3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Two men looking at burnt timber after a clear-cut and fire on Bainbridge Island, circa 1900
This photo, taken on Bainbridge Island around 1900, shows all that remains of a virgin forest after a clear-cut and a fire. Such logging practices came to be considered as environmentally destructive, although later timber executives would see themselves as "meadow-makers," encouraging species diversity. Caption information source: Yockey, Ross and L. Beth Yocky. Responsible to the Earth: The Remarkable History…
ID Number:1977.6486.41
Date:Circa 1900
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Second Port Blakely Mill with log pond in foreground, circa 1895
Captain William Renton founded the first Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. The mill burned down and was rebuilt in 1888. This mill too burned down and was rebuilt in 1907. The mill finally closed and was demolished in 1924 as a result of a decline in the lumber market. Caption information source: Price, Andrew Jr.…
ID Number:1977.6486.59
Date:Circa 1895
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Two workmen in Port Blakely Mill boiler room, circa 1900
Captain William Renton founded the first Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. The mill burned down and was rebuilt in 1888. The rebuilt mill was the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. The mills boiler house contained three 300-horsepower boilers that converted sawdust and scrap wood into steam.…
ID Number:1977.6486.61
Date:Circa 1900
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Port Blakely Mill after fire, circa 1907
Captain William Renton founded the first Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. The mill burned down and was rebuilt in 1888. This mill too burned down and was rebuilt in 1907. In 1924 the mill closed permanently and was demolished as a result of a decline in the lumber market. Caption information source: Price, Andrew Jr.…
ID Number:1977.6486.63
Date:Circa 1907
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Family on the porch of a mill house at Port Blakely, 1909
The Port Blakely Mill Company had a large lumber mill and company town on Bainbridge Island, across from Seattle. In the early 1880s, the company built a row of almost-identical clapboard cottages for its workers. An 1882 photo shows plain light-colored houses without covered porches or plantings. In photos taken around 1900, the houses have porches with gingerbread millwork. The…
ID Number:1977.6486.65
Date:1909
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Henry Ziegler home at Port Blakely, circa 1900
The Port Blakely Mill Company had a large lumber mill and company town on Bainbridge Island, across from Seattle. In the early 1880s, the company built a row of almost-identical clapboard cottages for its workers. An 1882 photo shows plain light-colored houses without covered porches or plantings. In photos taken around 1900, the houses have porches with gingerbread millwork. The…
ID Number:1977.6486.66
Date:1900
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Row of mill company houses in Port Blakely showing wooden tracks along road, circa 1900
Captain William Renton founded the Port Blakely mill in 1864 on Bainbridge Island's Blakely Harbor. In the 1880s the mill became the largest sawmill on the Pacific Coast and was a major employer on Bainbridge Island. In 1879 Hall Brothers Shipyard moved its operations to Port Blakely and during this period Renton built houses for the families of mill workers,…
ID Number:1977.6486.68
Date:Circa 1900
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Great Seattle Fire at 1st and Union, June 6, 1889
The Great Fire of June 6, 1889, was a significant turning point in Seattle's history and changed both the physical and political landscapes of the city. The fire started at 2:30 p.m. in a paint and woodwork shop at Front and Madison and over the course of the next 18 hours swept a southward across 100 acres of Seattle's business…
ID Number:1977.6487.7
Date:1889
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Portrait of Potlatch King Edgar L. Webster, Seattle, 1911
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen who used imagery common to local Indigenous Peoples to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a…
ID Number:1977.6531.2
Date:1911
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General office building, Pacific Coast Co., 77 Washington St., Seattle, circa 1907
The Pacific Coast Company was organized in 1897, and comprised several existing organizations, most notably the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co. and the Pacific Coast Railway. Handwritten on image: 11897. Embossed photographer's mark: F.H. Nowell/Seattle, USASigns in image: Steam Specialty and Supply Co.Typed on verso: General Office Building, 77 Washington St., Seattle.
ID Number:1978.6585.1
Date:Circa 1907