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Yacht Pirate sailing on Lake Union, Seattle, April 7, 1926
The R-class racing yacht "Pirate" was designed by Ted Geary and built by the Lake Union Drydock Company in 1926. The Pirate was built for Tommy Lee, son of Los Angeles yachtsman Don Lee, as a reward for winning the Pacific Coast Star Championship in 1925, and embodies the most advanced skills and talents in both yacht design and yacht…
ID Number:1983.10.12357.2
Date:1926
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Suite at the Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located at 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as…
ID Number:1983.10.13639
Date:1926
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Room at the Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as of…
ID Number:1983.10.13640
Date:1926
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Interior of Camlin Hotel, Seattle, 1926
The historic Camlin Hotel opened in 1926 as the Camlin Apartment Hotel, located 1619 Ninth Avenue in downtown Seattle. Architect Carl Linde designed the building in the Italianate style for developers Edmund Campbell and Adolph Linden, who lost the hotel after their convictions for fraud. The hotel has been operated by many different owners over the years, and as of…
ID Number:1983.10.13641
Date:1926
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Interior of Mayflower Park Hotel, Seattle, 1928
The historic Mayflower Park Hotel opened in 1927 as the Bergonian Hotel, and is located at 405 Olive Way in downtown Seattle. Designed by architects George Wellington Stoddard, Bertram Dudley Stuart, Jr., and Arthur Wheatley, the facade of the building is renowned for its unique terra cotta detailing. As of 2018, the hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel in…
ID Number:1983.10.13656.2
Date:1928
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Kenworth Touring Motor Coach, Seattle, circa 1937
Kenworth Truck Company, now a subsidiary of Paccar, has been manufacturing medium and heavy-duty trucks near Seattle since 1916. The company also made fire trucks, and transit and school buses. In 1937 and 1938 Kenworth built five Kenworth Touring Motor Coaches. As of 2009, three of those are still in existence -- one in Sitka, Alaska; one in Montana; and…
ID Number:1983.10.13738
Date:Circa 1937
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Berger Engineering Works employee with machinery, Seattle, circa 1944
In 1932, Knute Berger started Berger Engineering Works, Inc. to build rugged equipment for shipyards, loggers, and the U.S. Navy. In 1962, Bergen Engineering merged with the company started by Edmund Smith, inventor of the salmon-butchering machine, becoming Smith Berger Manufacturing Corporation. In June, 1983 the company reorganized as Smith Berger Marine, Inc.In this image an unidentified Bergen Engineering Works…
ID Number:1983.10.14958.3
Date:Circa 1944
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Yellow cabs drivers posing in Volunteer Park, Seattle, 1947
This image shows 31 Yellow Cab Company drivers standing with their taxi cabs in Seattle's Volunteer Park, in front the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) building (now the Asian Art Museum). In a 1947 Seattle Times advertisement, Yellow Cabs described the "man at the wheel" as "apt to be a family man...the sort of person you'd like for a neighbor. He's…
ID Number:1983.10.16437.1
Date:1947
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Exterior of Venetian Theater, Seattle, 1946
Seattle's Venetian Theater opened in 1926 at 1427 E. Pine Street in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood during a boom of theaters built to accommodate motion pictures. One of Seattle’s largest and most impressive neighborhood movie houses at the time, the Venetian was a second-run movie theater, playing movies that had already proved popular at the city’s larger downtown theaters. The…
ID Number:1983.10.16609.1
Date:1946
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Aerial view of Marine Hospital, Seattle, 1937
The Marine Hospital in Seattle was completed in 1932, and opened in 1933, serving veterans, merchant seamen, the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Light House Service, and "federal compensation cases" (the poor and indigent). Now the Pacific Tower, and previously the Pacific Medical Center, the 16-story building is located on Beacon Hill in Seattle, at 1200 12th Avenue South. Designed by…
ID Number:1983.10.17640
Date:1937