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Miss Columbia at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909
Miss Columbia was part of a family from Labrador that performed in Seattle at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition's "Eskimo Village" in 1909. Columbia's mother, Esther Eneutseak, was brought from Labrador to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where her daughter, Columbia Smith (1893-1959), was born. Eneutseak recruited other Inuit from Labrador to perform in later expositions, including the 1900 World's…
ID Number:1991.17.32
Date:1909
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Laundry delivery car and driver, Seattle, circa 1914
This image features a driver posing in a delivery van, on which is painted "City of Paris, French Hand Laundry, High Grade Work Our Specialty, Tel. East 2299." City of Paris French Hand Laundry operated out of 1313 E. Madison Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood; the car is parked in front of the Robinson Apartments, next door, at 1306…
ID Number:1991.48.1
Date:Circa 1914
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Trident Imports on Pier 56, Seattle, 1969
Trident Imports store, with its distinctive yellow facade, opened during the 1962 World's Fair at Pier 56. Charles Peterson bought the store in 1964, and traveled the world in search of the exotic knickknacks sold at the store. The Seattle waterfront landmark closed in April 1997, when the retail spaces at Piers 55 and 56 were sold to investors. This…
ID Number:1991.56.190
Date:1969
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Coliseum Theater at night in deep snow, Seattle, 1916
This image of the Coliseum Theatre on Pike Street and 5th Avenue was taken shortly after the building's opening on January 8, 1916, during the second-deepest blizzard in Seattle's history. The Big Snow of 1916 came after an exceptionally cold January during which about 2 feet of snow had already accumulated. In early February a storm hit which added an…
ID Number:1991.64.1
Date:1916
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Portrait of Leona Fengler, Seattle, 1926
Iowa-born Leona Nathalie Fengler (1903-1990), a graduate of Queen Anne High School, was chosen as Miss Seattle to represent the city at the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant (now the Miss America Pageant) in 1926. Miss Fengler did not win the pageant but was declared by the judges to be equally at home in a drawing room or on the tennis…
ID Number:1992.47.1
Date:1926
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Invitation to fashion event at Helen Igoe Shop for Women, Seattle, January 28, 1925
Fashion stylist Helen Igoe (1870-1962) started work as a buyer at Seattle’s McDougall-Southwick department store in 1907. By 1910, she had opened her own high fashion store, the Helen Igoe Shop for Women. A frequent traveler to New York and Paris, Igoe brought Parisian style to Seattle in the early decades of the 20th century. The shop sent this invitation…
ID Number:1992.62.28.1
Date:1925
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Hector Escobosa, 1938
Hector Escobosa (1907-1963) was a retail executive and fashion authority who spent eleven years at Seattle department store Frederick & Nelson. He was the son of Mexican immigrants and grew up in Nogales, Arizona. After gaining retail experience in San Francisco and Kansas City, he joined Frederick & Nelson in 1939. He brought high fashion expertise and experience with European…
ID Number:1993.43.20.4.1
Date:1938
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Sponsor Gertrude Van Doren Hardenberg at launch of Blakeley, Seattle, November 7, 1918
This portrait of Gertrude Van Doren Hardenberg was taken November 7, 1918 at the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company shipyard at the launch of the steamship Blakeley. The Blakeley was a 4,000 ton wooden steamship, the first ship contracted with PSB&DC by the U. S. government. Gertrude Van Doren Hardenberg was the sister of George E. Hardenberg, secretary of…
ID Number:1995.37.19.2.39
Date:1918
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Engine of Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.1
Date:1914
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Men sitting in an Ajax Motor Car, Seattle, 1914
The Parker Motor Car Company of Seattle operated an automobile showroom on Broadway from about 1913-1928. Run by Frank Loyal Parker (1884-1954), the company also promoted the Ajax model, which was designed by Frank's brother, Charles Leslie Parker (1882-1959), and manufactured by the Ajax Motors Company, run by another brother, George Clyde Parker (1886-1953). The brothers had moved from Colorado…
ID Number:1995.78.2
Date:1914