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Monorail and Space Needle, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
The Space Needle and monorail have both become Seattle icons. Both opened to the public in March 1962, before the opening of Century 21, the Seattle World's Fair.
ID Number:1994.40.1
Date:1962
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Birds-eye view of Second Avenue looking north, Seattle, 1909
Taken in 1909 during the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition, this photo of Second Avenue shows a downtown street busy with trolleys, horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. The Welcome Arch for the AYPE is visible in the distance, at Second Avenue and Marion Street.Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912.…
ID Number:1995.38.37.272
Date:1909
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Birds-eye view of Third Avenue looking north, Seattle, 1909
Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, an other subjects in California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado. Caption on image: 3rd Ave…
ID Number:1995.38.37.274
Date:1909
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Birds-eye view of Yesler Way looking west, Seattle, 1909
Otto D. Goetze (b. 1871) was an American photographer who owned the Alaska Photo Studio in Seattle from 1909 to 1912. He also photographed the Alaska Gold Rush from 1891 to 1908, the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909, an other subjects in California, Utah, Texas, and Colorado. Caption on image: Yesler Way…
ID Number:1995.38.37.275
Date:1909
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Engine of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.1
Date:1914
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Men sitting in an Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.2
Date:1914
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Chassis of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.3
Date:1914
Document
Pacific Car & Foundry brochure for a motorized dump car, ca. 1926
Pacific Car & Foundry produced heavy-duty logging and railway equipment. The motorized, earth-moving dump car featured in the brochure pictured here, operated on rails and was manufactured in Portland, Oregon in 1926. Pacific Car & Foundry continues in operation as PACCAR.
ID Number:1996.55.8
Date:Circa 1926
Cartographic material
Traffic Code Map, Seattle, circa 1923
This double-sided traffic map is "compliments of the Department of Streets & Sewers, W. D. Barkhuff, Superintendent." William D. Barkhuff was the Superintendent of Streets and Sewers from 1922 to 1928. This map was probably for visitors to the city, outlining where cars could park and "stand," along with rules for drivers in the city and major thoroughfares throughout the…
ID Number:1997.30.30
Date:Circa 1923
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New sign at SeaTac airport, October 1983
In September 1983, shortly after the death of longtime US Senator for Washington Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the Port of Seattle commission decided to rename Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (or SeaTac for short) to Henry M. Jackson International Airport in his honor. Tacoma officials objected that the name change both insulted their city and violated the deal made when the airport first…
ID Number:2000.107.005.05.01
Date:1983