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Pine Street entrance stairway to Public Market, Seattle, circa 1930
Seattle's Public Market or Pike Place Market opened in 1907 on the edge of a steep hill and over the years has grown to incorporate several lower levels. This view of the entrance stairway from Western Avenue features the stairway leading to the upper levels of the market. The sign at the upper right corner of the frame is for…
ID Number:SHS12149
Date:Circa 1930
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Cherry Street Parking Garage, formerly the Grand Opera House, Seattle, 1972
The interior of Seattle’s Grand Opera House on Cherry Street burned in January 1917. The building stood vacant for six years, and was then repurposed into one of the city’s earliest parking garages. Construction began in March 1923. When the new garage opened the following August, at a cost of $60,000, the multi-story garage had a capacity of 350 cars…
ID Number:SHS12368
Date:1972
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Waterfront of Port Blakely, Washington, circa 1885
Captain William Renton recognized that Blakely Harbor, on Bainbridge Island, was an ideal site for a sawmill. In 1863, he founded the town of Port Blakely. By 1882, the Port Blakely Mill Company was one of the three largest lumber producers in Puget Sound. This photo, probably taken in the 1880s, shows lumber ships and floating logs at the Port…
ID Number:SHS12507
Date:Circa 1885
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Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel employees, Seattle, March 4, 1930
John Duthie opened a small shipyard in Seattle around 1900. By 1930, Duthie & Company had changed its focus and renamed itself Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel Company. The Wallace plant fabricated structural steel for a number of bridges in Washington state, including Seattle’s Montlake Bridge (1925), the Lewis & Clark Bridge over the Columbia River (1929), and the Deception…
ID Number:SHS12521
Date:1930
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Bayview Brewery with horsedrawn wagon of beer, circa 1900
The Seattle Brewing & Malting Company was founded in 1878 and built its large new Bayview Brewery on Ninth Avenue South in 1890. When Washington state's prohibition laws closed down alcohol production in 1916, this was the state's largest brewery, and the sixth largest in the world. Rainier Beer was the firm's premium brand.This photo, taken around 1900, shows a…
ID Number:SHS12871
Date:Circa 1900
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition fairgrounds, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds were located on the campus of the University of Washington. Several of the buildings and the landscaping survive, continuing to shape the layout of the campus.This view from a ferris wheel overlooks the Entrance Gate at East 40th Street…
ID Number:SHS12902
Date:1909
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Boeing Airplane Company Plant 1, June 8, 1917
The Boeing Airplane Company got its first big military order when its "C" model seaplane was accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Navy during World War I. The company opened a new plant on the west side of the Duwamish River, south of Seattle, to handle all this new business. This photo, taken in June 1917, shows the new…
ID Number:SHS12999
Date:1917
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Two women on bicycles, August 24, 1898
Before the 1890s, bicycle design and long skirts kept most women from joining men in the new craze for cycling. It wasn't considered proper for a women to wear short skirts or show her legs. By 1895, a number of Seattle women were taking cycling classes and wearing baggy pants called bloomers as they cycled along the city's growing network…
ID Number:SHS13467
Date:1898
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Workers making metal work for Smith Tower, circa 1912
Gaggin & Gaggin, an architectural firm in Syracuse, New York, designed Seattle's Smith Tower. Construction began in 1910, and the 42-story building opened in 1914. At that time, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.This photo, taken in 1912 or 1913 shows workmen, including one teenager, making the iron and brasswork used in the the Smith Tower's…
ID Number:SHS15303
Date:Circa 1912
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View of Dawson, Yukon Territory, circa 1898
Dawson, Yukon Territory, was wilderness in 1896. By 1898, so many Klondike stampeders had come to the area that Dawson was the largest city in Canada west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. At over 40,000 inhabitants, the crowded city was only slightly smaller than Seattle.This photo, taken around 1898, shows a general view of Dawson and its waterfronts on the Yukon (left)…
ID Number:SHS15451
Date:Circa 1898