3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Mrs. Wickman's Pie soccer team playing game with unidentified team, Seattle, October 1940
Seven soccer football clubs signed on to participate in the 1940-1941 season of the Seattle Soccer League. Among the new contenders was a team called Mrs. Wickman's Pie. The Mrs. Wickman team had played in different leagues previously, and won the state cup in 1928. Here, the men of Mrs. Wickman's Pie play an unidentified team at Lower Woodland Park.…
ID Number:PI26967
Date:1940
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Children boarding Wallingford streetcar on its last run, Seattle, 1940
The Wallingford streetcar line connected downtown Seattle with the outlying areas of Wallingford and the University District. In May 1940, the streetcars stopped running and were replaced by buses. Signs in image: Spring Weather by the Ton - Ladysmith Wellington. Burn Carolyn Coal. Fur Storage at the Bon Marche.Handwritten on negative: Wallingford st car, last run.Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle -…
ID Number:PI27180
Date:1940
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University of Washington football players rolling snowball, Seattle, 1947
Handwritten on negative: Marshall Dallas, Bruce Rehn, Jim Foster, Harold Lloyd. Handwritten on sleeve: Dallas, Marshall (football). Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 5, 1947.
ID Number:PI27285
Date:1947
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Football action at the University of Washington, 1934
The University of Washington Huskies had a successful football season in 1934, finishing second in college football's Far West Division. This 1934 photo shows the team in action during a home game at Washington Field, now Husky Stadium. Written on original envelope: University of Washington football action 1934 season
ID Number:PI27314
Date:1934
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Aerial view of Alaskan Way Viaduct under construction from south, Seattle, 1957
Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct carried traffic over the waterfront area, linking the northern part of the city to the industrial area south of the central business district. The first unit of the elevated roadway, from Battery Street to Dearborn Street, was completed in 1953 and a southern extension in 1959. The Viaduct closed in January 2019 after being replaced by…
ID Number:PI27481
Date:1957
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Aerial view of the Central Area after snowstorm, November 22, 1946
This aerial view of the Seattle's Central Area was taken after two days of snow blanketed the city in late November 1946. The view looks west across the Central District, toward Elliiott Bay. At the time, most of Seattle's Black population was concentrated in the Central Area because of housing and job discrimination, and restrictive covenants that prohibited the rental…
ID Number:PI27592
Date:1948
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Aerial view of the Rainier Valley after snowstorm, November 22, 1946
This aerial view of the Seattle's Rainier Valley was taken after two days of snow blanketed the city in late November 1946. The view looks southeast towards Mount Rainier, with Rainier Avenue South running upward from the bottom of the frame. Sick's Stadium is visible to the left of Rainier Avenue, in the lower third of the photo.At the time…
ID Number:PI27593
Date:1946
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Intersection of Jackson Street at Fourteenth Avenue, Seattle, March 1936
A photographer from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer snapped this 1936 view of trolley car 805 at the intersection of Jackson Street and Fourteenth Avenue. Within the next four years, all of Seattle's streetcars and cable cars would be replaced by bus routes.
ID Number:PI27664
Date:1936
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Residential street in Wedgwood, September 8, 1949
Home building boomed in many areas of the United States after World War II. In the Seattle area, some 27,805 houses were built between August 1945 and September 1949. This September 1949 photo, taken as part of National Home Week, shows some of the new homes in Seattle's Wedgwood area. The view is to the north from East 82nd Street…
ID Number:PI27772
Date:1949
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Houses under construction in Bellevue, May 1946
At the end of World War II, the United States Congress passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, called the G.I. Bill of Rights. The G.I. Bill provided $13 billion to returning military personnel for medical treatment, education and vocational training, and other needs. The bill offered home buyers government-guarantied, low-interest loans on new homes, with no down payment. New…
ID Number:PI27850
Date:1946