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Seattle Metropolitans hockey score card, December 5, 1916
In 1915, Seattle joined the professional men's ice hockey league in western Canada and the western United States with their new team, the Metropolitans. The Mets, as they were known, played their home games at the Seattle Ice Arena (site of the present-day Seattle Center), in a new, state-of-the-art facility built by the Canadian brothers Frank and Lester Patrick. The…
ID Number:2018.3.3.47
Date:1916
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Balke, Cole, & Co. account statement, August 28, 1890
According to the 1890 Polk Directory, Balke, Cole, & Co. was located at 1217 and 1219 Front Street (now First Avenue) in downtown Seattle. Proprietors Francis Cole, Rudolph L. Balke, and Walter James Coffman (1867-1898) sold mirrors, pictures, and art material. The receipt pictured here details sales made to John Leary totaling $24.35 (about $650 in 2018). Lawyer, businessman, and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.62
Date:1890
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New Washington Hotel brochure, circa 1925
In 1908, real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. As the city's premier hotel for several decades the New Washington Hotel welcomed many prominent guests over the years, including four U. S. Presidents…
ID Number:2018.3.3.71
Date:Circa 1925
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Reprint of "Puget Sound" from P-I, July 10, 1890
In June 1890, the First Assistant Postmaster General of the United States, James S. Clarkson (1842-1918) toured the Puget Sound region on behalf of the Postal Service. Appointed by President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), a Democrat, Mr. Clarkson, a Republican, served from 1891-1892 and immediately began firing Democratic fourth-class postmasters throughout the country. Mr. Clarkson was later chairman of the Republican…
ID Number:2018.3.3.72
Date:1890
Correspondence
Invitation to reception for President Harrison, May 1, 1891
Two years after U.S. President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) signed the Enabling Act of 1889 which allowed Washington to become a state, he and First Lady Caroline (Scott) Harrison made an official visit to the region. They arrived in Tacoma by train on May 6, 1891, then later that afternoon traveled by steamer to Seattle, where virtually the entire population of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.74
Date:1891
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Invitation to opening of Cable Railroad, September 29, 1888
In September 1888, Seattle's second street railway line was built by Pacific Cable Construction Company as a single-track cable car line, running in a loop from Pioneer Square to Leschi Park. This line, the Yesler Way line, effectively linked the steamers docking at Elliott Bay with the ferries crossing Lake Washington. When the line was built the residential and recreational…
ID Number:2018.3.3.75
Date:1888
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Jacobs, Trenholme & Co. business card, 1901
The business card pictured here is from Jacobs, Trenholme & Co., a local storage company that advertised in "The Seattle Times" at least from 1900-1902. The business was initially known as Morgan, Jacobs & Trenholme, but at some point it became solely associated with Charles H. Jacobs (1850-) and James Dickson Trenholme (1866-1919). An inscription on the back of the…
ID Number:2018.3.3.81
Date:1901
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Washington Hotel stationery, 1905
The Denny Hotel project was begun in Seattle in 1889 by a group of developers that included Seattle founding father Arthur Denny (1822-1899). Unfortunately, the Panic of 1893 halted the proceedings with interiors incomplete, and the building was unfinished until 1903 when developer James A. Moore (1861-1929) bought the building at about Second Avenue and Pine Street. Mr. Moore convinced…
ID Number:2018.3.3.93
Date:1905
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Millroy's Pathfinder to Alaska and the Klondyke Gold Fields, circa 1898
In 1897, in response to the Klondike Gold Rush, Canada passed a number of new laws addressing mining in the Klondike Region. These concerned the management of claims, mining by proxy, and other matters. A map publisher living in Seattle at the time, John James Millroy, Jr. (1862-1908), used government and private surveys to create "Millroy's Map of Alaska and…
ID Number:2018.3.3.112
Date:Circa 1898
Photograph
Fremont Baptist Church, Seattle, circa 1915
The Fremont Baptist Church was established in 1892 when a small group of local Baptists and the Rev. E.G. Wheeler began to meet in the chapel car "Evangel," provided by the American Baptist Publication Society and parked between the Fremont Fire Station and the small railroad depot at the corner of Fremont Avenue and Ewing Street (now N. 34th Street).…
ID Number:2018.48.12
Date:Circa 1915