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Man with display at the Frozen Fish Museum, Seattle, 1950
From 1926-1956 the Port of Seattle operated the Frozen Fish Museum on the Port’s Spokane Street wharf (now Terminal 30). Strange fish would be presented to the museum, where it could be viewed by the public. In this image taken at the museum, a man poses with a fish hanging from the ceiling. Caption information source: http://www.portseattle.org/About/History/Pages/1950-1959.aspxCaption information source: The…
ID Number:SHS6176
Date:1950
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"Uncle Hiram" posing at Luna Park, Seattle, June, 1907
In this image clown "Uncle Hiram" poses at Luna Park with a pig and two dogs in a "Studebaker Junior" wagon. Luna Park was an amusement park which operated from 1907-1913 on a pier at Duwamish Head, along the northern tip of West Seattle. Among the rides and amusements at the park were the Figure Eight Roller Coaster, a Merry-go-round,…
ID Number:SHS7805
Date:1907
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Performers from the "Streets of Cairo" in the Oriental Village pose on the Pay Streak at AYPE, Seattle, 1909
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in Seattle to publicize the development of the Pacific Northwest. The fairgrounds were designed by the Olmsted Brothers landscape Architecture firm and located on the campus of the University of Washington. The AYPE's amusement park and midway area was located along what is now 15th Avenue, and was called the Pay…
ID Number:SHS7956
Date:1909
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Sourdoughs posing on truck at reunion, Seattle, August 1935
The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. The events of the Klondike gold rush rapidly became embedded in North American culture, being captured in poems, stories, photographs, and promotional campaigns long after the end of the stampede. Some terminology from the…
ID Number:SHS10085
Date:1935
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Children in the Wallingford Kiddie Parade, Seattle, August 1, 1955
The Wallingford Kiddie Parade (now Wallingford Family Parade) was begun in 1949 and promoted as “All About Kids” by Seafair, Seattle's summer festival since 1950.In this image children in costume march west into the intersection of 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue, the neighborhood’s signature cross-roads. Signs in image: Wallingford Picture & Gift Shop; Archie's New 4 Chair Barber Shop; Daily…
ID Number:SHS15954
Date:1955