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Epler Block, Seattle, circa 1905
Signs in image: [...] Shoe Co. B.L. Gates. Haynes - [Candies?], Ice Cream. Kilbourne & Clark Co. - Electrical Machinery and Supplies. Seattle Trunk Factory. Cascade Laundry Company - Shirts 10 cents, Collars 2 cents, Cuffs 4 cents. C.P. Devine. Epler Block. Geo. M. Allen Law Offices. Doctor J.L. Warbourg - Physician and Surgeon. W.R. Bell Law Offices. J.H. Kane…
ID Number:1983.10.7090
Date:Circa 1905
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John B. Allen School, Seattle, circa 1905
Seattle's John B. Allen School opened in 1904 at Northwest 67th Street and Phinney Avenue. The two-story building was designed by Seattle school architect James Stephen and named for one of Washington state's first senators. John B. Allen School had eight classrooms and housed six teachers and 381 students. In 1917, the old wooden building closed and classes moved to…
ID Number:1983.10.7547
Date:Circa 1905
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Epler Building, Seattle, circa 1914
Signs in image: Epler Block. Job Painting. Allen Dale. McDonald Epler Buildings. Cafeteria. Haynes - Candies, Ice Cream - Fancy Confectioner. Hatton-Oliver Co. - The Home of John B. [Stetson?] Hats. Seattle Trunk Factory. Cascade Laundry. Galambie & Co., Tailors. Dr. Van Winter, Dentist.Handwritten on sleeve: Epler Bldg.Webster & Stevens number: 39931
ID Number:1983.10.9829
Date:Circa 1914
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Streetcar signal at First Avenue and Pike Streets, Seattle, circa 1918
Cables support and power a streetcar signal in the middle of the intersection of First and Pike, in downtown Seattle. The signal itself is somewhat camouflaged against the façade of the Corner Market, at Pike Place. It appears to operate by the rotation of triangular panels that indicate which streetcar should stop and which should proceed. Streetcar tracks can be…
ID Number:1983.10.10589
Date:Circa 1918
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Frank Allen and Esther Ross looking at map to plan tribal fish-in, 1968
Stillaguamish Chief Frank Allen and Esther Ruth Ross point to an area on map they say belongs to the Stillaguamish tribe. They are planning a fish-in to protest the tribe's loss of fishing rights on its ancestral lands. Handwritten on sleeve: INDIANS, Stillaguamish, Attempt to regain ancestral lands.Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: July 7, 1968.
ID Number:1986.5.4436.1
Date:1968
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Protestors at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, January 1947
In January 1947, the Seattle Council of the National Negro Congress supported a picket in front of Atlas Grocery and St. George Apartments at 14th Ave and Yesler Way. The protest was against racial discrimination, saying that the owners Jee Wong and Allen Pang would not rent to or hire Black people. A newspaper article on January 23, 1947 in…
ID Number:1986.5.6310.1
Date:1947
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Tiger Inn Restaurant exterior with employees, 1947
According to the 1935 Seattle City Directory, the Tiger Inn was located at 2556 Aurora Avenue, also known as Highway 99. The owners were Allen E. and Portia White. Handwritten on image: Tiger Inn. Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, RESTAURANTS, Tiger Inn. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month…
ID Number:1986.5.11401.1
Date:1947
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Hospital building at Firlands Sanatorium, circa 1915
In 1911, Firlands Sanatorium began accepting patients suffering from highly infectious tuberculosis (TB). The hospital's country setting in Richmond Highlands, well north of Seattle, isolated patients from the healthy populace and provided the fresh air which doctors considered essential. In 1948, Firlands housed nearly 1,050 patients. It closed in 1968 after new antibiotic treatments allowed patients to live at home.This…
ID Number:1987.60.23
Date:Circa 1915
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Sloop "Neoga" under construction at Blanchard Boat Co., Seattle, 1929
The Blanchard Boat Company was one of the leading yacht builders of Seattle. Founded by N.J. (Norman J.) Blanchard (1885-1954) in 1905, the company built nearly 2,000 boats over its 64-year history, including commercial ships, classic motor cruisers and sailing yachts, some of which are still in use today. Following N.J.'s death in 1954, his son Norman C. Blanchard (1911-2009)…
ID Number:1989.89.107
Date:1929
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Miners posing at Coal Creek, Newcastle, March 12, 1915
The history of coal in Puget Sound is tied to the development and expansion of the railroad in the West. Locomotives burned coal, and coal, which is heavy and bulky, could not be transported without the railroad. These two industries grew together in the region, the health of each enabling the growth of both. One the largest mines in the…
ID Number:1998.19.1
Date:1915