16 results for: Kroll Map Company, Inc.
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Anderson's New Guide Map of the City of Seattle & Environs, July 1890
Seattle entrepreneur and amateur photographer O. P. (Oliver Phelps) Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. O. P. trained as a drafting technician and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map…
ID Number:2019.3.14
Date:1890
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Seattle, Washington, Postal delivery section map, circa 1950
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company and merged them…
ID Number:2019.3.15
Date:Circa 1950
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Seattle, Washington, circa 1938
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.18
Date:Circa 1938
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Denny Regrade District, Seattle, 1928
Begun in 1898, the Denny Hill Regrade leveled one of Seattle's steepest hills, with an aim to connect neighborhoods and facilitate traffic flow. Before the regrade, Second Avenue rose 190 feet in the twelve blocks between Pioneer Square and Lenora Avenue. The project began by flattening First Avenue between Pine Street and Denny Way. The sluiced-away dirt was dumped into…
ID Number:2019.3.25
Date:1928
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Share the Ride Zone Map, Seattle, 1942
In 1942, during World War II, the federal government’s War Production Transport Commission mandated that citizens cut back on the use of gasoline and rubber tires for the war effort. Seattle and other cities developed city-wide carpooling plans. Businesses and neighborhoods formally registered share-the-ride groups, and members were eligible for additional gasoline stamps once rationing began. By the fall of…
ID Number:2019.3.46
Date:1942
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Map of Alaska, 1927
In 1903 Carl Albert Kroll (1882-1982) immigrated from Germany to the U. S., finding work as a drafting technician at the Moran Brothers shipbuilding company. By 1910 Kroll was the manager at O. P. Anderson Map & Blue Print Company. The following year he acquired both the Anderson Map Company and the Washington Map and Blueprint Company to form the…
ID Number:2019.3.59
Date:1927