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Black Ball Line ferry schedule, 1933
The Black Ball Line began operating ferries on Puget Sound in 1928. In 1933, when this schedule was published, the company ran ferries between downtown Seattle's Colman Dock and both Bremerton and Port Orchard, and between Seabeck and Brinnon. The company still operates the M.V. Coho, a car and passenger ferry, between Port Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia. Caption information…
ID Number:2018.3.3.30
Date:1933
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Invitation to opening of Cable Railroad, September 29, 1888
In September 1888, Seattle's second street railway line was built by Pacific Cable Construction Company as a single-track cable car line, running in a loop from Pioneer Square to Leschi Park. This line, the Yesler Way line, effectively linked the steamers docking at Elliott Bay with the ferries crossing Lake Washington. When the line was built the residential and recreational…
ID Number:2018.3.3.75
Date:1888
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Alaska Department of Seattle Chamber of Commerce card, circa 1925
On April 17, 1882, 26 leading Seattle citizens and businessmen organized the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with the intent of protecting local interests. The Chamber reorganized in 1910 to broaden its scope, taking the name “New Seattle Chamber of Commerce.” Among the goals of the new Chamber were “to promote the growth and development of the State of Washington, the…
ID Number:2018.3.3.113
Date:Circa 1925
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Admiral Oriental Line Ma-Chiong instruction booklet, March 1, 1923
The Admiral Line (also American Mail Line, and later Admiral Oriental Line) was a steamship company based in Seattle which operated five ocean liners sailing from Seattle to Japan and China. Pictured here is an instruction manual for Ma-Chiong, a game played on the Admiral Line ships which appears to be similar to Mahjong. The booklet was issued to passengers…
ID Number:2018.3.3.118
Date:1923
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Alaska Steamship Company brochure, circa 1925
The Alaska Steamship Company was formed in 1894, initially to ship passengers and fishing products between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The company was able to quickly expand service to the Yukon during the 1896-1899 gold rush, and the company prospered until World War II, when the government took over the company's ships.The brochure pictured here is in the shape…
ID Number:2018.3.3.119
Date:Circa 1925
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SLS&E Ry Time Table No. 23, August 16, 1891
The Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway (SLS&E) was a railroad that operated in Seattle from 1885-1896. A group of local investors lead by Thomas Burke (1849-1925) and Daniel Hunt Gilman (1845-1913) founded the railroad as a solution to the problem of connecting Seattle to the Canadian border. The line's seven-year history reflects the paramount importance of the railroad during…
ID Number:2018.3.3.144
Date:1891
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Daily pedestrian traffic map, Seattle, April 1921
The map shown here, created by the Engineers Department, City of Seattle, illustrates average daily pedestrian traffic in the Seattle Downtown Business District for April 1921. The map extends from Blanchard Street to King Street and Railroad Avenue to 8th Street, with a scale running from 2,000 people to 50,000 people taken between 7:00 am and 6:00 pm. Handwritten on…
ID Number:2018.3.8.3
Date:1921
Music, notated
Beware Little Children
The music and lyrics for “Beware Little Children” were written by Charles P. Hughes and published in a pamphlet by F. J. Kroulik in 1925. The pamphlet sought to educate children on safety behaviors around cars and included safety rules as well as a coloring page. One suggestion was for children to have their "teacher form an 'A B C'…
ID Number:2018.3.2.8
Date:1924
Photograph
Milkman and wagon at Manitou Park, Tacoma, 1908
In this photo, a young man poses holding a milk can and cup near a horse-drawn milk cart just off a dirt path in a grassy area in Manitou Park in Tacoma. Painted on cart: Jersey Milk
ID Number:2018.48.7
Date:1908
Photograph
Harbor Island and Beacon Hill, Seattle, 1917
Seattle’s main industrial area, which includes Harbor Island, was built on tidelands at the mouth of the Duwamish River using dirt from the 1907-1909 Jackson Street and other Beacon Hill regrades. In 1911, Fisher Flouring Mills built a large plant on Harbor Island. Shipbuilding and related industries followed. This panoramic photograph, taken from Admiral Way in West Seattle, looks east…
ID Number:2019.3.3
Date:1917