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St. James Cafe business card, circa 1900
This card for the St. James Cafe in Pioneer Square gives an address on South Third Street which corresponds to the location of a St. James Hotel listed in city directories from 1891 through 1905. Under proprietors Nels Lund and John Lang, the St. James Cafe was probably a food establishment associated with the hotel of the same name.
ID Number:1971.5190.13
Date:Circa 1900
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Looking east up Cherry Street from 1st Ave., Seattle, 1914
This view of downtown Seattle was taken facing east on Cherry Street at First Avenue. The 10-story building with the pointed roof on the right side of the frame is the Lowman Building at 107 Cherry Street. The building was designed by the architectural partnership of Heide and DeNeuf for James Lowman, and completed in 1906. As of 2017 the…
ID Number:1971.5202.4
Date:1914
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Downtown Seattle, looking north on 2nd Ave. from James St., 1907
This view of downtown Seattle shows the bustling Second Avenue at its James Street crossroad. The police officer in the center of the street has his hands full directing the many different kids of traffic seen here: pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, horse-drawn delivery wagons, and even early automobiles.The five story building in the foreground at the left side of the image…
ID Number:1971.5202.36
Date:1907
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Interbay Station, Seattle, August 9, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.40
Date:1935
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Postmaster and employees in front of Federal Building, Seattle September 19, 1935
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.50
Date:1935
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U.S. Post office employees in front of White Center Station, Seattle, June 6, 1956
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.54
Date:1956
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U.S. Post office employees in front of Broadway Station, Seattle, June 13, 1956
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.58
Date:1956
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Postmaster George Morry and post office supervisors, Seattle, October 30, 1956
The first United States Post Office in Seattle--and the first in King County--opened in 1853 in pioneer Arthur Armstrong Denny's (1822-1899) log cabin home on Front Street (now First Avenue) and Marion Street, with Denny named the first postmaster. Previously, all mail for Seattle and Alki was delivered once a week by canoe from Olympia. The Seattle Post Office lacked…
ID Number:1972.5319.72
Date:1956
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U. S. Postal Office, employees of Motor Vehicle Unit, Seattle, June 11, 1939
This portrait of the Motor Vehicle Unit employees was taken outside the U. S. Post Office garage. The photograph is part of a series of group portraits of employees of various Seattle stations, taken between 1935-1952. Among the men posed here is George E. Starr (1884-1980), Seattle Postmaster from 1934-1954. Handwritten on negative: U. S. Post Office Motor Vehicle Unit,…
ID Number:1972.5319.74
Date:1939
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Cyrus Clapp building, 1117 3rd Ave., Seattle, circa 1903
Cyrus Francis Clapp (1851-1914) was a banker and real estate investor who moved to Seattle after his two terms as state senator from Port Townsend ended in 1906. The building seen here was commissioned by Cyrus Clapp in 1901 and built as an apartment hotel by architects Edward C. McManus and James Flood Walker (1868-1924). The building occupied this site…
ID Number:1972.5346.29
Date:Circa 1903