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Crescent Manufacturing Company baking powder window display, circa 1900
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. By the early 20th century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989, and consolidated its operations in Kent, Washington in 1990.Pictured here is a storefront window display…
ID Number:2005.24.72
Date:Circa 1900
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Temporary Stone Way Bridge, Seattle, May 4, 1916
The Stone Way Bridge was a temporary bridge that opened May 31, 1911 over the northwest corner of Lake Union, connecting Westlake Avenue on the south shore to Stone Way on the north. The bridge was in service until June 15, 1917, when the Fremont Bridge, built as part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal project, opened to traffic.This image of…
ID Number:2006.7.50
Date:1916
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Lake Washington ship canal during construction, Seattle, May 4, 1916
After five and a half years of construction, the Lake Washington Ship Canal opened on May 8, 1917. It connects Lake Washington, Lake Union, Salmon Bay, and Puget Sound. This image looking west from Fremont shows the construction of the Lake Washington ship canal. Prominent in the center of the frame to the right of the canal is the distinctive…
ID Number:2006.7.100
Date:1916
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Mike Schaefer, Ric Weiland, and their dog Kofi, circa 2002
Richard "Ric" Weiland (1953-2006) was a software developer, programmer, philanthropist, and active member of the Northwest gay community. Interested in computers from a young age, Weiland built a computer in his basement in eighth grade, and while at Lakeside School formed the Lakeside Programming Group with classmates Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1975, Weiland became the first full-time employee…
ID Number:2007.9.39
Date:Circa 2002
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Progressive Series Summer Normal teachers, Seattle, 1926
In 1926, a group of teachers gathered for a photo on top of one of Seattle’s taller buildings. They had participated in the “Progressive Series Summer Normal” presumably in Seattle, as the photograph was taken by the Linkletter Studio in Seattle. At that time, Washington State had three teacher’s colleges, or “normal schools,” in Bellingham, Cheney and Ellensburg. The schools…
ID Number:2007.30.1
Date:1926
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Morgan J. Carkeek posting park rules, Carkeek Park, Seattle, circa 1918
Beginning in about 1918, the Seattle Park Board hosted annual picnics at the "original" Carkeek Park (1918-1926) on Pontiac Bay at Lake Washington, later the site of the Sand Point Naval Station and now Magnuson Park. These annual luncheon picnics were attended by donors to the park and their friends on the anniversary of the donation of the park by…
ID Number:2008.3.1.46.9
Date:Circa 1918
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Art Barduhn Trio with Stan Boreson and others, circa 1953
The Art Barduhn Trio of the early 1950s consisted of Art Barduhn (b. 1922) on piano, accordion, vibraphone and other instruments, Russ Phillips on bass and Glenn Thompson on guitar. The trio was often joined by local Seattle musician and humorist Stan Boreson. In the 1950s, the Art Barduhn Trio performed regularly in Seattle and elsewhere, and was also featured…
ID Number:2008.4.37
Date:Circa 1953
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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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Interior of Bagdad Theatre, Seattle, circa 1927
Seattle's Bagdad Theatre operated from 1927-1947 at one of the Ballard neighborhood's most significant buildings, located on the northwest corner of Market Street and 22nd Avenue NW. The building was designed by local architect Frederick J. Peters as the home of the Ballard chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.), an international non-profit organization founded in 1898 in Seattle.…
ID Number:2008.47.2
Date:Circa 1927
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Carte-de-visite of Margaret Lenora Denny, 1869
Margaret Lenora Denny (1847-1915) was the second child of Arthur and Mary Ann Boren Denny. Known as Lenora or Nora, she was only five when the family arrived at Alki Point after their long trip to the Pacific Northwest. In 1915, on the way back from Tacoma, Lenora Denny and three other prominent Seattleites (Thomas and Virginia Prosch, and Harriet…
ID Number:2008.54.5
Date:1869