1949 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
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Jensen Motor Boat Company, Seattle, circa 1935
Jensen Motor Boat Company was founded in 1922 by Tony Jensen (1889-1963), a Danish immigrant who came from a family of boat builders. In 1927, Tony, his wife Bessie (1892-1968), and two partners moved the company to 1417 NE Boat Street on Portage Bay. The company specialized in building boats with experimental designs. Sons George (1915-1977) and Anchor (1918-2000) continued…
ID Number:SHS5521
Date:Circa 1935
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Trackless trolley or electric bus, Seattle, circa 1943
As the 1940s approached, Seattle began to modernize its transportation system, replacing its aging trolleys and streetcars with motorized buses and “trackless trolleys” (electric buses powered via overhead lines). In 1941, the last Seattle streetcar made its final run. Streets were repaved as the streetcar tracks throughout the city were torn up and sold as scrap. This image, likely taken…
ID Number:SHS5566
Date:Circa 1943
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Front porch of the James W. Clemmer home on Capitol Hill, Seattle, circa 1909
James Clemmer and his wife moved to Seattle from Spokane in 1907 and took on the management of his family’s Kenneth Hotel. He soon converted the first floor into the Dream Theater, one of Seattle’s first movie houses. Over the years, Clemmer managed many other Seattle theaters. In 1909, the Clemmers built a Mission Revival home at 2612 Harvard Avenue…
ID Number:SHS5603
Date:Circa 1909
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The First Regiment band of the Washington National Guard, 1892
During the period before statehood, the U.S. Federal Government authorized Washington Territory to form militia units to assist the civil authorities in maintaining law and order. A more permanent force was created on March 9, 1886, with the formation of the First Infantry Regiment of the Washington National Guard, led by Lieutenant-Colonel George D. Hill. The Second Infantry Regiment followed…
ID Number:SHS5837
Date:1892
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Man with display at the Frozen Fish Museum, Seattle, 1950
From 1926-1956 the Port of Seattle operated the Frozen Fish Museum on the Port’s Spokane Street wharf (now Terminal 30). Strange fish would be presented to the museum, where it could be viewed by the public. In this image taken at the museum, a man poses with a fish hanging from the ceiling. Caption information source: http://www.portseattle.org/About/History/Pages/1950-1959.aspxCaption information source: The…
ID Number:SHS6176
Date:1950
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Portrait of Henry Yesler and Chief Ouray, circa 1870
Ouray (circa 1833–1880), chief of the Uncompahgre band of the Ute tribe, garnered the respect of the Ute Indian Nation, the U.S. Government, and other Indigenous Peoples throughout North America because of his intelligence and diplomacy.This image of Ouray posing with Seattle entrepreneur Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892) may have been taken during Yesler's tenure as acting Indian Agent, shortly after…
ID Number:SHS6271
Date:Circa 1870
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Boy and dog in snow on 3rd Avenue, Seattle, 1897
The winter of 1896-1897 was particularly harsh in Seattle; a November record was set in 1896 with an accumulation of 20.5 inches of snow. Here, a young boy and his dog pose on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Marion Street. The boy looking on from the right edge of the frame (who seems to have just been in…
ID Number:SHS6350
Date:1897
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Woman sitting on bridge over Ravenna Creek, Seattle, 1910
Before Green Lake was lowered in 1911 to create the park that surrounds the lake, a stream ran from its eastern shore to Union Bay on Lake Union. The creek, Duke Creek, or more commonly, Ravenna Creek, dried up when Green Lake was lowered. Eventually Ravenna Boulevard was built above the old creek bed with soil dredged from the eastern…
ID Number:SHS6500A
Date:1910
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Early mill on Lake Washington, circa 1885
In the 1870s, thick forests covered the shores of Lake Washington, east of Seattle. As logs were cut, they were floated to small sawmills like this one and cut into lumber, which was used to build the growing city.
ID Number:SHS6671
Date:Circa 1885
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Derelict ship Bering on Shilshole Bay, Seattle, January, 1957
The steamer Bering was badly damaged following a stranding in southeastern Alaska waters. The ship was towed to Seattle, where it was condemned and sold for $1.00 to the Tregoning Boat Company, located on Seaview Avenue in Ballard. The Tregoning Co. moored her as a breakwater for a proposed small boat mooring at the entrance to the Lake Washington Ship…
ID Number:SHS6717
Date:1957