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Image of Spokane Street terminal, Seattle, March 22, 1927
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Spokane Street terminal, Seattle, March 22, 1927

The creation of the Port of Seattle in 1911 transformed a messy jumble of privately-owned and competing waterfront companies into a publicly owned and organized entity capable of propelling Seattle into a major center for trade. In 1915 the Port constructed the Spokane Street Terminal at Pier 24 (now Terminal 30), on the Duwamish East Waterway, in what is now…
ID Number:2000.107.171.38.01
Date:1927
Image of Aerial view of Foreign Trade Zone, Seattle, September 21, 1949
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Aerial view of Foreign Trade Zone, Seattle, September 21, 1949

Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) are duty-free, quota-free, secured areas in a designated customs “port of entry,” considered outside U. S. Customs territory and exempt from customs tariffs. The FTZ program was established in 1934 to stimulate economic growth and development in the United States by lowering the cost of international trade.This image shows two ships docked at Seattle's FTZ: the French…
ID Number:2000.107.173.01.03
Date:1949
Image of Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931

Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:2000.107.176.33.01
Date:Circa 1931
Image of Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931
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Malmo Seed and Nursery Company, Seattle, circa 1931

Norwegian immigrant Charles Malmo (1862-1938) established the Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in Seattle in 1893. Malmo propagated nursery stock of ornamental shrubs, which previously had to be imported from Japan, Holland, and England. In the 1920s, Malmo sold seeds and nursery stock from a store at 6th Avenue and Stewart Street at Westlake, and at his Georgetown rhododendron fields…
ID Number:2000.107.176.33.02
Date:Circa 1931
Image of Employees working hamburger grill at Herfy's, Seattle, January 14, 1977
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Employees working hamburger grill at Herfy's, Seattle, January 14, 1977

Herfy's was a popular chain of burger drive-ins that populated the Puget Sound area from the mid-1950s and peaked in the mid-1970s. They were known for their "Herfy Burger," with secret sauce. Although the chain was sold in the 1980s, the name Herfy's lives on in a couple of independently owned Seattle-area locations, including one in Georgetown.In this image, a…
ID Number:2000.107.185.20.01
Date:1977
Image of Surfside 9 listing on Lake Union, Seattle, July 23, 1966
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Surfside 9 listing on Lake Union, Seattle, July 23, 1966

Seattle's floating restaurant Surfside 9 opened about 1960 on a converted ferry originally built in 1900 as the steamer City of Everett, a member of Puget Sound's Mosquito Fleet. Docked at the south end of Lake Union from about 1950, the restaurant was initially known as the Four Winds, famous as the headquarters of the Seafair Pirates. This image of…
ID Number:2000.107.185.26.03
Date:1966
Image of C. E. Talbert
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C. E. Talbert "held up" by Lake City Vigilantes, Seattle, July 3, 1956

In this image bus driver C. E. Talbert, who made the first Seattle Transit System run to Lake City, is hoisted up and jokingly "robbed" by the Lake City Vigilantes. The Vigilantes, founded in 1946 as the "Keystone Cops," was a group of civic and business leaders in Lake City who appeared at various community celebrations. Still around as of…
ID Number:2000.107.190.09.03
Date:1956
Image of Mark Tobey and Vera Belsky, Seattle, circa 1930
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Mark Tobey and Vera Belsky, Seattle, circa 1930

Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style. Tobey also taught free art classes for the Seattle Music and Art Foundation. Here, he examines the work of Vera Belsky, who…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.01
Date:1930
Image of Mark Tobey and Olaf Anderson painting a panel for the Mardi Gras ball, February 1928
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Mark Tobey and Olaf Anderson painting a panel for the Mardi Gras ball, February 1928

Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.The theme of Seattle's Fine Arts Society 1928 Mardi Gras Ball was the Year 2000 A.D. -- a mechanical age where angles would…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.02
Date:1928
Image of Edward Thomas, Mark Tobey, and Ethel Thomas, Seattle, August 7, 1963
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Edward Thomas, Mark Tobey, and Ethel Thomas, Seattle, August 7, 1963

Painter Mark Tobey (1890-1976) was one of the defining artists of the "Northwest School," an art movement which combined natural elements of the Puget Sound area with traditional Asian aesthetics to create a novel and distinct regional style.In this image Tobey, center, accompanied by Edward B. Thomas and his wife Ethel Morrison Thomas, enters the Seattle Art Museum for a…
ID Number:2000.107.212.23.03
Date:1963
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