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Image of Cedar Falls Lake, circa 1915
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Cedar Falls Lake, circa 1915

Starting in 1895, the City of Seattle began to purchase land in the upper Cedar River watershed to supply water and electric power for the growing city. In 1914, workers completed a large masonry dam just below Cedar Lake (now Chester Morse Lake), and the lake became a reservoir. As the city added more land to its holdings, the people…
ID Number:1992.44.1
Date:Circa 1915
Image of Josiah Merritt's cabin in Snoqualmie Valley, circa 1910
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Josiah Merritt's cabin in Snoqualmie Valley, circa 1910

Early pioneer Josiah Merritt settled in the Snoqualmie Valley in the 1860s. Later settlers in the area called him Uncle Si and named the mountain near his cabin Uncle Si's Mountain. This was eventually shortened to Mount Si. This photographic postcard, probably made around 1910, shows Josiah Merritt's cabin, then the oldest in the Snoqualmie Valley. The cabin burned in…
ID Number:1992.44.23
Date:Circa 1910
Image of Farmhouse and gardens near Georgetown, Washington, circa 1914
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Farmhouse and gardens near Georgetown, Washington, circa 1914

Much of the Duwamish River Valley, south of Seattle, was quiet farmland before industrialization spread along its banks. Between 1911 and 1916, Walter Allen and Frank Perkins operated a photo studio in Georgetown, on the Duwamish, and documented the scenery and people of the area.This Allen & Perkins photo, probably taken near Georgetown, shows a large farmhouse and barns beyond…
ID Number:1993.26.2
Date:Circa 1914
Image of Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.6
Date:1909
Image of Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
Photograph

Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.8
Date:1909
Image of Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
Photograph

Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909

This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.37.264
Date:1909
Image of Landscaping under construction at the Garden Court building, Seattle, circa 1929
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Landscaping under construction at the Garden Court building, Seattle, circa 1929

Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, under construction here,…
ID Number:1997.4.26
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Landscaping at Garden Court building, circa 1929
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Landscaping at Garden Court building, circa 1929

Malmo & Company Nursery in Seattle sold seeds and nursery stock, and also ran a successful landscaping business. Some of the mature yards surrounding historic Seattle homes were once the work of the Malmo Company. This photo shows the Garden Court building at 1631 Sixteenth Avenue in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, built in 1929. Its garden courtyard, shown here, was…
ID Number:1997.4.27
Date:Circa 1929
Image of Malmo & Co. Planting Guide, Seattle, 1922
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Malmo & Co. Planting Guide, Seattle, 1922

Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.51
Date:1922
Image of Malmo & Co. catalog, Seattle, 1945
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Malmo & Co. catalog, Seattle, 1945

Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:1997.4.57
Date:1945
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