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Interurban station, Echo Lake, circa 1919
Echo Lake is located in Shoreline, just north of Seattle. The lake was a popular bathing beach starting in 1916, and this photo shows the Interurban station at the site. Sign on station: Echo LakeHandwritten on sleeve: Woodman Ave. Co., [Echo] Lake ParkWebster & Stevens number: 74530Caption information source: "Shoreline — Thumbnail History," by Alan J. Stein, HistoryLink.org Essay 958
ID Number:1983.10.1553.1
Date:Circa 1919
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Chalmers cars at the Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier National Park, circa 1918
In 1915, sixteen years after the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Service built a single lane road from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley. The Paradise Inn was built in 1916 and became a popular destination for automobile trips. A car could leave Seattle or Tacoma after breakfast and eat lunch at the Paradise Inn. Before the…
ID Number:1983.10.3065
Date:Circa 1918
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Lodge at Lake Lucerne, circa 1928
Lake Lucerne is located in Maple Valley, Washington. In the 1920s the lake added a lodge, part of increasingly popular lake resorts in Western Washington catering to automobile tourism. Handwritten on sleeve: Lake Lucerne Views.Photographer's Reference Number: 129277Caption information source: "When Coal Was King: 1934 Log Bridge between Pipe Lake & Lake Lucerne," by Bill Kombol, Voice of the Valley,…
ID Number:1983.10.4003.5
Date:Circa 1928
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Car near tractor with load of hay, 1921
By the 1920s, The Seattle Times ran regular articles describing trips that Seattleites could take in their cars. On a 1921 Seattle Times Auto Tour along the Green River, the photographer snapped this picture of the tour car next to a tractor hauling a huge load of hay. Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle Times Tour, Green River.Photographer's Reference Number: 83535
ID Number:1983.10.6496.7
Date:1921
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Snoqualmie Falls and lodge, 1920
By 1918, the railroad and the Sunset Highway brought tourists to Snoqualmie Falls. Some stayed at Snoqualmie Falls Lodge or stopped off to enjoy one of the lodge's famous breakfasts. Across the river from the lodge was the Puget Sound Power & Light Company's hydroelectric generating station, built in the 1890s. The electrical station is still there in the 2020s,…
ID Number:1983.10.6513.1
Date:1920
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Madrona Park Hotel, circa 1910
In the 1890s, private developers built Madrona Park on the shore of Lake Washington. Seattleites could catch the Madrona Park and Broadway streetcar on Capitol Hill and ride to the park. They could spend the day at the lake or stay longer at the park's hotel. This photo, taken around 1910, shows the Madrona Park Hotel with its boat dock.…
ID Number:1983.10.6690
Date:Circa 1910
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Steamer "Fortuna," circa 1906
The "Fortuna" was built for the Anderson Steamboat Company and the Seattle Street Railway in 1906. For many years, the vessel carried sightseers and travelers between various points on Lake Washington. The "Fortuna" was later rebuilt as a car ferry, and continued in service until the late 1920s.In this photo, the "Fortuna" steams across Lake Washington with a boatload of…
ID Number:1983.10.7560
Date:Circa 1906
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Stump House, circa 1905
The Stump House on the Lindstrom farm near Edgecomb, Washington was a great curiosity in the early 1900s. No one seems to know its original builder, but the house was widely photographed. It appeared on postcards and even souvenir china. Edgecomb was a logging area, between the Snohomish County towns of Marysville and Arlington.This photo, taken by Edmonds photographer Axtell,…
ID Number:1983.10.7565
Date:Circa 1905
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Automobile excursion on the paved Bothell Highway, circa 1911
The Bothell Highway ran north from Lake City along the northern shore of Lake Washington. It connected Seattle and nearby towns to Bothell. A drive to Bothell was a popular Sunday excursion for citydwellers. The road was first paved in 1911, but the new "waterproof non-skidding and low maintenance" surface turned to a sticky tar. The road was repaved in…
ID Number:1983.10.7724.1
Date:Circa 1911
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Canoeists at Madison Park, Seattle, circa 1910
Madison Park, at the end of the Madison Street cable car line, was one of Seattle's privately-developed "trolley parks." In addition to a ferry landing, it had a pavilion, a boathouse, picnic areas, piers, a promenade, and offshore bandstands with shoreline seating. Webster & Stevens number: 15290
ID Number:1983.10.8642
Date:Circa 1910