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Seattle City Light line crew with horse-drawn wagon, January 1914
By the 1910s, electricity from Seattle City Light powered homes and businesses as well as the streetlights and trolleys. This photo, taken in 1914, shows a Seattle City Light line crew and their horse-drawn wagon parked near a power line. The caption on the photo notes that this was one of four line crews, and identifies the workers as, left…
ID Number:SHS17525
Date:1914
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Officers of last Volunteer Fire Department, circa 1889
The creation of the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) can be traced back to July 6th, 1876, when the all-volunteer Seattle Engine Company No.1 was organized. In 1883, the City Charter was amended to create and fund equipment, but not staff, for a centralized municipal fire department. The volunteer-based system persisted until pressure from the insurance industry and citizens after the…
ID Number:SHS17710
Date:Circa 1889
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PT&T operators working at Garfield Exchange, Seattle, circa 1921
Telephone service in Seattle began with 90 customers in 1883. One of Seattle's original service providers, Sunset Telephone-Telegraph Company (later Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, then AT&T) built a new exchange building in 1921 to help handle what was by then 83,347 customers, making half-a-million local telephone calls every day. The Garfield Exchange was built on Queen Anne Hill at…
ID Number:SHS17731
Date:Circa 1921
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Ice cream delivery wagon, circa 1880
Ice cream was a popular summer dessert even before electric refrigeration. Recipes for flavored sweet cream and iced creams appeared in many 18th century English and American cookbooks. Fruit such as lemon, raspberry, and orange were popular flavorings, as well as vanilla, honey, pistachio, and chocolate. The first commercial production of ice cream in the Pacific Northwest was begun in…
ID Number:SHS17804
Date:Circa 1880
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Henry Finch posing with diving equipment, Seattle, January 1924
In January 1924, divers from the Seattle marine engineering firm Henry Finch & Son were called in to repair a broken six-inch water main running beneath the Duwamish Waterway. This image, from an album of photographs taken for the Finches, shows Henry Silas Finch, Jr. (1887-1961), posing in diving gear at the job site. He is holding a helmet and…
ID Number:SHS18658
Date:1924
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Diving support vessel and equipment, Seattle, January 29, 1924
In January 1924, divers from the Seattle firm Henry Finch & Son were called in to repair a broken six-inch water main running beneath the Duwamish Waterway. This image, from an album of photographs taken for the Finches, shows the firm’s support vessel and other equipment in the Duwamish Waterway at Front Street. Handwritten underneath image: Diver repairing broken 6”…
ID Number:SHS18659
Date:1924
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Diver holding a water main joint, Seattle, January 29, 1924
In January 1924, divers from the Seattle firm Henry Finch & Son were called in to repair a broken six-inch water main running beneath the Duwamish Waterway. This image, from an album of photographs taken for the Finches, shows an unidentified diver on board the firm’s support vessel. He is wearing his helmet and holding a broken flexible joint from…
ID Number:SHS18660
Date:1924
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Butterworth & Sons funeral wagon, Seattle, circa 1905
After moving to Seattle in 1892, furniture maker Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847-1921) went full time into the undertaking business, motivated by the $50 paid to take each dead body off the street. A pioneer of the modern approach to the business of undertaking, he built the city's first custom-built modern mortuary in 1903, the Butterworth Block at 1921 First Avenue.…
ID Number:SHS18953
Date:Circa 1905
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Ibsen family water skiing on Lake Washington, Seattle, circa 1955
Water skiing pioneer Donald Sylvester Ibsen (1910-1993) was a star athlete at Roosevelt High School, and made his first pair of water skis the summer he graduated, in 1928. Within 10 years he had started the Olympic Water Ski Club and created a water ski team to perform shows around the Northwest. He also appeared on the pages of Life…
ID Number:SHS19348
Date:Circa 1955