200 results for: European American Settlement
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Whitman statue, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
This statute, commemorating Oregon Country missionary Marcus Whitman, in inscribed on its base: "Marcus Whitman, Missionary, Patriot, Pioneer" and "Killed by Indians near site of Walla Walla, Wash, November 29, 1847." The Education Building is visible to the left. Embossed on mount: Harwood
ID Number:1974.5868.14
Date:1909
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Township No 24 North Range No 4 East, 1864
This hand drawn map shows early land ownership for King County Township No 24 North Range No. 4 East, providing names and property boundaries of original purchasers and claimants. These boundaries encompass what is now known as Rainier Beach neighborhood at the Southernmost point, up to the Yesler Terrace neighborhood at the North. It also includes the original of the…
ID Number:1976.6389A.1
Date:1864
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Township No 25 North Range No 3 East and Township No 25 North Range No 4 East, 1864
This hand drawn map shows early land ownership for King County Township No 25 North Range No. 4 East and Range No. 3 East, providing names and property boundaries of original purchasers and claimants. These boundaries encompass what is now known as the First Hill neighborhood at the Southernmost point, up to North 85th, just above the present-day Green Lake…
ID Number:1976.6389A.2
Date:1864
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Portrait of John and Carrie Denny, Portland, circa 1887
John Bunyan Denny (1862-1913) was the eldest son of early Seattle settlers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827-1916). John attended Willamette University law school in Portland, and in 1887 married Carrie V. Palmer (1853-1891), daughter of Rocelia A. Palmer and Alfred Lee Palmer (1835-1914), a prominent Seattle lawyer and real estate investor. Carrie was born in Iowa…
ID Number:1980.6891.14
Date:Circa 1887
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Pettit's Historical Map of Seattle, 1913
This historical map was compiled by Benjamin W. Pettit (1867-1944), a banker who arrived in Seattle from Illinois in 1889 and continued in banking until his retirement from First National Bank in 1941. An amateur photographer and historian, Pettit collected slides and gave presentations on the changes he saw in Seattle since his arrival.This map documents sites and land claims…
ID Number:1980.6923.8
Date:1913
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Columbia St. from Yesler's wharf, Seattle, circa 1875
Predating the settlement that became the city of Seattle, the Duwamish had a winter village of approximately 8 longhouses situated along the central waterfront, roughly at the intersection of present-day First Avenue South and Yesler Way. Henry Yesler established his steam-powered sawmill at the foot of Mill Road (now Yesler Way) in October 1852, and by around the 1860s, the…
ID Number:1980.6923.106
Date:Circa 1875
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Gatzert and Schwabacher families, Seattle, circa 1882
This photograph shows the Gatzert and Schwabacher families circa 1890. Brothers Louis (1837-1900), Abraham (1838-1909), and Sigmund (1841-1917) Schwabacher were Bavarian-born Jewish merchants who owned several businesses bearing their family name, first in San Francisco, then in Walla Walla, Washington, and later in Seattle and other cities across the west. Their sister Babette married German immigrant Bailey Gatzert (1829-1893) in…
ID Number:1980.7166.1.1
Date:Circa 1882
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Bailey Gatzert's summer home, Seattle, circa 1892
This image shows Bailey and Barbette Gatzert's summer home on the east side of Lake Washington. The Gatzert's named it Lucerne after the Swiss lake they admired. Barbetta Gatzert moved there after Bailey's death in 1893. Stamped on verso: John P. Soule, 328 Broadway, Seattle, Wash.
ID Number:1980.7166.1.5
Date:Circa 1892
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Four members of the Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Seattle, April 21, 1920
On November 27, 1911, the "Native Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Prior to 1870" was organized in Seattle by sixty white, non-Indigenous, women from all over the Pacific Northwest to honor their settler heritage. The organization still exists as of 2018, now called Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, and promotes historic preservation and education.In this image four women…
ID Number:1983.10.2102.1
Date:1920
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Seattle's first church, circa 1885
In 1855, a group of Methodists dedicated Seattle's first church. It was a plain white building, commonly known as the "White Church." The Methodist Episcopal congregation grew quickly over the next few years. They sold the church in 1887 and built a larger one several blocks away.In this photo, the White Church stands behind its picket fence at Second Avenue…
ID Number:1983.10.6031
Date:Circa 1885