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Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 4, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 4, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.5
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 5, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 5, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.6
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 6, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 6, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.7
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 7, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 7, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.8
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 8, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 8, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.9
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 9, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 9, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.10
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 10, November 1904
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 10, November 1904

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.11
Date:1904
Image of Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 11, circa 1905
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Waterway Connecting Puget Sound with Lakes Union and Washington, sheet 11, circa 1905

Since the city's earliest days, Seattleites proposed canals to cheaply and easily move logs, coal, and other resources between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington. Possible routes extended from the Black River at the south end of Lake Washington to canals through Lake Union and Shilshole Bay in the north. A 1891 report commissioned by the federal government explored five possible…
ID Number:2019.3.11.12
Date:Circa 1905
Image of Anderson's New Guide Map of the City of Seattle & Environs, July 1890
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Anderson's New Guide Map of the City of Seattle & Environs, July 1890

Seattle entrepreneur and amateur photographer O. P. (Oliver Phelps) Anderson (1859-1941) was the son of Alexander Jay Anderson (1832-1903), president of the Washington Territorial University (now University of Washington) from 1877-1882. O. P. trained as a drafting technician and by 1890 had started a civil engineering and map publishing business, O. P. Anderson & Company (later O. P. Anderson Map…
ID Number:2019.3.14
Date:1890
Image of Second Lake Washington Bridge, December 1954
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Second Lake Washington Bridge, December 1954

The world's first large-scale floating bridge opened for traffic on July 2, 1940. The concrete roadway from Seattle to the eastern shore of Lake Washington floated on pontoons which were anchored to the lake bottom. The bridge helped the World War II war effort by shortening the commute between Seattle's eastern suburbs and the downtown industrial area, and began suburban…
ID Number:2019.3.43
Date:1954
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