86 results for: Wilse, Anders B.
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Building 50 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, circa 1898
Building 50 was built in 1896 and initially served as the Administrative Headquarters for the Puget Sound Naval Station (now the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility). The building is still standing today and has been moved a total of three times throughout its life. It is now owned by the City of Bremerton and is the building…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.43
Date:Circa 1898
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City Hall, Seattle, circa 1898
In 1882, the government of King County occupied a wood frame courthouse at Third Avenue, between Jefferson Street and Yesler Way in downtown Seattle. In 1890, the county offices moved up the hill to a new courthouse near the present site of Harborview Hospital and sold the old building to the city of Seattle. It was used as a city…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.48
Date:Circa 1898
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Two Makah basketmakers at Neah Bay, 1900
The Makah people of the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula refer to themselves as Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, which translates roughly to "the people who live by the rocks and seagulls." The early Makah were skilled mariners, using several types of canoes which they carved from western red cedar for various purposes - war, whaling, fishing, sealing, carrying cargo, and long voyages.…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.52
Date:1900
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Nellie Stimson's basket collection, Seattle, circa 1900
At the turn of 19th to 20th centuries, Indigenous artists in the Pacific Northwest were making baskets and carvings specifically for the tourist trade and were experimenting with form and design. In Nellie (Mrs. Fred) Stimson's Seattle home, baskets from the Pacific Northwest as well as from the Great Basin and Southwest were displayed in abundance. Caption information source: "Northwest…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.60
Date:Circa 1900
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Chapin Building, Seattle, circa 1900
Signs in image: [M.?] Rosenthal & Co. Printing. New York Ladies Suit & Skirt Manufacturers. Horton & Monro Electricians - Motors & Dynamos - Gasoline, Gas Lamps - Gas & Electric Light Supplies - Home Light & Supply Co. Manufactures Piano Co. - Pianos at Wholesale. Chicago [Misfit?] Parlors - Clothing Made to Order at Wholesale Prices.Caption on image: Seattle…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.72
Date:Circa 1900
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Fire Station No. 3, Seattle, circa 1898
Caption on image: Wilse.Photographer's Reference Number: 593C
ID Number:Lib1988.33.86
Date:Circa 1898
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Black River, near Renton, circa 1898
The Black River, at the south end of Lake Washington, was once the lake's main drainage channel. It was also the main route for commerce between the lakeside towns and Seattle on Elliott Bay. In the 1910s, the building of the Lake Washington Ship Canal changed the drainage pattern of the lake, and the Black River slowly disappeared. The old…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.92
Date:Circa 1898
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Anders Wilse and camera in Lake Washington, circa 1900
Norwegian Anders Wilse arrived in Seattle in the spring of 1890. Photography was an important part of his various jobs as civil engineer, cartographer, and property tax assessor. In 1897, however, he decided to become a full time outdoor photographer. Until his return to Norway in 1900, Wilse took many photographs in and around Seattle, documenting the both the area's…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.97
Date:Circa 1900
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Campers at Lake Washington, 1900
Some of the parks on Seattle's Lake Washington provided platforms for tent camping. City dwellers could escape to the woods and spend the warm summer days and nights by the lakeshore.This photo, taken by Anders Wilse for the Seattle Photo Company, shows a shady campsite by the shores of Lake Washington. A canoe and several other small boats are hauled…
ID Number:Lib1988.33.100
Date:1900
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Entrance to Woodland Park, Seattle, circa 1898
Guy Phinney developed Woodland Park during the 1890s. The park had gardens, a zoo, a large greenhouse, and many miles of winding paths through the woods. At that time, Woodland Park included Green Lake. Caption on image: Woodland Park Seattle. Wilse, SeattlePhotographer's Reference Number: 950
ID Number:Lib1988.33.105
Date:Circa 1898