768 results for: Businesses and Corporations
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ATL Ultramark 4 Ultrasound System, circa 1986
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.48.1
Date:Circa 1986
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Westmark International brochure, circa 1990
Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) was founded in 1969 by a group of engineers working on marine electronic systems. In 1974, ATL and the University of Washington signed the first of two technology transfer agreements (the second occurred in 1976) and began working in diagnostic medical ultrasound, manufacturing products for hospitals and physicians. As a result of its success, ATL was…
ID Number:2008.33.57.1
Date:Circa 1990
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Webster & Stevens business card, circa 1925
Prolific photographers Ira James Webster (1873-1942) and Nelson Nathan Stevens (1875-1938) arrived in Seattle from Michigan in 1899. After working for other Seattle photographers, they opened their own firm in 1902 and eventually had a staff of seventeen photographers. Between 1906 and 1923, Webster & Stevens took many of the photos for The Seattle Times. The company also did work…
ID Number:2011.3.10.9
Date:Circa 1925
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San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaska cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.1
Date:Circa 1935
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San Juan Fishing and Packing employees, circa 1935
The San Juan Fish Company opened for business in 1898 along Railroad Avenue (now Alaskan Way) on the Seattle waterfront. Later renamed the San Juan Fishing & Packing Company, it was one of Seattle's largest and most successful canneries with production facilities in several Alaskan cities. The business was acquired by New England Fish Company in 1965 and is listed…
ID Number:2011.76.2
Date:Circa 1935
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Palace Fish and Oyster Co. brochure, circa 1935
Nessim D. Alhadeff (1884-1950) was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. He began working in fish markets and by 1907 had set up his own market, Palace Market. Within three years he had helped his six brothers emigrate, and the growing family business was known over time as Palace Fish and…
ID Number:2013.58.15
Date:Circa 1935
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Swift Packing Company employees, September 19, 1956
In 1855, 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts, and in 1875, the successful Swift and Company meatpacking business was incorporated in Chicago. In 2007, Swift & Co. was purchased by JBS USA Holdings, Inc. and continues as of 2019 as the Swift Trade Group of JBS.Around 1910, Swift & Co. built a branch meat-processing plant…
ID Number:2013.108.3
Date:1956
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Portrait of Walter Gordon Clark, Seattle, circa 1900
Walter Gordon Clark, engineer, was born in Utah and attended universities in the United States and Germany. He spent the early years of the 20th century in Seattle, where, sometime between 1900 and 1910, he and E. C. Kilbourne founded Kilbourne & Clark, an engineering firm and agency for Eastern electrical companies. By 1915, with Clark in New York, the…
ID Number:2013.111.1
Date:Circa 1900
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Hugh Currin and workers at the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1910
Hugh L. Currin and Warren Greene opened the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company in 1908 on Eastlake Avenue, north of downtown Seattle. The company made boots and specialty work shoes sold throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. They were particularly known for their handmade, cleated logging boots. Here, Mr. Currin stands with his workers and a selection of boots made at…
ID Number:2013.114.1
Date:1910
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Workers standing outside the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company, Seattle, 1917
Hugh L. Currin and Warren Greene opened the Currin-Greene Shoe Manufacturing Company in 1908 on Eastlake Avenue, north of downtown Seattle. The company made boots and specialty work shoes sold throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. They were particularly known for their handmade, cleated logging boots. In this 1917 image, a group of workers stand outside the Currin-Greene factory at…
ID Number:2013.114.3
Date:1917