1892 results for: Washington (State). Office of the Secretary of State
Photograph
Interior of Lawrence Moore Jewelers, Seattle, 1910
A prominent jeweler in Seattle for many years, Lawrence L. Moore eventually sold his company in 1914 to search for oil in Washington - specifically in Ballard.Image shows the interior of Lawrence L. Moore Co., Jewelers located in 1910 at 904 Second Ave Seattle, their third location. Originally at 705 Second Ave, they moved to 900 Second Ave in July…
ID Number:1984.95.1
Date:1910
Photograph
Portrait of Ellen S. Leckenby, Seattle, circa 1895
Ellen "Nelly" (Swinburn) Leckenby (1844-1932) was born in New York and came to Washington State around 1895, settling first near Olympia with her husband, Alfred Bingham Leckenby (1842-). The couple moved to join their sons in Seattle's Brighton Beach neighborhood around 1905 where Mrs. Leckenby became involved in various women's clubs, particularly as a way to support the women's suffrage…
ID Number:1984.126.1
Date:Circa 1895
Program
Beacon Hill Merchants Baseball Team program, 1927
The Seattle Community Baseball League was founded in 1926, as a semi-professional league of eight teams. The inaugural teams were the West Seattle Athletic Club, Georgetown Merchants, Fremont Community Club, Alki Merchants, Mercer Athletic Club, Rainier Valley Merchants, and South Park Merchants. Ballard was offered a team, but could not put one together, so Interbay was given the eighth slot.…
ID Number:1984.135.1
Date:1927
Ephemera
Weekly Rental Bulletin, Seattle, April 21,1928
Born in Wisconsin and raised there and in Walla Walla, Washington, John Davis (1863-1917) moved to Seattle in 1887 where he founded his eponymous real estate brokerage. Following the panic of 1893, Mr. Davis expanded into property management, mortgages, loans, and insurance sales. The company grew steadily into one of the largest real estate corporations on the West Coast, and…
ID Number:1984.142.2
Date:1928
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Alfred Schweppe, April 1985, January 1986
Alfred J. Schweppe (1895-1988) came to Seattle from Minnesota as a young lawyer. At age 31, he became dean of the University of Washington School of Law, and three years later, opened a private practice. In 1933 Schweppe, who was instrumental in drafting the State Bar Act, served as the first executive secretary of the newly formed Washington State Bar…
ID Number:1985.135.24
Date:1985
Correspondence
Letter from Isabelle Bailey to Joseph Orr about Armistice Day, November 1918
In this letter, Isabelle Orr Bailey (1886-1965) writes to her brother, Joseph Robert Orr (1893-1970), who had recently been injured while serving in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. She begins her letter on November 10, 1918, the day before the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany to end hostilities. The second page…
ID Number:1987.46.5
Date:1918
Document
Brochure promoting a rapid transit solution for Seattle, 1926
Seattle’s hourglass shape and steep hills challenged land transportation from the very beginning. By the 1920s, with continuing population growth and the popularity of automobile transportation, traffic congestion had increased drastically. Concurrently, the city’s street railway system was losing money. In 1925, the Rapid Transit Committee of the Seattle City Planning Commission put together an extensive report, proposing that a…
ID Number:1987.66.3
Date:1926
Book
Seattle Rapid Transit Report to the City Planning Commission, 1925
Seattle’s hourglass shape and steep hills challenged land transportation from the very beginning. By the 1920s, with continuing population growth and the popularity of automobile transportation, traffic congestion had increased drastically. Concurrently, the city’s street railway system was losing money. In 1925, the Rapid Transit Committee of the Seattle City Planning Commission put together an extensive report, proposing that a…
ID Number:1987.66.4
Date:1925
Document
Boeing Marine Systems brochure, circa 1972
In the mid-twentieth century Seattle's aerospace giant, The Boeing Company, saw a market in fast ferries. The company began adapting many systems used in jet airplanes for passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled hydrofoils. Boeing Marine Systems (BMS) built their first hydrofoil at the Renton plant in 1960, and manufactured about 8 hydrofoils for the U. S. military, and 28 that were used in…
ID Number:1987.72.7
Date:Circa 1972
Document
Seattle Harbor Tours brochure, circa 1965
Captain Lynn Hilbert Campbell (1911-2013) moved to Seattle during the Depression, where he worked on a freighter between Seattle and Alaska. According to his obituary, after World War II, Mr. Campbell started a tugboat business in Elliott Bay. In 1949, he formed the Spring Street Water Taxi company, which ferried crews and supplies out to ships anchored in Puget Sound.…
ID Number:1989.68.2
Date:Circa 1965