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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
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Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) with painting of Snoqualmie Falls, Seattle, 1890
Kikisoblu was the eldest daughter of Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle). During her long life, she saw the coming of white settlers, the exile of her Duwamish and Suquamish people from their traditional lands, and the growth of the new city named for her father. She didn't move to the Port Madison Reservation with the rest of her people, but stayed…
ID Number:SHS10127
Date:1890
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Harry Whitney Treat on horse, Seattle, circa 1920
Seattle businessman Harry Whitney Treat (1865-1922) and his family arrived in Seattle around 1904. Active in real estate, he bought hundreds of acres in Ballard, where he developed the Loyal Heights area and Golden Gardens Park, originally called Loyal Beach. Both were named for his younger daughter Loyal Graef (Treat) Nichols. The Treats owned a mansion on Queen Anne Hill,…
ID Number:SHS10234
Date:Circa 1920
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Charles Terry residence, Seattle, circa 1865
Charles C. Terry, one of the original Alki settlers, acquired a considerable amount of land in the heart of downtown Seattle. Shortly after 1857, Terry erected a home at the northeast corner of James Street and Third Avenue, later the site of the Public Safety Building. In 1864 Terry became the Treasurer for the Territorial University fund and along with…
ID Number:SHS10237
Date:Circa 1965
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Stan Sayres with his hydroplane crew, Seattle, circa 1952
Stanley St. Claire Sayres (1896-1956) was a hydroplane racer who broke the world water speed record with his "Slo-mo-shun IV" boat. In the early 1930s, after moving to Seattle, Sayres owned the American Automobile Company, a Chrysler car dealership at 1001 Broadway in Seattle, an auto parts store in the University District, and the Jen-Cel-Lite Corporation, a manufacturer of cold…
ID Number:SHS10362
Date:Circa 1952
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Baseball game at Fort Lawton parade grounds, Seattle, circa 1906
In the first years of the 20th century, baseball was growing in popularity around Seattle. In addition to the city's first professional team, the Seattle Indians, amateur teams popped up across the region, playing at whatever field was available - local parks, the Meadows racetrack, or even the Fort Lawton parade grounds. Teams were organized by neighborhoods, smaller cities around…
ID Number:SHS10366
Date:Circa 1906
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Three delivery men with Rainier beer truck, 1905
Sometime around 1905, the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company began delivering its Rainier Beer by truck instead of horse-drawn wagon. In this photo, taken in downtown Seattle around 1905, three delivery men pose by the Rainier Beer delivery truck. The men wear leather aprons to protect their clothing. The top of the truck is piled with wooden crates for carrying…
ID Number:SHS10559
Date:1905