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Exterior of the Lowman & Hanford Printing and Binding building, Seattle, circa 1914
James D. Lowman (1856-1947) and Clarence Hanford (1857-1920) were business and civic leaders in early Seattle, each with ties to Seattle's founders. In 1882, they joined forces to found Lowman & Hanford Stationery and Printing Company. The firm advertised as booksellers, stationers, printers and binders, but also sold typewriters, sewing machines, pianos and organs. After losing their original building in…
ID Number:1970.5046.19
Date:Circa 1914
Document
Report card for Nathalia Jensen, 1914
Rasmus Peter Jensen immigrated to Seattle in 1889 and homesteaded in the West of Woodland Park district (now the West Woodland neighborhood). He was a carpenter by trade and operated both a construction business and a general store out of his home. Mr. Jensen married Marie E. D. Hansen in 1892 and they had two children, Anna C. Jensen (1894-1912)…
ID Number:1971.5068.37
Date:1914
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Construction of Stimson Medical Center Building, Seattle, 1924
Charles D. Stimson (1857-1929) moved to Seattle in 1889 and by 1909, may have been Seattle's most influential person, as he headed the Metropolitan Bank, the General Insurance Company of America, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition effort, and the Metropolitan Building Company. His wife, Harriet Mary Overton (1862-1936), was a dedicated supporter of the Seattle Symphony. Their daughter Dorothy Stimson Bullitt (1892-1989)…
ID Number:1971.5117.3
Date:1924
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Broadway Station, Seattle, August 13, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.44
Date:1935
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Queen Anne Station, Seattle, August 18, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.48
Date:1935
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Denny Building housing The Seattle Daily Times, 1406 2nd Ave., Seattle, circa 1903
Founded when Alden J. Blethen (1845-1915) bought the Seattle Press-Times in 1896 and renamed it the Seattle Daily Times, the Seattle Times continues to be Washington State's largest-circulation daily newspaper. The building in this image, the Arthur Wilson Denny Office Building, was built in 1901 on the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Union Street in what is now the…
ID Number:1972.5346.17
Date:Circa 1903
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Cyrus Clapp building, 1117 3rd Ave., Seattle, circa 1903
Cyrus Francis Clapp (1851-1914) was a banker and real estate investor who moved to Seattle after his two terms as state senator from Port Townsend ended in 1906. The building seen here was commissioned by Cyrus Clapp in 1901 and built as an apartment hotel by architects Edward C. McManus and James Flood Walker (1868-1924). The building occupied this site…
ID Number:1972.5346.29
Date:Circa 1903
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Columbia Eneutseak (Nancy Columbia) at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Columbia Eneutseak (1893-1959), also known as Nancy Columbia or Miss Columbia, was part of a family from Labrador that performed in Seattle at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition's "Eskimo Village" in 1909. Columbia's mother, Esther Eneutseak, was brought from Labrador to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where her daughter, Columbia was born. Eneutseak recruited other Inuit from Labrador to perform…
ID Number:1972.5502.14
Date:1909
Book
Seattle Home Builder and Home Keeper, 1915
This book was written by W.W. (Willard W.) DeLong, a Seattle architect famous for Craftsman style bungalows, and his wife, Isabelle D. DeLong. Hardbound in a dark green cover, this volume has a depiction of a classic Seattle bungalow on the front and in gold lettering, the proverb "Be it Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Home."Section I of…
ID Number:1972.5567.144
Date:1915
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Thelma Rydeen, Kathryn Tesack, and friend on sailboat, Puget Sound, August 1922
Kathryn Elizabeth Tesack (1906-1999) was born in Nome, Alaska, to John Anthony Tesack (1874-1960) and Mame Elizabeth Tesack (d. 1955). John owned a grocery store in Seattle from at least 1920-1940. Kathryn attended UW from 1926-1928, and in 1935 married Walter Henry Williams (1899-1992), in Nanjing, China, where their son John Walter Olding Williams was born in 1936. After Walter's…
ID Number:1974.5806.10
Date:1922