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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees working with sheets of lead at the Seattle plant. Caption information source:…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.6
Date:Circa 1950
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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.8
Date:Circa 1950
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Employees working in lead manufacturing plant, Seattle circa 1950
Beginning about 1917, the Northwest Lead Company operated at 1744 Fourth Avenue South in Seattle. The plant manufactured lead products for the plumbing trade, mainly from lead produced by the Bunker Hill Mining Company of Kellogg, Idaho, which had acquired the plant in 1920. This image shows employees at work at the Seattle plant. Caption information source: The Seattle Sunday…
ID Number:Lib1995.5.9
Date:Circa 1950
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Launching of boat Warden Johnston at McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington, May 1945
During World War II, the McNeil Island prisoners built a number of boats for military and civilian use. The 65-foot passenger boat Warden Johnston was launched on McNeil Island in May 1945. The vessel was designed by L.H. Coolidge, a Seattle naval architect. The officials supervising construction were Henri Andersen, V.E. Smith and Evert Soldin. Prisoners were paid 15 cents…
ID Number:Lib1996.11.15
Date:1945
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Sitka, Alaska, June 1897
Some of the shipping companies which carried gold seekers to Skagway and Dyea had already been carrying visitors to Sitka and other southeastern Alaskan ports. Sitka was settled by Russians in 1802 and was the center of their American fur trade. The city overlooks a sheltered harbor on the west shore of Baranof Island, nearly 1,000 miles northwest of Seattle.This…
ID Number:SHS29
Date:1897
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Collier Brothers Saloon, Seattle, circa 1900
The Collier family immigrated from Belgium in about 1885, and moved to Seattle about 1890, living at 3103 First Street, above what would become the Collier Brothers Saloon. The family included father Francis and mother Rosalie (Wyberg) Collier, sons Louis and Constance (Con), and daughters Romanie (Collier) Van der Mark and Stephania. Brothers Louis and Con ran the saloon (pictured…
ID Number:SHS44
Date:Circa 1900
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Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle), 1864
Chief Si'ahl, known to settlers as Chief Seattle, became the leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples sometime around 1810. When settlers started moving to the Elliott Bay area in the 1850s, Chief Si'ahl stayed friendly to the newcomers and urged his people to do the same. The city of Seattle was named for him.This 1864 portrait of Chief Si'ahl…
ID Number:SHS67
Date:1864
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James Murray Colman, Seattle, circa 1885
Born in Scotland in 1832, James Murray Colman came to the United States and began working in the lumber industry. In 1872 he moved to Seattle, where he operated Henry Yesler's mill. He built the Colman Building on First Avenue and the Colman Dock on Seattle's waterfront. He also founded the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad, which was eventually bought…
ID Number:SHS88
Date:Circa 1885
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Louisa Boren Denny and Rolland Denny Lamping, Seattle, circa 1910
Louisa Boren Denny (1827-1916) and her sister Mary Ann Boren Denny (1822-1910) married brothers David Thomas Denny (1832-1903) and Arthur Armstrong Denny (1822-1899), respectively. All four were members of the Seattle pioneers known as the Denny Party, 24 white people who settled in Seattle in 1851.In this image, Louisa poses with her great-great-grandnephew, Rolland Denny Lamping (1907-1980), the great-grandson of…
ID Number:SHS95
Date:Circa 1910
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Elizabeth M. Ordway, circa 1865
A shortage of women in Seattle in the 1860s inspired Asa Mercer to travel to the east coast to find women who might want to resettle in the new city. Elizabeth M. Ordway, nicknamed Lizzie, was a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. She arrived in Seattle in 1864, along with ten other so-called "Mercer Girls." Miss Ordway had a long career…
ID Number:SHS126
Date:Circa 1865