204 results for: Railroads
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Seattle, Washington, circa 1938
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.18
Date:Circa 1938
Cartographic material
Yesler Way at Railroad Avenue map, Seattle, 1896
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.22
Date:1896
Cartographic material
Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, index, 1894-1896
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.1
Date:1894-1895
Cartographic material
Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, page 28, March 15, 1895
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.2
Date:1895
Cartographic material
Seattle Tide Lands, Volume Two, supplement to page 28, February 1, 1897
Seattle in the late nineteenth century was a rapidly growing city, aided in no small part by the 1883 connection to the rest of the country by the Northern Pacific Railway Company (NPRR). Additionally, the city's population doubled in 1890 from the previous year to 40,000, boosted by the influx of people who saw opportunity in rebuilding after Seattle's Great…
ID Number:2019.3.23.3
Date:1897
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Anderson's Map of Seattle Tide Lands, circa 1907
Martin Burdett Crane (1872-1954) came to Seattle in 1892, after time in Alaska searching for gold and piloting boats. For several years he worked between Alaska and Seattle, and as early as 1898, M. B. Crane & Co. of Seattle and Dawson City was advertising in the Seattle Daily Times offering claims in the Klondike District. Crane married Seattle native…
ID Number:2019.3.28
Date:Circa 1907
Cartographic material
Foster, Washington, plat map, circa 1905
This blueprint map depicts the former King County community of Foster, Washington, just south of Seattle city limits. Brothers Joseph and Stephen Foster came from Illinois and settled in the area in 1852, where the Black and White Rivers met. Joseph Foster became a very prominent pioneer who served as an early Washington Territorial legislator, the first superintendent of schools,…
ID Number:2019.3.30
Date:Circa 1905
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Marlene Koob, May 10, 2006
Interview with Marlene Koob, the station agent at King Street Station at the time of this interview. The interview was conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the King Street Station Oral History Project on May 10, 2006. Koob's father and grandfather also worked at King Street Station, and she retired from this role in September 2010.
ID Number:2019.35.11.4
Date:2006
Ephemera
Great Northern Secrets cookbook, circa 1925
The “Oriental Limited” was a train route between Seattle and Chicago operated by the Great Northern Railway. In response to the popularity of the food served on the Oriental Limited, the Great Northern published this cookbook of “secret” recipes from the chefs on the train, and photographs of some of the chefs. Several of the recipes feature ingredients sourced from…
ID Number:2023.14.35
Date:Circa 1925
Photograph
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company office building on Dearborn Street, Seattle, April 23, 1923
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, including the construction of Harbor Island at the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle. Lockheed Shipbuilding continued to build ships ranging…
ID Number:Lib1988.13.7.2.16
Date:1923