1892 results for: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
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Members of Seattle Police Department, Ballard Station, April, 1913
Ballard was an independent city from its incorporation in 1890, until a vote to annex to Seattle passed 996 to 874 on November 6, 1906. On May 29, 1907, the City of Ballard officially became simply Ballard, a neighborhood of Seattle.In the 1910s, Seattle had neighborhood police headquarters in Ballard, West Seattle, Columbia City, Densmore (now Wallingford), and Georgetown. This…
ID Number:SHS2273
Date:1913
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August Wenzel in front of his blacksmith shop at 7th and Pike, Seattle, 1889
August Joseph Wenzel (1856-1945) was born in Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, and moved to Seattle in 1888 with his wife Maria and their 8 children. He opened a blacksmith and cooper shop on Pike Street between Fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue. Next door to the blacksmith shop he owned a wagon works shop and next to that a meat market.…
ID Number:SHS2303
Date:1889
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Military road on Beacon Hill, Seattle, circa 1900
The Fort Steilacoom to Fort Bellingham Military Road was a network of roads running through the Puget Sound area to promote the migration of settlers to Washington Territory and to secure U. S. interests in the region from those of Native Americans. Today’s I-5 roughly follows the route north from Fort Vancouver, built in 1924 by the Hudson's Bay Company…
ID Number:SHS2354
Date:Circa 1900
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Theodore Wernecke and employees inside fur store, Seattle, circa 1898
An estimated 100,000 prospectors migrated to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Most of them stopped in Seattle to purchase supplies, greatly contributing to the city's economic success. Ohio-born Charles Theodore Wernecke (1852-1922) came to Seattle around 1897 and operated at least one store catering to miners headed to Alaska during the Klondike…
ID Number:SHS2508
Date:Circa 1898
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Wagner's First Regiment Band, Seattle, 1889
Cornetist Theodore H. “Dad” Wagner arrived in Seattle in the mid-1880s. As leader of the Second Regiment National Guard Band, Wagner’s band gained community fame by providing free concerts at Pioneer Square after Seattle’s Great Fire of 1889. That same year, he led the First Regiment Washington National Guard Band in celebration of Washington’s statehood. His own band, Dad Wagner’s…
ID Number:SHS2514
Date:1889
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Exterior of C.T. Wernecke fur store, Seattle, circa 1897
Fur trading in the Pacific Northwest dates back to the 1700s. The first raw fur auction in the United States was organized in Seattle in 1898, coinciding with the Klondike Gold Rush, which had started in 1896. Ohio-born Charles Theodore Wernecke had come to Seattle in 1897 and ran a store that bought raw furs, manufactured fur clothing, and catered…
ID Number:SHS2525
Date:Circa 1897
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Smith Logging Company, Monroe, 1912
Darius Kinsey (1869-1945) was a prominent photographer in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in logging photography. After five years as a photographer for the Seattle and Lake Shore Railroad Co, in 1897 he opened a photography studio in Sedro-Wooley with his wife Tabitha working as his photography assistant. In 1906, he moved his photography studio to Seattle, but continued to document…
ID Number:SHS2626
Date:1912
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Fire Station No. 5, Seattle, 1911
The Seattle Fire Department opened Fire Station No. 5 in 1902. It was located on the waterfront at the foot of Madison Street, where the fireboat “Snoqualmie” (known as Engine 5) was berthed. The building, shown here, housed the fireboat crew as well as Hose Company 5, with its chemical and hose wagon. Fire Chief Frank Stetson condemned the building…
ID Number:SHS2781
Date:1911
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View of Lake Union from the Lake Washington Bicycle Path, Seattle, circa 1902
Between about 1894-1904, after the horse and before the automobile, bicycles were the hottest new form of do-it-yourself urban transportation in Seattle. The region's many cycling groups regularly sponsored outings along the twenty-five miles of urban bicycle trails which were built, funded, and maintained with the aid of city engineers. Bike cops enforced cyclist speed limits, safety, and dealt with…
ID Number:SHS2964
Date:Circa 1902
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Carstens Bros & Dashley Meat Market employees outside store, Nome, October 1908
In 1890 German emigrant Julius August Carstens (1873-1949) arrived in Seattle with his brothers, Thomas and William. Together they founded the Carstens Brothers Meat Markets, later expanding the business into meat packing. In this image employees of the Carstens Brothers and Dashley Meat Market pose outside the shop in Nome, Alaska. In 1899 the brothers had expanded their business north…
ID Number:SHS3098
Date:1908