1512 results for: City of Seattle
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O.B. Williams Co. receipt, September 2, 1915
The O. B. Williams Company was established in 1889 by Owen B. Williams in Fairhaven, Washington, to manufacture windows, doors, and other building materials. By 1902 the company had moved to 1308 Third Ave in downtown Seattle, and in 1911 the company moved to a 40,000 square foot store and factory at 1943 First Avenue South. As of 2025, O.…
ID Number:1982.200.19
Date:1915
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Suess Glass Co. receipt, September 8, 1915
The Suess Art Glass Company manufactured leaded, plate, and beveled glass and mirrors, as well as a variety of other products, including lenses for automobile headlamps. Headlamps were not issued standard on cars until 1912, and performance and quality varied wildly. John Suess patented two devices for the rib lenses he sold, which controlled the headlight beam and eliminated "glare…
ID Number:1982.200.26
Date:1915
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Pidduck-Ross Co. grocery receipt, July 7, 1904
Pidduck-Ross Co. grocery sold "high priced groceries and table delicacies" at 720 Second Avenue. The grocery opened in 1901 as Pidduck, Ross & Mehlhorn by George A. Pidduck, John T. Ross, and August F. Mehlhorn (Mehlhorn left the company in the first year). In just a few years, Pidduck-Ross Co. was declared bankrupt in April of 1905, after having been…
ID Number:1982.200.57
Date:1904
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Mayor Ole Hanson, Seattle, circa 1918
Ole Hanson (1874-1940) was a man who packed multiple lives into one. He's best known in Washington for his role, as Seattle's mayor, in ending the city's General Strike of 1919, but he's also well known for founding the city of San Clemente, California, six years later. Though opportunistic and erratic, Hanson was a shrewd politician and realtor who left…
ID Number:1983.10.6.2
Date:Circa 1918
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Girls' ward at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital, 1929
In 1909, a group of Seattle women founded Children's Orthopedic Hospital. Until that time, the city had no hospital wards designed specifically for children. Until that time, sick children and adults stayed in the same wards. The hospital's first building was on Warren Avenue on Queen Anne Hill. In the 1950s, the hospital moved to the Laurelhurst area. It is…
ID Number:1983.10.194.2
Date:1929
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Red Cross nurse Elizabeth Brady and Indigenous man, Seattle, circa 1924
Born in Ireland, Elizabeth Brady was a member of the Providence School of Nursing's first graduating class. At the time this photo was taken, she was working as a Red Cross nurse for the city of Seattle. Her job was to follow up with patients originally seen by a doctor at the Seattle Health Department. She later worked as a…
ID Number:1983.10.202
Date:Circa 1924
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Olympic Hotel under construction, May 2, 1924
Seattle's Olympic Hotel, is still a downtown landmark. It was built from steel, brick, concrete, and terra cotta. Like many taller city buildings, the decoration on the lower floors is much more detailed than that on the upper floors. The elegance of the lower floors was meant to attract people at street level.This photo shows the wooden catwalks and scaffolding…
ID Number:1983.10.309.1
Date:1924
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Women modeling latest MacDougall & Southwick fashions, probably in Seattle, circa 1924
In 1875 Polish immigrants Ferdinand Toklas (1845-1924) and Paul Singerman (1847-1915) opened a retail business in Seattle which soon became the city's first department store. Toklas & Singerman, also referred to for a time as The San Francisco Store, was originally located at Cherry and Front Street (later called 1st Avenue). The store moved and expanded multiple times and was…
ID Number:1983.10.372.4
Date:Circa 1924
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Formal gardens, reservoir, and pavilion at Volunteer Park, circa 1914
In the early 1900s, the Olmsted Brothers firm of landscape designers submitted a plan for Volunteer Park to the city of Seattle. The design included curving roads and formal gardens. A water tower was built in 1906, and the conservatory was added in 1912.This photo shows the reservoir, small lily ponds, gardens, and a long pavilion with a bandstand at…
ID Number:1983.10.463.2
Date:Circa 1914
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View of the Denny Regrade area, circa 1925
Denny Hill, which stood north of Seattle's downtown was thought to block the city's growth. The steep hill was removed in two stages between the 1890s and the 1930s, and the land was regraded. The area where Denny Hill stood is still known as the Denny Regrade.This photo was taken in about 1925, after the first Denny Hill regrading project.…
ID Number:1983.10.498
Date:Circa 1925