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Image of First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
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First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919

The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first one of the first commercial flights was taken on Lake Union. It is not clear if this image is…
ID Number:SHS11352B
Date:1919
Image of City bus, Seattle, December 15, 1940

City bus, Seattle, December 15, 1940

Caption on image: Seattle Transit System, Coach 919, No. 1, 12-15-40. Typed on verso: Modern Seattle trolley coach 1952 [sic].SHS category: Transportation
ID Number:SHS11558
Date:1952
Image of Two women on bicycles, August 24, 1898
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Two women on bicycles, August 24, 1898

Before the 1890s, bicycle design and long skirts kept most women from joining men in the new craze for cycling. It wasn't considered proper for a women to wear short skirts or show her legs. By 1895, a number of Seattle women were taking cycling classes and wearing baggy pants called bloomers as they cycled along the city's growing network…
ID Number:SHS13467
Date:1898
Image of View of Dawson, Yukon Territory, circa 1898
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View of Dawson, Yukon Territory, circa 1898

Dawson, Yukon Territory, was wilderness in 1896. By 1898, so many Klondike stampeders had come to the area that Dawson was the largest city in Canada west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. At over 40,000 inhabitants, the crowded city was only slightly smaller than Seattle.This photo, taken around 1898, shows a general view of Dawson and its waterfronts on the Yukon (left)…
ID Number:SHS15451
Date:Circa 1898
Image of Dr. David S. Maynard, circa 1870
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Dr. David S. Maynard, circa 1870

Dr. David S. "Doc" Maynard arrived in Seattle in 1852. His original plans to salt salmon for the San Francisco market failed, but he set up Seattle's first store, selling medicine and general merchandise in his salting works on First Avenue and Main Street. It was Doc Maynard who proposed naming the new city Seattle after Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle)…
ID Number:SHS15461
Date:Circa 1870
Image of Seattle's first motor-driven sightseeing bus, Seattle, 1907
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Seattle's first motor-driven sightseeing bus, Seattle, 1907

In 1907, Seattle residents and visitors could climb on the city's first motor-driven sightseeing bus. The vehicle carried passengers to The Meadows racetrack and other destinations. The bus was also used to show visitors the sights at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE).
ID Number:SHS16180
Date:1907
Image of Seattle City Light line crew with horse-drawn wagon, January 1914
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Seattle City Light line crew with horse-drawn wagon, January 1914

By the 1910s, electricity from Seattle City Light powered homes and businesses as well as the streetlights and trolleys. This photo, taken in 1914, shows a Seattle City Light line crew and their horse-drawn wagon parked near a power line. The caption on the photo notes that this was one of four line crews, and identifies the workers as, left…
ID Number:SHS17525
Date:1914
Image of Boeing plant, Seattle, April 16, 1918
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Boeing plant, Seattle, April 16, 1918

The Boeing Airplane Company got its first big military order when its "C" model seaplane was accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Navy during World War I. The company opened a new plant on the west side of the Duwamish River, south of Seattle, to handle all this new business. This photo, taken in April 1918, shows the new…
ID Number:SHS17645
Date:1918
Image of Officers of last Volunteer Fire Department, circa 1889
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Officers of last Volunteer Fire Department, circa 1889

The creation of the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) can be traced back to July 6th, 1876, when the all-volunteer Seattle Engine Company No.1 was organized. In 1883, the City Charter was amended to create and fund equipment, but not staff, for a centralized municipal fire department. The volunteer-based system persisted until pressure from the insurance industry and citizens after the…
ID Number:SHS17710
Date:Circa 1889
Image of Butterworth & Sons funeral wagon, Seattle, circa 1905
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Butterworth & Sons funeral wagon, Seattle, circa 1905

After moving to Seattle in 1892, furniture maker Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847-1921) went full time into the undertaking business, motivated by the $50 paid to take each dead body off the street. A pioneer of the modern approach to the business of undertaking, he built the city's first custom-built modern mortuary in 1903, the Butterworth Block at 1921 First Avenue.…
ID Number:SHS18953
Date:Circa 1905
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