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Image of Patrolman handing out Civil Defense evacuation cards, Seattle, May 20, 1955
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Patrolman handing out Civil Defense evacuation cards, Seattle, May 20, 1955

In this image Robert Vincent, Seattle Police Department patrolman, stands in the center of southbound traffic on Fremont Avenue North to hand out civil defense evacuation cards to motorists. At the time Fremont Avenue was designated a northbound evacuation route for the city. The Fremont Bridge is visible in the background. Signs in image: Salvation Army: Your Throw-Aways Make Work…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.03
Date:1955
Image of Fremont Avenue looking south across Fremont Bridge, Seattle, April 26, 1974
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Fremont Avenue looking south across Fremont Bridge, Seattle, April 26, 1974

This image of Fremont was taken looking south along Fremont Avenue, toward the Fremont Bridge. A man stands on the sidewalk smoking a cigarette in front of one of the many taverns in the small business district, which earned the neighborhood the nickname "Tavern Town, Washington." Although the businesses depicted here no longer exist, Fremont is still known as one…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.04
Date:1974
Image of Public sculpture with snowman, Seattle, January 6, 1982
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Public sculpture with snowman, Seattle, January 6, 1982

Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.05
Date:1982
Image of Public sculpture decorated as nurses, Seattle, January 23, 1989
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Public sculpture decorated as nurses, Seattle, January 23, 1989

Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.06
Date:1989
Image of Public sculpture with political sign, Seattle, January 27, 1988
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Public sculpture with political sign, Seattle, January 27, 1988

Sculptor Richard Beyer's (1925-2012) "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of art in Seattle, was commissioned by the Fremont Arts Council and dedicated in 1978. It is located on the southeast corner of N. 34th Street and Fremont Avenue N., and depicts six people and a dog waiting for the Seattle to Everett Interurban, a…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.07
Date:1988
Image of Student painting mural in Fremont, May 15, 1991
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Student painting mural in Fremont, May 15, 1991

In this image Susan Spong of Seattle helps paint the Medieval Adventures of Reynard the Fox on the walls of the Fremont Fine Arts Foundry. The art student is part of a crew that is working on the mural designed by Richard Beyer (1925-2012), who also created "People Waiting for the Interurban," one of the most popular works of public…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.08
Date:1991
Image of Brokers inspecting pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, January 22, 1981
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Brokers inspecting pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, January 22, 1981

In this image, New York-based fur brokers Phillip Brenner, left, and Rolf Harf inspect pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, a celebrated fur auction house established in 1898 as a store where gold miners could barter wild Alaskan furs for supplies such as food, clothes, and tools. Still based in the Seattle area, the company was consolidated in the late…
ID Number:2000.107.173.04.01
Date:1981
Image of Men working at General Housing Corporation, Seattle, February 10, 1939
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Men working at General Housing Corporation, Seattle, February 10, 1939

This image shows employees working on the assembly line at the General Housing Corporation in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. The company manufactured "pre-built" (also called prefabricated or modular) homes. The four room, wooden frame houses were made in two 12-foot-wide sections which were delivered completely finished with all electric, heating, and plumbing equipment installed, then bolted together on site. Caption informations…
ID Number:2000.107.173.07.01
Date:1939
Image of Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985
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Interior of Georgetown steam plant, Seattle, October 1985

The Georgetown Steam Plant, located near Boeing Field in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood, was originally constructed in 1906 for the Seattle Electric Company. The plant's overall contributions to electricity production were minor but the innovative methods and materials used to build it, the intact early-twentieth-century steam-generating equipment it houses, and the involvement of pioneering efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868-1924),…
ID Number:2000.107.173.07.02
Date:1985
Image of Rainier Brewing Company in Georgetown, Seattle, March 18, 1948
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Rainier Brewing Company in Georgetown, Seattle, March 18, 1948

This image of Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood was taken facing east from Corson Avenue and Homer Street, an example by the photographer of the run-down nature of the neighborhood at the time. The large brick buildings in the background are part of the Rainier Brewing Company's brewery, which operated at 3100 Airport Way South from 1878-1999. Now called the Georgetown Brewhouse…
ID Number:2000.107.173.08.01
Date:1948
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