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Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.6
Date:1909
Photograph
Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.33.8
Date:1909
Photograph
Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen in the foreground, and the Washington Hotel is on the hill in the top left of the frame.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer…
ID Number:1995.38.33.9
Date:1909
Photograph
Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904,…
ID Number:1995.38.37.255
Date:1909
Photograph
Denny Regrade project in progress, Seattle, 1909
This photograph was taken in 1909 during the regrading project on Third Avenue in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Men using high power hoses to blast away the hillside can be seen near a house and downhill from the Washington Hotel.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from…
ID Number:1995.38.37.264
Date:1909
Correspondence
Letterhead from Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., 1915
Founded in 1889, the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company was also called Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock, Associated Shipbuilders, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company. The company participated in most major construction sites in the Pacific Northwest, including the construction of Harbor Island at the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle. Lockheed Shipbuilding continued to build ships ranging…
ID Number:1999.31.3
Date:1915
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Construction of ship shed for battleship USS Nebraska, Moran Brothers shipyard, 1902
In 1901, the Moran Brothers shipyard of Seattle won the bid to build one of three battleships for the US Navy. To accommodate the construction of so large a vessel, the shipyard, located at the foot of South Charles Street, required major renovations. A large quantity of heavy tools and equipment was purchased, and a ship shed was built with…
ID Number:2000.87.21.22
Date:1902
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Covered sculpture in downtown Seattle on "Day Without Art," December 1, 1989
"Day Without Art," a project of the arts organization Visual AIDS, launched on December 1, 1989 as "a day of action and mourning" in which thousands of arts institutions and organizations around the world joined together to demonstrate the power of art to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic. In this image Luis Clark, groundskeeper for the 1001 Building…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.11
Date:1989
Photograph
Two men protesting a Seattle Housing Authority decision, Seattle, July 15, 1992
In this image Keith Powe (center), wearing a sign declaring that he is dying of AIDS, and a friend protest a recent Seattle Housing Authority decision allegedly denying him admittance to public housing. Powe, still homeless, died in 1995. Caption information source: "`Forgotten' Remembered In Death -- Characters Of City Streets Memorialized," by Linda Keene, Seattle Times, December 30, 1995.Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.19
Date:1992
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Pro-choice supporters outside Dominoes Pizza, Seattle, October 19, 1989
In this image demonstrators march outside the Domino's Pizza on University Way to protest the corporate sponsorship of anti-abortion causes. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.05
Date:1989