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Office personnel at Pacific Coast Cement Company, Seattle, May 19, 1955
The Pacific Coast Cement Company was located on a 20-acre site along the East Duwamish waterway near Charleston Street from 1928-1947. The plant was designed to be easily accessible by highway, railroad, and ship along a private 460-foot wharf. At its peak, the Pacific Coast Cement Company was capable of producing 3,400 barrels of cement a day. Cement is mixed…
ID Number:2016.92.42
Date:1955
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Exterior of Cinema 150, Seattle, 1970
This image was taken of United Artists Cinema 150 shortly after its opening on October 3, 1969 in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood at Sixth Avenue and Blanchard Street. This movie theater was the first in the Northwest to be equipped with the Dimension 150 (or D-150) wide screen process, had a 70-foot curved screen, and featured 850 rocking chair loge seats.…
ID Number:2017.4.1
Date:1970
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View of old South Park Bridge, Seattle, 2008
The 14th Avenue South Bridge, later renamed the South Park Bridge, connected Seattle with the nearby South Park neighborhood. Spanning the Duwamish River, it was a double-leaf bascule bridge, meaning that the two halves of the road deck opened from the middle. The bridge, shown here, opened in 1931, and by 2009 carried some 20,000 vehicles per day. It was…
ID Number:2017.14.1
Date:2008
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Supports beneath Alaskan Way viaduct near South Washington Street, Seattle, August 2009
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.14
Date:2009
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View of the Alaskan Way viaduct and ramps at First Avenue South, Seattle, October 2009
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.19
Date:2009
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View underneath the Alaskan Way viaduct at South Main Street and Alaskan Way, Seattle, May 2010
The Alaskan Way Viaduct was an elevated highway in Seattle which was completed in 1966 after 16 years of construction and decades of planning. The double-decked highway ran along the Elliott Bay waterfront above the surface street, Alaskan Way, following previously existing railroad lines. The viaduct provided Seattle with its first bypass route around the downtown business district. The viaduct…
ID Number:2017.14.24
Date:2010
Ephemera
Yesler Wood, Coal, & Lumber Co. stock certificate, 1890
This stock certificate for the Yesler Wood, Coal, & Lumber Company was issued on March 20, 1890, to J. D. Lowman for ten shares valued at $1000. Prominent Seattle business and civic leader James D. Lowman (1856-1947) was also secretary of the company founded by his uncle, Seattle pioneer Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892). Yesler's Wharf, located at the foot of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.21
Date:1890
Document
Seattle Theatre Company stock certificate, 1893
This stock certificate for the Seattle Theatre Company was issued on December 20, 1893, to J. D. Lowman for 12.5 shares, valued at $1250. The company, of which Mr. Lowman was also president, owned the Seattle Theatre, located on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. A prominent Seattle business and civic leader, James D. Lowman (1856-1947) also…
ID Number:2018.3.3.23
Date:1893
Postcard
Seattle Ad Club postcard, 1912
The Seattle Advertising and Sales Club, or Seattle Ad Club, was started in 1909 and continues as of 2018 as the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Seattle. The club was founded by local business men in part to investigate and prevent fraudulent advertising schemes.This postcard advertises the club's monthly luncheon, to be held March 18, 1912, at the Rathskeller. This particular…
ID Number:2018.3.3.41
Date:1912
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American House business card, circa 1877
John Harte McGraw (1850-1910) moved to Seattle from Maine in 1876 and got a job as a clerk in the Occidental Hotel. According to his obituary, he became an owner of American House boarding house in 1877, though the hotel was destroyed in a fire in 1878. That year he joined Seattle's tiny police force and began a successful career…
ID Number:2018.3.3.57
Date:Circa 1877