, check account balances, and even play a few video games on a home banking system available 24 hours a day, using their home computers.…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.02
Date:1984
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Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934
This image shows the opening of the new building of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, which took over the building from the defunct Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. Built in the early 1920s at 300 Pike Street in downtown Seattle, the building was later demolished and the site has been occupied since 1985 by the Century Square Office…
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.01
Date:1934