3379 results for: Seattle Photographic Co.
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Winona Bailey posing in car, Seattle, circa 1935
Helen Winona Bailey (1873-1938) was born in Maine to Charles Harris Bailey (1849-1920) and Mary H. (Wilder) Bailey (1849-1897). The family moved to Colorado about 1890, then to Seattle around 1905. She was a Latin teacher in the Everett High School from about 1906-1912, and later head of the Language Department at Queen Anne High School. Winona was an avid…
ID Number:1978.6688.2.6
Date:Circa 1935
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Horace C. Henry residence, Seattle, circa 1908
Horace C. Henry had this mansion built at 1117 Harvard Avenue East in 1906. The architect made use of the popular English style construction with brick and half timbers. A large formal garden surrounded the residence. Caption on image: PlummerHandwritten on verso: Horace C. Henry home
ID Number:1979.6741.1
Date:Circa 1908
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Entrance to Washington Savings and Loan Association office at 810 Second Avenue, September 1914
Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008. This photo documents the company's location on Second Avenue a few years before it became Washington Mutual Savings Bank. Caption accompanying image: Washington Savings and…
ID Number:1979.6747.25
Date:1914
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Washingon Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle, 1921
Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008. This photo documents the bank's location at the Walker Building on Second Avenue. Caption accompanying image: The Walker Building, built in 1899 was purchased by…
ID Number:1979.6747.28
Date:1921
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Crowd inside Washington Mutual Savings Bank on opening day, June, 20, 1921
Washington Mutual customers on opening day of the bank’s newly remodeled building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle. Caption accompanying image: Opening Day June 20, 1921. Original photograph taken from rear of bank (alley side) from bank files, photographer unknown. Copy negative and print by Dudley, Hardin and Yang.
ID Number:1979.6747.30
Date:1921
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Entrance to Washington Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle, circa 1938
Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008.This image depicts the entrance to the Washington Mutual Savings Bank building prior to the building's extensive remodeling in 1939. Known as the Walker Building, the…
ID Number:1979.6747.33
Date:Circa 1938
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Men with mail sacks and mail truck outside Washington Mutual Savings Bank, circa 1941
Men, probably Washington Mutual employees, pose with a U.S. postal worker near a mail truck being loaded with sacks containing interest payments outside the Washington Mutual Savings Bank building at 1101 Second Avenue, Seattle. Washington Mutual (WaMu) was incorporated as the Washington National Building Loan and Investment Association on Sept 25, 1889. It grew to be the United States' largest…
ID Number:1979.6747.77
Date:Circa 1941
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Santa Claus figure at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, circa 1958
Northgate Mall, originally called Northgate Center, opened in April 1950, anchored by the Bon Marche department store and housing 17 smaller stores. By 1952, Northgate had over seventy tenants, and all its retail spaces were leased. Northgate's reputation for elaborate holiday displays began its first year, when a world's record 212-foot Christmas tree was displayed at the mall. This postcard,…
ID Number:1979.6782.1
Date:Circa 1958
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Sick's Stadium, Seattle, circa 1938
Millionaire brewer Emil Sick (1894-1964) bought the Seattle Indians baseball team in 1937, renamed the team the "Rainiers'' after his beer, and the following year opened a new ballpark in Rainier Valley, Sick's Seattle Stadium. For years, fans crowded the stadium or watched from the slopes overlooking the outfield, but increasing television coverage of Major League baseball caused attendance at…
ID Number:1979.6782.2
Date:Circa 1938
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Bus driving through south gate at Fort Lawton, Seattle, circa 1960
In 1897, the city of Seattle donated land on Magnolia Bluff to the US government to build a new Army post as part of a defense system for Puget Sound; this was designated as Fort Lawton in 1900. During most of its active service, the fort served as an embarkation station where troops gathered before being sent to duty in…
ID Number:1979.6782.x24
Date:Circa 1960