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Image of Bayview Brewery bottling room, 1902
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Bayview Brewery bottling room, 1902

The Seattle Brewing & Malting Company built its Bayview Brewery on Ninth Avenue South in 1890. The brewery's premium Rainier Beer and its other brews satisfied thirsts from the Alaska gold fields to California and across the Pacific to Asia.This photo, taken at Bayview Brewery in 1902, shows the what is probably the bottling room. Several brewery workers stand near…
ID Number:SHS9788
Date:1902
Image of Aerial view of Bethlehem Pacific Steel plant, Seattle, 1954
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Aerial view of Bethlehem Pacific Steel plant, Seattle, 1954

In 1903, William Pigott (1860-1929) formed Seattle Steel Company (later Pacific Coast Steel Co., then Bethlehem Steel Co., now Nucor Steel) on 55 acres of the Duwamish River estuary tide flats in Humphrey (later Youngstown, now the North Delridge neighborhood of Seattle). Operations began on May 4, 1905, and the Seattle Sunday Times proclaimed the plant "Seattle's Little Pittsburgh."In this image…
ID Number:SHS11316
Date:1954
Image of Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel employees, Seattle, March 4, 1930
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Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel employees, Seattle, March 4, 1930

John Duthie opened a small shipyard in Seattle around 1900. By 1930, Duthie & Company had changed its focus and renamed itself Wallace Bridge & Structural Steel Company. The Wallace plant fabricated structural steel for a number of bridges in Washington state, including Seattle’s Montlake Bridge (1925), the Lewis & Clark Bridge over the Columbia River (1929), and the Deception…
ID Number:SHS12521
Date:1930
Image of Boeing Airplane Company Plant 1, June 8, 1917
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Boeing Airplane Company Plant 1, June 8, 1917

The Boeing Airplane Company got its first big military order when its "C" model seaplane was accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Navy during World War I. The company opened a new plant on the west side of the Duwamish River, south of Seattle, to handle all this new business. This photo, taken in June 1917, shows the new…
ID Number:SHS12999
Date:1917
Image of Boeing 747 assembly plant showing four 747s under construction, Everett, circa 1969
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Boeing 747 assembly plant showing four 747s under construction, Everett, circa 1969

Boeing's first Model 747 rolled out of the Everett assembly plant in September 1968. Some 50,000 Boeing employees in four different plants worked on the 747 project, building the world's largest civilian plane in only 16 months. Deliveries to the airlines began in 1969.This photo, probably taken sometime around 1969, shows four Boeing 747s being assembled at the Everett plant.…
ID Number:SHS13493
Date:Circa 1969
Image of Worker making saddle at Duncan & Sons, Seattle, December 23, 1918
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Worker making saddle at Duncan & Sons, Seattle, December 23, 1918

Duncan & Sons was a harness and saddle manufacturing business located at 212 Second Avenue South. Their familiar model horse stood above the entrance to the business for many years, only recently to disappear when the company closed. In this photo, a worker rivets coat straps to the body of a cavalry saddle. It is part of a series of…
ID Number:SHS19314
Date:1918
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