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Ballard Locks, Seattle, circa 1920
For years, there was no easy or cheap way to move logs, coal, and other resources directly from the east side of Lake Washington to Elliott Bay. There were many plans and several attempts to build a canal via Lake Union. However, none was successful until the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built in 1911 to 1917.The Hiram Chittenden Locks…
ID Number:1989.73.17
Date:Circa 1920
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Portrait of Beriah Brown, Seattle, circa 1890
Beriah Brown (1815-1900), originally from New York, was an editor and politician who helped establish Seattle's journalistic and educational institutions. A vocal critic of President Lincoln and devoted to preserving state's rights to choose slavery, following Lincoln's assassination Mr. Brown was forced to flee San Francisco, where he edited the Daily Democratic Press. Arriving in Seattle around 1870, he launched…
ID Number:1989.80.1
Date:Circa 1890
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Encampment of Indigenous people on Ballast Island at the Seattle waterfront, circa 1900
In 1865 the Board of Trustees of Seattle passed Ordinance No. 5 banning Indigenous people from living in the city unless they worked for a non-Indigenous resident and lived on their employer's property. Despite this attempt to enforce separation between Indigenous people and the settlers, Seattle depended on Indigenous people. Settlers relied on Native people for domestic work and for…
ID Number:1990.45.14
Date:Circa 1900
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Surviving members of Denny Party at Alki Point monument, Seattle, November 13, 1905
This photo of Seattle pioneers Carson D. Boren, Mary Ann Boren Denny, Rolland Herschel Denny, Louisa Catherine Denny Frye, and Mary Low Sinclair was taken on November 13, 1905 in front of a granite obelisk erected to commemorate the fifty-fourth anniversary of their arrival in Seattle. These individuals were the remaining members of the 24 person party led by Arthur…
ID Number:1990.45.89
Date:1905
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Sons of Herman Lodge members posing in studio, Seattle, circa 1904
The Order of the Sons of Herman (also Sons of Hermann or Hermann's Söhne) is a fraternal organization begun by German immigrants in New York City during the 1840s. The order promotes the love of German language and preservation of German traditions and customs, and was named for historical hero Hermann the “Cherusker,” who united the German tribes against Roman…
ID Number:1990.70.1
Date:Circa 1904
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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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Cedar Falls Lake, circa 1915
Starting in 1895, the City of Seattle began to purchase land in the upper Cedar River watershed to supply water and electric power for the growing city. In 1914, workers completed a large masonry dam just below Cedar Lake (now Chester Morse Lake), and the lake became a reservoir. As the city added more land to its holdings, the people…
ID Number:1992.44.1
Date:Circa 1915
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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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Queen City Furniture Co., Seattle, circa 1891
Frederick & Nelson acquired the Queen City Furniture Co. in 1891, allowing the department store to begin selling new furniture. The man in the center of this photo is Donald E. Frederick.
ID Number:1993.43.8
Date:Circa 1891
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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