705 results for: KING - TV
Photograph
Pacific Highway near Woodinville, Washington, 1915
The Pacific Highway ran from Vancouver, British Columbia to southern California, passing through King County, Washington on the way. North of Seattle, the road passed through Bothell and Woodinville. This 1915 photo shows a portion of the Pacific Highway near rural Woodinville. The gravel-surfaced highway was a great improvement over the muddy roads which preceded it. Webster & Stevens number:…
ID Number:1983.10.9947
Date:1915
Photograph
Kirkland ferry dock at Madison Park, circa 1920
In the early 1900s, people could ride King County ferries or Anderson steamboats between Madison Park and Kirkland. By 1920, the real estate partnership of Burke & Farrar had opened a small office at the Madison Park landing. Burke & Farrar developed land for homes in and around Kirkland.This photo, taken sometime around 1920, shows cars being loaded onto the…
ID Number:1983.10.10197
Date:Circa 1920
Photograph
Construction of the County-City Building, first phase, circa 1916
In 1916, the new King County Courthouse and Municipal Building, also called the County-City Building, opened on Third Avenue at Jefferson Street in downtown Seattle. The building was designed by Seattle architect Augustus Warren Gould.This 1916 photo shows the new County-City building in downtown Seattle shortly before completion. Jefferson Street and the park across the street are still littered with…
ID Number:1983.10.10254
Date:Circa 1916
Photograph
Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, 1917
In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills. The mill…
ID Number:1983.10.10416.2
Date:1917
Photograph
Fisher Flouring Mills on Harbor Island, Seattle, circa 1915
In 1911, brothers O. D. Fisher and O. W. Fisher began milling flour at the Fisher Flouring Mills on Seattle's Harbor Island in Elliott Bay. The grain silo and milling complex was one of the first facilities built on the artificial island after the island's completion in 1909. In 2001, Fisher sold the mill to Pendleton Flour Mills, which closed…
ID Number:1983.10.10459
Date:Circa 1915
Photograph
Parade of draft men, September 20, 1917
In September 1917, King County and Seattle gave a rousing farewell to a second large group of draftees leaving for World War I. Over 700 men marched to King Street Station, where they boarded a special train for Fort Lewis. In this 1917 photo, draftees from Seattle and King County march down Fourth Avenue to King Street Station with suitcases…
ID Number:1983.10.10510.2
Date:1917
Photograph
Spectators at opening of Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle, July 4, 1917
The Lake Washington Ship Canal opened for business on July 4, 1917, after six years of construction. The opening was the high point of Seattle's Fourth of July celebration. In this photo, spectators crowd the banks of Lake Union to watch the parade of several hundred boats passing through the new canals. It is likely that the photographer was standing…
ID Number:1983.10.10570
Date:1917
Photograph
Car stuck on muddy road, circa 1927
The Washington State Good Roads Association was founded in 1899 to push for tax money to improve the state's roads. In the 1920s, the group paid the Webster & Stevens company to take photos of very poor roads in the King County area. Handwritten on sleeve: Photos of cars stuck on muddy roads for Good Roads Assn.Webster & Stevens number:…
ID Number:1983.10.10814.1
Date:Circa 1927
Photograph
Car stuck on a muddy road, circa 1924
The Washington State Good Roads Association was founded in 1899 to push for tax money to improve the state's roads. In the 1920s, the group paid the Webster & Stevens company to take photos of very poor roads in the King County area.This 1920s photo shows an automobile stuck in axle-deep frozen mud on a deeply rutted country road. Webster…
ID Number:1983.10.10814.24
Date:Circa 1924
Photograph
Chinese parade, Go-Hing festival, May 1921
In late May 1921, Seattle's Chinese community held a carnival, called Go-Hing, to raise money for famine relief in China. All of Seattle was invited to a week of Chinese music, dance, and food. The festival ended with a parade through downtown Seattle.In this photo, Chinese lion dancers march along King Street in the parade that ended the Go-Hing festival.…
ID Number:1983.10.10958.1
Date:1921