650 results for: Lake Washington
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Ballard neighborhood from across Salmon Bay, Seattle, circa 1922
This view looks across Salmon Bay into Ballard, with the Ballard Locks on the left through the trees. Handwritten on sleeve: Ballard panorama.Photographer's Reference Number: 93611
ID Number:1983.10.2845.1
Date:Circa 1922
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Navy biplane at Sand Point, Seattle, circa 1925
Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle, served as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy for almost 50 years. When the naval air station on Whidbey Island was developed, Sand Point was no longer needed as an air base, and in 1970 Sand Point changed to the Naval Station Seattle. In 1975…
ID Number:1983.10.2915.2
Date:Circa 1925
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Young woman listening to a radio on the yacht "Muriel," circa 1923
This fashionably dressed young woman gazes out over what is probably Seattle's Portage Bay as she listens to a radio. Radios were still quite new in the 1920s. They had two parts: a receiver which picked up the signal, and a large, trumpet-shaped speaker which made the signal loud enough to hear. The receiver was large because it operated with…
ID Number:1983.10.2985.2
Date:Circa 1923
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Seattle's water pipeline, circa 1926
As early as the 1890s, Seattle city engineers realized that Lake Washington could not supply enough clean water for the growing city. Workers built a pipeline system from the city-owned Cedar River watershed, and the first Cedar River water arrived in Seattle in 1901. The early pipelines used both steel and wood stave pipe. Workmen built the wooden pipes by…
ID Number:1983.10.3161.4
Date:Circa 1926
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Ferry "Kitsap of Seattle" at Lake Washington Shipyards, 1926
The ferry "Kitsap of Seattle" was designed for the Kitsap Transportation Company, one of the first in Puget Sound to build auto ferries. The ferry operated on the Fauntleroy-Vashon Heights-Harper run beginning in 1926. The vessel was later sold to the Washington State Ferry system. Its career ended 1967 when it sank on the way to Alaska to become a…
ID Number:1983.10.3200
Date:1926
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Roland H. Denny House, Seattle, circa 1926
In 1907, Rolland H. Denny and his wife Alice M. Denny purchased 50 acres of land in what is now Windermere and developed it. They built a home overlooking Lake Washington and named it Lochkelden ("kel" for Alice's maiden name of Kellogg and "den" for Denny)." According to their daughter Florence, the Dennys used to take a boat from Madison…
ID Number:1983.10.3340
Date:Circa 1926
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Whaleboats at Bellevue, circa 1922
From the 1920s to 1940, the ships of the American Pacific Whaling Company wintered in Bellevue, Washington. While there, the company made repairs to the ships and equipment and got them ready for the next Alaska whaling season. In 1940, the docks were turned over to the United States Coast Guard for a repair base.This photo, probably taken in the…
ID Number:1983.10.3974
Date:Circa 1922
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Man with harpoon cannon, Bellevue, circa 1925
From the 1920s to 1940, the ships of the American Pacific Whaling Company spent each winter in Bellevue. During the winter, the company made repairs to the ships and equipment and got them ready for the next Alaska whaling season. This photo shows a man checking out the harpoon cannon on the bow of the Westport. The vessel was part…
ID Number:1983.10.3975
Date:Circa 1925
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Lodge at Lake Lucerne, circa 1928
Lake Lucerne is located in Maple Valley, Washington. In the 1920s the lake added a lodge, part of increasingly popular lake resorts in Western Washington catering to automobile tourism. Handwritten on sleeve: Lake Lucerne Views.Photographer's Reference Number: 129277Caption information source: "When Coal Was King: 1934 Log Bridge between Pipe Lake & Lake Lucerne," by Bill Kombol, Voice of the Valley,…
ID Number:1983.10.4003.5
Date:Circa 1928
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Montlake and Laurelhurst neighborhoods, Seattle, April 25, 1930
This photo looks out over Montlake to Portage Bay and the Lake Washington Ship Canal, with Laurelhurst in the background. Handwritten on sleeve: City View Montlake & Laurelhurst Dist. 4/25/30.Photographer's Reference Number: 135096
ID Number:1983.10.4222
Date:1930