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Exterior of Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse, Seattle, circa 1915
Chicago-based mail order firm Sears, Roebuck & Company opened its first Seattle warehouse about 1910 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. By 1913 the company had completed construction on a new seven-story reinforced concrete warehouse and distribution center closer to the rail yards south of downtown. The following year Sears announced plans for a huge addition to the distribution center, designed…
ID Number:1983.10.10166
Date:Circa 1915
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Standard Oil plant, 1916
By 1920, Seattle had over 44,000 licensed drivers. The Standard Oil Company of California had opened the nation's first gas station in Seattle in 1907, and opened a distribution plant on Harbor Island in 1916.This 1916 photo shows the Standard Oil distribution plant and its industrial neighbors on Harbor Island. Beacon Hill and the Sears Roebuck building are on the…
ID Number:1983.10.10307
Date:1916
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American Bank Building, Seattle, 1916
The American Bank Building, an early skyscraper on the southeast corner of 2nd Avenue and Madison Street, was actually two buildings in one, with two entrances and two lobbies. It was demolished in the 1980s. Signs in image: YMCA - All That's Good for a Man. American Deposit Vaults. [...] Drug Store. Shane & Wolff - Clothes. Empire Building." Light…
ID Number:1983.10.10316
Date:1916
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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
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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
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Central Building, Seattle, circa 1917
Signs in image: B&B Tailors. Wooley & [C...]. Western Union Life. Safe Deposit Vaults.Handwritten on sleeve: Central Bldg.Webster & Stevens number: 59883
ID Number:1983.10.10623.1
Date:Circa 1917
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Panoramic view of Harbor Island, circa 1914
While Seattle's Harbor Island was being built, the Fisher flour mill and other industries built plants on parts of the newly-filled land.This photo is part of a larger panorama taken towards Harbor Island from West Seattle, sometime between 1912 and 1917. The Fisher flour mill and its sign can be seen on the West Waterway, in the center of the…
ID Number:1983.10.10631.1
Date:Circa 1914
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Panoramic view of Harbor Island, circa 1914
While Seattle's Harbor Island was being built, the Colman Creosoting works and other industries built plants on tidal flats near West Seattle. Creosote is an oil tar used as a wood preservative. Seattle's many trestles and piers used lots of creosoted wood.This photo is part of a larger panorama taken from West Seattle sometime between 1912 and 1917. It shows…
ID Number:1983.10.10631.2
Date:Circa 1914
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Seattle Lighting Company plant, Seattle, circa 1918
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle Lighting Co. Plant Panorama.Webster & Stevens number: 60383
ID Number:1983.10.10656.1
Date:Circa 1918
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Seattle Lighting Co. plant, Seattle, circa 1918
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle Lighting Co. Plant Panorama.Webster & Stevens number: 60383
ID Number:1983.10.10656.2
Date:Circa 1918