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Youth hockey teams playing at Civic Ice Arena, Seattle, March 1948
Here, two teams in the Midget Division of Seattle's Junior Hockey League face off at the Civic Ice Arena. Six members of the King Court Mixers, at left, attempt to get the puck past the defenders of the Andy Planart Skate Shop team during a March 1948 game. Written on negative: Kid hockey, 3/13/48
ID Number:PI26803
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Mrs. Wickman's Pie soccer team playing game with unidentified team, Seattle, October 1940
Seven soccer football clubs signed on to participate in the 1940-1941 season of the Seattle Soccer League. Among the new contenders was a team called Mrs. Wickman's Pie. The Mrs. Wickman team had played in different leagues previously, and won the state cup in 1928. Here, the men of Mrs. Wickman's Pie play an unidentified team at Lower Woodland Park.…
ID Number:PI26967
Date:1940
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University of Washington football players rolling snowball, Seattle, 1947
Handwritten on negative: Marshall Dallas, Bruce Rehn, Jim Foster, Harold Lloyd. Handwritten on sleeve: Dallas, Marshall (football). Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 5, 1947.
ID Number:PI27285
Date:1947
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Football action at the University of Washington, 1934
The University of Washington Huskies had a successful football season in 1934, finishing second in college football's Far West Division. This 1934 photo shows the team in action during a home game at Washington Field, now Husky Stadium. Written on original envelope: University of Washington football action 1934 season
ID Number:PI27314
Date:1934
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Baseball fans on Yesler Way cable car, 1912
This photograph shows the busy intersection of Yesler Way and Second Avenue in Seattle's Pioneer Square in 1912. In the foreground, the Leschi Park and Lake Washington cable car heads east on Yesler Way, loaded to capacity with passengers. A sign on the front of the car reads "Northwestern League Base Ball Today! Take this car." The baseball fans overflowing…
ID Number:SHS758
Date:1912
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Athletes at the Seattle Athletic Club, 1893
The Seattle Athletic Club was a social club organized in 1893 around athletic pursuits. Designed by architect John Parkinson, the SAC's original four story building was on Cherry Street and Fourth Avenue in Pioneer Square. The SAC built a new five story building in 1903-1904 at First Avenue and Seneca Street. This organization is not related to the current Seattle…
ID Number:SHS1730
Date:1893
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Queen City Cycle Club, Kent, June 28, 1896
Between about 1894-1904, after the horse and before the automobile, bicycles were the hottest new form of do-it-yourself urban transportation in Seattle. The region's many cycling groups regularly sponsored outings along the twenty-five miles of urban bicycle trails which were built, funded, and maintained with the aid of city engineers. Bike cops enforced cyclist speed limits, safety, and dealt with…
ID Number:SHS1825
Date:1896
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Hunters with elk and pack animals, circa 1885
Sometime in the 1880s, a photographer snapped this image of a group of hunters at an unidentified location in Washington state. The two men in front hold elk skulls with the antlers still attached. The other men stand near pack horses loaded with animal skins and other goods. Long split cedar shakes cover the buildings in the background. SHS category:…
ID Number:SHS5285
Date:Circa 1885
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Children fishing at Green Lake, Seattle, 1909
Typed on verso: Fishing at Green Lake in 1909. Boy in foreground - George Mack Jr., son of druggist George C. Mack; in buggy - his sister, now Mrs. A.H. Yngve Hedner.SHS category: Sports
ID Number:SHS8972
Date:1909
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Canoes and houseboats on Lake Washington, Seattle, 1912
The unique floating homes of Seattle got their start almost simultaneously with the development of the city itself. Seattle's first industries were logging and fishing, both seasonal enterprises, and it became common for loggers and sailors to build themselves floating shacks from scrap boards during their off seasons. As the trend spread, houseboats were built as permanent homes for families…
ID Number:SHS9025
Date:1912