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Birds-eye view of Second Avenue looking north, Seattle, 1909
Taken in 1909 during the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition, this photo of Second Avenue shows a downtown street busy with trolleys, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The Welcome Arch for the AYPE is visible in the distance, at Second Avenue and Marion Street.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912.…
ID Number:1995.38.37.272
Date:1909
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Birds-eye view of Third Avenue looking north, Seattle, 1909
Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, an other subjects in California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado. Caption on image: 3rd Ave…
ID Number:1995.38.37.274
Date:1909
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Birds-eye view of Yesler Way looking west, Seattle, 1909
Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, an other subjects in California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado. Caption on image: Yesler Way…
ID Number:1995.38.37.275
Date:1909
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Pro-choice supporters outside the Crisis Pregency Center, Seattle, January 22, 1988
In this image, pro-choice supporters express their views in front of the Crisis Pregency Center at 3229 NE 125th Street in Lake City. The demonstrators accused the clinic of scaring women away from having abortions. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.16.08
Date:1988
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Lincoln First Federal Bank, Seattle, September 19, 1954
This image of the recently completed Lincoln First Federal Savings and Loan Association (previously Northern Federal Savings & Loan Association) building highlights the busy downtown Seattle intersection of Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The Metropolitan Business College, shown here above the bank, occupied that space from 1941 through 1978. The building's Forecaster sign (unsurprisingly) proclaims the day to be "cloudy."…
ID Number:2000.107.165.12.01
Date:1954
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Prudential Mutual Savings Bank after robbery, Seattle, November 24, 1954
In this image taken outside of the Prudential Mutual Savings Bank at Third Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Seattle, spectators gather after a robber escaped from the bank with $2,500. Signs in image: Fern Hotel; Texan Hotel; Tavern; Toy's Cafe, Good Food; Ewing and Clark Real Estate ServiceCaption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, November 24, 1954, page 2
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.02
Date:1954
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Seattle National Bank building, Seattle, June 17, 1920
Seattle experienced a period of downtown commercial expansion from 1902 to 1920 due to local economic prosperity after the Klondike Gold Rush and in tandem with explosive population growth and suburban neighborhood development. During this era, a concentration of banking enterprises and department stores were built along Second Avenue from Cherry Street to Pike Street.The Beaux Arts style building seen…
ID Number:2000.107.165.18.01
Date:1920
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The Donut House, Seattle, October 17, 1981
The Donut House, on the southeast corner of First Avenue and Pike Street, was a popular hangout for runaways and street people. In 1979, a youth was stabbed to death in the doorway. Yet, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the young people who hung out at The Donut House thought of themselves as a family, and the shop as a…
ID Number:2000.107.172.01.01
Date:1981
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The Donut House, Seattle, October 17, 1981
The Donut House, on the southeast corner of First Avenue and Pike Street, was a popular hangout for runaways and street people. In 1979, a youth was stabbed to death in the doorway. Yet, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the young people who hung out at The Donut House thought of themselves as a family, and the shop as a…
ID Number:2000.107.172.01.02
Date:1981
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Abandoned Fremont railroad station, Seattle, July 28, 1948
This derelict railroad station in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood is located just east of the George Washington Memorial Bridge (commonly called the Aurora Bridge), which is visible in the background of this image. The small depot building was remodeled and is still standing at the foot of Stone Way North as of 2017. The station was probably part of the Seattle,…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.01
Date:1948