600 results for: Maritime
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Boats on Puget Sound, July 1942
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.This photo, from earlier in his career, focuses on a scenic view of boats on Puget…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.273
Date:1942
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Henry Kotkins, Seattle, June 1975
Founded in 1910 as the Seattle Suitcase, Trunk and Bag Manufacturing Co., Skyway Luggage Co. has been an innovated suitcase company, including introducting the first commercially successfull wheeled luggage to the United States. Still operating out of Kent, Washington, as of 2024, Skyway was run by Henry Louis Kotkins (1912-2002), son of the company founder, for decades. Kotkins was an…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.283
Date:1975
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University of Washington crew team rowing near yacht Fantome, Seattle, 1954
The sailing yacht Fantome, owned by beer magnate Ernest Guinness, was stranded in Seattle in 1939 at the start of World War II. It was moored in Portage Bay for 14 years, detained after the war by King County officials hoping to collect back property taxes from Guinness. The boat was eventually converted to a tourist ship, and sank in…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.289
Date:1954
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Japanese training ship Nippon Maru, Seattle, likely July 1957
The Japanese four-masted bark Nippon Maru first returned to Seattle in July of 1957 for Seafair. The ship would make several other visits to Seattle, including for the 1962 World's Fair, but this photo by photographer Josef Scaylea was the first for the officer training boat since World War II. Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.290
Date:1957
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Ferries in Elliott Bay, Seattle, March 1974
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993. Water and boats were a favorite subject of Scaylea, including this photo of ferries on…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.292
Date:1974
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Fireboat Alki in Elliott Bay, Seattle, 1949
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.Scaylea took this photo of the Fireboat Alki in 1949, and wrote, "The old Alki, the…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.296
Date:1949
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Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound, Seattle, August 1972
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.This Puget Sound scene features boats on the water with the Olympic Mountains in the background.…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.305
Date:1972
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Mount Rainier from Leschi Park, Seattle, 1979
Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.This photo features Mount Rainier from the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle. Handwritten on image: Josef Scaylea.Handwritten…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.324
Date:1979
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Launching of boat Warden Johnston at McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington, May 1945
During World War II, the McNeil Island prisoners built a number of boats for military and civilian use. The 65-foot passenger boat Warden Johnston was launched on McNeil Island in May 1945. The vessel was designed by L.H. Coolidge, a Seattle naval architect. The officials supervising construction were Henri Andersen, V.E. Smith and Evert Soldin. Prisoners were paid 15 cents…
ID Number:Lib1996.11.15
Date:1945
Manuscript
My First Trip to Seattle, by Nora Leonard Vandeventer, circa 1938
In her story "My First Trip to Seattle," Nora Leonard Vandeventer (1863-1944) recounts the trip she made with her family, as a child of around 10, when they moved from Tumwater to Seattle. She recounts the perilous January trip on the Zephyr, a sternwheel steamer of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. Nora traveled with her parents Amy and Thomas Austin…
ID Number:MS.COLL.1523
Date:Circa 1938