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22 results for: Pierson Photo Co.

Image of Butterfield Trunk Co. employees in work shop, Seattle, January 13, 1920
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Butterfield Trunk Co. employees in work shop, Seattle, January 13, 1920
Originally from Iowa, George Lester Butterfield (1882-1970) came to Seattle in 1910 and operated the Butterfield Trunk Company, a high-end luggage manufacturer, until its sale in 1968 to Skyway Luggage.In this image taken at the Butterfield work shop located at 87 Wall Street in Seattle, employees pose with various models of their hand-made trunks. A 1930 advertisement claimed that the…
ID Number:1990.74.4
Date:1920
Image of Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1917
Photograph

Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1917
Seattle’s main industrial area, which includes Harbor Island, was built on tidelands at the mouth of the Duwamish River using dirt from the 1907-1909 Jackson Street and other Beacon Hill regrades. In 1911, Fisher Flouring Mills built a large plant on Harbor Island. Shipbuilding and related industries followed. This panoramic photograph, taken from Admiral Way in West Seattle, looks east…
ID Number:2019.3.3
Date:1917
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