42 results for: Seward, Austin
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Assembly room in Franklin High School, Seattle, circa 1912
The Franklin School opened in 1906 as a grade 1-8 school, which also accommodated overflow 9th and 10th graders from Seattle High School. The school operated as Franklin High School from 1909 through 1912 until the construction of a new Neoclassical style building in the Mount Baker neighborhood, which continues to operate as Franklin High School today.Jos. Mayer and Bros.…
ID Number:1980.6877.5.106
Date:Circa 1912
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Financial district, 2nd Ave. and Columbia St., Seattle, 1925
This view of the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Columbia Street in downtown Seattle includes several buildings that remain standing. In the center of the frame The Seattle National Bank Building (now the United Way Building), built in 1921, stands at 720 Second Avenue. Moving south on Second Avenue, the 15-story Dexter Horton building is at 710 Second Avenue,…
ID Number:1980.6877.32
Date:1925
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Intersection of Fifth Avenue and Spring Street, Seattle, circa 1930
This Seattle city view from around 1930s documents Fifth Avenue and Spring Street. Businesses visible in photograph include: Hotel Hungerford, Spring Dye Works, Arctic Super Service, and the Spring Apartment HotelStamped on verso: Pierson Photo Co. Commercial Photographers 401 Bay Bldg. Main 0204 Seattle, Wash.Photographer's Reference Number: 1018x
ID Number:1980.6877.34
Date:Circa 1930
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Ranke House and Cabrini Hospital, Madison St., Seattle, circa 1925
This image features the three-story, Queen Anne Style Ranke House at the southeast corner of Madison Street and Terry Avenue on First Hill. First Hill was the residence of choice in the 1890s for elite Seattle residents who wanted to escape the fast pace of downtown. This mansion was built by German immigrants, contractor, and socialites Otto Ranke (1842-1892) and…
ID Number:1980.6877.48
Date:Circa 1925
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Bay Building on the corner of First Avenue and University Street, Seattle, circa 1925
Pierson Photo Co. was located in the Bay Building in the 1920s. Signs visible in image include: U.S. Army Goods Store, Aronson Hardware Co., Sullivan Electric Co., Griffin Envelope Co., O.K. Cabinet Works, and Teller's.Stamped on verso: Pierson Photo Co. Commercial Photographers 401 Bay Bldg. Main 0204 Seattle, Wash.
ID Number:1980.6877.55
Date:Circa 1925
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Hotel Alvord, 9th Ave. and Pike St., Seattle, circa 1925
The Alvord Hotel at 914 Pike Street, is seen here looking north across Ninth Avenue. The five-story hotel was completed in 1924 and operated initially by John Gerald, then from 1942 by Eddie Mainwaring, and from 1945 by L. Stark. In about 1960 this neighborhood was cleared for the construction of the Seattle Freeway and Interstate 5. The Alvord’s publicity…
ID Number:1980.6877.60
Date:Circa 1925
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Madison Street cable cars next to Lennon's store on Second Avenue, Seattle, circa 1910
This image shows people getting on the Madison Street cable car next to Lennon's Gloves and Umbrellas on Second Avenue. Signs on the store building read "Forced to vacate. $60000.00 worth of gloves, umbrellas and hosiery. Thrown to the mercy of the public." Lennon's store moved from the location shown here into the Baillargeon Building, on Second Avenue and Spring…
ID Number:1980.6877.73
Date:Circa 1910
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Two men with horse drawn delivery wagons outside of Kristoferson's Dairy, Seattle, circa 1914
Swedish immigrants Alfred and Alberta Kristoferson moved to Washington in the late 1800s to start a dairy. By the early 1900s, Son August Kristoferson soon took the reins of the dairy business after his father's death in 1914. Kristoferson's Dairy was originally located on Fifth Avenue South but soon moved to 1218 First Avenue South where it stayed until moving…
ID Number:1980.6877.75
Date:Circa 1914
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Lone Pine Bar and Odd Fellows Hall on dirt road, probably Bainbridge Island, circa 1905
This photo of the Line Pine Bar and Odd Fellows Hall was taken by Bainbridge Studios, and is assumed to be a street in Bainbridge Island, where the photography studio was located. Handwritten on image: ©BSBainbridge Studios was the name of Austin Seward's photography business on Bainbridge Island.
ID Number:1980.6877.76
Date:Circa 1905
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Van de Kamp's Bakery windmill-shaped building on Queen Anne hill, Seattle, circa 1930
Van de Kamp's was founded in 1915 by Theodore Van de Kamp and Lawrence L. Frank, beginning as a potato chip stand in downtown Los Angeles. The first retail bakery store opened in 1921, in a building designed in the shape of a windmill, complete with rotating arms. The Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery chain of bakeries and coffee…
ID Number:1980.6877.92
Date:Circa 1930