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Carnation Milk truck, circa 1921
A small evaporated milk company which opened in Kent in 1899 grew to become the nationally known Carnation Company. Canned milk had a small market at first, but was soon accepted by hungry babies and gold-rush miners alike. By 1926, the company had six Seattle-area dairies and six local evaporated milk plants, plus 24 evaporated milk plants elsewhere in the…
ID Number:1983.10.2230.1
Date:Circa 1921
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Smith Tower and the County-City Building, circa 1921
In about 1912, a group of citizens pushed for a new governmental "Civic Center" in the recently regraded Denny Hill area. This effort failed, however. In 1916, the new King County Courthouse and Municipal Building, also known as the County-City Building, opened on Third Avenue, convenient to the heart of the old downtown.This photo, taken around 1921, shows the County-City…
ID Number:1983.10.2234.2
Date:Circa 1921
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King County Sheriff Matt Starwich with murderer James Mahoney, Seattle, 1921
One of the state's most notorious crimes, the "Mahoney Trunk Murder" occurred in Seattle in 1921. The victim was Kate Mooers, 72, an eccentric and wealthy woman who married for the third time to James E. Mahoney, 38, a convicted robber. When Kate went missing, Mahoney claimed she had disappeared in St. Paul, Minnesota, but the Seattle police detectives decided…
ID Number:1983.10.2240
Date:1921
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Crowd outside Strand Theater, Seattle, circa 1922
The Strand Theater opened as a live performance venue in 1916. It was located at 1114 2nd Avenue. Signs in image: Geo. Stoetzer - Cigars, Magazines. J.E. Williamson Presents the Thrilling Undersea Picture - Directed by Ralph Ince - Distributed by Goldwyn - Wet Gold. Strand Theater. The Little Bee Hive. Young's Shirt Shops.Handwritten on sleeve: Strand Theatre Ext Crowd.Webster…
ID Number:1983.10.2250.2
Date:Circa 1922
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Train at Skagit River power site, circa 1921
Harsh terrain made the development of Seattle City Light's three Skagit River dams very difficult. Once they got permission to proceed on the Gorge Creek Diversion Dam in 1918, workers built access roads and a railway line, the Skagit River Railway, to haul supplies and workers to the construction site.This photo, taken around 1921, shows what is probably an excursion…
ID Number:1983.10.2251.6
Date:Circa 1921
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Skagit Dam construction site, circa 1921
Harsh terrain made the development of Seattle City Light's three dams on the Skagit River very difficult. Once they got permission to proceed on the Gorge Creek Diversion Dam in 1918, workers had to build access roads through the mountainous wilderness and railway lines to haul supplies and workers to and from the construction site.This photo, taken around 1921, shows…
ID Number:1983.10.2251.25
Date:Circa 1921
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Patterson Creek School, Fall City, circa 1920
Fall City's first school building opened in the 1870s between Renton and Goldendale. Another early school opened not far from Fall City at Patterson Creek, at the southwest corner of the intersection of Redmond-Fall City Road and 308th Avenue SE. The Patterson Creek School was used from about 1885 until school district consolidation brought those students to a new large…
ID Number:1983.10.2252
Date:Circa 1920
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Cascade School, District 90, circa 1920
Sometime in the 1920s, a photographer from the firm of Webster & Stevens took photos of a number of rural King County schools. The photographer's notes identify the school in this photo as Hobart School, but the name over the entryway reads "Cascade School, District 90." Webster & Stevens number: 86377
ID Number:1983.10.2253
Date:Circa 1920
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Fall City High School, circa 1920
In 1908, James Stephen, Seattle school architect, was joined in business by his son, Frederick Bennett Stephen. The firm of Stephen & Stephen designed public school buildings from Vancouver and Port Townsend in western Washington to Wenatchee and Ellensburg in the central part of the state.This photo, probably taken in the 1920s, shows Stephen & Stephen's Fall City High School,…
ID Number:1983.10.2254
Date:Circa 1920
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Issaquah School, Issaquah, circa 1925
The earliest school classes in Issaquah, Washington, were held in various homes and barns. As the population grew, residents of the area built a series of wooden schoolhouses. In 1915, after voters approved a $30,000 bond issue, the school district opened a three-story brick school building to serve the towns of Pickering and Issaquah.This photo, probably taken in the 1920s,…
ID Number:1983.10.2255
Date:Circa 1925