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Car stuck on muddy road, circa 1927
The Washington State Good Roads Association was founded in 1899 to push for tax money to improve the state's roads. In the 1920s, the group paid the Webster & Stevens company to take photos of very poor roads in the King County area. Handwritten on sleeve: Photos of cars stuck on muddy roads for Good Roads Assn.Webster & Stevens number:…
ID Number:1983.10.10814.1
Date:Circa 1927
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Car stuck on muddy road, circa 1927
Muddy and rutted roads made automobile travel challenging in the early 20th century, but the rugged and easy-to-operate Ford Model T did better than most. This photograph was made on behalf of the Washington Good Roads Association, which lobbied effectively for improved highways. Handwritten on sleeve: Photos of cars stuck on muddy roads for Good Roads Assn.Webster & Stevens number:…
ID Number:1983.10.10814.6
Date:Circa 1927
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Car stuck on a muddy road, circa 1924
The Washington State Good Roads Association was founded in 1899 to push for tax money to improve the state's roads. In the 1920s, the group paid the Webster & Stevens company to take photos of very poor roads in the King County area.This 1920s photo shows an automobile stuck in axle-deep frozen mud on a deeply rutted country road. Webster…
ID Number:1983.10.10814.24
Date:Circa 1924
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Buses at West Seattle ferry dock, circa 1920
Before 1900, people who lived in West Seattle traveled to Seattle by steamer or ferry. The first ferry on the West Seattle run across Elliott Bay was the "City of Seattle," which made the run in about eight minutes. A larger ferry, called the "West Seattle," joined it in 1907 and stayed on the route until 1920. Connecting roads and…
ID Number:1983.10.10816
Date:Circa 1920
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Traffic on Pike Street looking east from First, Seattle, 1920
Signs in image: Painless Proctor Dentist. Merrihew Studio - Photographic Portraits. Climb High, Save on the Buy - Boston Sample Shoe Shop Co. Inc. - $2.50 - Men's and Women's $4 to $6 Shoes - A Fit for Every Foot. Dentist. Dinham Rehlau Shoe Co. Colegrove's Specialty [...] Shop. Boston Market [Co...]. Hotel. [Alba...] Painless Dentist. Tailors. Hotel Waldorf. Dentist.…
ID Number:1983.10.10818.1
Date:1920
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Cable car on James Street, Seattle, July 14, 1930
Seattle's James Street cable car line opened in 1890. The fare was five cents, or $1.00 per month for students. After consolidation into the Union Trunk Line, it carried passengers and freight up the very steep slope of First Hill and on to Broadway and Madrona Park. Signs in image: Radio Telegraphy. Electric Shop. Jasper & McDonald Real Estate. Conner…
ID Number:1983.10.10834.1
Date:1930
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Wrecked streetcar No. 24, June 30, 1919
On June 30, 1919, the Taylor Avenue streetcar's air brakes failed on Queen Anne Hill. The motorman tried using the hand brakes, but couldn't stop the car. It jumped its track at the Aloha Street curve, and shot across the street. It then crashed through a pile of heavy lumber and finally stopped in a bank of earth near a…
ID Number:1983.10.10890.2
Date:1919
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Eddie Hubbard delivering air mail from Canada, circa 1920
In March 1919, airplane manufacturer William Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard carried a sack of mail from Vancouver to Seattle by seaplane. This demonstration flight was the first known international air mail trip, and it inspired regular mail flights between Seattle and Victoria, British Columbia.In this photo, taken around 1920, pilot Eddie Hubbard delivers a sack of mail after landing…
ID Number:1983.10.10901.2
Date:Circa 1920
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Eddie Hubbard's plane landing in Lake Union, Seattle, circa 1919
In March 1919, airplane manufacturer William Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard carried a sack of mail from Vancouver to Seattle in Boeing's private seaplane. This demonstration flight was the first known international air mail trip. It took the two men three hours each way, including stops. At the time, it took much longer for the mail to travel between the…
ID Number:1983.10.11080
Date:Circa 1919
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Trixie Friganza in sidecar of Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Seattle, 1917
Trixie Friganza (1870-1955) was an American actress working in vaudeville, theater, and film. When Friganza's work brought her to Seattle in 1917, H.D. Taintor of the Hirsch Cycle Company, a Harley-Davidson distributor, offered her a trip around Seattle in the sidecar of the new 1918 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Taintor had heard that Friganza once said that she would prefer to be…
ID Number:1983.10.12263
Date:1918