461 results for: Hotel Seattle
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C.C. Calkins' Hotel at East Seattle, circa 1890
Wisconsin-born C.C. Calkins arrived in Seattle in 1887 and bought a homestead at the north end of Mercer Island. By 1890, he had laid out the town of East Seattle and built an elegant resort hotel. The hotel flourished for a few years but closed during the national depression of 1893. After serving as a school, a sanatorium and a…
ID Number:SHS2823
Date:Circa 1890
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Militia lined up during anti-Chinese riot, Seattle, February, 1886
The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9 amidst rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by intense labor competition and in the context of an ongoing struggle between labor and capital in the Western United States. The dispute arose when a mob affiliated with a local Knights of Labor chapter formed small committees to carry out a forcible expulsion of all…
ID Number:SHS3486
Date:1886
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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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Waterfront and downtown, Seattle, 1888
Signs in image: Our House. Clothiers. Safe Deposit Co. Gordon Hardware Co. Seattle Hardware Co. The Arcade - W.P. Boyd & Co. Drugs - [Asten?] & Co. Columbia House [...]. San Francisco Store - Dry Goods. St. Elmo Hotel. New England Hotel. Live Stable.Caption on mount: Peiser - 817 and 819 Second Street, Seattle, W.T.Caption on verso: First-class Work Guaranteed,…
ID Number:SHS7637
Date:1888
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West Spokane Street wooden trestle bridge, Seattle, February 27, 1918
From 1902 to 1917, three temporary wooden bridges were built over the west water way of the Duwamish River, connecting Harbor Island to West Seattle (annexed by Seattle in 1907). By 1924 a permanent steel low-level bascule bridge, West Spokane Street Bridge No. 1 (North), had been built and was in use until 1978.This west-facing view shows one of the…
ID Number:SHS8645
Date:1918
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The last day of the Yesler cable car run, August 9, 1940
Seattle's Yesler Street cable car line was the first in the Pacific Northwest and only the seventh in the world. It carried passengers and freight along the 2.25 mile track between the downtown area and Leschi Park in sixteen minutes. The Yesler Street line opened in September 1888 and ran until August 1940. By that time, there were over 100,000…
ID Number:SHS8836
Date:1940
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Hotel Redmond, circa 1905
Redmond, originally named Salmonberg, was settled in the early 1870s. By 1900 it had become a commercial center for local lumber mills and farms. Judge William White and his wife Emma opened the Hotel Redmond in 1899. With its 14 rooms, marble fireplaces and large drawing room, the hotel catered to wealthy guests who came to enjoy an evening of…
ID Number:SHS9380
Date:Circa 1905
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James Clemmer residence, Seattle, circa 1915
This Spanish-style home at 2612 Harvard Avenue East (near Roanoke Park) belonged to James Clemmer, who owned the first true movie theater in Seattle. The Clemmer family also owned the Kenneth Hotel at First and Cherry, which had the Dream Theater on its main floor. Typed on verso: [2600 block] Harvard East, Seattle. Home of James Clemmer, owner of the…
ID Number:SHS9521
Date:Circa 1915
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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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Locomotive hauling powder through Skagway, circa 1902
Gold seekers who had made the long boat trip north to Skagway came ashore in an unfamiliar place described as "little better than hell on earth," and "about the roughest place in the world." They were 1,000 miles from Seattle, which was cosmopolitan by comparison.This photo of Skagway was probably taken between 1898 and 1905. The Hotel Seattle and other…
ID Number:SHS10681
Date:Circa 1902