650 results for: Lake Washington
Photograph
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
Photograph
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
Photograph
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
Photograph
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
Photograph
Crowd watching swimmer jump into Lake Washington at "Ramps to Nowhere," Seattle, June 1, 1975
In the 1960s the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) began construction of the R.H. Thomson Expressway, a 15-mile freeway from the Duwamish River in Seattle to Bothell. Several freeway ramps were built on the western shore of Lake Washington, intended to connect Highway 520 to the R. H. Thomson Expressway. The plan would have cut through wide swaths through…
ID Number:2000.107.223.22.01
Date:1975
Photograph
Microsoft campus, March 10, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington, in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology.In 1986, Microsoft moved its headquarters from…
ID Number:2000.107.19910310.1.04
Date:1991
Photograph
Ridler Brothers band performing onstage, February 1993
In the early 1990s, while local grunge bands were achieving mainstream popularity, the genre of country music was expanding in the local music scene. Jeff and Steve Ridler, brothers from Snohomish, Washington, formed their country-rock band, the Ridler Brothers, in the mid-1980s. Inspired by the success of Billy Ray Cyrus’ 1992 hit song and corresponding line dance, “Achy, Breaky Heart,”…
ID Number:2000.107.19930204.11.34
Date:1993
Photograph
Ridler Brothers band performing onstage, February 4, 1993
In the early 1990s, while local grunge bands were achieving mainstream popularity, the genre of country music was expanding in the local music scene. Jeff and Steve Ridler, brothers from Snohomish, Washington, formed their country-rock band, the Ridler Brothers, in the mid-1980s. Inspired by the success of Billy Ray Cyrus’ 1992 hit song and corresponding line dance, “Achy, Breaky Heart,”…
ID Number:2000.107.19930204.12.20
Date:1993
Photograph
Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, Renton, March 9, 1993
The Barbee Mill Co. started around 1930 as a small lumber mill and then a combined lumber mill/shipyard operation. Barbee Marine Yards, Inc., operated in in the May Creek section of Renton from 1943-1945, thereafter it closed and the lumber mill expanded. First located at the south end of Lake Washington, Barbee Mill Co. moved in the 1940s to its…
ID Number:2000.107.19930309.2.03
Date:1993
Photograph
Employee working in Barbee Mill Co. log pond, Renton, March 9, 1993
The Barbee Mill Co. started around 1930 as a small lumber mill and then a combined lumber mill/shipyard operation. Barbee Marine Yards, Inc., operated in the May Creek section of Renton from 1943-1945, thereafter it closed and the lumber mill expanded. First located at the south end of Lake Washington, Barbee Mill Co. moved in the 1940s to its new…
ID Number:2000.107.19930309.2.22
Date:1993