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Image of Exterior of Yesler School, circa 1893
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Exterior of Yesler School, circa 1893

Yesler School opened in the early 1890s in the new lumber mill town of Yesler, on Lake Washington's Union Bay. The school was located across from the sawmill on Thirty-sixth Avenue NE, just above NE Forty-seventh Street. The school closed in 1918 and the student body moved to Bryant School.In this photo, taken around 1893, the students and teachers of…
ID Number:SHS5568
Date:Circa 1893
Image of Woman sitting on bridge over Ravenna Creek, Seattle, 1910
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Woman sitting on bridge over Ravenna Creek, Seattle, 1910

Before Green Lake was lowered in 1911 to create the park that surrounds the lake, a stream ran from its eastern shore to Union Bay on Lake Union. The creek, Duke Creek, or more commonly, Ravenna Creek, dried up when Green Lake was lowered. Eventually Ravenna Boulevard was built above the old creek bed with soil dredged from the eastern…
ID Number:SHS6500A
Date:1910
Image of Seattle Electric Railway Company trolley with motormen, circa 1890
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Seattle Electric Railway Company trolley with motormen, circa 1890

Seattle's first electric streetcars began carrying passengers in 1889. By 1892, the city had 48 miles of electric streetcars and 22 miles of cable railway. In the mid-1890s, motormen were paid 22 cents an hour, but only while the cars were rolling. They weren't paid for the time it took to get the cars ready in the morning, keep them…
ID Number:SHS7701
Date:Circa 1890
Image of Canoes and houseboats on Lake Washington, Seattle, 1912
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Canoes and houseboats on Lake Washington, Seattle, 1912

The unique floating homes of Seattle got their start almost simultaneously with the development of the city itself. Seattle's first industries were logging and fishing, both seasonal enterprises, and it became common for loggers and sailors to build themselves floating shacks from scrap boards during their off seasons. As the trend spread, houseboats were built as permanent homes for families…
ID Number:SHS9025
Date:1912
Image of Fremont Bridge from south, Seattle, March 18, 1915
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Fremont Bridge from south, Seattle, March 18, 1915

Signs in image: Carl [Dienor?] Groceries. Hay, Grain, Feed & Flour - Wholesale & Retail. [Lundberg?] Lake Union Shop - Horseshoeing & Blacksmithing.Caption on image: 3-18-15.Typed on verso: Fremont Bridge on March 18, 1915, picture taken from Fulton Street and Dexter Avenue North. Photograph was ordered by City Engineering Dept. in preparation for a new bridge. Old bridge was wood…
ID Number:SHS9200
Date:1915
Image of Early Boeing seaplane on Lake Union, Seattle, circa 1918
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Early Boeing seaplane on Lake Union, Seattle, circa 1918

Typed on verso: Boeing seaplane, early. Probably Boeing C-11. Single float, on Lake Union.SHS category: Aeronautics
ID Number:SHS9306
Date:Circa 1918
Image of North-facing panorama of Fremont, Seattle, circa 1894
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North-facing panorama of Fremont, Seattle, circa 1894

Seattle's Fremont neighborhood started out as cluster of small industries on the north shore of Lake Union. This north-facing view of Fremont appears to have been taken from the eastern slope of Queen Anne Hill. The bridge at the bottom left of the frame is probably a spur of the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway, built in 1888 across…
ID Number:SHS10120
Date:Circa 1894
Image of First paying passengers of Boeing Commercial Air Service posing at Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
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First paying passengers of Boeing Commercial Air Service posing at Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919

The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first customers was taken on the dock at Lake Union, with the seaplane behind. Third from the left is pilot…
ID Number:SHS11352A
Date:1919
Image of First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
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First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919

The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first one of the first commercial flights was taken on Lake Union. It is not clear if this image is…
ID Number:SHS11352B
Date:1919
Image of Men pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, 1916
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Men pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, 1916

William Boeing started his airplane company in this hangar he had built on the shore of Lake Union in December 1915. The B & W seaplane, named after its designers, Boeing and Conrad Westervelt, was the first airplane produced at the small factory. The seaplane, constructed of Washington State spruce lumber, steel wire, and linen fabric, made its first successful…
ID Number:SHS11540
Date:1916
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