650 results for: Lake Washington
Photograph
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern baggage car, Seattle, circa 1890
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway had a passenger depot and freight office at the foot of Madison Street along the waterfront. This photo shows a railroad employee standing in front of a baggage car near that location.
ID Number:2016.81.6
Date:Circa 1890
Photograph
Group of men on Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway line, 1887
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway extended from the waterfront along the northern shore of Lake Union and then to the north side of Lake Washington, eventually reaching Snoqualmie Falls. In this photo, a group of investors inspect the progress of the line on the way to Woodinville. Colonel A. B. Rogers stands in the center foreground with white…
ID Number:2016.81.10
Date:1887
Poster
Phinney Neighborhood Farmers Market poster, Seattle, June 3 - September 30, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.2
Date:2016
Poster
Seattle Neighborhood Farmers Markets poster, 2016
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.6
Date:2016
Poster
Columbia City Farmers Market poster, Seattle, May 2 - October 17, 2007
On May 29, 1993, the University District Farmers Market opened in Seattle at the University Heights Community Center. Continuing from late May through early November, the market drew on Seattle's long history of the Pike Place Market, which opened in August of 1907 and allowed farmers to sell directly to consumers. In 2000, Chris Curtis, one of the originators of…
ID Number:2017.60.9
Date:2007
Program
Seattle Tennis Club Tournament program, August 1899
The Seattle Tennis Club was founded in 1890 as the Olympic Tennis Club (renamed in 1896), and the club operated two clay courts at the northwest corner of Madison Street and Minor Avenue on First Hill. By 1919 a larger facility was needed and the club purchased land at their current location on the shore of Lake Washington in Madison…
ID Number:2018.3.3.48
Date:1899
Program
Motor Boat Club regatta program, July 4, 1906
The program pictured here is for the third annual summer Regatta held by the Motor Boat Club of Seattle. Races took place on Lake Washington, and included a one-mile straight course, and three-, five-, and ten-mile triangular courses. The speed boat Comet wowed 3,000 spectators by finishing the ten-mile course in just over 29 minutes. Caption information source: "Comet is…
ID Number:2018.3.3.50
Date:1906
Ephemera
Invitation to opening of Cable Railroad, September 29, 1888
In September 1888, Seattle's second street railway line was built by Pacific Cable Construction Company as a single-track cable car line, running in a loop from Pioneer Square to Leschi Park. This line, the Yesler Way line, effectively linked the steamers docking at Elliott Bay with the ferries crossing Lake Washington. When the line was built the residential and recreational…
ID Number:2018.3.3.75
Date:1888
Ephemera
Aqua Follies ticket order form, 1955
Aqua Follies, produced by Greater Seattle, Inc., was an annual summertime production performed at the Aqua Theatre, an open air stadium on the south shore of Green Lake. Debuting in 1950, Aqua Follies was one of the opening attractions of Seafair; sellout crowds came to see water ballet, comedy, dancers, singers, high divers, and a fireworks finale. The decline of…
ID Number:2018.3.3.92
Date:1955
Diary
Klondike diary of Harry V. McComb, 1897-1900
In 1896 gold was discovered on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, triggering a stampede of prospectors into Seattle and an era of prosperity that lasted for more than a decade. In this diary of his gold rush travels, Harry V. McComb (1866-1947) of Seattle describes trips between Seattle and Alaska, and writes about stops in…
ID Number:2018.3.3.115
Date:1897-1900