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Mortensen Livery Barn in South Park, Seattle, circa 1907
South Park is located south of Seattle on the west bank of the Duwamish River. Once a separate city, it became part of Seattle in 1907, around the time this photo was taken. During this period, many of South Park’s residents were farmers who supplied produce to Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Mortensen’s Livery Stable, shown here, would have been a…
ID Number:2019.92.8
Date:1907
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B.F. Middleton home, South Park, Seattle, circa 1895
B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Middleton, an Iowa native, moved to California and then to the Seattle area after the 1889 Seattle Fire. He settled in South Park in the Duwamish Valley in 1893 and ran a large grocery business and general store at 8207 Dallas Avenue in South Park’s business district.The Middleton family built a wood frame house in South Park…
ID Number:2019.92.9
Date:1895
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Berg family in front of a house, Seattle, circa 1909
Engineer Norman Berg came to Seattle as assistant construction manager for the Seattle Electric Company’s new power station in Georgetown. He married Emma (alternate spelling Erma) T. Middleton in August 1906. In this image, Norman, Erma and Norma (also called Honey) Berg stand outside a house, probably in the South Park or Georgetown areas. Specific figures have not been named,…
ID Number:2019.92.10
Date:1909
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B.F. Middleton Groceries cart, Seattle, circa 1900
B.F. Middleton moved to Seattle after the 1889 Great Fire and settled in South Park in the Duwamish Valley in 1893. He ran a large grocery business and general store at 8207 Dallas Avenue in South Park’s business district. This image shows the store’s horse-drawn delivery wagon. Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times: November 11, 1956, p. 57.
ID Number:2019.92.11
Date:1900
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B.F. Middleton grocery in the snow, Seattle, February 1916
A huge blizzard hit Seattle on February 2, 1916, dropping over 21 inches of snow on top of some already there. This view, taken in South Park from behind shoveled snow, looks across Dallas Avenue at the B.F. Middleton general store across the street.
ID Number:2019.92.12
Date:1916
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Middleton family, Seattle, circa 1910
B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Middleton, an Iowa native, moved to California and then to the Seattle area after the 1889 Seattle Fire. He settled in South Park in the Duwamish Valley in 1893 and ran a large grocery business and general store at 8207 Dallas Avenue in South Park’s business district.In this image, Emma Middleton, Ben Middleton, Bill Middleton, and Edith…
ID Number:2019.92.13
Date:1910
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Al Young at NHRA Northwest division banquet, 1978
Alfred John (“Al”) Young (1946-2022) was a former World Champion drag racer, and the first Asian-American World Champion race car driver. Young campaigned his 1970 Dodge Challenger for over 25 years, won the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) World Championship, and several AHRA and National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) titles. For most of his racing career, Young was sponsored by…
ID Number:2020.13.7
Date:1978
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Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company employees, May 9, 1949
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was a subsidiary of AT&T that provided communications services to most of the US West. It was founded in San Francisco in 1906. The first AT&T subsidiary in Seattle had been the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, which began operating in 1883. Sunset quickly expanded and provided service throughout Washington, but AT&T decided to…
ID Number:2021.14.1
Date:1949
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Aerial view of the Puget Sound Area postcard, circa 1938
This image shows a C.T. (Curt Teich) Art-Colortone postcard which uses a colorized version of a Charles R. Laidlaw aerial photograph of the Puget Sound area, and labels points of interest and ferry routes. The ferry routes help date the postcard between 1935 and 1942. The Fletcher Bay to Brownsville ferry route (center at left) only operated between 1924 and…
ID Number:2021.71.1
Date:Circa 1938
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Seattle Mandolin Orchestra, circa 1915
Mandolin orchestras were popular in the United States in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The orchestras were composed primarily of musicians playing various instruments in the mandolin family. This photo of the Seattle Mandolin Orchestra shows musicians with mandolins, saxophones, and 5-string banjos, and a conductor seated in the front row.The man in the second row from bottom, third…
ID Number:2022.38.9
Date:Circa 1915