3503 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Aerial view of Bethlehem Pacific Steel plant, Seattle, 1954
In 1903, William Pigott (1860-1929) formed Seattle Steel Company (later Pacific Coast Steel Co., then Bethlehem Steel Co., now Nucor Steel) on 55 acres of the Duwamish River estuary tide flats in Humphrey (later Youngstown, now the North Delridge neighborhood of Seattle). Operations began on May 4, 1905, and the Seattle Sunday Times proclaimed the plant "Seattle's Little Pittsburgh."In this image…
ID Number:SHS11316
Date:1954
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Rainier School exterior, Seattle, circa 1891
Seattle's Rainier School opened as the Jackson Street School, built by the realty firm Eshelman, Lewellyn & Company to stimulate growth in the Rainier Heights neighborhood. Seattle's population was growing quickly at the time, and although the school opened with just 20 students, its enrollment grew to 192 just four years later. In 1891 a new school building opened across…
ID Number:SHS11347
Date:Circa 1891
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First paying passengers of Boeing Commercial Air Service posing at Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first customers was taken on the dock at Lake Union, with the seaplane behind. Third from the left is pilot…
ID Number:SHS11352A
Date:1919
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First paying passenger of Boeing Commercial Air Service in plane on Lake Union, Seattle, May 2, 1919
The first paying passengers of the Boeing Airplane Company were charged $15 for a 15-20 minute sightseeing tour over the city of Seattle, taking off in one of the Boeing factory's seaplanes from their Lake Union hangar.This image of the first one of the first commercial flights was taken on Lake Union. It is not clear if this image is…
ID Number:SHS11352B
Date:1919
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Port Blakely planing mill in snow, January 1880
In January 1880, five feet of snow fell in the Seattle area. At Port Blakely, on Bainbridge Island, the lumber mill opened late each day so that workmen could clear the snow off the roofs in town. The weather was so cold that the snow stayed on the ground for several weeks.This photo shows the planing mill and waterfront at…
ID Number:SHS11500
Date:1880
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PT&T operators working at Garfield Exchange, Seattle, 1951
Telephone service in Seattle began with 90 customers in 1883. One of Seattle's original service providers, Sunset Telephone-Telegraph Company (later Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, then AT&T) built a new exchange building in 1921 to help handle what was by then 83,347 customers, making half-a-million local telephone calls every day. The Garfield Exchange was built on Queen Anne Hill at…
ID Number:SHS11511
Date:1951
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Men pulling B & W into Boeing Seaplane Hangar on Lake Union, Seattle, 1916
William Boeing started his airplane company in this hangar he had built on the shore of Lake Union in December 1915. The B & W seaplane, named after its designers, Boeing and Conrad Westervelt, was the first airplane produced at the small factory. The seaplane, constructed of Washington State spruce lumber, steel wire, and linen fabric, made its first successful…
ID Number:SHS11540
Date:1916
City bus, Seattle, December 15, 1940
Caption on image: Seattle Transit System, Coach 919, No. 1, 12-15-40. Typed on verso: Modern Seattle trolley coach 1952 [sic].SHS category: Transportation
ID Number:SHS11558
Date:1952
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SS Pacific, SS San Salvador, and bark Harriet Hunt docked at Yesler's Wharf, Seattle, 1875
Seattle Pioneer Henry Leiter Yesler (1810-1892) built a wharf in 1854 at the foot of Mill Street (now Yesler Way). A makeshift affair at first that would eventually extend nearly 1,000 feet into Elliott Bay, it was built next to the steam sawmill he built two years prior. This pier was the center of local maritime commerce until it was…
ID Number:SHS11765
Date:1875
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Inventor Edmund Augustine Smith, Seattle, circa 1905
In 1903, Seattle inventor Edmund A. Smith (1870-1909) developed a machine that gutted and cleaned salmon for canning 50 to 75% faster than human workers. Most Northwest cannery workers were Chinese immigrants, and Smith, with "unselfconscious racism" (in the words of historian Carlos Schwantes), called his invention the "Iron Chink." The use of a racial slur in the machine's name…
ID Number:SHS12053
Date:Circa 1905