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Husky Stadium filled with spectators for President Harding's address, Seattle, July 27, 1923
On July 27, 1923, President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) arrived in Seattle from Alaska as part of a 40-day tour of the Western United States. His short six-hour stay included a review of the Navy fleet in Elliott Bay, a parade through downtown, greeting schoolchildren at Volunteer Park, speaking to a huge crowd of boys at Woodland Park, making an…
ID Number:2008.7.3
Date:1923
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President Harding speaking to boys at Elks picnic, Woodland Park, Seattle, July 27, 1923
On July 27, 1923, President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) arrived in Seattle from Alaska as part of a 40-day tour of the Western United States. His short six-hour stay included a review of the Navy fleet in Elliott Bay, a parade through downtown, greeting schoolchildren at Volunteer Park, speaking to a huge crowd of boys at Woodland Park, making an…
ID Number:2008.7.4
Date:1923
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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
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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