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Image of Woman using Peoples Bank home banking program, September 20, 1984
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Woman using Peoples Bank home banking program, September 20, 1984

In 1984 sixty customers of Peoples Bank began a one-year trial of the bank's experimental new home-banking system. For a $7.50 monthly fee and a charge for each transaction, the customers could pay bills, transfer funds, check account balances, and even play a few video games on a home banking system available 24 hours a day, using their home computers.…
ID Number:2000.107.165.14.02
Date:1984
Image of Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934
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Peoples Bank and Trust Company building, Seattle, March 24, 1934

This image shows the opening of the new building of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company, which took over the building from the defunct Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. Built in the early 1920s at 300 Pike Street in downtown Seattle, the building was later demolished and the site has been occupied since 1985 by the Century Square Office…
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.01
Date:1934
Image of Prudential Mutual Savings Bank after robbery, Seattle, November 24, 1954
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Prudential Mutual Savings Bank after robbery, Seattle, November 24, 1954

In this image taken outside of the Prudential Mutual Savings Bank at Third Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Seattle, spectators gather after a robber escaped from the bank with $2,500. Signs in image: Fern Hotel; Texan Hotel; Tavern; Toy's Cafe, Good Food; Ewing and Clark Real Estate ServiceCaption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, November 24, 1954, page 2
ID Number:2000.107.165.15.02
Date:1954
Image of Seattle City Light rate protest outside SeaFirst building, January 9, 1979
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Seattle City Light rate protest outside SeaFirst building, January 9, 1979

In this image taken outside the Seattle First National Bank building in downtown Seattle, demonstrators gathered to protest a new building code allowing commercial and industrial firms to pay less as they use larger amounts of electricity. By contrast, residential users paid more as they used more under Seattle City Light's rate structures. Jim Wurzer, left, dressed as SeaFirst Bank…
ID Number:2000.107.165.16.01
Date:1979
Image of SeaFirst self-serve banking desk, Seattle, August 5, 1993
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SeaFirst self-serve banking desk, Seattle, August 5, 1993

In August 1993, Seattle's SeaFirst Bank opened its first self-service Banker-on-Call center at its Westlake Park branch. It included a video conferencing system that allowed customers to talk directly with a banker about loans, credit cards, new accounts, and other bank services.Here, SeaFirst vice president and branch manager Jeri Lee Jump (standing) and personal banker Reid Warner test the Banker-on-Call…
ID Number:2000.107.165.17.01
Date:1993
Image of SeaFirst motor branch, Seattle, August 29, 1953
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SeaFirst motor branch, Seattle, August 29, 1953

In 1953, Seattle First National Bank opened their first Motor Branch, a facility providing drive-in access as well as two walk-up teller windows. The branch, seen here, was built in downtown Seattle at Third Avenue and Columbia Street. Signs in image: Dexter Horton Building, Seattle-First National Bank Main Office; Hoge Building, The Canadian Bank of CommerceCaption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.165.17.02
Date:1953
Image of Seattle National Bank building, Seattle, June 17, 1920
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Seattle National Bank building, Seattle, June 17, 1920

Seattle experienced a period of downtown commercial expansion from 1902 to 1920 due to local economic prosperity after the Klondike Gold Rush and in tandem with explosive population growth and suburban neighborhood development. During this era, a concentration of banking enterprises and department stores were built along Second Avenue from Cherry Street to Pike Street.The Beaux Arts style building seen…
ID Number:2000.107.165.18.01
Date:1920
Image of Baby's first bank account, Seattle, January 13, 1955
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Baby's first bank account, Seattle, January 13, 1955

The first customer at the new University branch of Seattle Trust and Savings Bank was Gordon Leonard Swarson, Jr., seen here in the center of the frame. Gordon's mother opened savings account No. 1 for him, assisted by Thomas W. Owen, the bank's assistant manager. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of…
ID Number:2000.107.165.18.02
Date:1955
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Employees leaving Cudahy Food Company, Seattle, August 28, 1981

In this image Mike Powers waves farewell as he and his co-workers, Patty Powers (also his wife) and Ellen Wilson, leave after their last shift at the Cudahy Packing Company plant on Airport Way South. The Cudahy packing business employees were being replaced with non-union workers at lower rates of pay after the company was sold to management and renamed…
ID Number:2000.107.171.28.01
Date:1981
Image of Brokers inspecting pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, January 22, 1981
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Brokers inspecting pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, January 22, 1981

In this image, New York-based fur brokers Phillip Brenner, left, and Rolf Harf inspect pelts at the Seattle Fur Exchange, a celebrated fur auction house established in 1898 as a store where gold miners could barter wild Alaskan furs for supplies such as food, clothes, and tools. Still based in the Seattle area, the company was consolidated in the late…
ID Number:2000.107.173.04.01
Date:1981
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