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Cabinet card portrait of Olive Bell Stewart, circa 1860
Olive Julia Bell Stewart (born 1846) was the daughter of Seattle pioneers William Nathaniel Bell (1817-1887) and Sarah Ann (Peter) Bell (1819-1856), who arrived at Alki Beach in present-day West Seattle with the Denny party and other pioneers on the schooner Exact in 1851. The Bells, settling north of the future downtown area in what would become known as "Belltown,"…
ID Number:2008.54.11
Date:Circa 1860
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View from First Hill toward Elliott Bay, Seattle, circa 1885
This view from First Hill looking west and north toward Elliott Bay was taken before the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. The large white building in the center of the frame is the Central School, built in 1883 at Sixth Avenue and Madison Street, and destroyed in an 1888 fire; just behind and to the right of Central School is…
ID Number:2008.54.16
Date:Circa 1885
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View looking north toward Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, circa 1885
This image of the city was taken from the roof of Central School, and is facing north, with Seventh Avenue on the right, and Queen Anne Hill straight ahead. Smoke can be seen rising from Western Mill on Lake Union in the distance. On June 6, 1889, the Great Seattle Fire destroyed 25 city blocks, including much of what is…
ID Number:2008.54.17
Date:Circa 1885
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King Street Coal Works dock on Elliott Bay, Seattle, circa 1885
This view of Elliott Bay is facing north and west. Seen here are two full-rigged-ships sitting in Elliott Bay; the King Street Coal Works at Second Avenue and Columbia Street, with the C&PSRR Co. (Columbia & Puget Sound Rail Road) Ocean Dock and Norther Pacific rail cars; and the edges of Ballast Island at the foot of Washington Street and…
ID Number:2008.54.23
Date:Circa 1885
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King Street Coal Works docks, Seattle, circa 1885
The King Street Coal wharf was erected in 1877 to enable coal mined in Newcastle, WA, and brought by railcar to Seattle's waterfront, to be loaded onto ships, many of which were destined for the Pacific Coast's main metropolis, San Francisco.This photo shows the King Street Coal Works at Second Avenue and Columbia Street, with Northern Pacific rail cars on…
ID Number:2008.54.27
Date:Circa 1885
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Seattle waterfront at Columbia and Madison, circa 1885
This view of the Seattle waterfront shows two sailboats docked at Bud Long's Boathouse, located just north of Washington Street, and a center for recreational boating activity in the 1880s. Frye's Opera House dominates the view of downtown beyond, which also includes the First Presbyterian Church, Territorial University, and the Central School at the far right of the frame. Businesses…
ID Number:2008.54.31
Date:Circa 1885
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Waseda University baseball game, Dugdale Park, Seattle, July 1911
In 1911, Waseda University, one of the oldest universities in Japan, sent its baseball team to tour the United States and play against American teams at the invitation of the University of Chicago. The Waseda team landed at San Francisco on April 13 and played forty games across the US, traveling as far as New York. They arrived in Seattle…
ID Number:2008.56.1
Date:1911
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Norman Archibald standing next to his SPAD plane, France, 1918
Hazel Marjorie (Archibald) Draper (1891-1973) and Norman Silas "Jim" Archibald (1894-1975) were born in Seattle to real estate developer Silas W. Archibald (1864-aft 1952) and Elizabeth Jane (Langille) Archibald (1866-), who had emigrated from Nova Scotia, Canada, after their 1889 marriage. Both Hazel and Norman served in France during World War I; Norman was a lieutenant with the 95th Aero…
ID Number:2009.3.4.18.2
Date:1918
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Five men near a crevasse during search and rescue operation, Mount Rainier National Park, July 1929
Often referred to as "the Greathouse accident," the most highly publicized tragedy in Mount Rainier climbing history occurred on July 2, 1929 when six climbers slid into a deep crevasse on upper Ingraham Glacier. Apprentice guide and Lincoln High School football coach, Forrest Greathouse, and climber Edwin A. Wetzel were killed and the other four climbers badly injured. The search…
ID Number:2009.16.53
Date:1929
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Television personalities at the Bon Marché, Seattle, circa 1950
The Bon Marché was founded in 1890 by German immigrant Edward Nordhoff and his wife Josephine. Originally located in Seattle’s Belltown district at First Avenue and Cedar Street, in 1896 it moved to a more central location downtown at Second Avenue and Pike Street. In this photo, three Seattle television personalities from KING-TV pose inside the store with look-a-like mannequins:…
ID Number:2009.20.193.1
Date:Circa 1950