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View of sanitary landfill on 43rd. Ave. S. looking west, Seattle, December 1942
This image shows a sanitary landfill on 43rd Ave S between Genesee St. and Lake Washington Boulevard. A sanitary landfill, or fill, was a type of garbage dump in which trash was deposited, spread out and compacted, then covered in several inches of dirt. The city had proposed to expand the fill eastward to 45th Ave S, but residents of…
ID Number:2000.107.188.33.02
Date:1942
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Aerial view of South Lake Union neighborhood looking northeast, 1953
The shores of Lake Union were inhabited by the Duwamish people since time immemorial. They called the lake “meman hartshu” meaning “little lake” and had several settlements surrounding it. Seattle’s Cascade or South Lake Union (SLU) neighborhood began growing quickly in the 1880s, as the city expanded north from downtown. Industrial activity on the lake increased in the early 1900s…
ID Number:2000.107.188.36.01
Date:1953
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Street in the Central Area, Seattle, May 8, 1969
The Central Area (also called the Central District or the CD) is one of the oldest residential neighborhoods in Seattle. Known historically as Seattle’s Black neighborhood, other ethnic groups also called the Central Area home in the early 20th century. Urban development in the area first accelerated in the 1890s, as Seattle’s population rapidly grew. The first settlers were mostly…
ID Number:2000.107.189.01.01
Date:1969
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Intersection of Beacon Avenue S. and 15th Avenue S., 1974
Beacon Hill was originally inhabited by the Duwamish people, who had a village called Tal-tal-kus at the western foot of the hill. Settlers began moving onto Beacon Hill in the 1850s and growth accelerated around the turn of the 20th century. Starting in the 1920s, Chinese, Italian, and Japanese immigrants settled in Beacon Hill. After World War II, the trend…
ID Number:2000.107.189.08.01
Date:1974
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Aerial view of Empire Way and Sick's Stadium, July 11, 1953
Empire Way’s route was first laid out in 1913, as a state highway heading southeast out of Seattle. It was named for James J. Hill, the head of the Great Northern Railway, who was nicknamed the “Empire Builder.” At first, Empire Way was put together from parts of older roads on the same route. From the 1930s to the 1950s,…
ID Number:2000.107.189.11.01
Date:1953
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View of Rainier Avenue and Lake Way looking east, March 1954
Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle, Black…
ID Number:2000.107.189.16.01
Date:1954
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Children crossing 32nd Ave. N. near Harrison School, Seattle, April 26, 1951
The intersection shown here is located at 32nd Avenue North and East Republican Street, in the Harrison/Denny-Blaine neighborhood of Seattle's Central District. The intersection was described by residents at the time as a bad place for children to cross because there were no traffic lights. The cars in the picture are traveling north on 32nd Ave. as the children at…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.02
Date:1951
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Cars passing through crosswalk at 15th and Republican, Seattle, April 15, 1951
In this image cars are shown at the intersection of 15th Avenue North and Republican Street, an intersection locals considered so dangerous due to the increase in motor traffic that they lobbied for a traffic light to replace the ineffective cross walk signal. Signs in image: Dugan's; Pittsburgh Paints, Child's Hardware; Helen's Professional Permanents; Holdsworth 10 cent storeCaption information derived…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.03
Date:1951
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Children waiting to cross Lake Washington Blvd., Seattle, May 11, 1953
In this image three children hold hands as they wait for a car to pass before they cross Lake Washington Boulevard at 49th Avenue South. Parents, standing on the far side of the boulevard, met to protest the city's failure to put in a painted crosswalk at this spot, where three children were struck by a car on May 10,…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.04
Date:1953
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New traffic signal operating at 85th and Greenwood, Seattle, August 28, 1952
In this image a new type of traffic signal is tested by Seattle traffic engineering division at North 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue. In addition to the usual red, amber and green signals was added a glass column of green panels (indicated by added lettering). When the green signal was lit, the column at right also lit up green and…
ID Number:2000.107.190.06.06
Date:1952