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Henry and Minnie Yesler home, 3rd and James, Seattle, circa 1895
In 1884 lumberman and Seattle's first millionaire, Henry L. Yesler (1810-1892), and his wife, Sarah Burgert Yesler (1822-1887) built their mansion on the block between Third and Fourth Avenues at James Street. Sarah died shortly after they moved in, and Yesler married a young cousin, Minnie Gagle Yesler (born c. 1867), who lived in the house after his death until…
ID Number:SHS267
Date:Circa 1895
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Child near mining equipment, Nome, August 30, 1906
Whole families traveled to the Yukon and Alaskan gold fields. Some couples met there and raised families. Many children worked with their parents on mining claims. It was a rough environment for children. Temperatures in Nome during the winter of 1899-1900 ranged from -35 to +35 degrees Fahrenheit with strong chilly winds.This photo of a child in Nome was taken…
ID Number:SHS565
Date:1906
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Van Asselt family, circa 1885
Henry Van Asselt was born in Holland in 1817. In 1851, he and several others settled in the Duwamish River valley, where Boeing now stands. Van Asselt's land claim is slightly older than that of the Denny Party, making him one of the Seattle area's earliest white settlers. Van Asselt was a successful farmer and furniture maker. In 1862, he…
ID Number:SHS971
Date:Circa 1885
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Infant asleep in a sling, Alaska, circa 1905
In this image, an infant wearing a cap covered with buttons sleeps in a birchbark sling rigged with a rocking mechanism. The style of the cap appears Tlingit, but the infant's moccasins and the sling are probably of Alaskan Athabaskan origin. Around the beginning of the 20th century, white photographers used photographs of Indigenous babies on commercial products, and this…
ID Number:SHS1765
Date:Circa 1905
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Indigenous women and infant on porch, circa 1900
Mabel Elizabeth “Lizzie May” (Denny) Thompson (1875-1968) was the daughter of Orion Orville Denny (1853-1916) and Elva Flowers (Coulter) Denny Richmond (1858-1919). Mrs. Thompson was an active participant in Seattle society; she was a founding member of the Seattle Historical Society (now MOHAI), and a member of the Daughters of the Pioneers, the Mayflower Society, and the Daughters of the…
ID Number:SHS1898
Date:Circa 1900
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Seattle Children's Home exterior, circa 1915
The Ladies' Relief Society, Seattle's oldest charity, was begun in April 1884 to aid orphaned children. With the donation of two lots from David Denny (1832-1903) and Louisa (Boren) Denny (1827-1916), the society opened their first location, a house at Fourth Avenue and Harrison Street. On April 13, 1905, the society opened a new, larger building on Queen Anne Hill…
ID Number:SHS3763
Date:Circa 1915
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Front porch of the James W. Clemmer home on Capitol Hill, Seattle, circa 1909
James Clemmer and his wife moved to Seattle from Spokane in 1907 and took on the management of his family’s Kenneth Hotel. He soon converted the first floor into the Dream Theater, one of Seattle’s first movie houses. Over the years, Clemmer managed many other Seattle theaters. In 1909, the Clemmers built a Mission Revival home at 2612 Harvard Avenue…
ID Number:SHS5603
Date:Circa 1909
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Boy and dog in snow on 3rd Avenue, Seattle, 1897
The winter of 1896-1897 was particularly harsh in Seattle; a November record was set in 1896 with an accumulation of 20.5 inches of snow. Here, a young boy and his dog pose on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Marion Street. The boy looking on from the right edge of the frame (who seems to have just been in…
ID Number:SHS6350
Date:1897
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Cobblestone cottage, West Seattle, circa 1940
This pebble-covered home still stands at 1123 Harbor Avenue SW. It is one of several cobblestone cottages built in West Seattle, and possibly dates from the 1920s.
ID Number:SHS7141
Date:Circa 1940
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Vincent and Josephine Amato and their daughters, 1910
A wave of immigrants from southern Europe came to the United States between the 1880s and 1914. Vincent Amato was part of this group. He was born in Sicily in 1875, came to the United States in 1890, and ran a barbershop in Seattle from 1900 to 1949. Mr. Amato died in 1952.In this 1910 family portrait, Vincent Amato, his…
ID Number:SHS8017
Date:1910