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Maple Valley School, circa 1920
In 1920, a three-story brick schoolhouse opened to accommodate the growing number of students in Maple Valley, Washington. All grades attended classes here until Tahoma High School opened in 1926 to serve students in the Taylor, Hobart, and Maple Valley communities.This photo, taken sometime in the 1920s, shows the Maple Valley School. In 1994, the building was declared a city…
ID Number:1983.10.2256
Date:Circa 1920
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Lowman Building and Lowman & Hanford, circa 1921
In 1882, James Lowman and Clarence Hanford joined forces to found Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company. They reopened in a tarpaper shack after losing their business in the Great Fire of 1889. In the early 1900s, they expanded their line and sold cameras, film, maps, books, gold scales, snow glasses and other supplies to people leaving for the…
ID Number:1983.10.2257.2
Date:Circa 1921
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University of Washington football team, Seattle, 1898
The University of Washington played its first-ever football game on Thanksgiving Day, 1889, at the Jefferson Street Park, just east of downtown. In the next decade the university moved to its present site five miles north of downtown, in a wooded area bordering Lake Washington. Football games were played at old Denny Field on the northwest corner of the campus…
ID Number:1983.10.2260
Date:1898
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Surplus warships in Lake Union, circa 1921
Seattle's shipyards boomed during 1918, when the United States entered World War I. After the war, some of the U.S. Navy's surplus wooden warships were stored in Lake Union and other sheltered parts of Puget Sound. This "mothballed" fleet was nicknamed "Wilson's Wood Row," after President Woodrow Wilson, the wartime president.This photo, taken about 1921, shows the surplus wooden warships…
ID Number:1983.10.2261.1
Date:Circa 1921
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View of Lake Union from Capitol Hill, Seattle, circa 1922
This view of Lake Union shows a working Gas Works in the middle ground and house on Capitol Hill in the foreground. Handwritten on sleeve: Lake Union Panorama.Webster & Stevens number: 86336
ID Number:1983.10.2261.3
Date:Circa 1922
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Hollywood School, circa 1921
Hollywood School was located near Hollywood Farm, the Woodinville estate belonging to Seattle lumberman Frederick Stimson. The Stimson family donated money and materials to build the school in 1912. This photo shows how the school looked in about 1921. Webster & Stevens number: 86368
ID Number:1983.10.2266
Date:Circa 1921
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North Bend High School, circa 1925
In 1915, the city of North Bend built a new brick high school building on Ballarat Street at a cost of $30,000. This photo of the school was probably taken in the 1920s. The building later burned and was torn down. The Snoqualmie Valley School District opened a new alternative high school on the site in 1997. Webster & Stevens…
ID Number:1983.10.2267
Date:Circa 1925
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Redmond School, circa 1920
Before 1888, Redmond school children attended classes in a small log house. During the next ten or so years, the town lost two schoolhouses to fire. Classes were moved to the small wooden Congregational Church. Redmond continued to use the church off and on for classrooms even after the school district built a larger two-story building in 1908.This photo, probably…
ID Number:1983.10.2269
Date:Circa 1920
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Wireless operator at the harbor, September 1921
The Port of Seattle was very busy during the 1920s. The harbor radio station, call letters KPE, was located on Pier 1 at the end of Yesler Way. Ships leaving or entering the harbor radioed their estimated arrival or leaving times and other messages to KPE. This helped the port control ship traffic. This photo shows a wireless radio operator…
ID Number:1983.10.2280.3
Date:1921
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Man with a tall corn plant at the Tolt Fair, circa 1922
According to members of the Tolt Historical Society, the town of Tolt held a fair in 1922. This Tolt Fair photo shows a man, possibly Victor Gonnason, standing by the cannery building with a giant corn plant. Tolt's name had been changed to Carnation in 1917, but many residents continued to use the old name. Webster & Stevens number: 86717
ID Number:1983.10.2287.3
Date:Circa 1922