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Image of Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works building at East Marginal Way, Seattle, 1918
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Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works building at East Marginal Way, Seattle, 1918

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.15
Date:1918
Image of Employees in street at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, East Marginal Way, Seattle, circa 1943
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Employees in street at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, East Marginal Way, Seattle, circa 1943

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.37
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Employees working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943
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Employees working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.47
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Women working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943
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Women working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943

Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.51
Date:Circa 1943
Image of Happy Home Brand Tomatoes can label, circa 1920
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Happy Home Brand Tomatoes can label, circa 1920

This label for Happy Home Brand of canned tomatoes indicates that the product was distributed by Schwabacher Brothers & Company of Seattle. Having started in business in San Francisco, Schwabacher Brothers opened an branch in Seattle in the 1860s. Within a short time, the firm became Puget Sound's major wholesaler of canned goods, dry goods and other materials to the…
ID Number:2004.56.1
Date:Circa 1920
Image of Frank McCaffrey's New Dogwood Map of Seattle, 1934
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Frank McCaffrey's New Dogwood Map of Seattle, 1934

In 1919, artist, printer, publisher, and politician Frank McCaffrey (1894-1985) bought the Acme Press commercial publishing company in Seattle. In 1931 McCaffrey created Dogwood Press as an Acme Company trademark, which he would operate just a few months before his death. The press printed books, pamphlets, newspapers, and maps often by Seattle authors or about local history.This pictorial map of…
ID Number:2005.23.1
Date:1934
Image of George F. Frye Master of Steam Vessels Certificate, 1873
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George F. Frye Master of Steam Vessels Certificate, 1873

Born in Germany, George F. Frye arrived in Seattle in 1853 at the age of 20. Frye assisted Henry Yesler with the construction of his steam sawmill. Frye also became close friends with Arthur and Mary Denny, and in 1860 he married their 17-year-old daughter Louisa. Together, George and Louisa Frye ran Seattle's first meat market, opened the Frye Opera…
ID Number:2005.38.2.1
Date:1873
Image of Coolidge Propeller Co. employees posing with large propeller, Seattle, 1911
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Coolidge Propeller Co. employees posing with large propeller, Seattle, 1911

Seattle's Coolidge Propeller Company was begun by Leigh Hill Coolidge (1870-1959), a prolific naval architect and pioneer in the design and machining of high-speed propellers for racing hydroplanes. One of the most well-known vessels he designed is the City Light excursion vessel Alice Ross, which gave its first tour of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project on Diablo Lae in 1935.…
ID Number:2005.44.1
Date:1911
Image of Lake Washington ship canal during construction, Seattle, May 4, 1916
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Lake Washington ship canal during construction, Seattle, May 4, 1916

After five and a half years of construction, the Lake Washington Ship Canal opened on May 8, 1917. It connects Lake Washington, Lake Union, Salmon Bay, and Puget Sound. This image looking west from Fremont shows the construction of the Lake Washington ship canal. Prominent in the center of the frame to the right of the canal is the distinctive…
ID Number:2006.7.100
Date:1916
Image of Greater Seattle Bicycle Expo poster, February 22-23, 1991
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Greater Seattle Bicycle Expo poster, February 22-23, 1991

In 1987, the Cascade Bicycle Club, an organization started by brothers Mike and Rick Quam in 1970 to discuss bicycling in the Puget Sound region, began its annual trade show, the Seattle Bicycle Expo. The expo would continue until 2015, when the Cascade Bicycle Club dropped the event due to declining attendance. Cascadia Events took it over as the Seattle…
ID Number:2007.25.11
Date:1991
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