23 results for: Thompson, J.W.
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Front Street Cable Railway Company power house and cable cars, Seattle, circa 1890
In 1888, J. M. Thompson, a developer of San Francisco’s cable car lines, joined with Seattle developer Fred Sander to build the Front Street Cable Railway. The line ran along what is now First Avenue from Pioneer Square to Pike Street, and south along Second Avenue. Thompson and Sander later extended service to the north, up steep Queen Anne Hill.In…
ID Number:1980.6923.47
Date:Circa 1890
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John Marshall Intermediate School, circa 1928
Seattle had no junior high schools until the late 1920s. Students in the seventh and eighth grades stayed in small, neighborhood grade schools. John Marshall Intermediate School, one of the city's first two junior high schools, opened in September 1927 at East 68th Street and Ravenna Boulevard. It served the University and Green Lake areas. This photo shows John Marshall…
ID Number:1983.10.3609
Date:Circa 1928
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Youngstown School, Seattle, circa 1930
When it opened in 1917, Youngstown School represented state-of-the-art school design, with a combined auditorium-lunchroom and home economics department. Throughout the 1920s, the school population continued to grow, and an addition was constructed in 1929. The school was renamed the Frank B. Cooper School in 1939. The Cooper School moved to a new site in the 1999, which was renamed…
ID Number:1983.10.4201
Date:Circa 1930
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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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Exterior of Alexander Hamilton Intermediate School, Seattle, circa 1927
This image of Alexander Hamilton Intermediate School, at 1610 N 41st Street in Seattle, was taken upon or near completion of construction in January 1927. Hamilton was the first school building in Seattle to be designed specifically for intermediate (grades 7-8) education. Hamilton continues to operate as a middle school (grades 6-8), and has changed little in its exterior appearance.…
ID Number:1991.22.2.22
Date:Circa 1927
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Larry Gossett and Roberto Maestas at City Council meeting, Seattle, November 10, 1972
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young black radicals. In 1967 he was active in the Seattle chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett served as executive director of CAMP,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.01
Date:1972
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Group of people tending to a fishing canoe, La Push, Washington, circa 1955
This photo is one of a sequence of scenes of smelt fishing taken by the photographer at La Push, Washington, on Quileute land. Here, Men and women tend to a canoe and nets on shore. Three of the individuals have been identified as Ramona Bennett, Walter Bennett, and Cynthia Davis.
ID Number:2004.43.1386
Date:Circa 1955
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Central School's fifth grade class posing at annex, Seattle, circa 1898
In this image, 29 children pose together on the steps in front of the Washington Territorial University Building, vacated in 1895 after university's (now University of Washington) move to its current location north of downtown. The Seattle School Board leased the old university building from 1898-1899 due to overcrowding at Central School (now referred to as Central II). The university…
ID Number:2008.44.2
Date:Circa 1898
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View from First Hill toward Elliott Bay, Seattle, circa 1885
This view from First Hill looking west and north toward Elliott Bay was taken before the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. The large white building in the center of the frame is the Central School, built in 1883 at Sixth Avenue and Madison Street, and destroyed in an 1888 fire; just behind and to the right of Central School is…
ID Number:2008.54.16
Date:Circa 1885
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View looking north toward Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, circa 1885
This image of the city was taken from the roof of Central School, and is facing north, with Seventh Avenue on the right, and Queen Anne Hill straight ahead. Smoke can be seen rising from Western Mill on Lake Union in the distance. On June 6, 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed 25 city blocks, including much of what is…
ID Number:2008.54.17
Date:Circa 1885