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Automobiles crossing the Cascades through Stevens Pass, July 12,1925
After the Snoqualmie Pass road was built through the Cascade Mountains, a second trans-mountain road was built at Stevens Pass. Some 1,200 people in 283 cars drove up to Stevens Pass for the official dedication on July 11, 1925. Photographers from the Webster & Stevens firm, in the official Seattle Times press car, took photos the following day.This photo shows…
ID Number:1983.10.2935.2
Date:1925
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Traffic tower at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street, 1925
Between 1922 and 1937, the number of automobiles on Seattle's streets more than tripled. In 1925, the city had a traffic tower at the busy area where Fourth Avenue, Pike Street, and Westlake Avenue met. It would have been hard for drivers to see one another as they neared the intersection. A policeman in the tower could see the vehicles…
ID Number:1983.10.2952.1
Date:1925
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Radio station KFOA at Rhodes department store, 1923
Seattle's early radio stations were operated by individuals, churches, newspapers, and stores. Radio station KFOA was operated by Rhodes department store. Shoppers could visit the second floor of the store and watch radio broadcasting in action. KFOA was the first station in Seattle to become part of a network, the National Broadcasting Company.This photo, taken in 1923, shows performers at…
ID Number:1983.10.2984
Date:1923
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Young woman listening to a radio on the yacht "Muriel," circa 1923
This fashionably dressed young woman gazes out over what is probably Seattle's Portage Bay as she listens to a radio. Radios were still quite new in the 1920s. They had two parts: a receiver which picked up the signal, and a large, trumpet-shaped speaker which made the signal loud enough to hear. The receiver was large because it operated with…
ID Number:1983.10.2985.2
Date:Circa 1923
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Woman listening to a radio in her living room, circa 1926
In the early 1920s, radios were tricky machines that only an expert could operate. By 1926, they were much easier to use and came in a variety of models, some of which looked like furniture. In this photo, taken around 1926, a young Seattle woman listens to a radio in her living room. On Sundays, she could hear services from…
ID Number:1983.10.2987
Date:Circa 1926
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University National Bank, Seattle, circa 1925
The University State Bank moved to this building on the northeast corner of N.E. 45th St. and University Way N.E. in 1913. Its successor banks have occupied the site ever since. Handwritten on sleeve: University BankPhotographer's Reference Number: 112838
ID Number:1983.10.2988.1
Date:Circa 1925
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Finishing machinery at Kirkland woolen mill, circa 1921
Edward Eyanson organized Washington state's first woolen mill at Kirkland in 1892. George Matzen, the owner of the Seattle Skirt & Suit Manufacturing Company later bought the mill, and the business flourished supplying goods during the gold rush days of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Business boomed again during World War I, but the mill burned in 1924. After…
ID Number:1983.10.2990.3
Date:Circa 1921
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Man panning for gold at Blewett Pass, Washington, circa 1919
Around 1860, gold was discovered on Ingalls Creek, near Blewett Pass in Washington's Wenatchee Mountains. This started a gold rush to the area. Over the next fifty years, Blewett district mines produced about $1.7 million of gold. Even years later, people continued to try their luck in the area.This photo shows a man panning for gold in a stream near…
ID Number:1983.10.2992.7
Date:Circa 1919
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Golfers on course at Olympic Golf and Country Club, circa 1925
The Olympic Golf and Country Club was located at NW 90th Street and 19th NW north of Ballard at what is today Olympic Manor housing development. In 1950, part of the property was sold to a real estate developer and part taken over by the federal government for a defense installation. This land later became the site of Whitman Middle…
ID Number:1983.10.3011.1
Date:Circa 1925
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St. John's Parochial School convent, Seattle, circa 1926
In 1923, five Catholic Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary moved to Seattle from Dubuque, Iowa, to begin teaching at the new St. John's School. The B.V.M. Sisters were very active in the life of the Greenwood parish. In addition to teaching school and Sunday school, they led choirs and clubs, served on the parish council, and were…
ID Number:1983.10.3013.2
Date:Circa 1926