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Kinnear residence, Seattle, circa 1900
George Kinnear arrived in Seattle in 1878 and became active in various civic activities. He promoted road construction through Snoqualmie Pass, organized an immigration board, and was treasurer of a local power and railway company. Around 1888, he moved into a large, new mansion the south slope of Queen Anne Hill. This photo shows the Kinnear home on Queen Anne…
ID Number:SHS9652
Date:Circa 1900
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Kinnear residence from rear, Seattle, circa 1900
George Kinnear arrived in Seattle in 1878 and became active in various civic activities. He promoted road construction through Snoqualmie Pass, organized an immigration board, and was treasurer of a local power and railway company. Around 1888, he moved into a large, new mansion the south slope of Queen Anne Hill. This photo shows the Kinnear home on Queen Anne…
ID Number:SHS9654
Date:Circa 1900
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Students reading law, 1909
Even after the opening of law schools in the late 19th century, it was possible to become a lawyer by studying and working with a practicing lawyer. This was known as "reading law." It wasn't until 1880 that the University of Washington offered a lecture series on legal issues. The University's School of Law opened in 1899.In this 1909 photo,…
ID Number:SHS9725
Date:1909
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Horse pack train in North Bend, 1906
North Bend, Washington, was named for a sharp curve in the Snoqualmie River, near where it flows over Snoqualmie Falls. The area was first homesteaded in 1865. By 1900, the hops and lumber industries had attracted more settlers. A trail led eastward across the Cascade Mountains through Snoqualmie Pass. The trail was used for pack horses and cattle drives but…
ID Number:SHS9756
Date:1906
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Brewers' Union picnic at River Park, 1894
Many Seattle-area labor unions held regular social and family events. On August 12, 1894, members of the Brewer's Union and their families gathered in River Park for their annual picnic. During the day, they assembled with their families for this group photograph. The photo was probably taken in King County, but the park's location has not yet been identified.
ID Number:SHS9785
Date:1894
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Bayview Brewery bottling room, 1902
The Seattle Brewing & Malting Company built its Bayview Brewery on Ninth Avenue South in 1890. The brewery's premium Rainier Beer and its other brews satisfied thirsts from the Alaska gold fields to California and across the Pacific to Asia.This photo, taken at Bayview Brewery in 1902, shows the what is probably the bottling room. Several brewery workers stand near…
ID Number:SHS9788
Date:1902
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Members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, circa 1904
The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 17, 1882, by a group of 26 business and community leaders, to devise a way to win a $12,000 annual mail route to Alaska over a competing San Francisco steamship company. The Chamber's first decade was dominated by the fight to obtain a railroad for Seattle. Chamber founders Thomas Burke,…
ID Number:SHS9796
Date:Circa 1904
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Ned Darling posing with dog sled team before departure for Seattle, Nome, Alaska, February 2, 1906
The world's record for the fastest time of a midwinter "mush" from Nome to Seattle via Valdez was set by Charles Edward "Ned" Darling (1871-1923) at 42 days, beating the previous record by four days. Born in Ireland, at the time of this image Ned was a hardware merchant in Nome, Alaska. He moved to Berkeley, California, before 1920 with…
ID Number:SHS9888
Date:1906
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Sourdoughs posing on truck at reunion, Seattle, August 1935
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. The events of the Klondike gold rush rapidly became embedded in North American culture, being captured in poems, stories, photographs, and promotional campaigns long after the end of the stampede. Some terminology from the…
ID Number:SHS10085
Date:1935
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North-facing panorama of Fremont, Seattle, circa 1894
Seattle's Fremont neighborhood started out as cluster of small industries on the north shore of Lake Union. This north-facing view of Fremont appears to have been taken from the eastern slope of Queen Anne Hill. The bridge at the bottom left of the frame is probably a spur of the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway, built in 1888 across…
ID Number:SHS10120
Date:Circa 1894