357 results for: Homes and Housing
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Horse-drawn wagon in front of store, probably in Seattle, circa 1915
This photo of an unnamed store or house with a horse and buggy in front is a copy negative and part of a collection from McBride and Anderson photographers. Born in 1863, Ella McBride began working in the photography field in 1909 when she managed the Edward Curtis Studio. She opened her own studio in 1917 with Wayne Albee. Albee…
ID Number:1974.5923.369.2
Date:Circa 1915
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Family on the porch of a mill house at Port Blakely, 1909
The Port Blakely Mill Company had a large lumber mill and company town on Bainbridge Island, across from Seattle. In the early 1880s, the company built a row of almost-identical clapboard cottages for its workers. An 1882 photo shows plain light-colored houses without covered porches or plantings. In photos taken around 1900, the houses have porches with gingerbread millwork. The…
ID Number:1977.6486.65
Date:1909
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Henry Ziegler home at Port Blakely, circa 1900
The Port Blakely Mill Company had a large lumber mill and company town on Bainbridge Island, across from Seattle. In the early 1880s, the company built a row of almost-identical clapboard cottages for its workers. An 1882 photo shows plain light-colored houses without covered porches or plantings. In photos taken around 1900, the houses have porches with gingerbread millwork. The…
ID Number:1977.6486.66
Date:1900
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Mill company house at Port Blakely with flowers on porch, circa 1900
Captain William Renton founded the Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. In the 1880s the mill became the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. In 1879 Hall Brothers Shipyard moved its operations to Port Blakely and during this period Renton built houses for the families of mill workers,…
ID Number:1977.6486.67
Date:Circa 1900
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Row of mill company houses in Port Blakely showing wooden tracks along road, circa 1900
Captain William Renton founded the Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. In the 1880s the mill became the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. In 1879 Hall Brothers Shipyard moved its operations to Port Blakely and during this period Renton built houses for the families of mill workers,…
ID Number:1977.6486.68
Date:Circa 1900
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New houses under construction, Franklin, circa 1915
Handwritten on image: 11712Typed on verso: New houses under construction at Franklin
ID Number:1978.6585.40
Date:Circa 1915
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Miners' cottages at Issaquah, circa 1915
Sometime around 1913, German Count Alvo von Alvensleben bought 2,000 or so acres at Issaquah and planned a modern coal mining operation. Unlike other local companies, his Issaquah & Superior Coal Mining Company welcomed miners' unions and offered decent pay and work hours to the miners. Unfortunately, World War I put an end to Alvensleben's plans by cutting off funding…
ID Number:1978.6585.53i
Date:Circa 1915
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John and Ernest Dulin with horses, circa 1914
John Dulin moved to Washington state from Kansas sometime around 1900. By 1905, he was operating a grocery and feed store in Arletta, Washington, near Gig Harbor. This photo, taken near Arletta sometime around 1914, shows John Dulin and his son Ernest with four horses.
ID Number:1978.6661.9
Date:Circa 1914
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Winona Bailey posing in car, Seattle, circa 1935
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.6
Date:Circa 1935
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Horace C. Henry residence, Seattle, circa 1908
Horace C. Henry had this mansion built at 1117 Harvard Avenue East in 1906. The architect made use of the popular English style construction with brick and half timbers. A large formal garden surrounded the residence. Caption on image: PlummerHandwritten on verso: Horace C. Henry home
ID Number:1979.6741.1
Date:Circa 1908