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Dr. David S. Maynard, circa 1870
Dr. David S. "Doc" Maynard arrived in Seattle in 1852. His original plans to salt salmon for the San Francisco market failed, but he set up Seattle's first store, selling medicine and general merchandise in his salting works on First Avenue and Main Street. It was Doc Maynard who proposed naming the new city Seattle after Chief Si'ahl (Chief Seattle)…
ID Number:SHS15461
Date:Circa 1870
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James and Ethel Stout with their delivery wagon in front of Stout Grocery, Seattle, circa 1913
James Albert Stout (1877-1962) moved to Seattle with his wife Henrietta Ethel Wilson (1876-1958) in 1910 from Michigan. They settled on Phinney Ridge in 1912 and bought a grocery store at 359 West 75th Street and later a garage and service station at 7208 Greenwood Avenue North.This image shows Ethel and James standing with their horse and delivery wagon in…
ID Number:SHS15724
Date:Circa 1913
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Red Cross ambulance drivers and ambulances, circa 1917
The United States entered World War I in April 1917. A number of American women drove ambulances and other vehicles for the American Red Cross during the war. In this photo, some of Seattle's Red Cross drivers line up with their ambulances on Western Avenue. The women wear the uniform of the Red Cross Motor Corps. The sign outside the…
ID Number:SHS15757
Date:1900
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Choir at Bikur Cholim Synagogue, Seattle, 1916
Typed on sleeve: Male choir in Seattle synagogue, 1916. Cantor: Sol Tovbin. Director: Boris Dolgoff. Top row, left: Abraham Steinberg. 2nd row, left: Aleck Hoffman, Sidney Resnick. 2nd row, far right: Louis Woron. 3rd row, right: William Warshall. Bottom row, 3rd from left: Abe Resnick. 4th from left: David Hoffman. Far right: Adolph Warshall.Additional names given in Cone/Droker/Williams "Family of…
ID Number:SHS15795
Date:1916
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Spelger & Hurlbut Hardware delivery wagon, Seattle, circa 1900
Spelger & Hurlbut was a hardware firm run by business partners Frank P. Spelger (1864-1942) and Frederick Ward Hurlbut (1863-1936). The two men first formed their partnership in Louisville, Kentucky, and brought their business to Seattle in 1890, opening their first store at Fifth Avenue and Pike Street. In 1930 the partners retired and sold their firm to Ernst Hardware…
ID Number:SHS15944
Date:Circa 1900
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Seattle's first motor-driven sightseeing bus, Seattle, 1907
In 1907, Seattle residents and visitors could climb on the city's first motor-driven sightseeing bus. The vehicle carried passengers to The Meadows racetrack and other destinations. The bus was also used to show visitors the sights at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE).
ID Number:SHS16180
Date:1907
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Football team sitting on steps at South School, circa 1896
Until the 1910s and 1920s, the curriculum of Seattle's public primary and high schools didn't include athletic programs. School athletic activities were sponsored by a group of private citizens. The low importance given to sports may explain why the South School football players in this early photograph are wearing so many different kinds of clothing. This photo shows South School's…
ID Number:SHS16508
Date:Circa 1896
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Coxey's Army in Seattle, 1894
The 1893 nationwide depression threw many Americans out of work. In 1894, the Commonweal of Christ, made up of groups of unemployed people from all over the country, marched to Washington D.C. They wanted the government to create jobs and reform the money system. People called these groups Coxey's Army, after Jacob Coxey, the movement's leader. Congress did not pass…
ID Number:SHS16535
Date:1894
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John Henry Smith, Seattle, circa 1921
Typed on verso: Smith, John Henry, active in I.W.W., 1913-25. Born in England, he immigrated to Canada shortly after the turn of the century, coming to Seattle about 1910. A hod carrier by trade, he became active in I.W.W. circles about 1913. He married Helen L. Livingston in 1913. They had two daughters, Helen (1914) and Edna (1916). Smith died…
ID Number:SHS16652
Date:Circa 1921
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Lucas in tent, 1898
Seattleite Asahel Curtis left for the Klondike in 1897 and stayed two years, taking photos for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1898, Curtis took this photo of a man named Lucas resting outside his tent. Inside the tent, two pots heat on top of a small woodstove; the chimney of the stove passes up through the roof of the tent. The…
ID Number:SHS16668
Date:1898