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Architectural drawing
Improvement of Third Avenue et al Lighting System, Seattle, July 1927
The 1927 map pictured here was created by the Seattle City Engineer's office. It shows a roughly 12-block area of downtown Seattle between Yesler Way and Jackson Street, and Third Avenue and Fifth Avenue, on land platted as D. S. Maynard's Addition to the City of Seattle. The map shows the locations where new posts and street lamps were to…
ID Number:1952.986.57.6
Date:1927
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Seattle Fire Department employees, wagons, and engine houses, 1898
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:1953.287.1
Date:1898
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Seattle Electric Company ticket, Seattle, 1903
In 1898 the Seattle Electric Company was granted a contract to consolidate the city's 22 separate streetcar lines and private street railways. The SEC was an arm of the national Stone & Webster utility cartel, which also controlled the city's electrical grid and operated the Puget Sound Electric Railway (PSE), an interurban line linking Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett. Due to…
ID Number:1953.641.1b
Date:1903
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Sourdough Club on ship "Portland" during Golden Potlatch, Seattle, July 17, 1912
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. The appropriation of culture in order to market products or events is a common example of discrimination and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples in the United States. In…
ID Number:1954.776.1
Date:1912
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Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) seated at Madrona Park, Seattle, circa 1892
Kick-is-on-lo Cud, or Kikisoblu (circa 1816-1896), was the eldest daughter of Chief Seattle (Si'ahl), the leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes. During her lifetime, she saw the coming of white settlers, the exile of her people from their traditional lands, and the growth of the new city named for her father. She didn't move to the Port Madison Reservation…
ID Number:1954.812.1
Date:Circa 1892
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King County Courthouse construction, Seattle, September 11, 1915
This image of the King County Courthouse in Seattle was taken facing northeast during construction on September 11, 1915. Architect A. Warren Gould designed the five-story steel frame and reinforced concrete structure, built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company. The building sits at 516 Third Avenue, between Dilling Way and James Street, and was dedicated May 4, 1916,…
ID Number:1955.970.500.7.1
Date:1915
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King County Courthouse construction, Seattle, July 17, 1915
This image of the King County Courthouse in Seattle was taken facing southeast during construction on July 17, 1915. Architect A. Warren Gould designed the five-story steel frame and reinforced concrete structure, built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company. The building sits at 516 Third Avenue, between Dilling Way and James Street, and was dedicated May 4, 1916…
ID Number:1955.970.500.7.2
Date:1915
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King County Courthouse construction, Seattle, May 15, 1915
This image of the King County Courthouse in Seattle was taken facing southeast during construction on May 15, 1915. Architect A. Warren Gould designed the five-story steel frame and reinforced concrete structure, built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company. The building sits at 516 Third Avenue, between Dilling Way and James Street, and was dedicated May 4, 1916…
ID Number:1955.970.500.7.3
Date:1915
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Dexter Horton building during construction, Seattle, October 17, 1923
This image of the Dexter Horton Building in Seattle was taken during construction on October 17, 1923. When it opened the following year, the 15-story building at Second Avenue and Cherry Street was one of the largest office buildings in the country at 328,000 square feet. A protected historic landmark since 1993, the building was named for Seattle pioneer Dexter…
ID Number:1955.970.500.33.2
Date:1923
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Dexter Horton building during construction, Seattle, April 16, 1924
This image of the Dexter Horton Building in Seattle was taken during construction on April 16, 1924. When it opened the following year, the 15-story building at Second Avenue and Cherry Street, was one of the largest office buildings in the country at 328,000 square feet. A protected historic landmark since 1993, the building was named for Pioneer Dexter Horton,…
ID Number:1955.970.500.35.1
Date:1924