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YWCA camp on Bainbridge Island, 1905
Seattle's Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) was founded in 1894 by a group of women who wanted to help the city's working women. At that time, many young women came to Seattle in search of jobs, but ended up on the streets. The YWCA provided meals, classes, and a variety of clubs and activities, including camping on Bainbridge Island. The…
ID Number:1983.10.7397.2
Date:1905
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The intersection of Yesler and Jefferson Streets, circa 1906
Downtown Seattle grew quickly during the late 1890s. This photo, taken sometime after 1903, shows the congested area near Seattle's City Hall (large building in the center). Jefferson Street, to the left of City Hall, is being regraded. The street is partially blocked by a house which is being moved. Streetcars and buggies move along Yesler Street (lower left). The…
ID Number:1983.10.7451.2
Date:Circa 1906
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Arcade Building Annex on First Avenue, 1911
Seattle's downtown building boom continued in the 1900s. Between 1901 and 1907, two new office and retail buildings filled the entire city block between First and Second Avenues and University and Union Streets.This photo was taken on a sunny afternoon in 1911. The Queen Anne streetcar is heading north on First Avenue past the shops and offices in the new…
ID Number:1983.10.7468.1
Date:1911
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Crowd at President Taft speech, October 1911
President William Howard Taft visited Seattle in October 1911. In this photo, taken during this visit, a large crowd of people listens to the President's speech. The stage was set up in what is now City Hall Park. Photographer's number: 4596
ID Number:1983.10.7509.1
Date:1911
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Crowds and canoes at the waterfront in Leschi Park, circa 1911
Leschi Park, on the shore of Lake Washington, was a popular place for Seattle's city-dwellers to go for recreation. Many people caught a cable car at Pioneer Square and rode to the park along Yesler Way.In this photo, taken at Leschi Park around 1911, some people sit or stroll. Others relax in their rented canoes. The men and women may…
ID Number:1983.10.7531
Date:Circa 1911
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Women's waiting room at King Street Station, circa 1906
King Street Station opened for business in 1906. The building had a separate women's waiting room with comfortable furniture and flowers on the tables. In this elegant room, women could sit, write letters, or care for their children while they waited for their trains. A matron from the Seattle Police Department was there to help women who were new to…
ID Number:1983.10.7537.1
Date:Circa 1906
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Brighton Beach School, Seattle, circa 1910
Seattle's Brighton and Brighton Beach district is located near Lake Washington, south of Columbia City and the Mount Baker neighborhood. The area's first school, built around 1880, had only one room. By 1903, students and teachers occupied a two-story frame schoolhouse with eight classrooms. This photo shows the Brighton Beach School, probably in the 1910s. The area became part of…
ID Number:1983.10.7562
Date:Circa 1910
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Frederick & Nelson, circa 1910
Business at Seattle's Frederick & Nelson department store was so good in the late 1890s that the store needed more space. In 1897, the owners leased part of the Rialto Building, on Second Avenue at Madison Street. By 1906, the store had expanded to occupy the whole building. Here, the owners of this landmark department store installed one of the…
ID Number:1983.10.7604.1
Date:Circa 1910
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Upper Second Avenue, 1908
By 1908, Seattle's Second Avenue looked much as it does today. The city had removed part of Denny Hill, and businessmen had replaced the old hilltop Washington Hotel with a building at the lower street level. Visitors to the city admired the new ornamental streetlights which had begun to line the main business streets.In this 1908 photo, pedestrians cross Pine…
ID Number:1983.10.7648.2
Date:1908
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Class at Wilson's Modern Business College, circa 1910
Wilson's Modern Business College opened in Seattle in 1895. It was one of several schools in the city which prepared women and men for jobs in business. Daytime and evening classes included arithmetic, geography, and spelling, as well as bookkeeping, shorthand, and commercial law.In this photo, taken around 1910, a group of men and women sit in a shorthand or…
ID Number:1983.10.7650
Date:Circa 1910