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Boeing Model 40-B4 plane body, November 13, 1929
The Model 40B-4, which first flew October 5, 1928, was the major production model of Boeing's mail plane series. The plane had space for four passengers and 500 pounds of mail. Caption on image: Body uncovered - left. Model 40-B4Embossed with Boeing logoBoeing Off. Photo (with Boeing logo)Photographer's Reference Number: 2686-BCaption information source: www.boeing.com
ID Number:1953.345.122
Date:1929
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Boeing Model 80-A nose engine at Boeing plant, Seattle, November 21, 1929
The Boeing Model 80-A was a larger version of the Model 80 commercial transport airplane. The 80A made its first flight on September 12, 1929, and could carry 18 people. Caption on photo: Nose Engine left side 80-AEmbossed with Boeing logo. Stamped on verso with Boeing logo and "Off. Boeing Photo"Photographer's number: 2697
ID Number:1953.345.133
Date:1929
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Ski installation on Boeing Model 40-B4 plane at Boeing plant, November 23, 1929
This close up photo highlights the installation of a ski on a plane, so it can land on water. Embossed with Boeing logo. Stamped on verso with Boeing logo and "Off. Boeing Photo"Photographer's number: 2722-B
ID Number:1953.345.140
Date:1929
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Entrance door and lavatory on the Boeing Model 80-A plane at Boeing plant, Seattle, November 29, 1929
The Boeing Model 80-A was a larger version of the Model 80 commercial transport airplane. The 80A made its first flight on September 12, 1929, and could carry 18 people. The photo gives a view of the plane's lavatory through the open entrance door. Embossed with Boeing logo. Stamped on verso with Boeing logo and "Off. Boeing Photo"Photographer's number: 2755
ID Number:1953.345.147
Date:1929
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Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, September 30, 1940
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company was established in Seattle in 1889, as a branch of the San Francisco Bridge Company. By the 1940s, the firm had developed into a large dredging and construction company on its own, with projects up and down the west coast. The company built air bases and ships for World War II.This photo, taken in…
ID Number:1955.970.500.1.1
Date:1940
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Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, July 8, 1943
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company was established in Seattle in 1889, as a branch of the San Francisco Bridge Company. By the 1940s, the firm had developed into a large dredging and construction company on its own, with projects up and down the west coast. The company built air bases and ships for World War II.This photo, taken in…
ID Number:1955.970.500.1.2
Date:1943
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Discharge centrifugal pump built by Moran Brothers Co. for U.S. Naval Drydock, 1895
In 1882, Robert Moran and his brothers started a marine repair business at Seattle's Yesler's Wharf. By 1895, the company was large enough to do work for the U.S. Navy. In 1891, the Navy had opened a station, with drydock, in Bremerton, across Puget Sound from Seattle.Here, three men stand near a 42-inch centrifugal pump that the Moran firm built…
ID Number:1961.2439.1
Date:1895
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$1,000,000 Silver Dollar Display at the Seattle World's Fair leaflet, 1962
One million silver dollars stacked would reach 8,800 feet into the sky! This leaflet describes the immense efforts of the Treasury Department, the Behlen Manufacturing Company, Northwest Historical Medals, Inc. (formed by Walla Walla numismatists Barnard Tomlinson, Vernon Bosley, and Lawrence McBride, who were given the exclusive contract to design and distribute the nine official souvenir medallions for the World's…
ID Number:1965.3689.9
Date:1962
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Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co., circa 1917
Lumber was one of the Puget Sound's main exports in the 1890s. In 1899, 200,000 board feet of milled lumber left Seattle every day by rail or ship for the eastern United States and various Pacific ports. Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company began operations in 1917. The company, starting with some houses and a mill store, built a small community atop…
ID Number:1966.3827.2
Date:Circa 1917
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Eddie Bauer jacket patent, February 20, 1940
In 1920, avid outdoorsperson and local son Eddie Bauer (1899-1986) opened a sporting goods store called Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop in downtown Seattle. Initially specializing in tennis rackets, hand-made golf clubs, and fishing tackle, a brush with hypothermia led Mr. Bauer to develop alternatives to the heavy wool outer garments that most outdoor enthusiasts used at the time. He began…
ID Number:1967.4134.9.1
Date:1940