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San Francisco Oyster House business card, circa 1916
The San Francisco Oyster House, located at 216 James Street under manager Jack Barberis, first appears in city directories in 1912. In the 1919 directory, the restaurant's address changes to 505 3rd, with the last entry for the establishment appearing in the 1921 directory. This small card advertises the San Francisco Oyster House as the "Largest Oyster House on the…
ID Number:1976.6296.3.2
Date:Circa 1916
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The "604" Third Avenue advertising card, circa 1908
The "604" Third Avenue, under proprietor Jos. Williams. offers a milk dairy and lunch room, cigars and tobaccos and "soft drinks of all kinds" as well as candy. Pale pink in color with rounded edges, this small card also boasts "all the buttermilk you can drink for a nickel!"
ID Number:1976.6296.4
Date:Circa 1908
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Rhodes Quaker Lunch business card, circa 1925
Rhodes Department Store was located in the Arcade Building on Second Avenue in Seattle. It was opened in 1907 by Albert Rhodes and his wife, Harriet. Albert's brothers owned separate department stores under the Rhodes name in Tacoma. Albert died unexpectedly of influenza in 1921, and Harriet was then President of the Rhodes Company which she managed successfully until her…
ID Number:1976.6296.5
Date:Circa 1925
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Rainier Restaurant and Bakery advertising card, circa 1920
Jim Boldt's Rainier Restaurant & Bakery was located at 913 Second Avenue. Jim Boldt was a caterer and restaurateur who came to Seattle from Kansas in 1909 to set up a concession stand at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Boldt fed Seattle for 51 years, either from his various restaurants, bakeries, and concession stands, or at catered events. Boldt was also president…
ID Number:1976.6296.6
Date:Circa 1920
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Café Olympus New Year's booklet, 1912
The Olympus Café opened about 1898 at 112 1st Avenue South, "Situated right in the business district of Seattle ... Just South of the Totem Pole." This small booklet, printed with New Year's greetings, includes promotional text and a photo of the cafe's "Venetian Room."On each left-hand page is the emblem of the Golden Potlatch "Bug," which advertised the summer…
ID Number:1976.6296.7
Date:1912
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Panoramic view of Dawson, circa 1903
By 1899, Dawson had a population of around 15,000 people. It had a city government with a volunteer fire department, and its businesses and amenities included 50 to 60 restaurants, a hospital, and four churches. There were 35,000 people in the region, primarily working in the mining industry. By this time, individual miners had been replaced by large mining companies.This…
ID Number:1978.6557.8
Date:Circa 1903
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Main street in Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1898
By the end of July 1898, over 40,000 people had poured into Dawson, Yukon Territory. A town had sprung up with restaurants, hotels, saloons, dentists, and other businesses catering to the newcomers. This photo, taken in 1898 by Eric Hegg, shows a street in Dawson, Yukon Territory. Lining the muddy street are wooden sidewalks, several restaurants and saloons, and a…
ID Number:1978.6557.40
Date:1898
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Lone Pine Bar and Odd Fellows Hall on dirt road, probably Bainbridge Island, circa 1905
This photo of the Line Pine Bar and Odd Fellows Hall was taken by Bainbridge Studios, and is assumed to be a street in Bainbridge Island, where the photography studio was located. Handwritten on image: ©BSBainbridge Studios was the name of Austin Seward's photography business on Bainbridge Island.
ID Number:1980.6877.76
Date:Circa 1905
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Van de Kamp's Bakery windmill-shaped building on Queen Anne hill, Seattle, circa 1930
Van de Kamp's was founded in 1915 by Theodore Van de Kamp and Lawrence L. Frank, beginning as a potato chip stand in downtown Los Angeles. The first retail bakery store opened in 1921, in a building designed in the shape of a windmill, complete with rotating arms. The Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery chain of bakeries and coffee…
ID Number:1980.6877.92
Date:Circa 1930
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Girls wearing Dutch costumes in tulip display, Seattle, circa 1930
These two girls, dressed in traditional Dutch costumes, pose amid a tulip display for Van de Kamp's bakeries. Under a sign in the center of the photo sits a model of the trademark Van de Kamp's windmill store. The sign reads, "Miniature of windmill stores soon to be erected in neighborhood centers. Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakeries, Seattle. Los…
ID Number:1980.6877.93
Date:Circa 1930