672 results for: Lake Washington
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Abandoned Fremont railroad station, Seattle, July 28, 1948
This derelict railroad station in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood is located just east of the George Washington Memorial Bridge (commonly called the Aurora Bridge), which is visible in the background of this image. The small depot building was remodeled and is still standing at the foot of Stone Way North as of 2017. The station was probably part of the Seattle,…
ID Number:2000.107.173.03.01
Date:1948
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Children playing at Green Lake Swimming Beach, Seattle, circa 1950
One of Seattle's most beloved parks, Green Lake's expanse of water and green space in the center of a dense urban neighborhood draws thousands of people daily from all over the city. The lake was included in the Olmsted Brothers' comprehensive parks plan of 1903, and was given to the City by the State of Washington in 1905. Extensive dredging…
ID Number:2000.107.173.11.01
Date:Circa 1950
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Marjorie Lothrop reading on houseboat docked on Lake Union, Seattle, July 16, 1952
The unique floating homes of Seattle got their start almost simultaneously with the development of the city itself. Seattle's first industries were logging and fishing, both seasonal enterprises, and it became common for loggers and sailors to build themselves floating shacks from scrap boards during their off seasons. As the trend spread, houseboats were built as permanent homes for families…
ID Number:2000.107.176.17.01
Date:1952
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Manager at door of Ivar's Indian Salmon House, Seattle, October 21, 1986
Ivar's Indian Salmon House is one of 31 fish bars and full service-restaurants founded by beloved Seattle showman and restaurateur Ivar Haglund (1905-1985). Mr. Haglund commissioned Seattle architect John W. Adams (1919-2002) to create the Salmon House's interior and exterior, loosely based on a Tlingit longhouse. The restaurant opened in 1969 on NE Northlake Way at the north end of…
ID Number:2000.107.185.21.04
Date:1986
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View of sanitary landfill on 43rd. Ave. S. looking south, Seattle, December 1942
This image shows a sanitary landfill on 43rd Ave S between Genesee St. and Lake Washington Boulevard. A sanitary landfill, or fill, was a type of garbage dump in which trash was deposited, spread out and compacted, then covered in several inches of dirt. The city had proposed to expand the fill eastward to 45th Ave S, but residents of…
ID Number:2000.107.188.33.01
Date:1942
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View of sanitary landfill on 43rd. Ave. S. looking west, Seattle, December 1942
This image shows a sanitary landfill on 43rd Ave S between Genesee St. and Lake Washington Boulevard. A sanitary landfill, or fill, was a type of garbage dump in which trash was deposited, spread out and compacted, then covered in several inches of dirt. The city had proposed to expand the fill eastward to 45th Ave S, but residents of…
ID Number:2000.107.188.33.02
Date:1942
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Children waiting to cross Lake Washington Blvd., Seattle, May 11, 1953
In this image three children hold hands as they wait for a car to pass before they cross Lake Washington Boulevard at 49th Avenue South. Parents, standing on the far side of the boulevard, met to protest the city's failure to put in a painted crosswalk at this spot, where three children were struck by a car on May 10,…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.04
Date:1953
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Ayame Tsutakawa at UW luncheon, Seattle, May 12, 1968
Artist George Tsutakawa (1910-1997) was born in Seattle and met his wife, Ayame Iwasa Tsutakawa (1924-2017) during World War II, when he was on furlough from serving in the U.S. Army and visiting his sister at the Tule Lake concentration camp in California. Tule Lake was one of ten large camps operated by the War Relocation Authority in which Japanese…
ID Number:2000.107.214.28.02
Date:1968
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Sand Point Naval Air Station entrance, Seattle, circa 1940
Under a variety of official designations, Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle that juts into Lake Washington, served for almost 50 years as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy. The development of the combat-ready naval air station on Whidbey Island made Sand Point superfluous as an air base, and in 1970…
ID Number:2000.107.217.35.01
Date:Circa 1940
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Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft at Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, February 14, 1951
Under a variety of official designations, Sand Point, a peninsula in north Seattle that juts into Lake Washington, served for almost 50 years as an air base, aviation training center, and aircraft repair depot for the U.S. Navy. The development of the combat-ready naval air station on Whidbey Island made Sand Point superfluous as an air base, and in 1970…
ID Number:2000.107.218.01.01
Date:1951