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Deed to City of Seattle for Carkeek Park property, Seattle, August 21, 1918
Seattle’s original Carkeek Park was located on Lake Washington, roughly where Magnuson Park is today. English-born Seattle businessman and contractor Morgan J. Carkeek had come to Seattle in 1875. In 1919, he and his wife gave some 23 acres of land on Lake Washington to the City of Seattle for a park, to be called “Carkeek Park”. On August 21,…
ID Number:2012.3.3
Date:1918
Poster
Elliott Bay Water Taxi poster, Seattle, 1997
West Seattle is Seattle's oldest and biggest neighborhood, situated on a peninsula in Elliott Bay. Early public transportation between West Seattle and Seattle was mostly limited to the irregular and infrequent service provided by “Mosquito Fleet” steamships that traveled from port to port around Puget Sound. In 1888 the West Seattle Land and Improvement Company built a dock and launched…
ID Number:2012.26.65
Date:1997
Ephemera
New Washington Hotel stationery folder, circa 1950
In 1908 real estate investors John Edward Chilberg (1867-1954) and James Crawford Marmaduke (1871-1945) opened the New Washington Hotel on the northeast corner of Stewart Street and Second Avenue in what is now Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. The 13-story hotel was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style and, as the city's premier hotel for several decades, welcomed many prominent guests,…
ID Number:2013.58.3
Date:Circa 1950
Menu
Crawford's Sea Grill menu, circa 1965
Crawford's Sea Grill and Coral Room was located at 333 Elliot Ave. West, "on the shores of Puget Sound." Opened in 1940, the restaurant featured a glass-enclosed dining room and seating for over one hundered. Ivar's Captain's Table later opened in the same location. The menu indicates that "Service of all sea foods subject to weather and fishing conditions." A…
ID Number:2014.3.1.5
Date:Circa 1965
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New Recipes and Hostess Hints, Darigold Milk, circa 1925
The Darigold cooperative was founded in 1918 by a group of five Puget Sound dairy cooperatives as the United Dairyman's Association. The Association bought the Consolidated Dairy Products Company in 1930. The Darigold brand name was selected at a contest during a summer picnic in 1925. Darigold is currently owned by over 500 member dairy farms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho,…
ID Number:2014.3.2.11
Date:Circa 1925
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View to the northwest from the Volunteer Park water tower, Seattle, circa 1956
This view of Lake Union, the Ship Canal, and Puget Sound was taken from the top of the water tower in Volunteer Park. Beyond the reservoir in the foreground, one can see the buildings of St. Mark's Cathedral and St. Nicholas School. The trees that surround the water tower have since grown tall enough to obscure this view.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder19.001
Date:Circa 1956
Photograph
Group at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1985
The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s, when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.014.09
Date:1985
Photograph
Family on a beach on Chuckanut Drive, Bellingham, circa 1953
A man, a woman, and a girl are on the beach on Chuckanut Drive, also known as State Route 11, a scenic 20-mile roadway that hugs the cliffs of Chuckanut Mountain above Puget Sound in Whatcom County.
ID Number:2014.49.006.018.0050
Date:1958
Photograph
Mildred Mar carrying child at beach, Des Moines, circa 1960
Mildred Mar was a lifelong family friends of the photographer Al Smith's family. Here, she carries a child, probably her son Kaylon, out of the water during a Sunday outing at Saltwater State Park on Puget Sound near Des Moines. Cheryl Inez Smith, the photographer's daughter, plays in the surf on the left side of the frame.
ID Number:2014.49.006.029.0093
Date:Circa 1960
Photograph
South end of Seattle, looking west, circa 1949
This photo overlooks the south end of Seattle, looking west, possibly from 8th Avenue. Puget Sound, Smith Tower, and King Street Station are in the background. On the left is Dearborn Street.
ID Number:2014.49.010.002.0004
Date:Circa 1949