63 results for: Pacific Car
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Exterior of East Kong Yick Building, Seattle, circa 1920
Starting in 1907, Asian immigrants began moving their businesses into the area around Seattle's King Street. Ethnic enclaves helped reinforce cultural and kinship ties, and provided a sense of security from an often hostile white majority. The Chinese didn't have much choice; restrictive covenants by real estate agents and homeowners prevented Chinese and other Asians from living elsewhere. The neighborhood…
ID Number:1983.10.1774.1
Date:Circa 1920
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Bunkers and wharves at the Pacific Coast Coal Company, 1911
Railroad cars carried coal from the mines east of Lake Washington to the Seattle waterfront. The coal was offloaded and stored in bunkers. Then it was loaded onto ships bound for ports in Alaska or California.In this photo, taken in 1911, a railroad car filled with coal sits at the end of the dock at the Pacific Coast Coal Company…
ID Number:1983.10.6872.1
Date:1911
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Collins Block, Seattle, circa 1905
Signs in image: Normandy [...]. [...] Architect. Pacific Optical Co. Tailors. [The...lace] House. Harvard Dental Parlors - Full Set of Teeth $4. The Thomas Investment Co. - Financial Ag'ts and Investment Bankers - Mortgage Loans, Investments, Insurance. Wilson's Modern Business College. Collins. J.A. Baillargeon & Co. Vienna Cafe - Fancy Bakery. The Copeland Medical Institute. Western Mutual Fire Insurance Ass'n.…
ID Number:1983.10.7088
Date:Circa 1905
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President William Howard Taft in car outside New Washington Hotel, Seattle, 1909
United States President William H. Taft visited Seattle in 1909 and spoke at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. While in Seattle, he also played golf and made many other public appearances. Handwritten on sleeve: Taft in auto at Wash. [Hotel]Photographer's Reference Number: 11096
ID Number:1983.10.8429
Date:1909
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Andy Gump visiting Seattle, June 1926
The Gumps was an extremely popular comic strip about a middle-class family created in 1917 by Sidney Smith (1877-1935), running in nation-wide newspapers until 1959. Readers anxiously followed the convoluted story lines, and by1919, this popularity prompted an interest in film adaptations. Between 1923 and 1928, Universal Pictures produced at least four dozen Gumps two-reel comedies starring Joe Murphy (1877-1961),…
ID Number:1983.10.11801.2
Date:1926
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Assembling buses at Pacific Car and Foundry, Renton, Washington, July 13, 1939
Pacific Car and Foundry Company (later called PACCAR) originally made its name building railroad cars for the logging industry. In 1936, during the Great Depression, the Renton, Washington, firm diversified into buses and trucks. Seattle and many other cities began to replace their trolleys and streetcars with buses powered by electricity or gasoline in the late 1930s, and Pacific Car…
ID Number:1983.10.13326.2
Date:1939
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Oral history interview with John A. and Theiline Pigott McCone, January 16, 1985
Theiline Pigott McCone (1903 - 1990) was a Seattle philanthropist. Born Theiline McGee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she married Paul Pigott, president of Pacific Car and Foundry Co. in Seattle, in 1924. After his death, she married John Alexander McCone (1902-1991) in 1962, who at the time was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He had previously served as chairman of…
ID Number:1985.135.16
Date:1985
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Motorcycles in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo shows racing motorcycles on an s-curve at the track. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.2
Date:1966
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Motorcycle in race, Kent, 1966
On Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 1966, the second annual All America Race Festival took place at Kent's Pacific Raceways. Sponsored by the track and Seattle radio station KJR, the festival included drag racing, AMA motorcycle road racing, stock car racing, sky diving, and a go-kart endurance race. This photo focuses on one of the motorcycles in the race. Handwritten…
ID Number:1986.5.528.3
Date:1966
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Man test driving Sherman tank in river, Renton, 1942
The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment. During World…
ID Number:1986.5.6757.1
Date:1942