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Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle, circa 1911
This wooden building housed the congregation of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and stood at the southeast corner of Mercer and First Avenue North. Handwritten on sleeve: Trinity ME Church.Photographer's Reference Number: 8393
ID Number:1983.10.7993.1
Date:Circa 1911
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Frantz H. Coe School, circa 1910
The new Frantz H. Coe School building wasn't quite finished when classes started in the fall of 1906. Students spent their first year in portable buildings, and moved into the finished school building in the fall of 1907. Coe School was still the largest grade school in the Queen Anne neighborhood in the early 1960s.This photo shows Frantz H. Coe…
ID Number:1983.10.7998
Date:Circa 1910
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University Heights School, Seattle, circa 1910
Handwritten on sleeve: Univ. Heights School.Photographer's Reference Number: 8475
ID Number:1983.10.8011
Date:Circa 1910
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Whittier School, circa 1908
Seattle annexed the city of Ballard in 1907. The Seattle school district built Whittier School in Ballard's Crown Hill neighborhood the following year. This new brick building replaced several smaller wooden schools.This photo, probably taken in 1908, shows Whittier School's first building when it was almost completed. The building was located on Thirteenth Avenue NW in Crown Hill, and was…
ID Number:1983.10.8017
Date:Circa 1908
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Webster School, Seattle, circa 1908
During the early 1900s, the school population of Ballard grew rapidly and many buildings were placed into temporary service as classrooms. A few small portable buildings known as Bay View School transformed into the substantial brick building shown in this photo. Named Webster shortly after it opened in 1908, the school had a steady enrollment of between 400 and 500…
ID Number:1983.10.8020.1
Date:Circa 1908
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Lawton School, Seattle, 1908
This version of Lawton School existed only from 1908 until 1913. It was located on 25th Avenue West just north of Elmore St. in Magnolia. The property was condemned for construction of the Great Northern Railroad cut and Gilmore Avenue. A new site was purchased by the railroad and deeded to the school district, and this is where the current…
ID Number:1983.10.8054.1
Date:1908
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Novelty flour mill, circa 1907
The Novelty Mill Company opened in 1893 in West Seattle, between the ferry landing and a large grain elevator. Trains carrying grain from the wheat-growing areas in eastern Washington ran directly to the mill and the elevator from the Northern Pacific terminus in Seattle. Novelty and other Seattle mills ground the wheat into flour. The grain elevators and flour mills…
ID Number:1983.10.8094.2
Date:Circa 1907
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View of Elliott Bay from West Seattle, circa 1909
The heights of West Seattle give a dramatic view of Elliott Bay. This photo, taken around 1909, is part of a wider panoramic view taken of the bay from West Seattle. The West Seattle Boat House is in the foreground, and motorboats and sailboats are moored offshore. In the distance, battleships steam across the bay during one of the periodic…
ID Number:1983.10.8101.2
Date:Circa 1909
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Jackson Street regrade, Seattle, circa 1908
Before the Jackson Street regrading project, Beacon Hill formed a barrier between Seattle's waterfront and the Rainier Valley. Between 1907 and 1910, over three million cubic yards of earth were moved to make a cut through the hill. Most of the dirt was used to fill in Seattle's tidal flats. Handwritten on sleeve: Jackson St. Regrade.Photographer's Reference Number: 9036
ID Number:1983.10.8131
Date:Circa 1908
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Adelphia College, Seattle, circa 1912
Adelphia College was built in 1905 in the Interlaken area of north Capitol Hill. It was administered by the Swedish Baptist Church. In 1919 the campus was acquired by Seattle College (which later became Seattle University), and in 1930 this site became Seattle Preparatory School. Handwritten on sleeve: School?Photographer's Reference Number: 9278
ID Number:1983.10.8175
Date:Circa 1912