1829 results for: Seattle Times
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Seattle Times rural delivery, circa 1927
This photo shows a newspaper delivery driver on a rural delivery for the Seattle Times. Handwritten on sleeve: Times Rural Delivery.Photographer's Reference Number: 128298
ID Number:1983.10.3866.1
Date:Circa 1927
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Seattle Times composing room, circa 1927
The Seattle Times' composing room was on an upper floor of the Times Square Building. The text of the articles on each page of the newspaper was set by hand in metal type. Each page was then printed from a separate printing plate. This photo, taken around 1927, shows men setting type and checking page composition in the Seattle Times…
ID Number:1983.10.3874.3
Date:Circa 1927
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MacDougall & Southwick, Seattle, circa 1929
In 1875 Polish immigrants Ferdinand Toklas (1845-1924) and Paul Singerman (1847-1915) opened a retail business in Seattle which soon became the city's first department store. Toklas & Singerman, also referred to for a time as The San Francisco Store, was originally located at Cherry and Front Street (later called 1st Avenue). The store moved and expanded multiple times and was…
ID Number:1983.10.4079
Date:Circa 1929
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E.C. Hughes School, Seattle, June 24, 1930
When the E.C. Hughes School opened in 1926, it had nine rooms and 206 pupils. Four years later, when this photo was taken, the school looked basically the same, but by 1949 an addition had to be built to hold the growing student body. Hughes was closed in 1989 but has been used as a temporary site for other West…
ID Number:1983.10.4191
Date:1930
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Columbus Hospital, Seattle, circa 1930
The Roman Catholic Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart ran Columbus Hospital on Seattle's First Hill, at Tenth Avenue and Madison Street. The hospital was opened as the Columbus Sanatorium in 1916 by Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. Columbus Hospital became St. Francis X. Cabrini Hospital in the late 1950s and closed in 1990. Until the late 1960s, the sisters ran…
ID Number:1983.10.4211.2
Date:Circa 1930
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Woman in kitchen at the Seattle Gas Company's model kitchen, April 29, 1932
In the 1930s, the Seattle Gas Company's headquarters was at the Gasco Building at 1507-11 Fourth Avenue in Seattle. The first floor included a model kitchen with gas appliances, as shown in this photograph. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle Gas Co Ext & Int, 4-29-32.Photographer's Reference Number: 138577Caption information source: "Program Doubles Area of Gasco Headquarters," Seattle Daily Times, April 29,…
ID Number:1983.10.4393.1
Date:1932
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Hooverville, August 19, 1933
During the hard times of the 1930s economic depression, many unemployed and homeless people settled just west of where Seattle's Kingdome now stands. They built ramshackle houses out of scrap material and elected their own mayor. The area was nicknamed Hooverville or Hoover City by people who blamed President Herbert Hoover for causing the Depression.This 1933 photo, taken at Seattle's…
ID Number:1983.10.4435.2
Date:1933
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Coliseum Theatre, November 3, 1934
By 1915, Seattle's downtown commercial core was booming. In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly-formed Coliseum Company to build a theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum Photo Playhouse was designed by noted theater architect B. Marcus Priteca,…
ID Number:1983.10.4493
Date:1934
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The Kennett apartments, Seattle, February 20, 1935
This four-plex residence is located at 705 North 46th Street. Built in 1930, it is typical of small-scale residential multi-family units constructed in Seattle's neighborhoods during the first half of the twentieth century. An advertisement for The Kennett in the Seattle Times says, "4-room modern, with every convenience." Handwritten on sleeve: Kenneth Apts for First Rental & Sales Corp., 2/20/35.Photographer's…
ID Number:1983.10.4514
Date:1935
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County-City Building after completion of phase two, July 3, 1936
In 1916, the new King County Courthouse and Municipal Building, also called the County-City Building, opened on Third Avenue in downtown Seattle. The building, designed by Seattle architect Augustus Warren Gould, was five stories tall, with a partial sixth story for the use of the city engineer. In 1929-1931, architect Henry Bittman's six story addition expanded Gould's original building upwards.…
ID Number:1983.10.4557.2
Date:1936